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Speaker 1: The Voice Australia continues at seven on seven on Sunday Night,

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Speaker 1: and we have the great pleasure of being joined this

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Speaker 1: morning by Melanie s.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, nice to see you.

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Speaker 3: Nice night you, one of the coaches. We're moving into

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Speaker 3: the second stage of the Voice, the battles we are.

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Speaker 4: I know, it's very exciting and quite daunting as well.

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Speaker 4: It's the moment where we start saying.

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Speaker 2: Goodbye to people.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, that's tough.

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Speaker 1: Well, Sunday nights episode was very emotional already.

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Speaker 5: Who moved the most?

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Speaker 2: Oh goodness me?

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Speaker 4: You know, this is one of the wonderful things about

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Speaker 4: this show. And it's tough as a coach because we

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Speaker 4: don't know people's stories, you know, so it's like we're

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Speaker 4: literally just listening and just going with instinct, you know,

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Speaker 4: the things we love, how the audiences are affected by people.

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Speaker 4: And then of course we get to speak to the

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Speaker 4: singers and yeah, and sometimes those stories are so incredibly moving.

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Speaker 4: It's hard to know how to kind of progress with

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Speaker 4: things when some of the some of the people's stories

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Speaker 4: really follow you.

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Speaker 3: What sort of advice are you given, you know, to

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Speaker 3: all of the artists in your team for you know,

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Speaker 3: preparing for the battles. Obviously, you don't know how it's

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Speaker 3: going to rand I mean, how do you because you've

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Speaker 3: seen there, how do you how do you prepare them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough, you know.

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Speaker 4: I think each artist requires something different, and this was

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Speaker 4: a big learning curve for me. I've not worked on

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Speaker 4: the Voice in this way before. I've done the Kids

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Speaker 4: Show in the UK, which is you know, it's very similar,

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Speaker 4: but really getting to mentor the artists and getting to

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Speaker 4: know them. It's interesting because you realize some people need

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Speaker 4: a real confidence boost, you know, some people need some

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Speaker 4: technical advice, and it's it's really bespoke what you have

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Speaker 4: to give each person, and you just really hope that

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Speaker 4: you are you've given them what they need, you know,

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Speaker 4: because we just want everyone to shy. I think the

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Speaker 4: best show is the show where everybody's great. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: we're just trying to pump everyone up.

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Speaker 1: Well, Melanie, I think if they're wise, they would know

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Speaker 1: to take your advice on because, I mean, you were

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Speaker 1: in the Spice Girl's Little Bear that pretty much stopped the.

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Speaker 5: World in nineteen ninety four.

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Speaker 1: It was the zeggarist of the moment, and you got

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Speaker 1: there by responding to an ad and beating out hundreds

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Speaker 1: of probably thousands of other girls who wanted to get

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Speaker 1: into the band. So you know what it's like to

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Speaker 1: be on the other side. Is it strange for you

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Speaker 1: to be on this side?

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Speaker 2: Now you know what it is. It's strange.

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Speaker 4: But I think it's important that you've had that experience

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Speaker 4: because it makes you very respectful if the people you

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Speaker 4: were up there, and you know, and you know, maybe

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Speaker 4: not everybody is like that, but I think personally for

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Speaker 4: me being an artist, and I think it's something my

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Speaker 4: fellow coaches share. We know what it takes, we know

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Speaker 4: how hard it is, we know how vulnerable you can

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Speaker 4: be in that position. And I think what sets the

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Speaker 4: Voice apart from other shows in that kind of genre

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Speaker 4: is it's very nurturing. You know, no one's making fun

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Speaker 4: of anyone. It's really about supporting and helping artists progress.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, and that's that's a lovely thing to be

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Speaker 4: a part of.

