With his A Crawl To Now regional tour which hits the Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre on Saturday (April 21) Reyne digs into his catalogue of more than 20 albums from his time with Australian Crawl to his solo career.

Reyne says the acoustic concert, with guitarist Josh Owen, allows plenty of freedom and creativity with the set list.

“It’s a good cross-section of stuff that people would know of mine, both the Crawl stuff and solo stuff and other bits and pieces,” he says.

In the early 1980s Australian Crawl topped Australian music charts with Sirocco and Sons of Beaches and won a huge following with songs such as The Boys Light Up, Beautiful People, Errol, Downhearted, Oh No Not You Again and number one Reckless.

His solo hits include Hammerhead, Fall Of Rome, Motor’s Too Fast and Way Out West.

Australian Crawl was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame in 1996.

“I’m extremely grateful and happy and chuffed that I'm still able to do what I do at the level that I can do it,” Reyne says.

“It’s very encouraging that people are so supportive.

“I’m very grateful people are so supportive and, as I say, it’s a craft that I’ve been able to practice for 30-odd years now.

“Hopefully if you practice your craft you just get better, whether you’re a builder or a brain surgeon or a songwriter-singer guy.”

While the acoustic tour uses “a bit of technology” fans will hear songs as they were before going into the recording studio.

“We don’t change things too much,” he says.

“The thing with acoustic, you get to see the songs in their essence, you see them in their most essential form.

“You hear them warts and all really.”