1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: This is the Fits in Whipper with Kate Richie podcast. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: How are you Melcy? A sporty space? That's the best one. 3 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 2: Do you know what usually I don't? 4 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 3: I mean we we sort of emotional fits. 5 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 2: We turn our nose to the paparazzi shots and these 6 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 2: poor celebrities that get a camera that put straight up 7 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 2: into their face. But is it fair to say last 8 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 2: week when we saw Melcy enter our country, we got 9 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 2: pretty excited. 10 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 4: There is not one person in this country that's not 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 4: fizzing with excitement, fizzing at. 12 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 5: Coming. 13 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 3: Oh do you know what? To see you DJing the 14 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 3: Donjulo party? There ain't no party like a Don Juleo party. 15 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: That was just awesome. How often are you behind the 16 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: decks these days? Oh? 17 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 5: Do you know what? It's been so brilliant. 18 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 6: I've been DJing for about five or six years, and 19 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 6: I would say it's got to the point where it's 20 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 6: kind of equal the amount of time I'm behind the 21 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,199 Speaker 6: decks and upon stage singing. 22 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 4: So it's quite a lot to Melcy. Total thrill, total 23 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 4: thrill to speak to you. My name's Chrisswand And also 24 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 4: I was a DJ myself. Yeah, through university. I worked 25 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 4: freelance for a company called Moby Disc. 26 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: DJ. Yeah. Oh no, I didn't have a name, no, no. 27 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 4: I did like twenty firsts and you know, footy parties, 28 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 4: but there was always the never fail dance floor fill er. 29 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 4: What is it for you as a DJ? Because it's 30 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 4: a very important job. It's the most important job at 31 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 4: any party. 32 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 5: It is it absolutely is. Well. 33 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 6: I like to play a lot so like house music, 34 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 6: and I would say the one tune you know is 35 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 6: going to get people on the dance floor is Robert 36 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 6: s Show Me Love. Yeah, and there's so many great 37 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 6: remixes of it as well, so yeah, it's yeah, a 38 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 6: no brainer that one going to be played. 39 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:18,399 Speaker 1: She's so brilliant. 40 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 3: Do you play any Spice Girls mill I mean, don't 41 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 3: get me wrong, you'd kind of like the crowd would 42 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 3: want it, so you're there to please in a way, 43 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 3: do you know what? 44 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 5: I think? Every foolish to that place agreed. 45 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, And it's really fun because you know, being a DJ, 46 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 6: you have the opportunity to kind of remix things yourself 47 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 6: and do cheeky little mash ups. So I like to 48 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 6: put some like Spice Girls vocals over another tune that 49 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 6: people wouldn't expect. Ah, sometimes that really. 50 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 5: Works quite beautifully when you know it shouldn't. 51 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:54,679 Speaker 2: Do you get on the mic as well? Mil Do 52 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 2: you hype everybody up? Do you do the how I'll 53 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 2: put your hands in the air kind of thing? 54 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 5: That is the part I need to work on. 55 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 6: It's so strange because I'm so frightened of like turning 56 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 6: into somebody from the fair ground. 57 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's the part of my DJ life. 58 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 4: I need everybody who you know, has, has been and 59 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 4: is currently a fan of the Spice Girls know that 60 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 4: you did most of the heavy lifting vocally. 61 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: When you first heard never. 62 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 4: Be the Same Again, did you go this doesn't seem 63 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 4: fear because this is just a me song. 64 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: Everyone's been turned down. 65 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 6: Well, never been the Same Again? Is you know one 66 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 6: of the songs I'm so proud of? You know, it 67 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 6: was the song I got the opportunity to work at 68 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 6: least left A Lopez and the kind of connection to 69 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 6: the Spice Girls with that song is TLC were a 70 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 6: band that we really looked up to, were really inspired 71 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 6: by before the Spice Girls were fully formed. So to 72 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 6: have the opportunity to work with the great Lisa left 73 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 6: All Lopez you know, was incredible. 74 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: Leanne. 75 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 2: See, we are very very excited to have you here 76 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 2: in Australia. You are you're also here filming. This is 77 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 2: the big thing because you're on with the voice actually 78 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 2: Roanan keating on the show to Mara Any Blues with 79 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 2: Ronan on the show, Melanie, does he does he fire 80 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 2: up at all? 81 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 5: Well? I mean the thing is, Ronan and I have 82 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 5: known each other for a long time. 83 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 6: Boyzone the band he was in back in the nineties, 84 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 6: and the Spice Girls were very much out at the 85 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 6: same time. You know, we do lots of shows together, 86 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 6: like to trips all over Europe, and yeah, you know 87 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 6: there's a rivalry that's always bubbling there. But you know, 88 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 6: you can't really compare Spice Girls and Boyzone, now, can you. 89 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 2: Are You're going to go and see Oasis with the 90 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 2: reunion tour, Melanie, You're going to go see them if I. 91 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 6: Can get tickets yet? No, I think that is a definite, 92 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:52,799 Speaker 6: like booket list, You've got to go and see those boys. 93 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 6: They can stay together long enough to get through the tour. 94 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 4: Hey, Laret, you're a very busy woman and we do 95 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 4: have to tag you and release you back into the world. 96 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 4: But before we go, I was thrilled to say that 97 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 4: Richard Marx had joined the coach panel. 98 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: What is your favorite Richard Mark song? 99 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 5: Oh gosh is the big Innit right here waiting for 100 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 5: you Richard. He is brilliant. 101 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 6: He's such a great coach as well, because obviously he 102 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 6: has so much experience not only as an artist but 103 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 6: as a writer and producer. So it's tough choice, you know, 104 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 6: for these views on the show to decide who they 105 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 6: want to mention. 106 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 3: We do we get to see you perform at all 107 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 3: on the show? 108 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 5: Well maybe find. 109 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 3: Out aren't you I mean you? With Richard Marx on stage? 110 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 3: Why he plays the piano. 111 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: And sings hazard. Yes, Yes, thank you. 112 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 5: There's lots of opportunities to see the. 113 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 6: Coaches performing and all the brilliant people who are competing 114 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 6: on the show. 115 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 2: Love that is one of the coaches on the Voice 116 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 2: Australian coming to seven and seven plus later this year. 117 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,919 Speaker 2: We adore you on the show, Melanie see Thank you 118 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 2: so much for coming on. 119 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 5: Appreciate to see you again. 120 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 3: I'll see you soon Since in Whipper with Kate Ritchie 121 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 3: is a Nova podcast walk great shows like this Download 122 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 3: the Nova player via the app store or Google playing 123 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 3: the Nova Player