“If you’ve come to hear the Men At Work songs and you don’t hear them for awhile, don’t fuckin’ panic,” Colin Hay told a nearly sold-out Bilheimer Capitol Theatre last Friday night after two solo songs.
While you’d only need one hand to count how many songs from his old band he performed during a two-hour set in downtown Clearwater, the 70-year-old—still in stunningly excellent voice—had plenty to say about his latest album Now And The Evermore, and also managed to get in some rare observations and tales, respectively. His observations related to his open religious views, and also how Friday nights are “the king of nights” next to Saturdays.
“The weekend is ahead, everything’s to come, and sometimes, you get to Saturday night…disappointing!” he quipped. “Quite like King Charles.”
Hay’s stories (which, while the music remains timeless, took the cake) ranged from how Paul McCartney once washed his dishes, his father rescuing him from a group of Catholic school boys chasing him after a fight, and a fan who tried to convert Mr. “Down Under” to Christianity by telling him that he’s getting old and needed to find God before it was too late.
Oh, and don’t you dare forget: While he moved to Australia with his family during adolescence, he was born in Scotland.
