Still Rockin' It - Cheryl Lee
Still Rockin' It - Cheryl Lee
What has Dave Faulkner been up to lately? OR Secrets of the Back to The Stoneage Tour
Join Cheryl Lee - That Radio Chick on STILL ROCKIN' IT for news, reviews, music and interviews with some of our favourite Australian musicians.
Catch the charismatic Dave Faulkner, the legendary lead singer and guitarist of the Hoodoo Gurus, as he takes us behind the scenes of the band's whirlwind "Back to the Stone Age" tour.
Dave shares his secrets for keeping his energy levels high and his performances top-notch, including why he skips alcohol and coffee on show days. Fans won't want to miss hearing about the band's unforgettable 40th-anniversary tour for "Stone Age Romeos," filled with sold-out shows and a tribute to a beloved manager who left an indelible mark on their journey.
Performing their 1984 debut album in its entirety to mixing in hits and taking special requests, Dave tells us how they kept every audience on their feet.
Discover the fascinating cultural exchanges as the band played across continents, catering to the diverse tastes of their international fans. An inside look at drummer Nick's impressive on-the-fly improvisations reveals the band's dynamic versatility and commitment to their craft.
Life on the road has its share of hurdles, and Dave gives us an honest look at how the band navigated challenges like the unexpected COVID-19 setbacks during their US tour.
As we wrap up, Dave hints at future plans, and the possibility of new releases that promise to keep the Hoodoo Gurus' legacy alive and thriving.
What have The Hoodoo Gurus been up to lately? Let's find out!!
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That Radio Cheek Cheryl Lee here. Welcome to the Still Rockin' it podcast where we'll have music news, reviews and interviews with some of our favourite Australian musicians and artists. We've caught up with Dave Faulkner, lead singer, guitarist, founding member of the Hoodoo Gurus. While they had a little bit of downtime between gigs on the tour due to unprecedented demand and sellout concerts all over the place, the gurus are excited to announce a final run of shows on the back to the stone age tour. Does what happen on tour? Stay on tour? Let's find out. And let's find out what's. What's next for the Hoodoo Gurus To catch up on podcasts from other favourite artists, simply go to that radio chick. com. au. I'd like to welcome into the Zoom room today friend of the show, Dave Faulkner from the Hoodoo Gurus. Yay.
Dave Faulkner:Hey, good to be here.
Cheryl Lee:Nice to see you again, Dave. Last time we spoke, back in June last year, you were just about to embark on a 20 plus day tour around Australia. 21 days later and most of those I think were sold out. You're on the homeward stretch, but you're looking all right. You're not looking any worse for wear.
Dave Faulkner:Well, it's good for me. You know I don't drink when I'm on tour, unless I have a day off. I might have a couple of drinks after a show, but, like on a show day, don't drink alcohol. Don't drink when I'm on tour, unless I have a day off. I might have a couple of drinks after a show, but, like on a show day, don't drink alcohol. Don't even drink coffee. On a show day. You're up on stage, you're jumping around like a lunatic and losing all this fluid, you know, sweating everything out, and also that the muscles are working, including the diaphragm. So it's like a workout. Aerobic fitness is what I think of it as.
Cheryl Lee:So you're fitter when you're on tour than when you're not.
Dave Faulkner:Oh, a thousand percent, yeah, absolutely. I, you know, stack on the calories, go, you know, have too many bevies and don't do enough physical activity. I mean I do a bit of exercise and stuff, but generally speaking on tours is pretty rigorous you know.
Cheryl Lee:So it's kind of like jungle training or something.
Dave Faulkner:That's why you're looking so good, then, thank you. Thank you so much for your kind words. I'll take that, yeah you do.
Cheryl Lee:You're having a little well-deserved break.
Dave Faulkner:Yeah, of course.
Cheryl Lee:And then you're going to kick off this year 2025, with, is it seven final shows?
Dave Faulkner:Eight, eight shows. And then there's one that's not actually on our website, but it's actually a private thing in a pub somewhere. It's kind of a thing they do every year, a special thing. They get a fancy band in and just have it for their locals and it's kind of fun. Yeah, but eight shows and then we're off to New Zealand in April for three shows and that'll be the official end of the Stone Age Romeo's 40th anniversary celebration, which of course this. Now it's up to 41 years.
Cheryl Lee:You've been celebrating so long.
