1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: We're very excited here at ninety six of them. Because 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: You Be forty are playing Redhill Auditorium October twenty. Tickets 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: on sale today from ticket Tech, supported by Eagle Eye Cherry. 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,719 Speaker 1: You Eat forty in Perth. Robin Campbell, good morning mate, 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: How are you good morning? 6 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 2: How are you good morning? 7 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 3: Well October twenty, get your tickets too, sweet because you 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 3: are a very popular band every. 9 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 2: Time you come to town, Robin. 10 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, and we don't do it often enough. 11 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 3: No, no, well as well, this is the good part, 12 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 3: as well as the tour, which is coming up on 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 3: October twenty. You've got a new album coming out this Friday. 14 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 3: In fact, it's called You Be forty five. What's going 15 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:39,919 Speaker 3: on with that? 16 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 2: You Be forty four five? 17 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 4: Well, believe it or not, we're celebrating forty five years 18 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 4: as a band. 19 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 2: Oh forty turns forty five. 20 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 4: It's unreal. You see what we did there? Yeah? 21 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just a one meeting. 22 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 3: I thought I thought it was going to be made 23 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 3: on my father's favorite format of I'm listening to on 24 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 3: a forty five, but no reggae reggae on forty. 25 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: Five, I wrote Robert, I remember seeing you guys at 26 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: a reggae festival at the Whacker about fifteen or twenty 27 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: years ago, and it was the love in the house, 28 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: the love and the Oval at the Oval famous cricket ground, 29 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: of course, was just it was tangible. In fact, there 30 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: was a sweet smell in the air too. There's something 31 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: about reggae that brings the community together, isn't there? 32 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 4: Absolutely? And it's global. It doesn't matter where you go. 33 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 4: People love reggae, you know, and usually the warmer it gets, 34 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 4: the more reggae is loved, and so sell us. In 35 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 4: the case, we travel all over the world and it 36 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 4: doesn't matter where we go. The reception we get is, 37 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 4: you know, is always warm and wonderful. 38 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 3: I wonder what that is about. The warmer it gets 39 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 3: the more reggae is love. Perhaps it's the humidity and 40 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 3: the slow movement of that. Yeah you can doad slow, yeah. 41 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 4: Yeah. I think it's because the music. I think it's 42 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 4: possibly because the music was born in the Caribbean. Yeah, 43 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 4: And I think I think you can tell tropical, you know. 44 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 2: Because you weren't born in Jamaica. 45 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 3: You The band came out of Birmingham in the late seventies, 46 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 3: and I think of Birmingham in the late seventies. I 47 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 3: think of Simon Labon buying his first puffy shirt. So 48 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 3: it was there was there a lot of reggae around Birmingham. 49 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 4: At that time, in the area we grew up in. Yeah, 50 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 4: we were in South Birmingham and everywhere we went as 51 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 4: a gang. We've all grown up together. I've known everybody 52 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 4: in the band about ten years old or even younger, 53 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 4: and we just, you know, everywhere we went, all the 54 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 4: youth clubs, the clubs, the pubs, coffee bars, whatever, you know, 55 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 4: everywhere we went we heard reggae. And if we went 56 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 4: outside of our area, not so much, but where we 57 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 4: grew up it was it was surrounding us, you know, 58 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 4: because of the high immigrant population from the fifties, you know, 59 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 4: the wind Rush, the Arabian population that came to England. 60 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 4: A lot of them came to Birmingham and I grew 61 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 4: up listening to Jamaican pop music, you know, and when 62 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 4: it became reggae in the late sixties, was that was 63 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 4: the music that we just you know, we grew up 64 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 4: and loved absolutely. 65 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: You had a whole generation probably just before you guys 66 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: who said it was Little Richard or the Beatles, or 67 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 1: Elvis that influenced them. But then you ended up with 68 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: a whole lot of bands with the reggae influence in 69 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: their music. So you can talk about the Police and 70 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: Robert Palmer and Australia's Cold Chisel. There's something about the 71 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: music that's just infectious like that from Musos as well, 72 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: isn't there. 73 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 4: Yeah. And the kids that we were hanging out with, 74 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 4: many of them were of Jamaican parentage, you know, so 75 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 4: their parents were playing their music from home and you know, 76 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 4: we would hear it and it just became like the 77 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 4: same track to our lives. Yeah, it became the music 78 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 4: the music that we did everything too. 79 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 3: And we are talking about the seventies and you were 80 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 3: talking about, you know, immigrants. Do you find that music 81 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 3: would have been such a wonderful way for each other 82 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 3: to learn about each other? 83 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: It was sort of a communication. 84 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 4: It was one of the ways. Very definitely. Birmingham, you know, 85 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 4: is still a cultural melting bus and has been all 86 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 4: of my life. You know, all I've known in Birmingham 87 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 4: is an influx of different people, different cultures, different music, 88 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 4: different drama, you know, just everything. The whole Bollywood scene, 89 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 4: the Asian Indian movie scene. We saw that too, you know, 90 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 4: the Indian music, the bunder who were surrounded by it, 91 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 4: you know, And it's absolutely a cultural melting putt and 92 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 4: it's one of the ways of bringing people together, you know, 93 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 4: and breaking. 