As if getting ready for the first gigs with the 80s band in almost 20 years were not enough to keep Tony busy, he headed to Manchester at the weekend to launch his new beer, and tells me he's also recording his own solo album too. Phew!
"Yes, it is a little hectic at the moment," he laughs.
"I've been in the studio for the last three weeks with the Spandau lads putting together our new album which will be out in November, we've got a couple of cracking new songs on there.
"And I'm also recording my new solo album at the same time.
"Then in September we'll be getting together to start rehearsals for the greatest hits tour.
"In the midst of all this, the beer label is going from strength to strength, it's going through the roof . We've had to move to our fourth premises in three years because of demand."
Tony's latest beer is fittingly called Gold, after one of the band's biggest hits, and fans clamoured to get bottles signed by the star at House of Fraser on Deansgate, which is now selling the ale.
The singer has co-owned the Red Cat Craft Brewery in Suffolk since 2006 that produces the beer, which has already won awards.
The dark-haired star, 49, was looking in fine form at the launch do, and tells me he's been hitting the gym in readiness for Spandau's big comeback tour, which calls at Manchester's M.E.N. Arena on October 28.
He says: "I've been getting back into training, I've been hitting the gym. But I've always kept pretty active. My youngest daughter is two and a half so I have to keep pretty fit. I don't want to get to 60 and not be able to be playing football with my kids."
So how are the band, which had a somewhat messy split in 1990, getting along together these days?
Tony laughs: "Everyone wants a ringside seat to see when we're going to bop each other. But we're getting on fantastically well.
"We're getting on better than we ever did, I think everyone's kind of grown up a bit and there's a lot of mutual respect."
And Tony says if the new album and tour goes well, Spandau, a little like comeback kings Take That, could well be back for good.
He says: "Universal made us an offer we couldn't refuse for the comeback. There is serious talk that if this new album goes well, which is an updating of the classic hits with two new songs, then we could well be looking at doing another album of completely original songs."
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