Speaker 1: The matter, how.
Speaker 2: You believe about these over beside, we would.
Speaker 1: The body to a session, you speaking those people crystals.
Speaker 3: For me, Andrew would either pash or bedroom eyes that
Speaker 3: look with my personal favorites.
Speaker 4: Can I throw and trust me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I always like that. Well, I think that might
Speaker 4: have been the first for our upcoming legend. Who's right
Speaker 4: here on the phone with us, Kate Sobrano, A very
Speaker 4: good evening to you, get I go, Are you going?
Speaker 3: We're good, Kate, I was saying to Andrew just before that.
Speaker 3: When you look through well even through Wikipedia and look
Speaker 3: at all the things you've achieved in your career, you
Speaker 3: sort of your eclipse John Farnham and people guys like that,
Speaker 3: with everything you've achieved, it's quite amazing. And I said
Speaker 3: to Andrew, why would Kate bother talking to us?
Speaker 5: Aha? Oh no, it's good. It's good to get out
Speaker 5: and chat and promote. I've actually been sort of been
Speaker 5: on the down load a little bit lately, just waiting
Speaker 5: to do something a bit special, and something's come up
Speaker 5: that's kind of special and it's coming together really really well.
Speaker 5: And that's when you know. You get back out on
Speaker 5: the road and you're like Okay, I want to talk
Speaker 5: about this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lovely, do you want to tell us what it is?
Speaker 5: Are you lose today?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: Cool? I was giving you belief. Well, it's coming up
Speaker 5: for about forty years since Australian made the very famous
Speaker 5: Australian Tour, which by the way, came about because a
Speaker 5: gauntlet was set down and it was and what they'd
Speaker 5: sort of claimed was that you couldn't have all Australian
Speaker 5: cast on an Australian festival and have it succeed. That
Speaker 5: was what they were saying at the time. And I
Speaker 5: remember Jimmy Barnes he said, oh, that's law of volted.
Speaker 5: And then there was Michael Hutchins and then there but
Speaker 5: then they put a list of artists of the times
Speaker 5: including I'm talking I think you mentioned, but there were
Speaker 5: the models, the Saints, Vinyls, there were meddle of anything.
Speaker 5: I mean, the list went on, but basically it was
Speaker 5: it was in excess and Jimmy and and we all
Speaker 5: agreed that we were going to go out and show
Speaker 5: them that Australia could actually show up for itself and
Speaker 5: we did and did very well.
Speaker 4: You've got this Australian Made Tour coming up now. Good
Speaker 4: title for it, of course on the fortieth year, and
Speaker 4: you start in Bateman's paper, but you're coming to Melbourne,
Speaker 4: you're going the way. In fact, where aren't you going?
Speaker 4: Every state as far as I can see in Australia.
Speaker 3: Isn't it?
Speaker 5: Well? I did. I just decided I'm working with my
Speaker 5: husband on this and we sort of went around regionally
Speaker 5: with the idea. I haven't been out to the regions
Speaker 5: in such a long time. It's kind of where I started.
Speaker 5: And the show it's pretty it's it's basically we get
Speaker 5: to perform a lot of the material from all the
Speaker 5: artists that were represented on that trip, and then as
Speaker 5: I bought it through and over three forty years, we
Speaker 5: go through to a whole other variety of Australian artists
Speaker 5: including like really while Everything, Paul Kelly, wolf Mother, Megan Washington,
Speaker 5: Bernard Fanning, you name it. Like, there's just this whole, trawling,
Speaker 5: fishing line of all Australian music.
