# John Schumann

**Interview** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 30 July 2025  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/interview/john-schumann/

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**Markus Hamence** is in **The Jungle Room** with **John Schumann**.

From the solo work, to the Redgum years and the Vagabond Crew music, John is about to play The Gov in Adelaide and he and Markus break it all down. The new music, I’ve Been To Bali Too, I Was Only 19… it’s covered!

![Band performs on stage under blue spotlights, with lead vocalist centre stage and musicians with instruments on either side.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/27788/151830231_10159098958451007_1242537723505849382_n-1.jpg)

**John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew** celebrate Australian stories, mateship, dry humour and a connection to land and history with two concert sets: *“Behind the Lines” *and *“The Redgum Years”*.

John Schumann’s acclaimed *“Behind the Lines”* album from 2008 comprises beautiful rearrangements of much-loved classics about Australians at war. John and the band will also perform his own songs, *“Safe behind the Wire”*, *“On Every Anzac Day”*, *“Anzac Biscuits”* and, of course,* “19”*.

![Musician with white hair playing acoustic guitar under blue stage lighting.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/27780/f2f91a039e53a672a136a9294d09e5f3.jpg)

Theatrical as well as musical, *“Behind the Lines”* features a moving narrative, delivered by acclaimed actor **Celine O’Leary**, comprising newspaper reports of the day, poems, letters from the front and evocative reflections.

After interval, John and the boys perform the much loved *“Redgum Years”*. Schumann’s and Redgum’s songs have woven themselves into Australia’s cultural fabric, telling our stories and changing the country along the way.

*“The Redgum Years”* has whipped up a fair bit of demand for a live recording so the Gov gig will be an important warmup to a live recording of *“The Redgum Years”* at the Memo Music Hall in St Kilda on the following weekend.

With the working title *“Corrugated Highway”*, Trump fans won’t like it, nor will the right-wing shock jocks, climate change deniers, Murdoch’s playmates etc etc …

*“Too bad,”* says John.

One night. Two concerts. Two Up.

**John Schumann and The Vagabond Crew**

Saturday, August 16, 2025   
**Tickets: www.thegov.com.au/gigs/john-schumann-and-the-vagabond-crew**

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![John Schumann & The Vagabond Crew band members posed together on stage with acoustic guitar.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/27782/JSVC_1080x10802.jpg)

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