Dave Faulkner:I know, I know. Well, we started late. What happened was the tour wasn't put together until the last minute because our manager of many, many years standing decades in fact was unwell and basically he dropped the ball a little bit in his final illness, which unfortunately took his life. So when all that was happening in the beginning of last year, like about March, is when he passed away, we suddenly had to say what the hell are we doing now? Um, you know, that's a big, big decision. And, uh, our new manager, who we've known for many years he he's um was our tour manager back in the late 90s. He basically, in the space of three days, put this whole tour together and of course we just didn't know what would happen, whether it would be interest. You know people would be interested in this idea or not. And of course the tickets went out the window, you know, really fast. And out the door, isn't it? I don't know, you throw things out the window, you march out the door, I don't know.
Cheryl Lee:They went like hotcakes. They went like hotcakes, thank you.
Dave Faulkner:And so we added more shows, and of course, some of those shows are what we're about to embark on now, just to kind of wrap it all.
Cheryl Lee:Magician he is yeah, yeah.
Dave Faulkner:Well, as I say, we, we just thought, you know, hopefully people find this, you know, idea okay, and um, you know, suddenly we had to add show after show. We ended up doing four, four shows in perth and, you know, extra in moors and had extra venues in melbourne and sydney. It was just, it was amazing and the shows have been incredible. That's the best part about it, apart from the fact that you know the excitement in the audience, which obviously they express through buying tickets. But just the people that are there. I mean, we played at this venue in perth four nights in a row and the people there uh, said this is the first time we've ever had four concerts ever in our history without a single complaint from anyone about anything. So there wasn't anything about the price of the beer or the temperature of the beer or the you know couldn't get to the toilets or whatever it is. People complain about everything. Usually there's someone's got some gripe about something, but not a single complaint over four nights. They couldn't believe it.
Cheryl Lee:That's a pretty big compliment it is.
Dave Faulkner:It means that people were entertained and they're enjoying themselves. And we certainly were entertained and enjoying ourselves, and I think that showed too, you know, with the way they're having too much fun to sweat the small stuff Exactly and worry about the temperature of the beer. And we also invited all the party people. So the you know the sticks in the mud probably didn't get there.
Cheryl Lee:So you're finishing up with a big final show at Selena's. Is that going to go off or what?
Dave Faulkner:One hopes. You know, it's an old, traditional venue for us from back in the day, way back when in the late 80s and stuff, and that was almost like our home base in sydney and and, uh, there's certainly been a hot ticket. I've got so many people trying to get me to put them on the guest list or something and it's it's uh, mental, but, um, it's not used very often as a venue these days, once in a blue moon, and so we're happy to put our little uh, you know, once in a in a 40 year anniversary along with you know, once every, you know, six months. Whatever they do, I'm not sure how many gigs they do a year, but it's not many. No, because they are basically in the process of knocking it down and building an apartment complex or something as their plan. So that's all still, you know, in the pipeline. But right now they're saying, well, yeah, we'll have a Guru to Guru's gig, why not? Well, big, big party night.
Dave Faulkner:I reckon it will be, and we have a lunch planned for the next day for us, with our crew and everyone, to celebrate. You know, a job well done. You are listening to Still Rocking it the podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Cheryl Lee:Let's have a quick song from that album now, from the Stone Age Romeo's album. Let's All Turn On and then we're back to speak some more to Dave Faulkner. So when we spoke last, you were sort of, I think, just playing with the idea or considering the idea of playing the Stone Age Romeo LP in its entirety to celebrate, obviously, its 40th anniversary. So obviously you decided to do that and some hits as well, and that has worked immensely.
Dave Faulkner:Yeah, I mean, the first thing we had to decide was well, you know, we knew we'd have to play a longer set because there's people that obviously they love Stoneage Romeos, but there's a lot of fans that you know they may like a few songs but not know the whole album, and we knew they'd be coming on to see a Hoodoo Guru show and they'd want to hear all the songs they know and plus, we want to throw in a few extra things that kind of, you know, spice up the mix as well. So we extended our shows to this. Basically, we're playing an hour and 45 every night, which is a lot, you know, for a rock and roll band that just jumps, you know, pumps it out, and especially for our drummer, nick. Yeah, it was funny when we did. We we started this tour. We first we went to brazil and we weren't doing this don't know is romeo sing there, because those fans they loved that album, but they came aboard a bit. Probably a couple of albums later was more the era where the brazilians got into the gurus. So, um, we didn't worry about doing it there, but in america we decided to do that. So the first show was funny.