Speaker 3: So how do you narrow it down onto a playlist
Speaker 3: that will fit in one concert? Are these just sort
Speaker 3: of your personal favorites?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I had to choose it on a real personal
Speaker 5: level and on how the times as I've just and
Speaker 5: also the people that I've worked with, you know, I'm
Speaker 5: sad to have to tell you, but mostly all of
Speaker 5: the headliners, or at least the singers, the lead singers
Speaker 5: in our past, yeah, the ones standing at Sean and
Speaker 5: myself and Jimmy of course yes. And so to be
Speaker 5: able to play homage to those great artists and know
Speaker 5: that also none of it really had to have anything
Speaker 5: to do with Like, it's not like today where you
Speaker 5: know a bill will be picked because everyone's sort of similar.
Speaker 5: We had nothing in common and it was so it
Speaker 5: represents Strada so well because there were punk bands and
Speaker 5: there were pop bands, and there was rock bands, and
Speaker 5: that is kind of like the profile Australian music. So anyway,
Speaker 5: I talk about all the people I've met in stories
Speaker 5: along the way, but I don't. I just perform a
Speaker 5: lot of the songs and then we re announce it
Speaker 5: with the reasons why they're important to me.
Speaker 4: Is there going to be a bit of Kate Sobrano
Speaker 4: and amongst it all?
Speaker 5: Though, of course does a cut out a bum.
Speaker 4: It's just like.
Speaker 5: I can't I can't not mention how the decades have
Speaker 5: passed and there was a hit that happened on every
Speaker 5: kind of passing of every ten years, and yeah, are
Speaker 5: we definitely doing all those?
Speaker 4: Yes? Please? Yeah, Well you've got as far as Victoria goes,
Speaker 4: you're going to be in Aubrey. We'll give the well,
Speaker 4: actually i'll give more detail about how people can find
Speaker 4: out where you're going to be. But you're going to
Speaker 4: be in Ringwoods, You're going to be in Frankston, You're
Speaker 4: going to be in Bending, You're going to You're really
Speaker 4: doing a lot of work. How's it feel You've been
Speaker 4: touring that for at least forty years? How does it
Speaker 4: feel like another gig, another motel and all that you
Speaker 4: still cope with it?
Speaker 5: Kate, No, this one's very special. Like I'm actually taking
Speaker 5: out a trio and it sounds pretty bizarre, but we're
Speaker 5: all multi instrumentalists, so we're kind of we all trade
Speaker 5: all of the instruments, just the three of us. There's
Speaker 5: a young girl, Kathleen Hellerin who's an incredible guitarist, and
Speaker 5: Darren Harts. I'm on drums and piano, and we all
Speaker 5: swap and we all sort of sing and it's just
Speaker 5: a different sort of stuff. So I'm excited. I reckon.
Speaker 5: I mean, really, the key to staying young is to
Speaker 5: surround yourself with young, inspired people. And at my age,
Speaker 5: I just really feel it's important to express how important
Speaker 5: stratiing music is and to give an honor all of
Speaker 5: the artists that have inspired and kept me in the
Speaker 5: business for so long. And these kids they went he
Speaker 5: is in born when Australia made happen, and so the
Speaker 5: audience is I just look, I'm probably speaking ahead of
Speaker 5: its time. I just really think people are really going
Speaker 5: to love this show. It's for all reasons. It's everyone's
Speaker 5: men with just ad water, everyone's memories, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, no one better to do it because you've
Speaker 3: lived there, you lived through it and were part of it.
Speaker 3: And yeah, now exactly celebrating it all, which is marvelous.
Speaker 3: So do you tell a story or two in between
Speaker 3: the songs on stage?
Speaker 5: Yeah. At the we've got like a bit of a
Speaker 5: sort of setup where there's a VIP kind of experience
Speaker 5: and I get to talk with them and I explained
Speaker 5: the history and the context of the songs. Then the
Speaker 5: show begins, and then once we're in it, definitely do Yeah,
Speaker 5: I definitely to tell about people and what it was
Speaker 5: like to really like rub shoulders with some of the
Speaker 5: most important people in Australian music, and what it felt
Speaker 5: like to be very young and standing in the wings,
Speaker 5: you know, wed between Rene Gayer and Chrissy Amphlet or something.
