CELEBRITY DRIVE: GRAMMY Champ COLIN Feed

Fast Details: Colin Feed Grammy-winning artist musician, Men at Work frontman

Every day Driver: 2015 Tesla Model S (Colin's appraising: 9 on a size of 1 to 10)

Different autos: see underneath

Most loved street trip: Thruway 1 and Extraordinary Sea Street

Auto he figured out how to drive in: Hillman Minx

To begin with auto purchased: 1963 Holden EJ

Music can resemble a time machine. Listening to Colin Feed sing "Needless excess" from his "Men at Work" days can promptly transport a fan back 30 years prior to their first tune in.

For Roughage, his 2015 Tesla Model S is the vehicle that vehicles him to some other time and place. "There's a considerable measure to like. It feels like a time machine. You get in the auto and it's quiet. It's outrageously wonderful to be in," he says. "It has unimaginable, silly increasing speed, which you presumably don't require by and large, however all of you of a sudden simply get to where you need to be with at least object. You're there before you know it."

Feed, who was on a break at his studio where he was recording his next collection, says he doesn't miss going to corner stores with his Tesla. "It's the future," he says. "I don't disdain anything about the Tesla, however I assume the inside is delightful, exceptionally practical, yet most likely not as rich as a ponce like me might want."

At the point when Feed moved from Scotland to Australia as an adolescent, it was the spot he'd meet the mates that framed the band that burst him onto the world stage in the 1980s and supplied a fledging MTV with stimulating recordings like "Down Under," which has very nearly 46 million perspectives on YouTube.

Down under was not just the spot that gave him the title for the hit 35 years back, acquainting a considerable lot of us stateside with a "Vegemite sandwich," however it was likewise the spot where Roughage was submerged in the auto society.

"An extraordinary aspect regarding going to Australia when I was 14, was every one of my companions had autos at just 16. They all had autos. Which was astounding. In Scotland you don't have an auto till you're around 36," Feed snickers. "Individuals simply don't have the same number of autos in Scotland, absolutely around then."

That move over the globe was educational for the high schooler, who saw the stunning autos being made in Australia. "In Australia, everyone had these autos, and you would drive these separations and they were much the same as excellent time machines. Awesome. Since they can take you forward or they can take you back, you can stop, you can simply get places," Roughage says, his voice demonstrating the eagerness he has for the subject. "It's energizing. It's energizing having the capacity to drive yourself forward in these delightful machines. Unfathomable."

Nowadays, driving around Los Angeles in his 2015 time machine is confirmation that Feed still has a gratefulness for autos. "It's still a stunning thing that we're ready to do, obviously the vast majority now are simply stuck in activity. In any case, that specific time, it was a liberating background. It was the point at which you're youthful and everybody has trust in their souls. Also, you have this machine to drive yourself forward," he says, with a snicker. "It's a lovely thing."

Feed test drove numerous autos a year ago, yet he just couldn't get the Tesla out of his head. "My thought was to get a convertible. I was fixated on getting a convertible a year ago, I was driving around, testing them, and afterward I drove this Mercedes S roadster," he says. "It was the most lavish, most lovely inside that I've been in. It was exceptional. This V-8. Something inside was stating, 'Don't get a V-8 motor nowadays.' However it was along these lines, in this way, so enticing, and I got near that. At that point I got the Tesla. I drove a couple of different autos, yet this simply continued returning and saying, 'Pick me, pick me!'"

For Feed, autos weren't an enormous need until he moved to Los Angeles, where every buy is well thoroughly considered due to the measure of time spent in them.

2010 Mercedes-Benz GL350 Bluetec diesel

Rating: 10

The GL350 was the auto Feed had before purchasing the Tesla. "I kept it since I need to do indicates once in a while and drive to show where once in a while I play at a spot, Largo at the Coronet, and I must put guitars and rigging in the back, which I can't do with a littler auto."

