Colin Hay

But it was almost like, hey, let's try and put a rock band together and see how that goes.

And we did that and bang, it goes mental.

and then it's over.

And so you're kind of back to just going, oh, okay, now I'm back to who I am now.

I mean, that wasn't like I wasn't who I was as well, but it was a bit.

When I'd stand on stage being a solo performer, playing songs for people, and I'd say 50 people in the audience, and you've got no production, you've got no band, you've got no... It's bare.

You've just got the bare essentials of...

what your particular skill set is and you have to entertain these people for an hour and a half or two hours.

You've got to do it.

And so that was what I started to do.

And it became kind of conspiratorial almost because the audience were kind of sitting there almost looking embarrassed, kind of thinking, wow, why is he doing this?

Because I'd gone from 150,000 people to 50 people in a room.

I didn't have to play that.

Although I was going to.

I didn't have to play, mate.

There's nobody here.

I'll play you a bit of this one.

I won't play the whole thing because it's a very long song.

It was when I got dropped by MCA Records, which was the end of my 10- or 15-year period of being with large record labels.

So they said goodbye to me and I thought, well, you know, something else will happen.