January 31, 2026 • 15 mins
Kiwi singer-songwriter Cassie Henderson had a busy year in 2025, and she's set to keep the momentum going in the new year.
She's confirmed to play at the 2026 Synthony Festival, alongside Shapeshifter, Kaylee Bell and The Exponents next March.
She says she's also working on her own musical projects, and she's promised 2026 will be another exciting year.
"I have been in the studio all of the end of 2025 - and at the moment as well. So there's a project coming, which is really exciting."
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And yes it's her again. It's the voice of Cassie Henderson,
who had such a big twenty twenty five. She was
named Best Pop Artist at the ALTAIRO Music Awards. She
placed runner up in the Voice Australia, which I thought
was a genius move. And so now here we go
with everything in place into twenty twenty six and Cassie
Henderson is in studio with me. Hello, we go the beginning.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We're on, We're on.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Sorry, I have all that experience, but no experience with
radio mics.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well normally the sound guy just turns it off here
in this case Kerry. So there we go, Well done,
and welcome on in and congratulations on last year. Last
time I saw you, in fact, was outside the building
and I accosted you and I said, Cassie Henderson, genius move.
Thank you by going for the voice. Now I understand
(01:04):
if you are a serious artists, you don't go to
the for these sort of competition need things, these TV events.
But at the same time, to be as serious artists,
people have to know who you are and what you
can do, and this was just the most incredible introduction
of your talent to an audience.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, I mean, that is a funny narrative about it.
I think over the years people look at people on
those shows and they go, oh, it's just reality TV.
It doesn't you don't have to be a real artist
to be on there, or they produce people who aren't
real artists. They don't have that grit and grind of
climbing to the top. But for me, I've been I've
(01:44):
been working at this since I was fourteen years old,
so that grit is very much ingrained in me, and
that the show was just an excellent opportunity for me
to test myself and I really wanted to see if
people liked me internationally and see if I could deliver
on a stage that large, and it was. Yeah, it
(02:06):
was an incredible experience.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
How hard was it? Were you ricocheting back and forth
across the Tasman the whole time fulfillming and of course
which is which is awkward because you then you're out
of the place and then you're in the place and
you've got that whole flight to go. Oh yeah, how
hard was it in terms of work?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, I think it was filmed at an interesting time. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I was actually had been coming back to New Zealand
to play a couple gigs while I was over there
doing my audition and stuff, and I i the plane
can be a very scary place. You can get really
really in your head on there. So I had these
podcasts playing the entire time that I was on my
way there because I started to experience like a little
bit of performance anxiety before I did this audition, because
(02:51):
I was really feeling the pressure. I just had a
like a sports performance anxiety playlist playing the whole time
and really got me into the mode. And yeah, I
just it was. It was tricky, but I think I
took it very, very seriously. I was preparing for that
audition for a very long time, and all throughout the competition,
I was waking up every morning and stretching and doing
(03:13):
vocal visualizing.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, the whole thing. You say that, but I can't
help but notice that you've popped in here and you're
wearing active leisurewear and you look like you come straight
from the gym. Have you come straight from No.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I've actually been so lazy recently, but I'm usually if
I'm going in for a big show or a big
event or a tour or something, I lock in and
just it becomes every day is a training day.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Basically, it's very similar to sport. When you start mentioning,
I went there, we go. You know, you've got to
be fit, you've got to be healthy, bodily prepared, mentally prepared,
and then you have a moment on stage, just the
same as when you're on a sports field when you
have to bring your a game and you have to perform.
So it is hard, yacker.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It is hard.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah. Here, it's quite interesting the sports psychology, like sports
psychology and music psychology are actually incredibly closely linked. I
think there's a lot of the You can practice as
much as you want behind the scenes, but you get
one opportunity when you step out onto that field or
onto that stage, and that is what you will be
judged on. And so there is, Yeah, there's quite quite
a lot of links between the two. And I've always
(04:24):
been a very big sports person throughout my life and
so I don't know if it comes into that.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
My dad's always been like he.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Was a rugby coach, so I've had that sort of
training instinct I guess my whole life.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So, yeah, when did Cassie decide that she wants to
do this for a living, And because you dads might go, well,
I'm not sure about that. You know, it's not a
salary position, you know, all that sort of thing, and
making that decision, why did you actually choose music? Did
you choose it because I've just got this great voice
and this could be a great life and I just
want to have out we just want to go for that,
(04:58):
or was it what was the motivation to actually put
yourself out there in front of people and say I
can entertain you.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I mean, I I.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Think it has to be something that for me, I
just couldn't envision anything else. Like I have had jobs
in marketing, I've had salary jobs, and I've sat at
the desk and the entire time I was like, I
can't let this be the rest of my life. There
is something in me that's telling me I need to
do music, and a lot of people have that feeling,
(05:26):
I think. But I think what's the most important part
of this job is the endurance. I guess because there's
plenty of days and months and years when nothing happens
and nobody believes in you. So unless you have that
endurance and that really strong belief in yourself and maybe
somebody in your corner, like for me it was always
my parents who believe in you as well, then I
(05:50):
think you can last the amount of time it takes
before it actually becomes good.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
After such a great twenty twenty five with music release
and of course to this performance on The Voice Australia,
you come to twenty twenty six and obviously you have
to take what you did then and parlay into something.
