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Speaker 1: Tony Hadley is on his way back to town.

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Speaker 2: He's at the Estatheata March twenty and March twenty first

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Speaker 2: tickets not for March twenty because that sold out, but

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Speaker 2: to the other one through destroy alllines dot com.

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Speaker 1: And he's with us now.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning, Tony.

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Speaker 4: Good morning. Nice to speak to you. You guys.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Well, yes we're doing okay and you're back for another visit.

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Speaker 3: I get the feeling you like us, you do.

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Speaker 1: No, we love it down.

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Speaker 4: I mean my band, well, I get excited. Me and

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Speaker 4: my band get really excited every time we go. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: we're going back to Australia. We're also coming to New

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Speaker 4: Zealand as well and Your Lifetime. We were meant to

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Speaker 4: do a lot more and we didn't want to let

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Speaker 4: people down, so we had a few shows just on

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Speaker 4: our own because we were meant to be down with

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Speaker 4: the I Think Boy George and Culture Club and Bonnie

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Speaker 4: Tyler and there was a whole kind of series of

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Speaker 4: festivals going on for some reason, I don't know why

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Speaker 4: they didn't happen, but they didn't, but we felt that

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Speaker 4: we should come down and play to everybody. Anyway, we

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Speaker 4: only did a handful of shows, but it was fantastic

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Speaker 4: and it all went really, really well, so we thought,

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Speaker 4: let's go again. So we're coming back in March.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's your first time at the ASTA, though.

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Speaker 2: You obviously have settled it and it's a beautiful old theater.

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Speaker 1: It used to be a cinema.

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Speaker 2: It's a gorgeous place. So you've made good friends with

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Speaker 2: the ASTA. Now the fabulous Tony Hadley band is accompanying you.

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Speaker 2: How do you work with them to maintain the sound

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Speaker 2: and energy of both your old hits and your knew

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Speaker 2: us swing style.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's I mean we do. When we

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Speaker 4: come down to you guys, it's going to be the

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Speaker 4: pop I've got my pop rockhead on.

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Speaker 1: OK.

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Speaker 4: We might do a couple of sort of classic songs,

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Speaker 4: but it's mainly going to be pop rock. So we're

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Speaker 4: going to be doing all the hits, True Gold, Barricades,

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Speaker 4: cut Along, Flight for You, Heiley, Strain and that kind

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Speaker 4: of stuff. And then I'm also releasing a new contemporary

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Speaker 4: album next year as well, so we'll be doing a

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Speaker 4: couple of songs from that album too. How do we

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Speaker 4: keep it fresh? Number One? We enjoy each other's company.

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Speaker 4: They are the most incredible musicians, so they can play anything.

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Speaker 4: And we have a lot of fun, and that's the

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Speaker 4: key to it. And I think the minute you're not

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Speaker 4: having fun, I think people can see that when you're

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Speaker 4: on stage. And so we have a lot of fun

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Speaker 4: together and we just love playing. And I never get

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Speaker 4: tired of you know, people say to me, you know,

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Speaker 4: do you get tired of singing true and Barricades and gold, etc.

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Speaker 4: And I never do because every gig you're getting different

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Speaker 4: sort of reactions from different audiences, and so I never

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Speaker 4: get tired of singing the songs. And if I forget

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Speaker 4: the words, which has happened occasionally, not very often, I've

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Speaker 4: picked the mic out and.

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Speaker 3: There, well, everybody knows it. It's going to help you

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Speaker 3: because you have you have such a long history with Australia.

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Speaker 3: It goes right back to the very very beginning of

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Speaker 3: what about eighty one. We were one of the first

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Speaker 3: territories to embrace you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean back in nineteen eighty. I mean our

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Speaker 4: first hit record was to cut a Long Story short.

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Speaker 4: And back in the day, I mean if you went

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Speaker 4: top fifty or top seventy five, that was deemed to

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Speaker 4: be really brilliant. But in the UK it went top

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Speaker 4: five and you guys in Australia you followed suit and

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Speaker 4: you've been with us ever since. So when we finally

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Speaker 4: got to Australia in nineteen eighty four, it was genuinely

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Speaker 4: like being like the Beatles or something. We had three

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Speaker 4: hundred crazy fans outside the hotel all the time. We

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Speaker 4: had to get smuggled out in you know, blankets and

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Speaker 4: cut things like that.