Dave Faulkner:I remember we were in austin, texas, and I started to get to write the set list and I suddenly realized what if this doesn't work? You know this might be. You know this might be a. You know we do this the first album and it's a. Either it it will just be, uh, you know what people won't be excited. And they won't because they won't know it well enough, and they'll be, they'll be bored. Or else, for the opposite, it'll be people that love that but don't like anything else, and the show falls flat. You know, I just didn't know how it would work. It was funny, you know, having to never considered it really, but you know, sort of tweaked the set a little bit and figured out how to do it. You know, we're pretty much a well-oiled machine. Now it's going great guns.
Cheryl Lee:Do you guys play the same set list every night?
Dave Faulkner:I mean, I guess the album part never changes. That's right. So that was a strange thing as well. You know where we were pretty much locked in for these the first 11 songs, that's it. You know, and it's funny, it sort of flies by in terms of time Before you know it. It was like saying, okay, now we're going to side two and next thing you know, the album's over. It's pretty, pretty amazing how fast it goes and you, you know we've been doing it now quite a lot, but it's still really exciting and, um, you know, it doesn't at all drag.
Dave Faulkner:Yeah, at the end of the show we've sort of tend to sort of play the same songs as well, because there's some songs that you know pick everyone's excitement as well, as you know their bigger hits that people really, you know everyone knows. So we always do that. So we kind of have the. The top and the bottom of the set are all pretty set and it's just the middle bit. We get a chance to play around and we, we um, always do a. On this tour we've been doing a request spot as well, so that something random can come in. That we haven't thought of that. You know, some fan is really, you know that's the one we want to hear and play, and they get their chance to sort of you know, one person out of a whole crowd.
Cheryl Lee:I suppose it's quite a lot, but you know so you do get to mix it up a little bit. Oh yeah, totally yeah, so we do.
Dave Faulkner:Yeah, we do, but it's just the middle of the set basically, and the encore, of course. Yeah, that's the random element. We call it privately. We sort of describe it as stump the band. Sometimes I pull out a song that's like, oh God, we haven't played that one in forever. Or you know, he didn't play on all the albums, obviously, and so he doesn't know those songs. He listens to them a lot. He's actually a huge fan of the band before he joined, so he knows a lot of the songs just from memory. But it's one thing to sort of know how the song goes, another thing to actually play the right drum, feel and get all the cues where you stop, you know and start different sections and all all those sort of things. They're quite complicated. So it's a lot to expect Nick to know every song backwards. But he doesn't do a bad job, by the way.
Cheryl Lee:He must be obviously just a great musician. So if he doesn't know it, he can wing it.
Dave Faulkner:Totally, absolutely. He's a brilliant. I mean, he probably gets it. You know better than us. Sometimes you know like I sometimes go what key is that in? Even you know I've had that one a little bit occasionally, but mostly it's more the keys and the. You know like, does that start in G or an A? You know like sometimes you're just not quite sure, Weird things like that.
Cheryl Lee:It probably actually doesn't matter, because all the people out in the audience, all the punters, they'll just be singing along and enjoying it. There's a lot of that going on, that's for sure. Exactly right.
Dave Faulkner:It's been funny One. One of the songs that's become unbeknownst to us, you know, it seems to become a real sing-along anthem is a song called Bittersweet from our second album, marzi's Guitars. Out of nowhere there seems to be that one that people really all want to sing along to, which has been amazing, quite a kind of amazing feeling. Yeah.
Cheryl Lee:Because you can never really predict that. You know it'll either happen or it won't. You can't really plan it that you know it'll either happen or it won't.
Dave Faulkner:You can't really plan it, that's right. I mean, they sing along to a lot of songs, mind you, I've got to say that, but for some reason that one seems to be kind of almost yeah.
Cheryl Lee:A bit of an anthem. Yeah, it has.
Dave Faulkner:And of course, we've had the other thing happening, which is in the song my Girl from Stoney's Romeo. We seem to be getting a little bit of a crowd call and response moment, where I was going to say have you got any angels thing happening?
Dave Faulkner:We have.
Dave Faulkner:It's going on. It's been kind of weird, you know. I mean it's not, it's not, there's no swearing, mind you. But yeah, the song my Girl in the bridge section I talk about. You know, when I went out she was alone. She said I would like to go home. I said who were you with On out? I said who were you with? She said no one. They yell that out too. It's just like okay, I mean I guess that's just you know. I think it's because people when they hear the song you know and they love it, that's something that sticks in their mind and they kind of in their mind they can almost sing that bit themselves without having to learn it. You know something, I know backwards, you know so that's so. Just, somehow it just pops out when they're in the show as well, and everyone's doing it at the same time.
