 He put together the first line-up of The Party Boys in Sydney with fellow The Party Boys founding member and guitarists Kevin Borich as Christie had extensively toured the USA playing bass guitar with Borich from 1978 to 1979 as a member of Kevin Borich Express, along with Harvey James (Mississippi, Ariel, Sherbet), and drummer Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup, who had recently left The Angels.Australian Crawl vocalist James Reyne was in Sydney shooting the TV mini-series "Return to Eden" and agreed to play some shows between filming.The band did a short run of shows performing cover songs chosen by various members.