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Speaker 1: And Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: How good's that? That?

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Speaker 3: Is a brand new band called The Barnstormers, including amongst others,

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Barnes and Chris Cheney, who join us now. Hello, gentlemen,

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Speaker 3: how are you boys?

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Speaker 1: Hello? Team? How are you doing? Morning?

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Speaker 2: Hello?

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Speaker 1: Chris? How are we We're good, We're awake, we're alone. Hello.

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Speaker 3: There are great hours for you guys. I know that.

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Speaker 3: How did this come about? Because it's the two of you,

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Speaker 3: it's Jules Holland who else is in it?

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: Best? You want to take this one?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Well, jeez, how long have we got?

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Speaker 2: Probably not long enough, but it's it's a bit of

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Speaker 2: a long story.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Jimmy and I have been friends for

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Speaker 1: a long time. He's been friends with Slimjin Fann and

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Speaker 1: from the Stray Cats for a long time.

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Speaker 4: And we all share this love of rockabilly music, and

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Speaker 4: we've every time we've met up over the past sort.

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Speaker 1: Of twenty years, should make a record one.

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Speaker 2: Day, individuals, and and you know, like Chris and Slim

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Speaker 2: said that me and Chris said that. Me is so

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Speaker 2: that we're all been talking about it must be I've

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Speaker 2: been saying it for thirty five forty years to the

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Speaker 2: Slim and you know, Chris sends a met Chris. All

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Speaker 2: I wanted to do was make a record with him anyway.

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Speaker 2: But but finally, well, you know, we thought lockdown. We

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Speaker 2: were we were sitting at home, you know, looking at

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Speaker 2: ourselves on the on the phone and going, let's do something.

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Speaker 1: And so you'd think that to.

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Speaker 2: Make a rockabilly record, really you'd have to be locked

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Speaker 2: in the garage somewhere, all trapped in one room in

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Speaker 2: a garage.

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Speaker 1: That's how rockabilly records are made.

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Speaker 2: But this due to the you know, thanks to the

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Speaker 2: to the incredible help of Kevin Shirley, the wonderful record producer.

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Speaker 1: He managed to capture us all and we're sort of

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Speaker 1: we did this record.

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Speaker 2: Chris is in Melbourne, I was in I was in

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Speaker 2: Sydney or Berrima, you know, Jewels was in London, and

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Speaker 2: Slim was in Los Angeles. So it was like this

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Speaker 2: intercontinental look up and we kept you know, sending things

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Speaker 2: files around until slowly, you know, we would start off

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Speaker 2: with us with us to scratch guitar from from Chris

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Speaker 2: or or a rhythm from Slim, and slowly go round

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Speaker 2: the chain. But then it came back to me, it's

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Speaker 2: starting to sound like a band. I'd seen it come

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Speaker 2: back around again. It sounds like a record. So one

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Speaker 2: of those things that was really really great process.

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Speaker 4: Right, And I just love I love Slim Jim Fandom

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Speaker 4: on the drums.

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Speaker 1: He's just so great, he.

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Speaker 2: Said, is a you know, he's a ball of energy.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've always loved slim gym And another fact,

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Speaker 2: he plays standing up.

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Speaker 1: The Slim's always sort of spinning, jumping.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's one of the one of the one

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Speaker 2: of the really most enthusiastic guys I know who loves music.

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Speaker 1: He always wants to play music.

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Speaker 3: This is the stuff would be so great to hear live.

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Speaker 3: I know the debut album is out on Friday. Any

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Speaker 3: chance all of you could be in the same room

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Speaker 3: at the same time.

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Speaker 2: We could probably all be on the same computer. We

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Speaker 2: know this and we we are trying to do it.

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Speaker 2: And we literally did have We did have a show

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Speaker 2: or two lined up, but due to some surgery that

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Speaker 2: I had to have, which we we should have in common,

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Speaker 2: we had to blow that out. But it's just a

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Speaker 2: little bit difficult. But I think at some point we're

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Speaker 2: going to get us all on stage at the same time.

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Speaker 2: You know the other thing I'm thinking of doing. You know,

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Speaker 2: we're going to you know the you know, the Barnstormers

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Speaker 2: are such great. There's great songs to play and great

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Speaker 2: songs to sing. And Chris and I are out and

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Speaker 2: are soon doing a red one summer to doing our

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Speaker 2: own shows, and.