Cheryl Lee:Aussies, we tend to do that a little bit, don't we? I love that and you know what? It might even expand as time goes on.
Dave Faulkner:No swearing, though. That's all I ask. No swearing.
Cheryl Lee:No, that's being done. That's all I ask.
Dave Faulkner:Yeah, yeah, yeah Well you don't want to have swearing in that song. I mean other songs perhaps, but not that one.
Cheryl Lee:Yeah, no, no, Still rocking that podcast with that radio chick, Cheryl Lee. Okay, here it is now for your listening pleasure, my girl, and feel free to sing your part when it comes up. Then we're back to speak some more to Dave, lead singer of the Hoodoo Gurus the tour. Fantastic as it is, every tour's got a good story. Have you got a good story that you can tell us?
Dave Faulkner:I'm trying to think. I mean well, not really a good story, but I caught COVID in America one week into our heavy US schedule. That was pretty hard work. Both Nick and I caught it within a few days of each other.
Cheryl Lee:So what happens now?
Dave Faulkner:I'd had the actual vaccine a week before and so had Nick, but I managed to. Basically I went negative in 24 hours. It was amazing because I also had the antivirals in my suitcase just for just such an eventuality. But it affects my voice and in fact that made life tough for me. You know, the falsetto part of my voice has a couple of little potholes where I have to sing some songs that are really kind of drilling on those notes and it's quite awkward. So I have to leave those songs out for a while while that's all happening.
Cheryl Lee:So these days you didn't have to cancel anything, you didn't have to isolate, you just had to be sensible no, and obviously we took all these safeguards and you know the people are pretty safe from us.
Dave Faulkner:You know we're a long way from them and all that and our crew and everyone. You know we're masking up and we're, you know, no one's using the same microphones. Being sensible, even now, you know, without anyone, you know everyone's healthy. Our road crew, he's setting up the microphones. He uses a different microphone to mine when he's setting the sound up on the monitors, so he'll take that mic off and put mine on. So only I use that one, things like that. So we just practice kind of sensible things.
Cheryl Lee:Yeah, just conversation as far as crazy stories.
Dave Faulkner:I'm trying to think if there's any on this tour, because we were so damn busy.
Cheryl Lee:I bet you didn't have time. Or is it what happens on tour? Stays on tour. No, no, no.
Dave Faulkner:Because the thing was, you know, we're a little bit, we're not idiots, we've been doing this a long time and you'd kill yourself if you lived that sort of fantasy lifestyle that people imagine, you know, of sex, drugs and rock and roll. I mean, the rock and roll is there, that's pretty much the other things in their place, not so much.
Cheryl Lee:You've grown up now.
Dave Faulkner:Yeah, but also, you know, like, as I say, I don't even drink on a show day, so you know, that's hardly a recipe for me going out and creating mayhem after a show. You know, because I'm back in bed having a cup of tea, you know, before I go to sleep, and that's for real. I mean, you know, angus Young. Cup of tea, you know, and a cigarette in his case. I'm a non-smoker, so just a cup of tea will do me. I can't think of anything specifically, you know, that stands out as being oh, that was an amazing experience that wasn't unrelated to the show.
Dave Faulkner:The shows themselves are always what it's all about. You know Everything else is kind of mundane, to be honest, you know you're checking in and out of hotels, figuring out how soon to have your meals before you go on stage, so you don't feel like you know shucking up, you know because you've got to have several hours to digest it. You know, basically, otherwise it's a bit awkward.
Cheryl Lee:Like you say, it'd be a bit like working out on a full stomach. Yeah, it's being an athlete really.
Dave Faulkner:I mean you are and you're training yourself and you get poised just to give the best performance and that's what it's all about, just that moment and everything else is just lead up and and you know you don't go. Okay, I've done my show now, where it's the fun? I mean, it's the opposite the show is the fun for us. Yeah, that's why we're still doing it and loving it, you know, because that's right.
Cheryl Lee:You're here for a long time, not a good time now.
Dave Faulkner:Well, no, we're also here because we love playing music. That's actually, you know, you actually wouldn't do the rest of it. It's kind of boring and kind of, you know, it's a drag, you know, not being at home and being able to sort of relax and do things, I mean, you know, I mean I don't need to work financially. Obviously no one ever says no to making more money, being, you know, feeling a bit more comfortable, but but, um, the reason we all are doing it is because we love music and that's a part of ourselves that we don't get to express in any other way.
