THE music of Australian Crawl might be back in people's minds in recent times, but don't expect that to be all you will hear on James Reyne's latest visit to Tasmania.
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Reyne will this weekend kick off his A Crawl to Now tour in Hobart and Launceston this weekend, with his former band's sounds back in the spotlight after Reckless was used on Channel Ten drama Puberty Blues.
Australian Crawl also recently re- released its catalogue of hits.
But Reyne said his tour would have a "good balance" of Australian Crawl and songs from his time with Company Of Strangers as well as his solo hits.
"A lot of it is just to remind people that I'm still here doing it and putting out records every few years," Reyne told X-static.
"It's a good balance of everything, so not just Crawl hits.
"It's an acoustic trio show, with two acoustic guitars and three voices, with a good cross-section of all the stuff you'd expect hear from me from the last 30 years or so.
"I like the idea that we've given this tour a name, so we'll be able to go out and do a block of shows under that name.
"We're always doing shows around Australia, whether it is full band or acoustic, so we're playing all the time, but the thing with these shows is that it's a set jaunt around a certain area playing these same type of shows.
"I get more out of my shows now. I'm not an excitable person, and I get more satisfaction out of it now as I'm more in control of it, as I'm writing more and better songs."
Reyne said with a mix of songs on this tour, and his voice being out in the "mainstream" again, he expected there to be a generational mix in the crowd.
"I've noticed that in recent times that there has been a lot of young guys at my shows.
"It used to be people would go `my older brother or sister turned me on to your stuff', now a lot of people say it's their parents.
"We're starting to hit our second generation, which is something I never thought would happen."