Australian Crawl

James Reyne Plots ‘Fall of Crawl’ Tour for 2026

James Reyne will hit the road in 2026 for the Fall of Crawl Tour, revisiting Australian Crawl’s legacy with Boom Crash Opera at every show and Models, 1927 and Nick Barker on select dates.

Tagged as: 1927, Australian Crawl, Australian rock, Boom Crash Opera, Fall of Crawl Tour, James Reyne, Models, Nick Barker

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James Reyne Releases First New Music In Five Years With ‘Going Back To Nashville’

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne has released his first new music since 2020 with the very unNashville sounding ‘Going Back To Nashville’.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Going Back To Nashville, James Reyne, rock, Tony Joe White, Willie Nelson, Wynonna Judd

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James Reyne Kicks Off Crawl File Tour With All Crawl

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne is marking the 40th anniversary of the first Australian Crawl best of ‘Crawl File’ with the ‘Crawl File’ tour for 2024.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Crawl File, James Reyne, rock

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James Reyne To Kick Off 40 Years Of ‘Crawl File’ This Weekend

by Paul Cashmere

Former Australian Crawl frontman James Reyne will begin 2024 live in Torquay, Victoria this Sunday marking 40 years since the first Australian Crawl best of ‘Crawl File’.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Crawl File, James Reyne, rock

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One Electric Day at Werribee Mansion on Sunday 27 November 2016 with Russell Morris, Icehouse, James Reyne, Jimmy Barnes.

James Reyne Adds Second Wollongong Show

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne will now play a second show for Wollongong at Anita’s Theatre.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Crawl File, James Reyne, rock

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James Reyne Announces Crawl File Tour With Reissue Of Australian Crawl Greatest Hits Album

by Paul Cashmere

Australian Crawl’s Greatest Hits album ‘Crawl File’ will clock up a 40th anniversary in 2024 so James Reyne has announced a stack of Crawl File pub dates to mark the occasion.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Crawl File, James Reyne, rock

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Oops, James Reyne Broke An Ankle and Rib and Reschedules Way Out West Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Ouch, James Reyne has “had a little accident, nothing too series” (as Icehouse would say) and dates for the Way Out West tour with Ella Hooper have had to be rescheduled.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Ella Hooper, James Reyne, rock, Way Out West

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Australian Crawl’s Bill McDonough Authors ‘Sons of Beaches’ Book

by Paul Cashmere

Bill McDonough of Australian Crawl has written his autobiography ‘Sons of Beaches’ to tell the story of the McDonough brothers.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Bill McDonough, Guy McDonough, rock, Sons of Beaches

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James Reyne’s Two Melbourne Shows This Weekend To Go Ahead As Planned

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne’s The Boys Light Up 40th anniversary shows at The Palms at Crown Melbourne on Friday and Saturday will go ahead.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Crown, James Reyne, Melbourne, rock, The Boys Light Up, The Palms

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James Reyne Covers Rose Tattoo

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne has decided to tackle an Oz Rock classic. Check out the James Reyne edition of Rose Tattoo’s ‘Bad Boy For Love’.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Bad Boy For Love, James Reyne, rock, Rose Tattoo, The Boys Light Up

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Sean Higgins photo courtesy of Rob Walker

R.I.P. Songwriter Sean Higgins Who Wrote Australian Crawl Hits

by Paul Cashmere

Australian songwriter Sean Higgins has died at 68 in Melbourne.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Guy McDonough, rock, Sean Higgins

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James Reyne Postpones Melbourne Cup Eve Show

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne’s annual Cup Eve show has been postponed due to current Covid rules. A new date for the live stream has been announced for December 12.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, James Reyne, rock

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Australian Crawl ‘Sirocco’ Turns 40

by Paul Cashmere

Australian Crawl’s second album ‘Sirocco’ has turned 40.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, James Reyne, rock, Sirocco

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James Reyne Reactivates The Boys Light Up 41 Tour

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne will get his The Boys Light Up tour back on the road with 41st anniversary shows to make up with the 2020 shut down (to coin a Reyne songtitle).

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, James Reyne, rock, The Boys Light Up

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Tracy McNeil & The Goodlife To Open For James Reyne 40th Anniversary The Boys Light Up Dates

by Paul Cashmere

Tracy McNeil & The Goodlife have been announced as opening act for James Reyne’s 2020 The Boys Light Up 40th Anniversary Tour.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 20s, 80s, 90s, Australia, Australian Crawl, country, James Reyne, rock, Tracy McNeil and the Good Life

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James Reyne To Celebrate 40 Years Since The Boys Light Up Was Released

by Paul Cashmere

‘The Boys Light Up’ first charted in April, 1980 but surprisingly it wasn’t that big of a hit at the time. The song peaked at no 22 on the Australian singles chart but their fans wanted albums, not singles. The debut album ‘The Boys Light Up’ reached no 4 on the Australian chart and stayed on the chart for 101 weeks.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, James Reyne, rock, The Boys Light Up

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James Reyne performs at Red Hot Summer in Ballarat on 15 March 2015. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

21-year old James Reyne never thought 61-year old James Reyne would still be doing it

by Paul Cashmere

When James Reyne first went in to studio to make that first Australian Crawl record in 1979 he says he never thought about the longevity of what they were doing.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Crown Casino, James Reyne, rock, The Palms

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James Reyne had a hit once in Boston and Miami