Before we came on here, we were talking about this
about the people who have done something like The Voice
Australia or Australian Idol, the people like Stam Walker, the
people like Carrie Underwood, you know, the people like Harry
(06:17):
Styles who did one direction, but he obviously had his
own solo thing as well. So you have to have
a bigger plant. You can't just do the Voice Australia
and go that's it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I suppose it's changed because in the past it probably
like in the early days of these reality singing shows,
I think it was you got signed to the steal
and then you were thrown on a world tour and
everything sort of started snowballing, whereas now I think it
acts as just a platform and that raises you up,
and then it's your job to make the most of that,
(06:51):
and whatever you do out the other side is not
part of that show anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's whatever you want to do, you.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Want to do, and you made an interesting choice. We
opened up this interview playing your version of I'm Just
a teenage dirt Bag Yes by Wheatsta, which is a
great little song, and you did that, of course, on
the Telly, and you do it in your live performances,
and you've taken videos of those and they have gone virals. Yes,
And in fact, you doing cover songs of the songs
(07:18):
that you did on the show have become their own
thing now.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So I think this year was This year was a
really intense and busy year, and I would have loved
to have my own music out, but I unfortunately ran
out of time, and I just was watching how those
songs were performing on the show, and I was like,
I should record my own version of these. And this
year just became the year of the cover song for me,
which is really exciting because I get to I get
(07:45):
to do these incredible songs in my set when I
play live like, I don't claim to have ever written
anything as cool as teenage dirt Bag, but I can try,
and while it's in the set, it's a bloody good time.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Are you still writing your own stuff at the same time?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yes, yeah, So I have been in the studio all
of the end of twenty twenty five and at the
moment as well. So there's something. There's a project coming
which is really exciting. I'm very, very excited to have
new music out finally.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And who's your collaborator, because I think everybody needs a
producer or somebody who actually helps you become part of
the team. Joel Little with Lord you know, have you
got someone who can take your vision and make it concrete?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, I've been so lucky to have a guy called
Joe Farris, who is my producer across all of the
EPs I've done. He is the producer of the projects,
but also he's been an incredible mentor. He's like a
very strong writer himself, and so him and I bounced
ideas off each other all the time. Sometimes I come
(08:50):
in with songs that are more fully formed. Sometimes I
come in with an idea and we just pull it
apart and create.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Some of the things that you've heard on on the radio.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So yeah, is he related to the Farrises from an Excess?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
He Well, he was actually is Revined. Do you remember
is Revine?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, so that's that's Joe.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So he he's an incredible musician, like probably the most
talented musician I've ever seen. He plays everything, bass, drums, guitar, piano,
and credible everything. And it's also just had has also
had a lot of experience in the industry, so it
can be like a mental to me in some way.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So the next piece of product we see from you
will be a cover album or some covers in some originals.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
No, I'm putting the covers to bed now. I think
they've I have really enjoyed playing them over the summer
and seeing how they've been just so widely received across
the world, which is crazy. But the next thing you'll
hear from me is my music fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
That's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
How do you feel about being a woman in the
music industry? Because I know that some of those videos
you posted you were in hot pans. Yes, and then
of course there were some animals who made some quite
rude and deprecating comments about about the hot pants, etc.
Is that women have a different there's a different bar
that they have to jump over when they're in public
(10:15):
life and they get the sort of rubbish, whereas you
can be iggy pop and not have a shirt on
and nobody seems to give a damn. So how do
you cope with sort of just you know, the trolls
who say nasty things about your clothing.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, it's a really interesting one.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
It's one of I have come across a little bit
during my career, but at the moment super prominently, and
it's great that it's hitting me now because I'm in
a place in my life where that stuff doesn't actually
get under my skin. I think the crazy thing about
social media is that if one type of person comments
(10:49):
that sort of thing, it's going to then go to
one hundred different people who think the same sort of thing,
so there's not much you can do to control it.