Speaker 5: There was like there was a dynamic that I learned
Speaker 5: about women, and certainly the the differences of women in
Speaker 5: the seventies based and what they'd been up against. Lots
Speaker 5: of things like that. Just really interesting stories that have
Speaker 5: to do with what shape me as an artist.
Speaker 4: Kate. I first became aware of you singing. I say, yeah,
Speaker 4: I said, the Georgie Fame thing. Yeah, yeah, that's the song,
Speaker 4: isn't it.
Speaker 6: Oh my god?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And I was watching TV one night. To be honest,
Speaker 4: I didn't know you, I didn't know who. I didn't
Speaker 4: know who I'm talking really was about. But there was
Speaker 4: this and then most it was this dark haired girl
Speaker 4: and she's got this big smile and she's moving and
Speaker 4: she's committed to I thought, who's that And because there
Speaker 4: was no name given, it was just this I'm talking
Speaker 4: and now on to the next act. I can't remember
Speaker 4: what the show was, and it was and it was
Speaker 4: turned out that was you. And it's interesting how you've
Speaker 4: stayed in my mind for years before I actually knew
Speaker 4: who you were until he went and that was when
Speaker 4: till he went solo. And then ah, that's that girl.
Speaker 4: It's the power of smiling is almost and that's where.
Speaker 5: You've got to like. It's the way that you let
Speaker 5: the light out. I mean it is, that's it.
Speaker 3: I'll chuck in Kate that, Yes, the smile is important,
Speaker 3: but it's great to have talent to becc it up.
Speaker 4: Yes, but it does help tell it didn't get through
Speaker 4: all the things.
Speaker 5: No, that's beautiful though. I really appreciate that, and I do.
Speaker 5: I do think that there are and as I you know,
Speaker 5: like as I've come through the ranks with people around me,
Speaker 5: like Michael Hutchinson even see her for instance, when she
Speaker 5: was a kid, I'd go to Adelaide and her dad
Speaker 5: would actually always ask me, as I was coming into town,
Speaker 5: is it okay to see it gets up and has
Speaker 5: a thing Like she was twelve and you could tell
Speaker 5: you could tell that a person was coming, you know,
Speaker 5: like you could see that they had something about them
Speaker 5: that was that was so distinctly different. You could call
Speaker 5: it ambition, but it's not. It's more like a kind
Speaker 5: of like a destiny, you know, you just you can
Speaker 5: feel that they're meant to do it.
Speaker 4: Couldn'tgree more. And you've see it on the musical stage.
Speaker 4: You see it sometimes on a movie screen. Do you
Speaker 4: think that actor playing that relatively small role and he's
Speaker 4: really or she's really good.
Speaker 5: You know, you just can't take your eyes off exactly.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely in the arts. I
Speaker 5: think that it's in particular with music, Like musicians either
Speaker 5: have it or they don't. You know, you can be
Speaker 5: as technically trained as the next person, but it's it's
Speaker 5: that little extra willingness to kind of want to be seen.
Speaker 5: And I don't think it's very straight in to want
Speaker 5: to be seen as a rule, like we tend to
Speaker 5: hide and we tend to sort of like fall into
Speaker 5: the shadows and want to be a lot like our
Speaker 5: friends and not really stick out of the crowd. But
Speaker 5: for me, as a kid, I found I felt free
Speaker 5: on stage and I felt like it was the safest
Speaker 5: place in the room for me, so I just kept
Speaker 5: gravitating to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it came across as well. It comes across Kate,
Speaker 4: it really does.
Speaker 5: That's great. I love that. Well, nothing's changed forty years
Speaker 5: in and I'm still keen as mustards.
Speaker 3: Well that was another question, was is do you still
Speaker 3: love it as much as you did when it first
Speaker 3: all happened for you? I guess you must, otherwise you
Speaker 3: retire and sit at home and do nothing.
