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“I’m actually, pretty relieved to be honest,” Dureau laughs. “We haven’t played a show in quite a while. To be able to go out with the ‘Jar boys and Samiam for a bit of a get-together, reunion of old times, is just great. I can’t wait actually; I’m stoked to be playing again.”

However, Dureau is still unsure as to whether this means the band are back together again as a going concern or not. In fact, strong doubts remain that the band will return in more of a full time capacity, even if the desire is there. “It’s hard to say,” he admits. “I think everybody in the band would like to keep kicking away at things, and keep working on bits of music. In fact, in the last couple of rehearsals we’ve had, we’ve gone over some so-called ‘new’ songs, songs that didn’t appear on the last record, that were going to be for the next project. But (at that time) our lives just went off into different directions. Once a member leaves Melbourne to pursue other things, things get put on an indefinite hold.

“Now, while I’ve been in Melbourne and we’ve been rehearsing, it’s felt like, ‘Oh yeah, there might be something blowing in the wind, we’d like to play again’. Except, it’s funny, now the big tour’s come up, I’m moving to Warrnambool again. So I don’t know whether that’s going to affect us logistically again. Everyone’s got pretty demanding jobs and family lifestyles. I think everybody would like to do it, it’s just a question of being able to fit it in, and get all the logistics right.”

In the shorter term, fans can be happy about the fact that the band will be playing some of the aforementioned new material on the Bodyjar tour, alongside a majority of their more well known and loved tunes. “It’ll be mainly old stuff, but I think we’re going to throw in two so-called new songs,” he reveals. “Songs that haven’t been released. And depending on how the last rehearsal goes, we might throw another one in as well. But we’ll have to see how we go.”

Overall, people turning up to the Bodyjar 20th Anniversary shows can expect to see a high energy rock act who like to play just a little bit on the edge of chaos, without quite falling over it. “I find that our energy can sometimes get the better of us,” he describes. “When we’re playing live, if we get excited, sometimes our technique can go out the window, and we resort to old habits. We’re used to playing really emotive and fast. A lot of us come from fast and heavy bands.

“Adrian used to play in Mid Youth Crisis, and I used to play in Caustic Soda, and you tend to develop a lot of habits when you’re younger,” he laughs. “You throw yourself headlong into the song and that can sometimes mean that the song can be twice as fast as what it ought to be.”

“I think if we’re feeling it, people can expect something energetic, tempered with more subtle and sensitive moments, indicative of our age and temperament.”

BY ROD WHITFIELD