I think my takeaway from that stuff is that it
will always be a problem for someone and you cannot
let that define what you do. I like to wear
(11:12):
funny clothes on stage, and I like to wear whatever
I want because it's my show on my stage, but
these people saw me walking the street. I usually dressed
like a teenage boy. So I'm kind of like say
whatever you would like, but it doesn't really affect me
in their way anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
The Lord's been getting that as well because her show
at the moment, she actually she takes the jeans off
and she dances, well, she dances around in her Calvin
clients whatever. It's this is what people do. I mean,
I dance around my bedroom the whole time and my
Calvin clients.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I think there's like it's quite interesting because the world
of like rock and roll used to be crazy. People
used to do whatever they wanted on the stage, and
now there's like a really there's like it has to
be in this perfect lane of a former on stage.
And I'm kind of more so always leaning towards do
(12:10):
whatever you want, because that is be yourself, yourself, do
what feels right on a stage where what feels right
and you're doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
You're very impressive, well you are. You're focused at your
hard working, and you're good, which helps. Of course you
need to be able to hit the high notes and
you can do it so very very well. Your next
project is with Symphony Yes Yes, which is old David
Higgins from Duco Events and he created Symphony and now
(12:40):
it's a brand and he's had Jeremy Redmore singing with
him from Midnight Youth around the world. Now he's asked
you to come along and sing. And this is interesting
because they take big songs, they score them for an orchestra,
and then they say, now it's in your lap. So
this is a new challenge for you.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
This is a new challenge for me.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I've always admired, like I've always loved orchestras, and I
love when an orchestra takes on a popular song. It's
very very cool to see how a song that we've
heard on the radio for ten years can be translated
into violins and brass sections and stuff. And it's as
a musician I adore. As the singer of the songs,
(13:20):
I feel like I will feel some pressure because you've
got all of these incredibly talented musicians doing their bit,
and then it's just your job to add the icing
on the cake. So I'm very excited. They bring in
the most incredible crowds, people who love to just dance
and enjoy music, and that's myche.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You like playing in front of forty thousand people versus
five hundred.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Yeah, I love playing in front of any size crowd.
I think those intimate ones are so fun. There's something
in the crazy energy of a really packed out show
which I feed off as an artist. And yeah, I
think it's going to be an amazing show to be
a part of and also an amazing show to watch.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
So absolutely very excited. I'm going. I can't wait because Faithless,
oh brilliant and Faithless is the main act and I've
been listening to faith this for the last twenty five
thirty years and they are a brilliant act. And it's
full band, and of course there's there's yourself as well,
and I think you're just going to be primo and
I think it's going to be great. Of course. Marnica
Fuel Symphony Festival takes place at the organd Domain March
(14:21):
the twenty first, and if you want tickets to go
to Synthhony s y n t h o n y
synthhony dot com. Cassie Henderson will be there.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And you've done so well and it sounds as that
you're going to keep on doing well, and I thank
you so much for taking the time and the effort
to come in here and talk about your stuff and
you'll be great.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
And I thank you, thank you for excusing my workout
where we've been talking about your talking Heads T shirt.
And I feel very envious now that I'm in my
workout here.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Don't worry. Thank you so much, Cassie Henderson. Ladies and gentlemen,
it is eleven twenty two and this is News Talks.
By the way, at that Symphony Festival shaped shister kve Bell,
another person who did well in entertainment programs, picking Duck
from Australia, Faithless the exponent with an orchestra. How good
is that? The Black Seeds? How good is that? Of
course Peter Erlich with his DJ team Nice and Erlctric
(15:13):
playing as well, and a whole heap of others, including
the Yorkland Fill Armonia. It's gonna be a great show.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
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from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And yes it's her again. It's the voice of Cassie Henderson,
who had such a big twenty twenty five. She was
named Best Pop Artist at the ALTAIRO Music Awards. She
placed runner up in the Voice Australia, which I thought
was a genius move. And so now here we go
with everything in place into twenty twenty six and Cassie
Henderson is in studio with me. Hello, we go the beginning.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We're on, We're on.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Sorry, I have all that experience, but no experience with
radio mics.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well normally the sound guy just turns it off here
in this case Kerry. So there we go, Well done,
and welcome on in and congratulations on last year. Last
time I saw you, in fact, was outside the building
and I accosted you and I said, Cassie Henderson, genius move.
Thank you by going for the voice. Now I understand
(01:04):
if you are a serious artists, you don't go to
the for these sort of competition need things, these TV events.
