“We kept experimenting for our whole career as INXS, which is probably insane from a commercial point of view”: Multi-million selling songwriter Andrew Farriss on his band’s genre-hopping early days – and why he’s now making country music

Andrew Farriss.

He made his name as the keyboard player and main songwriter in the mega-successful Australian rock band INXS, but as a solo artist Andrew Farriss is operating in a completely different genre.

He tells MusicRadar: “I’m a songwriter. Always have been, since I was a teenager. And now I’m enjoying not having to worry about a specific audience. I don’t care about all that so much anymore. So I can think much more clearly about what I want to do – and that’s music that I wouldn’t have performed with my old band.”