Don Walker

"At a certain stage of youth, there are less things to do and less things to worry about."

The stories, like the drive out of the ‘Cross in Young Girls, or the wait as the tide ebbs On The Beach, are heat-hazed atmospheric things, but elsewhere it seems he feels the need to play up that nasal twang to almost parody.

He’s a big promoter in that part of the world and I think he had seen the figures on our tour in Australia [last year’s record-breaking Light The Nitro Tour that saw them play to more than 270,000 people] and he rang [co-manager] John Watson and said he’d like us on the bill for Friday night of the festival, which is the rock’n’roll night.”