The Surviving Members Of The Dynamic Rock Band INXS Had A Rare Reunion

The Australian rock band INXS was formed back in 1977 and managed to gather immense success with six UK top ten albums which includes a No. 1 with ‘Welcome To Wherever You Are from 1992 and five U.S top twenty albums and a BRIT Award. The profound band has won six Australian Recording Industry Association awards, including three for ‘Best Group’ in 1987, 1989 and 1992. It also sold over ninety-five million albums across the globe and made itself Australia’s highest-selling music act of all time.

The surviving members of the rock band which was formed as the Farriss Brothers in Sydney, are Andrew Farriss, the main composer and keyboardist, drummer John Farriss, guitarist, saxophonist Kirk Pengilly and bassist Garry Gary Beers gathered at Sydney’s Intercontinental Hotel on Tuesday, remarked their first appearance together ever since 2017. After the death of Michael Hutchence who was the main lyricist of the band, INXS made its appearances with multiple guest singers and also recorded and toured with Jon Stevens while he played the role of the lead singer.

However, on 11^th November 2012, the band announced during a concert that this would be the band’s last performance, but did not mention the band’s permanent retirement.

The musicians were relaxed and were in the mood for a good chat as they kept darting through the old photographs. Pengilly recalls that until; the project came along, the musicians had ‘no idea how much it meant to so many individual fans. It wasn’t always about the show,’ continues sharing, ‘driving six hours to meet their friends to get ready to go to the gig. And then, you know, they might just somehow meet us backstage or have an interaction and a look from one of us on stage,” and “they feel a connection. Yeah, I found it emotional.’

The dynamic band recalled the time on touring in 2012, where it all began with a gig in Perth. Andrew Farriss shared, ‘To be fair to us is that,’ further continues, ‘as people losing someone as talented, dynamic a frontman as Michael, it became really in the forefront of our minds that, okay, we’ve created this legacy and we own it. And so we’ll decide when we want to play or not. That’s the important point, to not have it dictated to what we can and can’t do when we feel like it.’

He also shared his view on the other side of the coin, ‘which is appealing to me,’ moreover added, ‘is who that singer could possibly be. There must be someone that we haven’t even thought of or discovered or found it. That could be an amazing thing to happen.’

Additionally, Bass player Beers, the Australian musician and bassist now based in California exclaimed as he wished to meet his old band-mates on the home-ground. He also shared, ‘Being broke and young back in the day, we used to take up offers to go to people’s houses and eat their food. So, you got to meet a lot of people. When you look back at the book, you remember that we did matter to people, not just musically, or for successes. People helped us along in many ways.’

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