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

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 show

Last week, Peter Tork, officially the “kookiest”, and also the most accomplished musician, in the Monkees, died at the age of 77. His...