Radio Birdman celebrate their 50th anniversary this year with a string of sold-out shows across Australia in June and July. Yet Radio Birdman‘s Deniz Tek‘s first steps back into the Australian music scene after a ten year hiatus occurred in 1991 at a small club in Newtown in Sydney as special guest of Hitmen DTK. Tek’s last Australian shows in 1981 had been with the Motor City supergroup New Race, a band that featured Ron Asheton (The Stooges) and Dennis Thompson (The MC5). Tek then spent the next ten years as a pilot and flight surgeon with both the US Navy and US Marines. According to Colin Gray of Canberra’s Vicious Kitten Records, “Not only was this Tek’s first show back in 10 years, but it also reunited him with Chris Masuak, his former guitar partn...