Feed gives the GL350 an impeccable 10. Once more, considering fuel effectiveness, Roughage purchased it since it doesn't require successive outings to the corner store, and it's not hard to discover diesel at a station on the grounds that the auto lets him know where to go. "That is additionally a marvelous machine, for what I need to do, for long treks," he says. "It's awesome. There's nothing amiss with it by any means. It's mind boggling, it's extremely cost productive as far as you get like 500 miles to a tank."

On one short visit close home, Roughage just required two group folks and it was the ideal ride for those gigs. "I don't more often than not do that, I for the most part go in another vehicle when I'm going on visit – we go out in those Mercedes Sprinter vans which are truly cool. However, I have two group folks with me — visit supervisor and lighting individual, so there's typically two of them and myself, and they're ideal for visiting at the level that I do," Feed says. "I had event to go out on a West Drift visit and I took my auto, and it was inconceivable for long excursions. It was delightful, lovely. Next to no exhaustion variable. Incredible, it's an awesome machine. It wasn't a long visit. I needed to drive up the coast fundamentally.

Auto he figured out how to drive in

Feed's dad taught him to drive in Scotland when he was 13 in a manual Hillman Minx, which Feed reviews was either a late 1950s or mid 1960s model.

"It was delightful. It was cream with a red main, a red rooftop," he says. "An extremely decent car. We would drive down to this enormous open range where the carnival used to come each late spring. A major open space with no one there, so he used to bring me down there and that is the place I got in the auto and he demonstrated to me best practices to drive," Roughage says. "So I would stop and begin that for some time, yet it was incredible fun doing that."

While there was a little fear at to start with, being in that open space was the ideal spot to learn. "It was still somewhat terrifying in light of the fact that it's generally somewhat alarming when you first get in an auto, however there's nothing I could hit," Roughage says. "There's nothing around, so it wouldn't significantly matter in the event that I fouled up. I would simply slow down or on the off chance that I went too quick, it wouldn't make any difference in light of the fact that there was a great deal of space around us."

When he moved to Australia at 14, Roughage shared his mother's mid 1960s Peugeot 403. "It was an exquisite machine yet it was odd — your first auto, imparting to your mom, that was somewhat odd. I cherish my mom beyond a reasonable doubt however when I would go out in it I would need to ensure that my unpleasant companions that I took out in it, would not smolder the seats. I needed to dispose of the considerable number of scents of smoke and whatever else we were doing, before my mom drove it to work the following day," he says, giggling. "In the event that they happened to have cigarettes going or whatever."

While he strolled to secondary school in Melbourne, the auto filled different needs.

"I required an auto to go out with young ladies. On the off chance that they would go out with me, then I had an auto," he says. In spite of the fact that a considerable measure of artists regularly say they got into groups for the young ladies, Feed includes, "Why does anybody do anything?"

Roughage's father later purchased him an auto for his 21st birthday, a Portage Cortina and had an interesting method for giving the present to his child. "That was a delightful light green shading, that was a truly marvelous auto, and I had that for a long time. Yet, he place it in a bow for me, yet the bow was made of bathroom tissue. That is the thing that he had helpful," Roughage says, giggling. "It was clever."

That was in 1973 just before Feed attended a university, so it was what he drove there and kept while considering in school. "It was extremely sort of him to do that since it wasn't care for he had a great deal of cash. In any case, that was a delightful thing," he says.

Initially auto purchased

Feed had the Cortina for an a few years and around 1975 Roughage purchased a 1963 Holden EJ.

"That was a marvelous auto. It was, great," Roughage says. "The '60s in Australia was a time of, as in America, of incredible auto outline, with the Portage organization and General Engines down in Australia. Be that as it may, Portage was Passage, General Engines was Holden, and the GT Bird of prey, which was obviously the American one, yet they're all their own specific models and they were awesome autos. Both Passage and Holden had their prime, for me anyway,in the '60s, when they made awesome autos. Furthermore, the round lights on the back of the GT Bird of prey (made it look) like a rocket, it was fabulous. They were simply extremely spacey and fabulous."

