Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Whenever he's on the show, I love chatting to Jimmy Barnes, and the great news is he's cool on the show today because we can go and see him live. It's so great. You know, we've been talking on our show about us trying to get tickets for our teenage kids to go and see Harry Stiles next year. You can go and see Jimmy Barnes live, who is amazing live. So Jimmy Barnes

is on the line right now. Jimmy, you must be so excited. You're getting back out there. You're

going to do what you love live in front of us. Absolutely. And especially to be doing these

songs from this Soul Deep 30 album, because the thing about recording this album, Christian, 30 years

ago, I realized the

importance of the quality of songs, you know. I put this album out and I thought, oh, this might

do okay. And of course it went to become the biggest record I've ever had. And that based purely

on the quality of songs. And I just, I love singing these songs life. Did you enjoy Blues Fest

last week? Had some friends up there. He said it was Fest last week? It had some friends up, though.

He said it was amazing.

Yeah, we had a really great time.

You know, it was really nice to get out and do what we all do best,

which is, you know, make rock and war music in front of a big crowd.

The audience were really, really in full voice that were very loud.

And all the bands were just dying to get up and play.

It was awesome. And what have you missed about life?

Because it's hard work, isn't it?

Toring.

Well, it's hard work.

But it's schlepping around.

It's a hard work.

You know, getting like anybody going through airports, traveling.

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