94 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 2: Down barriers as a musician, as a performer. You wouldn't 95 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 2: have it any other way, was you real? 96 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 4: Isn't it? 97 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 2: That's awesome? 98 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 4: Absolutely? 99 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: You're talking about forty five years of the band. But 100 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: forty one years ago there was an album called Labor 101 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: of Love which changed everything. One was a huge single, 102 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: and you had so many great songs on there, including 103 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: many rivers to cross. It did change the game for 104 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: you guys, didn't It took you to the stratospy. 105 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 4: It took us up another level. Yeah, we were doing 106 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 4: very well before. Yeah, we had I think I think 107 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 4: three or four albums out in the early eighties and yeah, 108 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 4: and quite a bit of success in the charts and stuff. 109 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 4: But when we released Labor of Love and the accompanying single, 110 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 4: Red Red Wine, of course that went number one in 111 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 4: twenty eight countries I think around the world. So that absolutely, 112 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 4: you know, launched us onto another level. 113 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 3: Another big one was, of course, your version of Kingston Town. 114 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 3: You know Kingstontown was a very big horse. Of course 115 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 3: he was an Australia in Australia as well, what a 116 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 3: lot of races. Did you ever ever meet the trader 117 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 3: of Kingston Town or any of you? 118 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 2: No, it was a very very successful horse. 119 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 4: Yeah there was. There was a horse running in England 120 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 4: called ub Forty as well. Really I never met. 121 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 3: Ill are you a bit of a bit of the 122 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 3: A bit definitely about each way? Now, very excited that 123 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 3: Eagle Eye Cherry is supporting you. 124 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 2: A big fan of. 125 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 3: The whole Cherry family of musicians. Have you toured with 126 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 3: Eagle before? 127 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 4: No? Never, right, it was it was a name that 128 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 4: was suggested to us by the Australian promoters, you know, 129 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 4: and they said, hey, do you fancy have you Cherry 130 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 4: on the tour? And you know, obviously we're fans of 131 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 4: the Cherry family as well, so we were up for it. 132 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 4: You know, I haven't actually heard anything for a while, 133 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 4: but I'd be very interesting to hear what you're doing there. 134 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 2: Yeah. 135 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: We've just been on holidays, Robin not together last holidays 136 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: and while I was on holidays, always take a book 137 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: with me and I love autobiographies and musics. And I 138 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: read the Ian Jury story. What a life and what 139 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: a career that man had, you know, And he had 140 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: inter actions with lots of bands, including Madness and like, 141 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: did you come across Ian in your travels because he 142 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: was an interesting geezer. 143 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 4: We met briefly in the eighties because we would do 144 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 4: you know, the BBC's put program up of the Pups 145 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 4: was something that we were on very regularly in the eighties, 146 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 4: probably more than any other band. But yeah, we met 147 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 4: him quite a few times. Delightful man. 148 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he did a lot for charity as well 149 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: over the years. 150 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, and funny global sales of over one hundred million, 151 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 3: ten UK top albums. 152 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 2: That's in the UK alone. 153 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 3: We like to ask, though, Robin, where were you do 154 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 3: you remember the first time you heard yourself on the radio. 155 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 4: I'm not absolutely sure, but I'm pretty sure that we 156 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 4: were in a minibus. I love that, and we were 157 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 4: all traveling together and we were in London going to 158 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 4: do some TV show and we heard ourselves for the 159 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 4: first time on the radio and we all jumped out 160 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 4: the van and started dancing. 161 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 2: That's the way to do it. I get chewels every 162 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 2: on that. 163 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,559 Speaker 3: Every answer from everybody the first and it so often 164 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 3: in a car and suddenly there you are coming out 165 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 3: of the speakers. 166 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 2: It would it would be incredible. 167 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: And what would that be for thought or something. One 168 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: of the early singles from. 169 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, the very first single, Yeah that's cool. 170 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: That's like that Tom Hanks movie when the band for 171 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: recout when they themselves. 172 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 4: We always think of that scene. That was another one 173 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 4: that was that was a mad launching. You know. We 174 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 4: released that single while we run to supporting the Pretenders. Yeah, 175 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 4: oh wow. That was our first proper tour. By the 176 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,559 Speaker 4: end of that tour we were number four in the chart. Yeah, 177 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 4: you know, we would she launched our careers. 178 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:54,079 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Chrissy Hian, Yes of course. Well. 179 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 3: UB forty Redhill Auditorium beautiful spot to play Robyn October 180 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 3: twenty so that would be perfect weather for it. Tickets 181 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 3: are on sale today from ticke Tech. Thank you so 182 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 3: much for joining us. 183 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: Bring your swimmers mate. 184 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely been a pleasure. 185 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 2: Thanks Robin, all the best. Thank you, Robin. 186 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 4: It's it October, Thank you. 187 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 3: Bye.