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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Kate Sobrano has spent four decades in the music industry.

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Speaker 2: She's about to drop her thirteenth studio album, and you

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Speaker 2: know what, it's number one on iTunes. Number two is

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Speaker 2: Ed Sharing Never heard of Him. It's called My Life

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Speaker 2: Is a Symphony, and it's a celebration of her songwriting,

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Speaker 2: featuring her most iconic songs sung alongside the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

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Speaker 2: Kate Sobrano, Hi, good morning, good people, she's here.

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Speaker 1: I'm very happy to be here too. I've got to

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Speaker 1: say it's very bloody early.

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Speaker 2: Musician. Well, I can't do late nights. I could never

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Speaker 2: have done that.

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Speaker 1: So you could have if you, if you'd started young enough.

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Speaker 1: I think these days, I don't know there's two sevens

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Speaker 1: that exist in a day.

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Speaker 2: So when you were young, because you've got you were

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Speaker 2: famous and performed very early on. So were you really

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Speaker 2: young when you're having all those big late nights and

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Speaker 2: all that music industry kind of vibe?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I was. I was much younger than my peers,

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't seem to feel like that these days.

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Speaker 1: With all of my friends, you know, we've been saying

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Speaker 1: goodbye to quite a number of them, not just a

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Speaker 1: couple of months. But one who's definitely alive and kicking

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Speaker 1: is my friend John Farnham, who also dropped his film.

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Speaker 2: That film's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I actually haven't seen it because I

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Speaker 1: was on stage. I'd been invited and very much wanted

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Speaker 1: to show up, especially the family have been stitching that

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Speaker 1: lovingly together for the last couple of years. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I can handle it on my own. I

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Speaker 1: have to go with a friend and hold Anne. It's

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Speaker 1: so close to home, isn't it. The whole deconstruction of

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Speaker 1: a whole lifetime in music, and the phoenix rising from

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Speaker 1: the stock, you know, Only he's just gorgeous, isn't he.

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Speaker 3: Well, I always think of you, you telling us that

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Speaker 3: story when you were young and you were in the

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Speaker 3: audience of Countdown and you're just looking at the stage

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Speaker 3: and you just thought, I need to be up there,

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Speaker 3: I need to be able.

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Speaker 1: Well he'd already been there and kind of fallen from

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Speaker 1: the perch as it were, you know, that's where the

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Speaker 1: film begins. And even Colin Hay the other day winning

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Speaker 1: the APPRAA Awards, made this beautiful speech that sometimes in

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Speaker 1: a lifetime. You have to sort of kill off an

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Speaker 1: earlier you and become a better you. And if you're

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Speaker 1: hanging there long enough, you do discover that there is

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Speaker 1: this incredible I don't know, there's a wealth of information

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm at.

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Speaker 3: I haven't think about that. With Michael Hutchins.

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Speaker 2: You know, he didn't get well.

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Speaker 3: There was a period of his time, that time when

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Speaker 3: they were coming back. It was a dark time for

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Speaker 3: him because he thought I'm a has been and he wasn't.

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Speaker 3: He was never has been. But I think in his

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Speaker 3: mind he couldn't get past it if he just waited,

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Speaker 3: if he just hung in there like in excessively still

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Speaker 3: because this is the reunion tour is such a big thing.

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Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, yeah, most definitely. I mean, you know the

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Speaker 1: well and also I suppose because COVID has changed the

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Speaker 1: way we see mental health and other things. When you

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Speaker 1: find yourself in a position where you're under siege like

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Speaker 1: that subjectively inside, you've got to work out a way,

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Speaker 1: I think objectively to find proof of you. And that's

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Speaker 1: what making when we made this record, it was like, well,

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Speaker 1: lying there and you're like, well, that was crazy, that

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Speaker 1: morning and everyone will have moved on. And so it

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Speaker 1: really put and back myself really and say, as a

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Speaker 1: songwriter for forty years, these are the songs. They're my

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Speaker 1: be there. And the symphony is so is so awesome,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm all struck and I am a fan within

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Speaker 1: along like a cork in the ocean, going I love.

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Speaker 2: This feel like to perform with the symphony orchestra.

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Speaker 1: It's it's rather like it's rather like seeing the sun,

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Speaker 1: You know, you half expect that when the sun rises

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Speaker 1: you hear that. That is actually how a symphony feels.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of pressure and listening to you, this

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Speaker 3: is you doing brave with the symphony orchestra.

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Speaker 2: That's a goose bumps.

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Speaker 1: Rise.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's pressures.

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Speaker 3: What if you're muck it up?

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Speaker 1: No, you just I won't because it doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 1: Imperfections are all of what makes an artist at this

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Speaker 1: age perfect because you are bringing with you your entire house.

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Speaker 1: You know, the house is you. I mean. I was

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Speaker 1: listening to Joni Mitchell performing both Sides Now in Love actually,

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Speaker 1: and I went, well, there's a statement. There's a statement

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Speaker 1: of how to walk across the step from Onngenu, you know,

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Speaker 1: being the young babe to being a person and owning

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Speaker 1: your life like she just breaks me. And then Emma

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Speaker 1: Thompson's standing there performing that scene.

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Speaker 2: Credible.

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Speaker 1: You realize that's actually you are the music to people's experiences.

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Speaker 2: And this is when I saw the John Farnan film.

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Speaker 2: I felt grateful to have been alive during his tenure

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Speaker 2: and I feel the same with you. Seriously, you, we

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Speaker 2: all love you, but we've grown with you and hearing

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Speaker 2: all your songs, I feel exactly the same way that

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Speaker 2: I'm glad to have been in the drop zone of you.

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Speaker 1: Oh my God, we thank you.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, we all feel the same. That's what you're

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Speaker 2: number one on iTunes.

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Speaker 3: That's why you've beat Ned Sheeran.

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Speaker 1: Well, God with you dis messed up? Okay, so well John,

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Speaker 1: I want to join in on the choir with that

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Speaker 1: one with John, because you know he is a physical

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Speaker 1: form obviously, but he's the voice. I mean, he's the

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Speaker 1: voice of Australia and even his trials and triumphs have

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Speaker 1: been the voice of Australia. I think that's why we

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Speaker 1: love him. And I don't reckon you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: generation where we share those often the trials. It might

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Speaker 1: that it was tough, even from COVID, but I'm glad

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Speaker 1: take for granted that these people are always a part

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Speaker 1: of our space. You know, Olivia, we think that you

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Speaker 1: know even Renee saying goodbye to Renee. Last week I

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Speaker 1: did a version of It's a Man's World for her

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Speaker 1: and honestly, she jumped into my skin and took me by.

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Speaker 1: I felt like I felt like the power of her.

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Speaker 1: And there's a great I think, like you say, let's

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Speaker 1: just look at who we have. And I think the

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Speaker 1: government of doing a great job actually supporting Australian music

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Speaker 1: at the moment, and they'll do more of it and

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Speaker 1: you'll hear more of us and we'll be around a

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Speaker 1: lot longer.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what we want. We want you to live forever.

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Speaker 3: I want you to be like forever. I want you

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Speaker 3: to be around for a thousand.

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Speaker 1: Nice to know that guy in Highlander. Actually, if I

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Speaker 1: could go back.

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Speaker 3: In time to meet him, that'd Kate. It's always great

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Speaker 3: to tell you. The album My Life Is a Symphony

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Speaker 3: is out now via ABC Music. It's just great to

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Speaker 3: see you. Thanks lots of love to you, Thank you

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Speaker 3: for coming.

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Speaker 2: Thanks