James Reyne

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_“I said, hey, do you remember?”_  
   
**James Reyne** is dipping back into the _**Crawl File**_, hitting the road to celebrate the 40th anniversary of **Australian Crawl**’s first greatest hits collection.  
   
To coincide with the tour, _**Crawl File**_ is being reissued on vinyl by Universal Music.  
   
_**Crawl File**_ plays like a classic gig, opening with the band’s debut single, _‘Beautiful People’_, and closing with their most popular live song, _‘The Boys Light Up’_. In between are some of the most-loved Australian songs of all time, including _‘Reckless’, ‘Errol’, ‘Oh No Not You Again’, ‘Lakeside’, ‘Downhearted’_ and _‘Things Don’t Seem’._  
   
As one fan noted, _“I can put on this album and almost feel the sea spray and the late summer nights.”_  
   
Just a snippet of any song is enough to take you back: _“The garden’s full of furniture, the house is full of plants … Had an experience bizarre … I would give everything just to be like him … Let me tell you ’bout two young lovers that lived on the coast … All them summer rubbernecks kept coming to panel-van the street … Broken dreams that never really started … Things justa don’t seema to be going right … She don’t like that kind of behaviour … Hopes are up for trousers down … The garden it is dorsetted, that lady she’s so corseted.”_  
   
The wordplay is magical; the songs are unforgettable. What a sing-song dance, what a performance. Rah-rah, hey!  
   
Fun fact: _**Crawl File**_’s distinctive artwork was co-designed by Buster Stiggs, who had been the drummer in The Swingers and Models.  
   
_**Crawl File**_ was the biggest Australian best-of of 1984, hitting #2 on the charts (kept out of top spot by the year’s biggest compilation, Choose 1985, which spent nine weeks at #1).  
   
The best-of capped a bittersweet year for **James Reyne** and **Australian Crawl.** The band sponsored 1984’s Bells Beach Surf Classic, James won a Logie for Most Popular New Talent following his starring role in the hit mini-series Return To Eden, Australian Crawl won Most Popular Group at the Countdown Rock Awards, but then the band was rocked by the death of Guy McDonough and a planned US tour was cancelled.  
   
**James Reyne** is an artist who doesn’t live in the past. But occasionally he pays it a visit.  
   
_“It was all a long time ago,”_ James reflects, _“and sometimes I feel like it was another person who lived that life."_  
   
_“But I’m still making music and I’m still on the road. Australian Crawl was a great apprenticeship.”_

James Reyne

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James Reyne 'Crawl File' Plays The Hits Of Australian Crawl

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