Sarah Konoski

A few years ago, you reached out to a young musician, Justin Bieber, who on the surface seems to be a very different sort of musician from you.

What could you relate to in what was happening to him?

Or what could you see as the possible pitfalls that I guess you must have had to negotiate when your career was in that kind of place?

Colin, I think about that beautiful song that you played us earlier, Overkill, which you wrote while I guess you were still in the upswing of all that fame and that commercial success.

That's such a melancholy song in a way.

It's like you're...

you're aware of things maybe spiralling out of control, that maybe you're your own enemy rather than the world out there.

About the drinking in particular.

How bad did it become for you?

And moved to LA.

What was happening with Men at Work?

Quite a nice wine cellar, I'd be guessing.

Were you missing music?

Do you remember, Colin, going on stage after giving up drinking, deciding you weren't drinking anymore and your career had been on the back burner and starting as a solo performer, what was it like to go on stage in that totally different context?

Or even less, I hear.

Or even less, that's right.

In Broome one night.

Nobody came at all.

Nobody.

That's got to be a fortifying experience.