The Screaming Jets co-founder and former guitarist Grant Walmsley has re-recorded one of the band’s biggest hits—and he has more to come.

Walmsley co-founded The Screaming Jets in 1989 alongside Dave Gleeson, Paul Woseen, Brad Heaney, and Richard Lara. In early 2007, he left the band and was replaced by Scotty Kingman, who engineered the group’s next album.

At the time, frontman Dave Gleeson remarked that Walmsley left the band due to external commitments interfering with the group’s schedules. After his departure, Walmsley formed the indie-roots band Agents of Peace. He continues to tour, including with Jets Play Jets.

In a new interview with NBN News, Walmsley discussed playing in Newcastle at the height of the band’s fame and divulged upcoming plans, which began with Friday’s re-release of The Screaming Jets’ Sad Song. Walmsley wrote the track 30 years ago.

He also revealed that he’s re-worked ten of the band’s hits for a forthcoming album, Quicker Jets: Volume One. “I’m still picking through which ones; I’ve even got some visions and some plans with strings and orchestral scoring,” Walmsley teased.

Next year, Walmsley will release his debut solo album, Freebird: Volume One, where he’ll cover classic Americana tracks. “I’ve always been into those classic bands,” he said. “From Tom Petty, to Springsteen, to Creedence, to whatever. I just sound like that, and I’ve embraced that.

“They’re both called Volume One because there’s going to be a Volume Two in 2027/28.”

You can watch the interview here.

The Screaming Jets hit the road on their Rock ‘n’ Roll Summer tour earlier this year, a run of shows in support of their latest album, Professional Misconduct. The shows took place after Gleeson confirmed that the band planned to finish songs that were almost complete at the time of bassist Paul Woseen’s passing in September 2023.

The Screaming Jets released Professional Misconduct in October 2023 and dedicated its release to Woseen.

“It’s probably been the most trying time in my professional life,” Gleeson said. “We lost Paul on the 15th of September, and everything has been thrown into a bit of turmoil since then.... Paully wrote nine of the songs on the new album, and we didn’t just want to mothball that; we wanted to get it out there.”

You can read Paul Woseen’s final interview with The Music here.