But at the same time, to be as serious artists,
people have to know who you are and what you
can do, and this was just the most incredible introduction
of your talent to an audience.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, I mean, that is a funny narrative about it.
I think over the years people look at people on
those shows and they go, oh, it's just reality TV.
It doesn't you don't have to be a real artist
to be on there, or they produce people who aren't
real artists. They don't have that grit and grind of
climbing to the top. But for me, I've been I've
(01:44):
been working at this since I was fourteen years old,
so that grit is very much ingrained in me, and
that the show was just an excellent opportunity for me
to test myself and I really wanted to see if
people liked me internationally and see if I could deliver
on a stage that large, and it was. Yeah, it
(02:06):
was an incredible experience.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
How hard was it? Were you ricocheting back and forth
across the Tasman the whole time fulfillming and of course
which is which is awkward because you then you're out
of the place and then you're in the place and
you've got that whole flight to go. Oh yeah, how
hard was it in terms of work?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, I think it was filmed at an interesting time. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I was actually had been coming back to New Zealand
to play a couple gigs while I was over there
doing my audition and stuff, and I i the plane
can be a very scary place. You can get really
really in your head on there. So I had these
podcasts playing the entire time that I was on my
way there because I started to experience like a little
bit of performance anxiety before I did this audition, because
(02:51):
I was really feeling the pressure. I just had a
like a sports performance anxiety playlist playing the whole time
and really got me into the mode. And yeah, I
just it was. It was tricky, but I think I
took it very, very seriously. I was preparing for that
audition for a very long time, and all throughout the competition,
I was waking up every morning and stretching and doing
(03:13):
vocal visualizing.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, the whole thing. You say that, but I can't
help but notice that you've popped in here and you're
wearing active leisurewear and you look like you come straight
from the gym. Have you come straight from No.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I've actually been so lazy recently, but I'm usually if
I'm going in for a big show or a big
event or a tour or something, I lock in and
just it becomes every day is a training day.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Basically, it's very similar to sport. When you start mentioning,
I went there, we go. You know, you've got to
be fit, you've got to be healthy, bodily prepared, mentally prepared,
and then you have a moment on stage, just the
same as when you're on a sports field when you
have to bring your a game and you have to perform.
So it is hard, yacker.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It is hard.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah. Here, it's quite interesting the sports psychology, like sports
psychology and music psychology are actually incredibly closely linked. I
think there's a lot of the You can practice as
much as you want behind the scenes, but you get
one opportunity when you step out onto that field or
onto that stage, and that is what you will be
judged on. And so there is, Yeah, there's quite quite
a lot of links between the two. And I've always
(04:24):
been a very big sports person throughout my life and
so I don't know if it comes into that.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
My dad's always been like he.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Was a rugby coach, so I've had that sort of
training instinct I guess my whole life.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So, yeah, when did Cassie decide that she wants to
do this for a living, And because you dads might go, well,
I'm not sure about that. You know, it's not a
salary position, you know, all that sort of thing, and
making that decision, why did you actually choose music? Did
you choose it because I've just got this great voice
and this could be a great life and I just
want to have out we just want to go for that,
(04:58):
or was it what was the motivation to actually put
yourself out there in front of people and say I
can entertain you.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I mean, I I.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Think it has to be something that for me, I
just couldn't envision anything else. Like I have had jobs
in marketing, I've had salary jobs, and I've sat at
the desk and the entire time I was like, I
can't let this be the rest of my life. There
is something in me that's telling me I need to
do music, and a lot of people have that feeling,
(05:26):
I think. But I think what's the most important part
of this job is the endurance. I guess because there's
plenty of days and months and years when nothing happens
and nobody believes in you. So unless you have that
endurance and that really strong belief in yourself and maybe
somebody in your corner, like for me it was always
my parents who believe in you as well, then I
(05:50):
think you can last the amount of time it takes
before it actually becomes good.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
After such a great twenty twenty five with music release
and of course to this performance on The Voice Australia,
you come to twenty twenty six and obviously you have
to take what you did then and parlay into something.