Speaker 5: Well, I do have. I think I have a really
Speaker 5: failsafe sort of mechanism in me that if I'm curious
Speaker 5: about something, I'll just I'll pursue it. And you know,
Speaker 5: anyone who lives with me around me knows I won't
Speaker 5: stop until I actually kind of see it through to
Speaker 5: the end, the good, bad and the ugly. And I
Speaker 5: reckon it's kept me going because and I actually see
Speaker 5: that same thing in Jimmy Barnes. He has the same
Speaker 5: inexhaustible curiosity, curiosity towards music and entertainment and sort of talking.
Speaker 5: He's a storyteller. I am too, and we just I
Speaker 5: think we simply know that our role in life is
Speaker 5: to bring people together, connect to them by music, and
Speaker 5: give their stories and their memories a bit of a soundtrack.
Speaker 5: That's what I reckon we do.
Speaker 3: Now, Okate, I have to also ask you, like part
Speaker 3: of I'm talking solo career TV stage, it all just
Speaker 3: seems quite natural for you. Each of those adjustments in
Speaker 3: your career, well not adjustments, but each of those movements
Speaker 3: in your career. Did you find any of them threatening, terrifying,
Speaker 3: nervous energy or did you just sort of go, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll give that a crack, I too fine.
Speaker 5: Television's really freaky. Like I remember the first time I
Speaker 5: went and shot something for Getaway, and I did feel
Speaker 5: a bit like I felt fish out of water. And
Speaker 5: the guy put me in a field and then from
Speaker 5: a long distance camera about two hundred meters away, he yelled, okay, action,
Speaker 5: and you know you've got to this big dialogue as
Speaker 5: you're walking towards camera, and you've got to make it
Speaker 5: look really natural. And I just turned to you and
Speaker 5: I said, what first hell was this? Like I don't
Speaker 5: understand what I didn't understand, And because of that, I
Speaker 5: just I didn't think that that was going to be
Speaker 5: where I ended up. Like it was sort of nice
Speaker 5: thing to do while I was waiting for You know,
Speaker 5: you go in and out of fashion with yourself right
Speaker 5: over forty years, you also lose interest as well, and
Speaker 5: sometimes you've got to lead something to come back in
Speaker 5: it and realize you've missed it. And television was just
Speaker 5: a small moment for me to do something interesting and fun.
Speaker 5: But I didn't think I was like, I didn't feel
Speaker 5: like I could be free like I came when I sing,
Speaker 5: and I realized, like, probably the thing I do best
Speaker 5: in my life is seeing an interpret music.
Speaker 4: Kate, I always asked, sing is there and musicians too?
Speaker 4: What was the first record you bought? Do you remember?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 5: Actually it was Kate Bush, Yes, yes, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: pretty inspirational stuff. And I found because of the wonder
Speaker 5: and the limitless composition of her as a person, as
Speaker 5: a singer, as a performing artist, there was just if
Speaker 5: you ever go back and you ever listen to any
Speaker 5: of her interviews, you realize that she was just again,
Speaker 5: she was just like this kind of very eccentric person
Speaker 5: who wasn't trying to be like anyone else. And I
Speaker 5: thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, Yeah, very innovative.
Speaker 3: You're both sing in quite a high range.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I You usually joke about her that that, you know,
Speaker 3: bats are probably her biggest audience. She probably sings things
Speaker 3: we can't even hear, but you also have a great
Speaker 3: ability to really pitch up. How do you go with that?
Speaker 3: Like Cyndy Lauper was another one who sang in quite
Speaker 3: a high register.
