I am about midway through my interview with the Church’s Steve Kilbey when, without warning, he morphs into AC/DC’s Brian Johnson. “She was a mean machine, she loves me, aargh!” Kilbey squeals. He might be misremembering the opening line of You Shook Me All Night Long, but otherwise, it’s a convincing impersonation of Johnson’s sandpaper screech.
Kilbey – who turns 70 in September – is trying to make a point about ageing gracefully. “When an 80-year-old guy stands on stage and is singing songs about the chicks he fucked when he was 22, isn’t that kind of disgusting?” he asks. “It’s like, yeah, grandad, but that was 60 years ago! Didn’t anything else happen in your life in the meantime?”
