Concluding the interview with Mike Nesmith, whose tour of Australia with Micky Dolenz as The Monkees Present: The Micky And Micky Show, which began last night in Brisbane, we switch on the medium which launched and later repositioned his career. Having already – in parts one and two of this interview - been frank about his complex relationship with The Monkees’ past, his non-Monkees career and why that band that wasn’t meant to be a band has lasted in the hearts and minds of

Continuing a wide-ranging interview with Mike Nesmith, one half of the remaining half of The Monkees – now on the road with Micky Dolenz, whose tour as The Monkees Present: The Mike And Micky Show, begins tonight in Brisbane – there’s a chance to explore a more complex relationship he has with the show, understand the songs, and hear what it’s like playing now without Peter Tork and Davy Jones. In the first part of this interview, Mike Nesmith let me down gently with the news

It’s worth noting, if only to confirm age and susceptibility, that it is kind of spooky hearing Mike Nesmith on the other end of the phone: he sounds exactly the same as he did coming out of my television speakers 40 years ago when I first watched The Monkees, a show already a decade old. I mean, exactly the same, as if something wacky has just happened in that apartment he shared with Micky, Pete and Davy and he’s about to give me a droll response. Ahead of Australian shows

Last week, Peter Tork, officially the “kookiest”, and also the most accomplished musician, in the Monkees, died at the age of 77. His death, along with that of Davy Jones in 2012, reducing the band to two, Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz. In a kind of bittersweet moment, those two will be in Australia in June, Nesmith’s first gigs here in a very long time as he’d not been part of the Tork/Dolenz tour in 2016. And yes, we’re excited – especially if he sings If I Ever Get To Sagi