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Speaker 1: Kate Kate is joining us now, good morning morning, good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, fine person people.

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Speaker 3: Now are you very well?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: You celebrated this year one of the most enduring and

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Speaker 1: inspirational careers in Australian music with the release of your

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Speaker 1: thirtieth album, My Life Is a Symphony. It went straight

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Speaker 1: to the top of the charts. Congratulations, thank you, A.

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Speaker 2: Bit of a labor of love.

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Speaker 3: Oh sorry, no, no, I don't tell you.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, when when you're reaching album

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Speaker 1: number thirty, at what number do you ever get? Do

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Speaker 1: you get scared that you think, well, I don't is

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Speaker 1: are they going to buy this one?

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Speaker 3: Are they going to like this one?

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Speaker 2: Is?

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Speaker 3: It has gone straight to the top of the charts.

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Speaker 2: I think when you're in the business as long as

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Speaker 2: I've been, I feel like the last of the Mohicans.

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Speaker 2: I just I just I just sort of feel like

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Speaker 2: I do what I do and I think you just

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Speaker 2: got to keep doing what you do and don't think, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I really think in the end that it's a career.

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Speaker 2: It's a whole, living, breathing art form really and it's

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Speaker 2: like anything if you yeah, you're just in it. And

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Speaker 2: the other thing. I just want to mention is that

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Speaker 2: the public that I've known for forty years as an audience,

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Speaker 2: and it's people to sing with and sing for, they're

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Speaker 2: the ones that actually put it on the charts. It's

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Speaker 2: really it's because of their commitment and their community with me,

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Speaker 2: and I have so much to love them. For Australians,

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Speaker 2: they just keep on coming up, they get on showing up,

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Speaker 2: they keep on buying. So I love that. I just

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Speaker 2: feel like as an Australian artist and as one of

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Speaker 2: the last of my generation of women in music, it's

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Speaker 2: just it's just a really strong, lovely handhold into Well, you're.

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Speaker 1: Very modest, there's also the fact that you're damn good

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Speaker 1: and that's why we keep coming.

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Speaker 3: And versatility, Yeah exactly. You're on stage with all on

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Speaker 3: Saturday night, which time.

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Speaker 2: No, not my first rodeo, but I'm telling you, if

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Speaker 2: you're playing your own music in this country with an orchestra,

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Speaker 2: symphony orchestra, it's a privilege beyond belief. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: like having someone naming a star in a galaxy. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's like you just you are Andromeda. You sit in

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Speaker 2: the middle of this just like you know, a world

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Speaker 2: of sound and inspiration around you. The other thing is

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Speaker 2: too they're so so genuinely talented. They seem to make

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Speaker 2: it effortless, and it's a lovely feeling. It's lovely feeling.

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Speaker 4: What about all the arrangements and everything that can be

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Speaker 4: quite complex, can't it? At times when you all of

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Speaker 4: a sudden you're doing some of these teams with the symphony?

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, and I think to the symphony as well,

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Speaker 2: like sometimes pop music can seem like a bit of

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Speaker 2: a dull for them.

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Speaker 3: With three.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I don't think they do it.

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Speaker 1: I thought they do.

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Speaker 2: No, Well, I mean you know they what they love

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Speaker 2: is when making an arranger like the chap He's done

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Speaker 2: my arrangements. He does work for the cat Empire, the Bamboos,

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Speaker 2: and he's very contemporary. He's sort of taken the spirit

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Speaker 2: of symphonic music, and he's a very symphonic trained artist.

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Speaker 2: And he's given the orchestra a gift because it isn't

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Speaker 2: just three chords, it's their whole pieces, their whole arrangements.

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Speaker 2: And when I asked him, you know what, he said,

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Speaker 2: how do you want to see this? And I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I want you to throw polar express in there.

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Speaker 3: I want love.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I want West Side Story, I want the whole,

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Speaker 2: I want the whole Enchilada, I want.

