When the band split in 1983, other members launched solo careers, but Walker travelled extensively through the Soviet Union, Asia and Europe.

I mapped out a vague course that would take me a couple of years to cover most continents, and with the understanding that if I ever found myself in a place that took my fancy, I could get a job in a piano bar.

I remember Ricky Fataar begging me 'For God's sake can you turn this Fairlight off that I’m playing along with, can you just get a bass player.'

"[9] The press release for the album said, "twenty-five thousand miles of road and rail have carved through the last five years of your life, and there's a pile of songs lying there like shavings on a workbench.

If you had friends like harmonica player David Blight and guitarist Peter Walker, you could set these songs in a sound dredged up from the bottom of a mangrove swamp."

The album was remastered by Don Bartley, and the songs "One Night in Soviet Russia" and "Subway" were remixed by Phil Punch.

[8] The previous record label had lost the masters, but Walker had the original tapes in storage, allowing him to recreate the album.

"[13] Shawn Sequeira said of the album, "This might very well be regarded as one of our greatest pieces of contemporary music that slipped under the commercial radar.

This is a world where "Footloose" was the pinnacle and I was writing 13 minute songs about the slums of Manila – nobody wanted to do that kind of thing in that environment so I had to do it myself.

Tracee Hutchison said, "Despite Walker's brilliant feel for this genre, the relative lack of impact of Catfish is an interesting indictment on the nature and machinations of band chemistry.

"[17] A reviewer for The Canberra Times noted that the album may appeal to Cold Chisel fans, but the music was markedly different from his old band.