Dave Faulkner:You know, you're in this special place of you know, in the world of music and you are, in a sense, yourself a musical instrument. You're singing, you're playing and you're. All your other problems drop away, including, you know, if you've got covid or any other illnesses. You completely don't even notice those those things, any little aches and pains or whatever. They just don't, they disappear because you're just in this other strange, you know mental state and you know, immersed in that thing that you've passionately devoted yourself to all your life and being, in a sense, the most best version of yourself.
Cheryl Lee:You do it for the passion and then it makes all of that, like you say waiting around in airports and hotels and sound checks. That makes all of that worthwhile. When you get on the stage, the boredom, the loneliness, you know the isolation, all those things.
Dave Faulkner:You know being disconnected from your normal life and all that. And you know I mean as a musician. You know we obviously got used to it long ago. But like, for example, we just played New Year's Eve and we don't normally do that, as a musician you're missing birthday parties, weddings that all your family and friends go to, that you can't be a part of because you've got to work and be somewhere else. You know halfway around the world sometimes. You know. So those are things we get used to and it can be a bit disorienting because you feel disconnected in some ways from normal life. You know you get back into it when you get some time off, which we get. You know big chunks of time off as well, which other people don't get to do, so that's all right as well.
Cheryl Lee:So you do it for the love of it, yeah.
Tommy Kaye:You are listening to Still Rocking it. The podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Cheryl Lee:Let's have another quick song now. What about Bittersweet, a song that Dave said is quite the crowd favourite at the moment? Then we're back to speak some more today, faulkner from the Hoodoo Gurus. When this last bit of the tour is over, what's next?
Dave Faulkner:Ah yes, Well, next is definitely going to be some relaxation. So when this tour finishes these next few shows in Australia, that finishes in the beginning of Feb and then we have nothing until the beginning of April. So that's like seven weeks off, maybe six weeks, and we're going to be playing in New Zealand for a few days and then we're going to go to Vietnam for a special show that someone's booked us for, a private event, and that's an unusual thing that sometimes happens, you know, in this music world we're in, then we have nothing then until August, a couple of things in September, but basically it's going to be pretty much. It's pretty sparse, in fact hardly anything at all for the rest of the year.
Cheryl Lee:You had earned a good rest.
Dave Faulkner:Yeah, yeah, and people have probably earned a good rest from us as well, so we're going to give them that as well as give ourselves that luxury. Yeah, so we're probably looking back, you know, more to 2026, and we have some vague ideas, some things we'd like to do, perhaps try to get back to Europe and do something over there, things like that, but they're, you know, all in the hypothetical basket at the moment.
Dave Faulkner:The R word no Retirement no no, no, I mean, retirement is only when people tell us that they don't want to come and see us anymore, or when we feel we can't deliver Because I don't. I mean, I will not do a show that I don't enjoy, and enjoyment for me is doing it well. It's not just about, you know, oh, we got paid well. It's all about playing well and feeling, you know, excited by what you're doing Right now. I mean, on this tour especially, people have been saying to us this is the best they've ever seen us. Wow, you know, these are people that have seen us from the beginning of our career. We're playing really well, the shows just work, and there's a great energy and a great feeling in the audience as well. So it's whatever reason, it's all come together in an amazing way right now. Why don't we stop doing that? You know just when we got good.
Cheryl Lee:Yeah, exactly right. You don't want to go out now, when you're on top of your game, that's right when we're feeling good and playing well.
Dave Faulkner:When that starts to slip, then maybe you have to, you know, drag us kicking and screaming off the stage, but I think we'll probably take ourselves off before you even notice that we shouldn't be there anymore.
Cheryl Lee:You've had some pretty great special guests and you've got the Hard Ons coming up yeah absolutely, yes, completely.
Dave Faulkner:We love them and you know we have a long association with the Hard Ons going back to, you know, our third album, I think. They played with us on shows and they're still going like we are and they're still amazing. So we're happy to be, you know, with our musical contemporaries and you know, whatever luminaries like, you know, like them, they're great.
Cheryl Lee:And you've got Magic, dirt, yep, day Two or Four and Spy vs Spy joining you as well. There's some great support there with you.
Dave Faulkner:There's a spy joining you as well. There's some great support there with you, absolutely, and you know, and that's been fun as well. I mean, there's a band called the Reinhardts played with us in Perth, who were fantastic, you know, and the Screamfeet are up in Queensland. We love them. That's just all part and parcel of us trying to, you know, give everyone the best night out we can.
