JUST AHEAD OF HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY WAYNE HUSSEY, FRONTMAN OF THE MISSION, RAISES A DOUBLE-FISTFUL OF GLOBAL LIVE DATES, CULMINATING IN A SHOW IN HIS HOME CITY OF SAO PAOLO, BRAZIL, ON HIS BIRTHDAY …

Wayne says: “I was talking with Cinthya, my wife, and she was asking me what would I would most like to do for my birthday. Besides the obvious I replied, ‘play a show’. As the band is on a sabbatical it has to be solo – and as rehearsing for one show takes as much time and preparation as it does for a whole tour one thing led to another. I shall expect lots of presents and happy birthday to be sang to me at all these shows”… Hussey is currently writing his autobiography, due to be published next year, and the imminent tour is “a chance to get away from my desk and make a bit of music for a couple of weeks. It’ll be more than welcome, I expect, come May. I’m sure cabin fever will have set in by then”… In this new edition of The Mouthcast, with Hussey talking from his home in Sao Paolo, he discusses The Mission and more…

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