successful band during their cricket playing days<\/a>, with the quintet regularly drawing capacity crowds to their pub gigs around the country, a special request saw them reunite in 2023.<\/p>\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese wanted them to get back together for a gig and, having enjoyed their time back together on stage, they pushed on for a good reason.<\/p>\n
Robertson, who played four Tests for Australia, was diagnosed with a brain tumour after feeling pain while brushing his teeth one morning before a radio shift before Covid-19. It taught them all the importance of having a crack while you still can.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe primary thing in the last four years has been that you realise that you\u2019re 57 years of age \u2026 and that you are in the last third of your life,\u201d Robertson told Fox Cricket a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd any of us could get sick and some of us might have, you know, a possibility of six to nine months to live. But you have just got to fight on and you\u2019ve got to hope for a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was an off-spin bowler but my view of batting was that I liked to try and fight. I didn\u2019t care what it looked like, as long as I could stay in and get another single away. Hopefully I could get one run. And then get to 50. And then onto 100.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimilarly, I don\u2019t care what life looks like, because it is not supposed to be easy or simple. I am just searching for the chance of tomorrow being good and really going for it. And if tomorrow goes wrong, you deal with it. And then you get up the next day and search again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gavin Robertson playing with the band Six & Out. Picture: SuppliedSource: Supplied<\/p>\n
But with Lee spending a significant amount of time overseas and the rest of the bandmates busy with band and family, it will prove a case of last drinks at The Corner and Paddington RSL.<\/p>\n
The memories, the Fox Cricket expert analyst said, will live on for a long time to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been the most amazing journey and we\u2019ve had the absolute pleasure to play with some superstars of the music world,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the boys from INXS to Steve Balbi from Noiseworks to Doc Neeson to Garth Porter from Sherbet to Daryl Braithwaite, the list goes on and on. And as a music lover that to me is one of my biggest achievements, because I\u2019m so passionate about music.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an appreciation of what we have done. But like anything when you decide that you want to call it a day, with me living overseas now and everyone else being busy, and we\u2019re all getting older \u2026 it\u2019s hard to put into words exactly why, but we know it is the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Brett Lee fronts Melbourne\u2019s iconic Corner Hotel on Sunday night, expect the Aussie great and his mates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[202265,2095,2324,63,689,56117,202264,202272,202259,130852,89813,202270,202261,3567,202269,202263,21090,202260,42141,202268,202266,43,647,202262,202271,673,44,2041,2067,677,202258,6858,202267,670,41,39,42,40,2614,660,4899],"class_list":["post-374479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-absolute-pleasure","tag-america","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-cricket-team","tag-band-mates","tag-band-members","tag-brad-mcnamara","tag-brain-tumour","tag-brett-lee","tag-capacity-crowds","tag-corner-hotel","tag-courtney-walsh","tag-cricket-band","tag-cricket-terminology","tag-daryl-braithwaite","tag-doc-neeson","tag-expert-analyst","tag-famous-song","tag-gavin-robertson","tag-headlines","tag-melbourne","tag-music-lover","tag-music-world","tag-new-south-wales","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-richard-chee-quee","tag-richmond","tag-steve-balbi","tag-sydney","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-victoria","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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2025. Cricket. Six & Out will play at the Corner Hotel in Richmond in late December. Band members are (from left) Brett Lee, Gavin Robertson, Richard Chee Quee, Brad McNamara and Shane Lee.Source: Supplied Source Unknown<\/p>\n