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Australian Crawl founders James Reyne and Simon Binks have launched a Federal Court challenge over trademarks held since the 1990s, raising questions about ownership and legacy.

James Reyne has rescheduled four Fall Of Crawl tour dates on medical advice, with updated shows confirmed through April, May and June.

James Reyne has expanded his Fall Of Crawl 2026 tour with new dates and dropped a new video for Going Back To Nashville, inspired by classic country and the American West.

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.

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

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

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’.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Australian songwriter Sean Higgins has died at 68 in Melbourne.

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.

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

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).

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

‘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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

“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’.