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne may have never cracked America but her certainly cracked Boston and Miami once.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Crown Casino, James Reyne, rock, The Palms

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James Reyne is happy to enter his “Vegas years”

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne is thrilled to enter his “Vegas years” as he sets up a 12 month residency at The Palms at Crown Casino for 2019.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Crown Casino, James Reyne, rock, The Palms

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James Reyne Is Doing A ‘Billy Joel’ At Crown

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne will play a residency at Melbourne’s Crown Casino on the first Saturday of every month for 2019.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, James Reyne, rock

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James Reyne To Continue Melbourne Cup Eve Institution At The Corner

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne has developed somewhat of a Melbourne Cup Eve tradition with his fourth annual Melbourne Cup Eve show coming up at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne in November.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, Corner Hotel, Cup Eve, James Reyne, Melbourne Cup, rock

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The Screaming Jets Cover Australian Rock Classics For Gotcha Covered

by Paul Cashmere

The Screaming Jets have curated a tasty list of Australian rock classics for the album ‘Gotcha Covered’.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, AC/DC, Australia, Australian Crawl, Dave Gleeson, Flowers, Goanna, Hoodoo Gurus, INXS, Men At Work, Paul Kelly, Radio Birdman, rock, Stevie Wright, The Angels, The Easybeats, The Radiators, The Screaming Jets, You Am I

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James Reyne To Celebrate 35 Years of Reckless

by Paul Cashmere

“Meet me down by the jetty landing. Where the pontoons bump and spray. I see the others reading, standing. As the Manly Ferry cuts its way to Circular Quay”. You cannot get more Australia than the opening lines of ‘Reckless’.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, James Reyne, rock

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James Reyne Cancels Remainder of All Crawl Tour Dates

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne has cancelled the remainder of his current ‘All Crawl’ Australian tour following complications from his recent surgery.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, James Reyne, rock

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James Reyne Cancels Shows After Surgery

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne has been forced to cancel all upcoming shows for next week after a recent surgical procedure.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, James Reyne, rock

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James Reyne To Crawl Across Australia In August

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne will head out on his All Crawl: ‘James Reyne Plays Australian Crawl’ tour from Australia in August.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Crawl, James Reyne, rock

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James Reyne and Mark Seymour Add More Dates

by Paul Cashmere

The James Reyne and Mark Seymour ‘And The Rest Is History’ tour just got bigger with new dates added for Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.

Tagged as: And The Rest Is History, Australian Crawl, Hunters & Collectors, James Reyne, Mark Seymour, Music News James Reyne and Mark Seymour Add More Dates

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James Reyne and Mark Seymour Team For Tour

by Paul Cashmere

James Reyne and Mark Seymour will head out together for their joint forces ‘And The Rest Is History’ tour from late July.

Tagged as: And The Rest Is History, Australian Crawl, Hunters & Collectors, James Reyne, Mark Seymour

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The Red Hot Summer Tour 2015 Line-up Revealed

by Paul Cashmere

The Red Hot Summer Tour for 2015 will feature Hoodoo Gurus, James Reyne Plays Australian Crawl, Daryl Braithwaite and Boom Crash Opera with a stack of guests along the way.

Tagged as: Australia, Australian Crawl, Boom Crash Opera, Daryl Braithwaite, Hoodoo Gurus, James Reyne, rock, The Red Hot Summer Tour

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One Electric Day Tickets Go On Sale

by Paul Cashmere

Tickets for the second annual One Electric Day will go on sale today (July 7) at 11am.

Tagged as: Australian Crawl, Boom Crash Opera, Daryl Braithwaite, Diesel, Hoodoo Gurus, James Reyne, Mondo Rock, One Electric Day

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James Reyne Plots ‘Fall of Crawl’ Tour for 2026

James Reyne will take a victory lap around Australia in 2026, launching the Fall of Crawl National Tour in celebration of the legacy of Australian Crawl and his own storied solo career.

September 24, 2025

James Reyne Releases First New Music In Five Years With ‘Going Back To Nashville’

James Reyne has released his first new music since 2020 with the very unNashville sounding ‘Going Back To Nashville’.

May 29, 2025

James Reyne Kicks Off Crawl File Tour With All Crawl

James Reyne is marking the 40th anniversary of the first Australian Crawl best of ‘Crawl File’ with the ‘Crawl File’ tour for 2024.

January 16, 2024

James Reyne To Kick Off 40 Years Of ‘Crawl File’ This Weekend

Former Australian Crawl frontman James Reyne will begin 2024 live in Torquay, Victoria this Sunday marking 40 years since the first Australian Crawl best of ‘Crawl File’.

January 11, 2024

James Reyne Adds Second Wollongong Show

James Reyne will now play a second show for Wollongong at Anita’s Theatre.

December 14, 2023

James Reyne Announces Crawl File Tour With Reissue Of Australian Crawl Greatest Hits Album

Australian Crawl’s Greatest Hits album ‘Crawl File’ will clock up a 40th anniversary in 2024 so James Reyne has announced a stack of Crawl File pub dates to mark the occasion.

October 26, 2023

Oops, James Reyne Broke An Ankle and Rib and Reschedules Way Out West Tour

Ouch, James Reyne has “had a little accident, nothing too series” (as Icehouse would say) and dates for the Way Out West tour with Ella Hooper have had to be rescheduled.

May 19, 2023