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Speaker 1: You can catch the Fringe show Mixtape Australia at the

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Speaker 1: Pleasure Garden from February thirteen to seventeen. Tickets so through

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Speaker 1: fringeworld dot com dot Au and the Lady behind it All,

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Speaker 1: Michelle Pierson, is with us now. Good morning, Michelle, Michelle, welcome,

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Speaker 1: Good morning mixtape. Why is it called mixtape? What's the

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Speaker 1: show about?

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Speaker 2: Well, Mixtape Australia And I guess it's all almost the

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Speaker 2: hits that I've I guess grown up with on my

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Speaker 2: mixtape and it's basically about you know, Australian a celebration

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Speaker 2: of Australian music and the hit makers and the songs

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Speaker 2: that created change through our history. I think Australian songwriters

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Speaker 2: and bands they've got a really they've got such a

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Speaker 2: great talent for songwriting, but some of them have really

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Speaker 2: created change in the industry, in politics, for you know,

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Speaker 2: for different groups in our community. Yes, it's really it's

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Speaker 2: a really nostalgic, fun, high energy piece. So I'm looking

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Speaker 2: forward to it.

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Speaker 3: It sounds exciting, Michelle, and so many memories for people

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Speaker 3: as well. I would imagine that part of the reason

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Speaker 3: why you've sort of tapped into this one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's very nostalgic and lots of lots of hits

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Speaker 2: you know from you know, the eighties, the seventies, even

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Speaker 2: of the sixties songs as well. Yes, so lots of

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Speaker 2: great kind of Ausie rock, I would say, Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: some excellent songs, Easy Beats, Coultures, all the Divinyls.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're such They tend to be such good storytellers,

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Speaker 1: these Australian acts. And one of the ones I would

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Speaker 1: have to single out there is Midnight Oil. What do

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Speaker 1: you Why do you think that they've been able to

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Speaker 1: change our political and cultural and social fabric what through?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we featured with that on quite a bit in

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Speaker 2: the show. It's very hard not to but they Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're probably the leaders in this space. I think that

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Speaker 2: music is a really good way to communicate with people,

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Speaker 2: and so it's sometimes easy it is to spread a

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Speaker 2: message through songs when it is to actually tell somebody

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Speaker 2: or lecture somebody. So they've been they've been talking about

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Speaker 2: their their cause and their messages for many, many years.

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Speaker 2: And you know, there's there's so many songs where they

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Speaker 2: do this, you know, especially you know Dead Heart, that's

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Speaker 2: the burning So you know, when you're talking about you know,

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Speaker 2: Blue sky Mine, which is about you know an a spestos mine,

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Speaker 2: Like there's all these.

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Speaker 1: This stay yeah yeah yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: In w A. Yeah. So I think they're definitely the

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Speaker 2: leaders in that and I think it sometimes can really

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Speaker 2: especially in my generation, like this is the music that

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Speaker 2: my parents grew up you know with on the radio? Yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: it is, it is.

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Speaker 3: But.

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Speaker 2: I was born in nineteen eighty five. It was very,

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Speaker 2: very hot on the strategy.

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Speaker 3: It is because you never Airthley Day.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you have.

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Speaker 3: What is this thing? Then put a pen in it.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about those incredible writers in Australia. You had

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Speaker 3: Don Walker writing those songs for Chisel, amongst the other

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Speaker 3: great writers in the band of Paul Kelly writing songs

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Speaker 3: about Adelaide and Greg McCain's from Skyhawk was writing brilliant

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Speaker 3: songs about Melbourne liked and calling Hey tell me. With

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Speaker 3: the mixtape thing, Michelle, it was it one of the

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Speaker 3: great Do you think it was one of the great

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Speaker 3: things to It was cool to make a tape for yourself,

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Speaker 3: but if someone gave you a mixtape that was like

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Speaker 3: next level, wasn't it was like a proposal? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it was really precious.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad actually used to make little mixtapes for

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Speaker 2: me as a kid. It was really it's a really

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Speaker 2: nice throwback to my childhood as well, you know, just

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Speaker 2: remembering we do have takes, honestly, I honestly did, and

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Speaker 2: I yeah, and make little tape me for his favorite

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Speaker 2: shoes on them and it's seen really nice exploring all

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Speaker 2: of that music. But yeah, it is funny, Like you know,

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Speaker 2: then we got CD and CD singles enough that you know,

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Speaker 2: there's nothing better than a mixtape and a very very

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Speaker 2: precious if someone would go to the effort and make

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Speaker 2: you up.

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Speaker 1: Well, when you were sixteen or fifteen years old, I'm

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Speaker 1: speaking from experience here, and you made a mixtape for

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Speaker 1: like a guy that you had a crush on. It

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Speaker 1: was the way you expressed sort of the only way

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Speaker 1: you could express absolutely every element of your personality. The

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Speaker 1: thought process that went into which songs to choose, which

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Speaker 1: songs not to choose, it could make or break absolutely everything.

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Speaker 1: That's how it felt. Anyway, that is how it felt. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you want it to be cooling well. Mixtape Australia is

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Speaker 1: at the Pleasure Garden Fevery thirteen to seventeen Tickets are

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Speaker 1: through fringeworld dot com dot are. You will look forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing what's on yours, Michelle.

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Speaker 2: Michelle, thanks you so much, Bye, very good