At the end of 1988, Forbes Masson and I flew to Sydney, Australia to start rehearsals and in early January 1989 we opened at the Playhouse of the Sydney Opera House in See Victor and Barry and Faint, a version of the show we had performed the previous year at the Edinburgh Festival, on tour in Scotland and at the Donmar Warehouse in London as part for the Perrier Pick of the Fringe season.

After a month in Sydney we toured to Adelaide, Alice Springs, Cairns and Rockhampton.

I remember that the hole in the ozone layer had recently been discovered above Australia and there was a huge PR campaign going on to encourage people to protect themselves from the sun. We were both incredibly pale and people would literally scream 'skin cancer' at us in the street, and ask us what factor we were using.

Here we are in a short clip from a hilarious TV show in Adelaide called A Touch of Elegance, and pieces we did for the ABC news in Sydney the Rockhampton local news show.