Speaker 5: And I think that the years go over your voices,
Speaker 5: like like an instrument or read, it changes, and certainly
Speaker 5: even like you know, after childbirth and stuff, where your
Speaker 5: body's gone through this amazing transformation, all the bellows, everything's changed,
Speaker 5: all the chambers, and then you know, like my voice
Speaker 5: isn't at all like that anymore. Like I can do well,
Speaker 5: for instance, you know the set list, I go from
Speaker 5: anything from early Models stuff which I sang on as
Speaker 5: a kid. But then I can also come all the
Speaker 5: way into singing Rene gay or even more. I can,
Speaker 5: I can, I can do it all. In fact, I
Speaker 5: reckon you get a bit more. I want to say,
Speaker 5: there's more depth, and you're kind of more salty. I
Speaker 5: like it's it's deeper, it's a deeper feeling.
Speaker 4: You're not the only thinger to say that that time
Speaker 4: has since been kind of the voice given them a
Speaker 4: sort of a Melonis that that wasn't there when you're
Speaker 4: eighteen or nineteen.
Speaker 5: That's right, I reckon, yes, completely, Now.
Speaker 3: We time is almost up. We've got to let you
Speaker 3: go shortly. We're loving your chat, but I won't prye
Speaker 3: too much into your private life. But still married and
Speaker 3: a very talented daughter.
Speaker 5: Daughter. I have a really have an incredible family, the
Speaker 5: three of us, the three little bears. We're really we
Speaker 5: have a very creative house. Because she's writing and she's singing.
Speaker 5: She has her own career, and my husband and I
Speaker 5: work together and we've been doing that since COVID and
Speaker 5: we're doing really well with that. In fact, we're touring
Speaker 5: and promoting and doing all of this ourselves, so we're
Speaker 5: not going to be a part. And that's another reason
Speaker 5: why touring is probably not as arduous as it's been
Speaker 5: in my life, because we just get to do it together.
Speaker 5: It's just the best thing.
Speaker 3: Well, I was at a gig. I was at the
Speaker 3: launch of something last year. I can't even remember what
Speaker 3: it was. I got a T shirt out of it.
Speaker 3: But I was at a launch of something and Gypsy
Speaker 3: was performing there and she was I had no idea
Speaker 3: that she was related to you, but I was standing
Speaker 3: there with a group of friends and I said, this
Speaker 3: girl's really good, and they said, oh, gorgeou and they said,
Speaker 3: that's Kate Sobrano's daughter, and I've got okay, well that's
Speaker 3: enough in the James.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well she's beautiful because she doesn't sound like me,
Speaker 5: so there's like we have She's got her own distinct
Speaker 5: character in her own distinct voice, so there's no comparison.
Speaker 5: And she's just Also she's just a really lovely performer.
Speaker 5: So she's yeah, she's just starting and she's on her way.
Speaker 4: She's going to do good. Well, it's the Kate Sabrana
Speaker 4: a twenty twenty five Australian made tour. It's going to
Speaker 4: be something else. It kicks off, I mean as of
Speaker 4: this week in Bateman's Bay in New Southwest, but we've
Speaker 4: got to speak to Victorian listeners in particular of course Kate.
Speaker 5: And it hits Victoria.
Speaker 4: Well, it will be everywhere, but in Aubrey. It'll be
Speaker 4: Accident later this month and in July, it's going to
Speaker 4: be all over the place, Bendigo and Ring and all
Speaker 4: sorts of places, et cetera. Wish all the best with yeah,
Speaker 4: and wish you all the best with it.
Speaker 5: Kate Sabrano dot com Get tickets because they're selling fast.
Speaker 3: That's the easiest way, Yes, Kate, sobrano dot com. And
Speaker 3: don't forget something I learned very early on. It's not Sobrano,
Speaker 3: it's seberano when you're spelling it.
Speaker 5: I even said it like sobrano.
Speaker 3: Kateano dot com.
Speaker 4: Said, sobrano when you learn something every day.
Speaker 3: Good on you, guys, Thank you, chat to you, Kate,
Speaker 3: Thanks for your time and good luck with the tour.
Speaker 5: Thanks mate, bye or should I say mates go bye bye?
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