Roughage purchased the Holden setting aside cash from gigs and other odd employments. "I used to work at whatever point I could. I drove trucks, I worked for the city, I did diverse things when I had time," he says. "1973 was a year when I took off and I recently worked that year. I didn't generally especially need to go to college, however my folks needed me to, and I knew I needed to play music. I was waiting for my opportunity. Be that as it may, I generally worked at whatever point I could. It wasn't awfully costly, I don't think, at the time."

"Men at Work" and first new auto

"Men At Work" sold more than 30 million collections and their hits appeared to be on all around, including MTV, where their stimulating recordings were on overwhelming revolution. With the super accomplishment of being in a pop band, Roughage had the capacity to treat himself to his first spend too much auto in 1982.

"When I first made some money, I'd generally enjoyed the Citroen autos, the Pallas – and they were excellent, lovely autos, unfathomably agreeable, truly delightfully agreeable and the suspension was stunning," he says. "It was one of those autos where you switch on the ignition and the auto just ascents up. For me it was a binge spend auto. It wasn't care for a Ferrari or something, yet for me it was a considerable measure of cash and it was only an auto that I especially loved the look of and I saw it out and about, so I purchased one of those."

It cost Roughage $25,000, which was a substantial whole of cash. "That was the point at which I first profited, the main time I profited was the point at which I was in Men at Work. So that was the point at which I initially begun to make a touch of money with Men at Work. Prior to that I don't had anything," Feed says, with a snicker. "I strolled in and purchased it off the parcel. It was awesome, it was an extremely energizing day."

Most loved street trip

Feed has two most loved street trips, which he doesn't have room schedule-wise to do as regularly as he'd like. Having lived in Los Angeles for a long time, his most loved one locally is Parkway 1 between Los Angeles and San Francisco. "You can keep going up the west shore of the state, yet the 1 between L.A. what's more, San Francisco is really mind blowing. There's nothing I truly adore about the 5 (Interstate 5)," he says, snickering. "Yet, the 1 is somewhat exceptional."

Feed tries to drive up the California coast at whatever point he can, regardless of the fact that it implies booking gigs to take the street trip. "It's stupendous. It has everything this astonishing paradise on earth brings to the table – you have mountains, you have excellent seas, you have rough bluffs, you have everything, you have green slopes. It's incredible," he says. "The other street trip, which is additionally awesome, is the Incomparable Sea Street amongst Melbourne and Apollo Inlet."

Roughage still does the two-hour drive on the Incomparable Sea Street when he retreats to Australia. "Something that I do on the off chance that I do a reversal to Melbourne is I simply get in an auto and I drive down the Incomparable Sea Street, even independent from anyone else, in light of the fact that it's astonishing and there's mind blowing shorelines," he says. "You can get down there on a Tuesday evening and have a shoreline to yourself. It's unprecedented."

The Incomparable Sea Street additionally inspires affectionate recollections since when he initially moved to Australia, that is the place his companions would go surfing. "I surfed a tiny bit however very little to discuss," Roughage says. "I would go down to the sea, yet I would go down on the back of this bicycle a companion of mine had, a Triumph Trident motorbike, which was mind blowing. That is one of my extraordinary recollections from that period."

While his acoustically-determined solo tunes like "Send Some individual" are presently heard consistently on SiriusXM's Café (Channel 14), Feed will play a greater amount of his performance work around the U.S. in July, and also incorporate some of his hits from "Men at Work."

Roughage is visiting to advance his present collection "One Year from now Individuals," which incorporates enchanting tracks like "Holding up In the Downpour," which considers a missing affection, from the phantoms of one's past.

Toward the end of August, Roughage will be back in Scotland. "I'm doing the Edinburgh Periphery Celebration, which is a major theater and satire celebration in Edinburgh, which has been going for quite a long time and forever and a day," he says.

There's additionally a narrative on Feed, "Sitting tight for My Genuine living," which acquires the title from Roughage's melody "Sitting tight for My Genuine to Start," that has been playing around the film celebration circuit this year.

Feed's U.S. dates begin July 6 in Colorado, and incorporates four days at the City Winery in New York, and in addition stops in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland and Delaware. For more data please visit colinhay.com/visit.

"One Year from now Individuals" and U.S. gigs in July