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Speaker 3: They were the days you remember.

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Speaker 4: Well might be a little bit older, but every now

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Speaker 4: and again asked the ladies just give me a little scream,

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Speaker 4: go and give you a little screen.

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Speaker 3: Come on, I'm saying, must of what you still can.

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Speaker 2: I've told you before tiny that to cut a long

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Speaker 2: story short change my life. I'll never forget the day

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Speaker 2: I saw that. The first time I saw it on countdown.

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Speaker 2: I imagine the eighty shows. The minute that first beat starts,

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Speaker 2: people must get on their feet to dance to it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's funny because I mean, you

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Speaker 4: know it's nineteen eighty that's a long time, forty five year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it hasn't aged. It's still good.

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Speaker 4: No, it hasn't. And we still plays with as much

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Speaker 4: gusto as as we ever did. And I mean that's

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Speaker 4: the thing, you know, we play the songs with as

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Speaker 4: much enthusiasm as we have done over the year, and people,

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Speaker 4: I don't know, even young people are coming along to

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Speaker 4: the concerts now because I suppose because of streaming and

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Speaker 4: Spotify and Apple Music and everything, yeah, can instantly go back. Well,

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Speaker 4: I'm going to check out SPAN, I'm going to check

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Speaker 4: out Duran Culture Club ACDC, cream LEDs up and so

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Speaker 4: you get kind of a whole new sort of audience there.

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Speaker 4: And also I love Sinatra and all those kind of guys,

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Speaker 4: and my parents played all their records, So I suppose

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Speaker 4: it away there's a lot of parents out there who

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Speaker 4: have bombarded their poor children with that bully and probably.

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Speaker 3: It's their own journey of discovery you talk about. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: you came here in nineteen eighty four, chaotic scenes. You

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Speaker 3: guys were act your peak worldwide. And then the year later,

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Speaker 3: of course there was live A. We just had the

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Speaker 3: big fortieth anniversary. Did you market Did you sit down

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Speaker 3: and rewatch it on YouTube or something?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I watched bits of it. There was a documentary.

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Speaker 4: I've never actually watched Spandau's full performance because I watching

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Speaker 4: myself on TV. Also, why didn't we do Gold and

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Speaker 4: why did we do Virgin?

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Speaker 2: Still that.

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Speaker 4: Honestly I watched it. I watched bits of it thinking

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Speaker 4: why did we do that?

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Speaker 1: It's crazy?

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Speaker 4: You know, we're the only band to have attempted to

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Speaker 4: have done a new song. Now, honestly, what were we thinking?

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Speaker 4: It was a long time ago, but I remember, I

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Speaker 4: mean standing on the stage watching status quos starting going

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Speaker 4: in to see the Queen Boys Andy young Fella that

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Speaker 4: I was going, Oh, good luck, Fred, good luck lads?

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Speaker 1: Is this quick?

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Speaker 3: So now we know why it was such an iconic

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Speaker 3: performances because you pepped them up before.

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Speaker 1: Give it large.

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Speaker 4: Fred.

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Speaker 2: Well, on that note, I think we'll let you go

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Speaker 2: and we look forward to March twenty and twenty one.

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Speaker 2: It's my birthday that weekend, so I shall be celebrating

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Speaker 2: with you down at the ASTA. Tickets for the Saturday

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Speaker 2: night show through Destroy All Lines dot com. Tony, It's

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Speaker 2: always a pleasure to have you talked to us. And

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Speaker 2: before I let you go, I just want to say

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for the message that you recorded

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Speaker 2: for our friend Clersey who recently quit these horrendous breakfast

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Speaker 2: hours after forty three years.

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Speaker 1: That was really lovely and he was so touched.

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Speaker 4: So forty three years forty three years wow, Yeah, nearly

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Speaker 4: as long as me and the music.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he would have started out playing your song.

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Speaker 1: He absolutely did Shartbusters, he played gold.

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Speaker 4: I'm really pleased with Honestly, we're so looking forward to

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Speaker 4: coming down. We always have a great time, and it'll

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Speaker 4: be winter and horrible here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be lovely. It'll be lovely. Well, we'll see

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Speaker 1: you in March live at Large.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Thanks Tony, thanks very much,