Sarah Konoski

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.

Could you play us a song from that period in your career?

You've always toured a lot.

Who comes to your gigs now?

How do you get such a big demographic?

This is the TV show.

Part of playing live must be that response that you're getting from the audience what's it like what's it give you that you enjoy as a artist?

That's a pretty great job description when you put it like that, I have to say.

This probably wouldn't be a music industry story, Colin, without a court case.

And let me give the summary.

In 2009, you and Ron Strykert were sued for copyright infringement.

Larrick Music, who'd bought the rights to the estate of Marion Sinclair, who'd written a song for kids called The Kookaburra Song,

And then Lurican claimed that you'd plagiarised Sinclair's song for Down Under and they wanted a big chunk of money earned by the song.

Ultimately, the court ruled that the flute riff in your Men At Work song did borrow from the Kookaburra song.