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Speaker 1: We we thought we might try and get together and

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Speaker 1: play a couple.

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Speaker 2: Of tunes here somewhere, you know, if I jump up

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Speaker 2: and his set or he gets up in Maine or something,

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Speaker 2: we do a couple of tunes as well. But we'd

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Speaker 2: love to get together. Yeah, yeah, that happened.

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Speaker 1: Every time you and I are in the same suburb,

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Speaker 1: we end up playing.

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Speaker 3: Maybe on stage, you could recreate one of your mum's

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Speaker 3: garages or something. She can come in give you all

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Speaker 3: a cup of tea halfway through.

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Speaker 1: It's Australia, so we can make it a cardboard.

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Speaker 3: Up and complain.

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Speaker 4: I love the film clip to it too, It's so great,

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Speaker 4: the animation of the film clip, and it's got the

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Speaker 4: odd traditional drag race. You know, they're racing for pinks

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Speaker 4: and then because they used to in the olden days,

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Speaker 4: go heading towards a.

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Speaker 1: Cliff and you'd have to stop before you got to

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Speaker 1: the cliff.

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Speaker 2: You know, the girls waving the flag. Yeah, it's very

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Speaker 2: very old old school. It was a great thing because

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Speaker 2: we you know, obviously we couldn't be in the same room.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to try to do photos and trying to

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Speaker 2: do all that stuff. So it was really great. Slims

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Speaker 2: a friend of Slims, who's who's comic strip, right drawer,

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Speaker 2: you know, animator. He he did the drawings for the

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Speaker 2: covers and stuff, and then we found an animator in

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Speaker 2: Italy to make the clips.

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Speaker 1: So although the band hasn't been in the same.

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Speaker 2: Room, would managed to make film clips and do press

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Speaker 2: shots and do all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's really it's very cool, fantastic.

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Speaker 3: It's a modern super group.

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Speaker 2: Sorry Chris morphed into Edwards scissor Hands in the That

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Speaker 2: was something I didn't expect. When we got the cartoons back,

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Speaker 2: We're go, hang on, can you make me a bit

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Speaker 2: slimmer make than the slim.

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Speaker 4: Well, and that clip could just be driving in traffic

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Speaker 4: these days.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd be in trouble for that. When we called over,

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Speaker 1: I reckon, well to you and your own.

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Speaker 4: Thing with that truck drop and what the hell happened

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Speaker 4: with that?

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Speaker 1: I thought, man, that was just that was his nightmare.

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Speaker 2: Was just a guy having a bad day and hit

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Speaker 2: the wrong But I was also having you know, I

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Speaker 2: didn't want add a bad day after he hit my car.

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Speaker 4: But did you know did you know what was did

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Speaker 4: he know it was you?

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Speaker 1: No, he didn't have He didn't have a clue. But

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Speaker 1: he wanted to fight me.

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Speaker 2: And I was standing in the in the in the

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Speaker 2: dark in Port Bottley, in the in the middle of that,

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Speaker 2: thinking I want to fight now this you know, you

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Speaker 2: know this guy I could if I hit him, you know,

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Speaker 2: I could probably you know, if I miss kill me.

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Speaker 1: I've got to at this point in my life, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be fighting you know.

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Speaker 2: Truck he's in the street, you know, and uh and

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Speaker 2: so so we just sort of I got the cops

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Speaker 2: and you know, it's like.

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Speaker 3: A rework of the movie Duel.

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Speaker 2: But to say that, you know, he was he was

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Speaker 2: lucky he was dealing with me and not Jane.

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Speaker 4: Well, Jimmy and Chris. It's great to toward you barn Stormers.

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Speaker 4: The debut album is out on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Just love It. We just love Johnny's gone.

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Speaker 3: Can we hear another snippet?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are so excited. Look at the cowboy Jimmy's

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Speaker 1: holding up on the zoom. You look at that vinyl.

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Speaker 1: We love vinyl, and it just sounds so good for

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Speaker 1: the material.

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Speaker 3: It's the biggest CD I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Good on you boys, Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks Chris, Thanks Jimmy,