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Speaker 3: That song you do from Baghdad Cafe. That's sort of

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Speaker 3: my favorite.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Is there a particular song of yours that you

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Speaker 1: feel just is so elevated by the inclusion of the orchestra.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, a lot of the material, there are hips

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Speaker 2: in amongst material. But I guess the greatest privilege is

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Speaker 2: that these are all songs written by me. To have

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Speaker 2: a whole set of original music. There's one song that

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Speaker 2: was maybe not in the top charts of anyone particularly,

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Speaker 2: but they might have found it on an album within

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Speaker 2: an album. It's called Earth and Sky. And the reason

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Speaker 2: why I love it is it probably tells the story

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Speaker 2: of my yearning for forty years to sort of just

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Speaker 2: keep to my lane and keep walking, don't stop and

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Speaker 2: just keep on trucking and don't ask permission, just get

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Speaker 2: in there, get amongst it. And that's what I love

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Speaker 2: about the song.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Kay.

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Speaker 4: Last time we were in a room together, it wasn't

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Speaker 4: a radio interview because COVID got in the way and

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Speaker 4: all that. It was at a dock has function for

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Speaker 4: International Women's Day about four or five years ago, and

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Speaker 4: the room stopped. When you got up to seeing the

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Speaker 4: room stopped and you could hear a pin drop. What's

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Speaker 4: it like when an audience responds like that because people

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Speaker 4: were just listening to that voice.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's gorgeous. Yeah, well, I mean in way, it's

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Speaker 2: kind of it's the cinematic moment that every artist wish

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Speaker 2: just saw, don't they. It's the moment you can, yeah,

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Speaker 2: like you have one service in this life, and that's

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Speaker 2: too I guess, to give people a soundtrack to their

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Speaker 2: own internal world. And I think that's what's happening. When

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Speaker 2: you're doing that, something happens. There's sort of they stopped

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Speaker 2: for a minute from everything they're doing in all the

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Speaker 2: busyness of life, and they just find a moment within

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Speaker 2: themselves that they can respond to emotionally without words.

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Speaker 4: And when it's a lunch and there's no cutlery noises,

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Speaker 4: you know you're cutting through.

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Speaker 2: Well, I know, and I've had a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: I've had a lot of people eat through myset.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is why you were awarded the Lifetime Achievement

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Speaker 1: Award of the annual Australian Women in Music Awards.

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Speaker 3: Recently. That must mean a lot to you.

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Speaker 2: It did mean a lot to me.

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Speaker 3: It meant the world.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I come from a family of very strong

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Speaker 2: women and I've raised a free range chicken and as

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Speaker 2: a woman to go forth and go and tell the world.

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Speaker 2: But it's safe to come out. It's safe to go

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Speaker 2: out and be who you are and be powerful, be

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Speaker 2: noisy and strong and and have ambition. You know, that's

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Speaker 2: a very un Australian thing. Yeah to me, and I

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Speaker 2: just I love I love knowing that. Yeah, it's really good.

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Speaker 2: It's good.

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Speaker 1: Well, Kate is at the Concert Hall on Saturday night,

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Speaker 1: the perfect venue, the perfect night.

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Speaker 3: Is coming to he is coming, she is coming. I'm

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Speaker 3: bringing the.

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Speaker 2: South and so I just thought that I want you.

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Speaker 2: She's a great thing and she's a great artist.

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Speaker 3: Also, Oh that's great.

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Speaker 1: Can I just saw And also that Kate's released her

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Speaker 1: memoir this year, Unsung, so you know.

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Speaker 2: It's doing great.

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Speaker 3: It's all out there, and you know, I don't want

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Speaker 3: to say the words of the perfect Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Christmas A memoir always is the perfect gift.

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Speaker 3: So Kate, lovely to talk to you. Have fun on.

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Speaker 2: They Okay, good on you guys.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having the Aliah,