Cheryl Lee:Absolutely, they can get the dates on the website and on the Facebook page.
Dave Faulkner:So hoodoogurus. net is the official website. Obviously, facebook is Hoodoogurus. Facebook. One word, obviously for both those Hoodoogurus. One word they're all there. And of course, you know Instagram as well. Is Hoodoogurus underscore official?
Cheryl Lee:Get onto the Google-o-meter and you're kicking off in 22nd of January in Bendigo. Again, what a hectic schedule you guys have. You're not sitting on your laurels, are you?
Dave Faulkner:You're busy? No, well, we're probably because you know our manager likes to economise by putting it all together so that we're not paying people to sit around and do nothing. You know, go fishing, yeah.
Cheryl Lee:Good plan Victoria, Queensland, then New South Wales. Was there another one?
Dave Faulkner:No, that's it basically. Yeah, that'll do, and then off to New Zealand and Vietnam, yeah, yeah.
Cheryl Lee:Still rocking the podcast with that radio chick, cheryl Lee. We talked earlier about them having to pull out some weird stuff when requested by the fans. I wonder if they ever get asked for this one. Do you remember they played with the Masters Apprentices? Turn up your radio and then we're back to say goodbye to lead guru Dave Faulkner. One last question, then. I'd better let you go and enjoy this time off, thank you. Thank you for staying up to me in your time off.
Dave Faulkner:That's it.
Cheryl Lee:I just wanted to know what you're listening to at the moment.
Dave Faulkner:Oh well, I mean I can't think of anything. New records Someone put me onto a band called English Teacher from the UK. I'll be honest, you know I go through a lot of old stuff and there's an anthology of folk and blues I forget what it's called from the Smithsonian Institution which came out in the 1950s, which I bought recently, and I've been listening to that a lot. I've grazed across the whole musical landscape from all eras, but yeah, it's pretty random really.
Cheryl Lee:Any scoop on a new Hoodoo Gurus record?
Dave Faulkner:No plans at the moment. I'll be honest, you know we did one in 2023. It came out I think it was 22, maybe even I might be mistaken or whatever. No, it was 23, I'm pretty sure. Either way, time flies yeah, time flies. Well, it was all during COVID, so kind of things merged together at that time. Before that was 12 years, so I've given myself a little bit of time to figure out. You know how to do it and what. We're always recording different things. We actually filmed one of the shows on this tour we've just done. We did a show in Canberra a while back which was recorded with an orchestra. Now, you know whether that ever seemed a lot of day or not, I don't know, but you know there's things there that we could release if we felt like it. But we haven't, to be honest, we haven't even considered anything like that. We're just doing what's in front of us and enjoying ourselves and then seeing what we feel like doing.
Cheryl Lee:Exactly right. Well, I'm going to take that as a scoop.
Dave Faulkner:You didn't. That's you know. That's just ridiculous. After what I, you know, my career has shown me, I I don't know which way it's going to go, you know we broke up for six years.
Dave Faulkner:I said never. Then, you know, and that that was a big hard lesson, which was like you had to sort of swallow your words because you know the band wouldn't uh, stay in the in the basement where I tried to confine and I thought it was gone, yet gone, but the band was still alive and well and it kind of dragged me back. And you know, and I'm really happy it did you know, in fact we've been going longer now since the band broke up and reformed after six years. We've been going longer since the Reformation than before the band. Actually, you know the first part of the band's history. So, yeah, I think we're here for the long term still.
Cheryl Lee:Exactly, we're here for the long term. Still exactly, we're not going soon. I wish you all the best on the rest of the tour. As I said, it agrees with you because you're looking fabulous I thought you might be looking a little bit weary, but no, you're looking great, so all the best for the rest of it, and we look forward to whatever it is that's next for the huda gurus me too, so thank you so much.
Dave Faulkner:So, look, enjoy talking. I look forward to chatting next time.
Cheryl Lee:Yeah, lovely to speak to you again. Bye, mate, bye, bye for now.
Tommy Kaye:You are listening to Still Rocking it. The podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Cheryl Lee:We are going to go out with one of the bands that Dave from the Hoodoo Gurus is listening to at the moment. This is English Teacher. I'm not crying, you're crying from there. This could be Texas album. I'm not high, I'm not near, I'm not here. I'm not high, I'm not sure You're with Cheryl Lee, that radio chick. Thank you so much for joining me on the Still Rocking it podcast. Hope to catch you again next time. Get out when you can support Aussie music