Tex Perkins has been around the ruthlessly ageist Australian music industry to know an opportunity when he sees it. “As far as Boomers and generation X punters go, it’s all about anniversaries these days,” he says with a dry chuckle, somewhere on top of a hill (the mobile reception is better) near his home in northern New South Wales.
But when it came to reforming the Cruel Sea to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band’s double-platinum selling, multiple Aria award-winning third album, The Honeymoon is Over, in 2023, there were major obstacles to overcome. The biggest: tracking down guitarist and leader Dan Rumour, whose very name positioned him somewhere between man and myth.