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Speaker 5: The watch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and of course you've been there and your fellow

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Speaker 3: judges Australian Kate Miller, Hydeke and of course Richard Marx

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Speaker 3: and Ronan Keating. Now obviously you you know Ronan you've

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Speaker 3: known him for a little while and you know, and

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Speaker 3: you know, Richard, how has it been getting to know

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Speaker 3: Kate as well?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I didn't know Kate. Obviously. We're all massive

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Speaker 2: Eurovision fans here in the UK.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're becoming that way too.

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Speaker 4: It's all those mainland Europeans. But you know, Case's performance

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Speaker 4: obviously was breathtaking on Eurovision, but I didn't know that

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Speaker 4: much more about her, and leading up to working with her,

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Speaker 4: I was, you know, looking at what she'd done and

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Speaker 4: then just getting to meet her, she just absolutely astounded me.

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Speaker 4: I spent some time with her here in London as well.

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Speaker 4: She was over here opening her musical that she's written

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Speaker 4: the music for and she did a performance a beautiful

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Speaker 4: it was great to kind of see her in her

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Speaker 2: And Yeah, she just continues to amaze me.

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Speaker 4: She's an incredible artist, an amazing singer, yeah, and just

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Speaker 4: a great entertainer, so funny, so wise, and I feel

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Speaker 4: like with her it being her second season of the Voice,

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Speaker 4: I really looked to her because I just felt like

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Speaker 4: her comments to the artists were just really beautiful and

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Speaker 4: intricate and interesting, and yeah, I felt like I was

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Speaker 4: learning watching care So I've got a lot of respect

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Speaker 4: for Kate.

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Speaker 5: I've got to ask you, Melanie.

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Speaker 1: We just played baby when You're Gone your your duet

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Speaker 1: with Brian Adams, and I don't know.

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Speaker 5: If you're aware.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this year he had a show in Perth and

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Speaker 1: had to be canceled because the toilets and water at

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Speaker 1: the facilities were being affected by a fat burg.

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Speaker 5: In the system.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever had to cancel a show because of

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Speaker 1: something as bizarre as that?

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Speaker 5: Before I was meant to come home.

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Speaker 3: When was the last time the toilets backed up at

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Speaker 3: one of your gigs?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I think about that one. Funnily enough, I was actually

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Speaker 4: with Brian.

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Speaker 5: And this week, okay I did.

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Speaker 4: I supported him on two shows in the UK, and

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Speaker 4: so I wish I had known that I'm seeing him

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Speaker 4: again on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is so funny. Yeah, I can imagine his

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Speaker 2: reaction to that.

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Speaker 4: I actually we had when I was on tour with

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Speaker 4: the Space Girls in nineteen ninety eight. We were in

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Speaker 4: America and we were playing a lot of outdoor venues

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Speaker 4: and there was we were somewhere and I feel like

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Speaker 4: we were someone like out in Texas and we're out

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Speaker 4: that way and there was like there was these huge insects. Oh,

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Speaker 4: it was like a plaque intext and we were like, literally,

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Speaker 4: I think we had the show stucked one night for

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Speaker 4: a thunderstorm, which is kind of normal, but one night

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Speaker 4: we did wonder if we could go on because these

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Speaker 4: like huge like grasshoppery things were like all landing on

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Speaker 4: us and we were like, you were singing a big

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Speaker 4: one known you were.

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Speaker 5: Like, ah, I my mouth attack of the locust. Yes,

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Speaker 5: so you had the You don't realize it's going.

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Speaker 4: To happen to you right when you start life as

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Speaker 4: a singer.

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Speaker 3: You had locusts and he had toilets at you both

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Speaker 3: had you've both done the hard yards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Melanie, we really must let you go. It

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Speaker 1: is it is your bedtime where you are. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us this morning. The Boys continues

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Speaker 1: at seven on seven on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Lovely to chat to you.

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Speaker 4: Lovely chat to you, and hopefully I'll get out there soon.

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Speaker 4: I'm not seeing you for a while.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Melanie, Thank you, take care, Bye bye