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00:30And they threw money, even better. Not at me, but in my guitar case. So I kept doing it and
00:35I really loved it. And I was also desperate to be a singer and to be performing. And you only
00:39had, as a student, you only had so much opportunity to do that. So it gave me a chance to
00:45perform. I loved it.
00:46And dreams I should have won. Blind Freddie knew that a blind man could see. I was in love with
01:03you. But you weren't in love with me.
01:09Concert performance and music theatre show performances are completely different. Because when you're in a musical, you have a set,
01:18you have a costume, you have a script, you have a wig. You have a whole lot of stuff to
01:22sort of hide behind in character.
01:24But when you're in concert by yourself, it's just you and the audience and the music. And I love them
01:31both. But the thrill of working in concert and being able to really communicate and relax with the audience is
01:38fantastic.
01:44It used to be so perfect. Without my fans that come and see me, hey, I wouldn't be working. I
01:57just, I love the fact too that lots of young kids that are studying music and want to be singers
02:06or just, you know, young people are coming to see me.
02:08I get lots of older people. I get people in the middle. I really like, I think that really good
02:15music, if you're singing good music, it crosses every demographic.
02:19I love being back in the recording studio again. And I love making albums. I'm so passionate about it. And
02:26I'm so comfortable doing it. And it's this whole kind of new lease of creative expression for me. It's fantastic.
02:33I'm always inspired by other singers and performers. We've got great Australian singers that I'm a huge fan of. I
02:41love Katie Noonan. I love Wendy Matthews. On an international scale, I've always been very influenced when I was a
02:49younger girl by Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush, Ella Fitzgerald, Joan Sutherland, Yvonne Kenny.
02:58I have so many musical influences that I draw on and so many singers that I look up to. Barbara
03:05Streisand. I mean, you know, there's so many wonderful artists that you can draw inspiration from.
03:26Doing Both Sides Now, the album, was a great chance for me to show a different side of me.
03:34It's the music that I started out singing as a folk singer and busker. And it was really refreshing after
03:41doing quite a number of big theatre albums. It was fantastic to sing a different style of music, more folk
03:49acoustic music.
03:50And I'm really, I don't mind what genres I sing as long as it's great music. A good song is
03:58a good song, whether it's a folk song, a Celtic song, a pop song, a country song, or a theatre
04:02song, or an opera song. I don't care. Just give me a good song.
04:07I came to play Christine in Phantom of the Opera when I went along to the audition. I was performing
04:14in the original Australian production of Les Miserables at the time.
04:18And the same producer, Cameron McIntosh, was putting on Phantom and asked me to audition. And I had to audition
04:24for Hell Prince, who is the legendary Broadway director.
04:29And the process went on for, it was about six months of going for an audition and then continuing doing
04:36Les Mis and then kind of getting to the next round and the next round.
04:39And I found out that I had the role of Christine just before the curtain went up on Les Mis.
04:45And I don't know how I got through the show because I was just so excited. But yeah, it was
04:51a very life-changing thing for me.
04:56I think what people discover about me that they don't know is that how much I like having a laugh
05:04and doing the comedic sort of stuff and really relaxed chatting with the audience that I do in concert.
05:10Even though if people have followed my music career, music theatre career, they'll know that I've played lots of comic
05:15roles. But I think people are surprised at how relaxed and informal I am when I'm on stage.
05:39I cannot believe that I have not done a Christmas album because really, I mean, Christmas is my gig.
05:45You know, every year, Carols by Candlelight, I feel that I'm so associated with Christmas and it's outrageous that I
05:52haven't done one yet.
05:52But that's my next project. And they can expect a whole lot of really beautiful arrangements of all the classic
06:01Christmas songs and plus some little extra kind of fun jazz ones and some more Celtic kind of sounding ones.
06:08And yeah, it's it's it's going to be lovely because Christmas music is so beautiful.
06:13I have been really thrilled and humbled by the the fact that we've sold out this this concert tour, I
06:23think.
06:24Yeah, yeah, you always hope that someone's going to do enough, you know, but to have a packed house always
06:29makes it much more exciting.
06:32And I feel really gratified that the Australian public embrace Australian performers. I think that's absolutely wonderful.
06:43This theatre, the glass house is the most beautiful venue. It's intimate. It's state of the art. It's beautiful to
06:50sit in the seats and look at the stage and it's absolutely gorgeous to be on stage and sing into
06:56the space.
06:56So I love it. Australia has got some wonderful, wonderful, wonderful theaters.
07:06Performing on stage is what I feel like I was born to do.
07:10And there is the most wonderful kind of it's almost a transcendent out of body experience when you're just lost
07:18in a song and you can feel the audience behind you.
07:20And there's that wonderful repartee between you as the singer and the audience. It's you know, there's nothing like it.
07:28It's like a drug. I'm addicted to performance and performing.
07:32And I just, I love singing for people. I love the fact that in my job, I send people out
07:39with a smile on their face and they feel uplifted and joyful.
07:43It's, you know, and I'm doing something that I absolutely adore. It's a win-win situation, really.
07:48I really don't know life at all.
07:59I really don't know life at all.