Before we came on here, we were talking about this
about the people who have done something like The Voice
Australia or Australian Idol, the people like Stam Walker, the
people like Carrie Underwood, you know, the people like Harry
(06:17):
Styles who did one direction, but he obviously had his
own solo thing as well. So you have to have
a bigger plant. You can't just do the Voice Australia
and go that's it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I suppose it's changed because in the past it probably
like in the early days of these reality singing shows,
I think it was you got signed to the steal
and then you were thrown on a world tour and
everything sort of started snowballing, whereas now I think it
acts as just a platform and that raises you up,
and then it's your job to make the most of that,
(06:51):
and whatever you do out the other side is not
part of that show anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's whatever you want to do, you.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Want to do, and you made an interesting choice. We
opened up this interview playing your version of I'm Just
a teenage dirt Bag Yes by Wheatsta, which is a
great little song, and you did that, of course, on
the Telly, and you do it in your live performances,
and you've taken videos of those and they have gone virals. Yes,
And in fact, you doing cover songs of the songs
(07:18):
that you did on the show have become their own
thing now.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So I think this year was This year was a
really intense and busy year, and I would have loved
to have my own music out, but I unfortunately ran
out of time, and I just was watching how those
songs were performing on the show, and I was like,
I should record my own version of these. And this
year just became the year of the cover song for me,
which is really exciting because I get to I get
(07:45):
to do these incredible songs in my set when I
play live like, I don't claim to have ever written
anything as cool as teenage dirt Bag, but I can try,
and while it's in the set, it's a bloody good time.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Are you still writing your own stuff at the same time?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yes, yeah, So I have been in the studio all
of the end of twenty twenty five and at the
moment as well. So there's something. There's a project coming
which is really exciting. I'm very, very excited to have
new music out finally.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And who's your collaborator, because I think everybody needs a
producer or somebody who actually helps you become part of
the team. Joel Little with Lord you know, have you
got someone who can take your vision and make it concrete?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, I've been so lucky to have a guy called
Joe Farris, who is my producer across all of the
EPs I've done. He is the producer of the projects,
but also he's been an incredible mentor. He's like a
very strong writer himself, and so him and I bounced
ideas off each other all the time. Sometimes I come
(08:50):
in with songs that are more fully formed. Sometimes I
come in with an idea and we just pull it
apart and create.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Some of the things that you've heard on on the radio.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So yeah, is he related to the Farrises from an Excess?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
He Well, he was actually is Revined. Do you remember
is Revine?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, so that's that's Joe.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So he he's an incredible musician, like probably the most
talented musician I've ever seen. He plays everything, bass, drums, guitar, piano,
and credible everything. And it's also just had has also
had a lot of experience in the industry, so it
can be like a mental to me in some way.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So the next piece of product we see from you
will be a cover album or some covers in some originals.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
No, I'm putting the covers to bed now. I think
they've I have really enjoyed playing them over the summer
and seeing how they've been just so widely received across
the world, which is crazy. But the next thing you'll
hear from me is my music fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
That's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
How do you feel about being a woman in the
music industry? Because I know that some of those videos
you posted you were in hot pans. Yes, and then
of course there were some animals who made some quite
rude and deprecating comments about about the hot pants, etc.
Is that women have a different there's a different bar
that they have to jump over when they're in public
(10:15):
life and they get the sort of rubbish, whereas you
can be iggy pop and not have a shirt on
and nobody seems to give a damn. So how do
you cope with sort of just you know, the trolls
who say nasty things about your clothing.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, it's a really interesting one.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
It's one of I have come across a little bit
during my career, but at the moment super prominently, and
it's great that it's hitting me now because I'm in
a place in my life where that stuff doesn't actually
get under my skin. I think the crazy thing about
social media is that if one type of person comments
(10:49):
that sort of thing, it's going to then go to
one hundred different people who think the same sort of thing,
so there's not much you can do to control it.
I think my takeaway from that stuff is that it
will always be a problem for someone and you cannot
let that define what you do. I like to wear
(11:12):
funny clothes on stage, and I like to wear whatever
I want because it's my show on my stage, but
these people saw me walking the street. I usually dressed
like a teenage boy. So I'm kind of like say
whatever you would like, but it doesn't really affect me
in their way anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
The Lord's been getting that as well because her show
at the moment, she actually she takes the jeans off
and she dances, well, she dances around in her Calvin
clients whatever. It's this is what people do. I mean,
I dance around my bedroom the whole time and my
Calvin clients.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I think there's like it's quite interesting because the world
of like rock and roll used to be crazy. People
used to do whatever they wanted on the stage, and
now there's like a really there's like it has to
be in this perfect lane of a former on stage.
And I'm kind of more so always leaning towards do
(12:10):
whatever you want, because that is be yourself, yourself, do
what feels right on a stage where what feels right
and you're doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
You're very impressive, well you are. You're focused at your
hard working, and you're good, which helps. Of course you
need to be able to hit the high notes and
you can do it so very very well. Your next
project is with Symphony Yes Yes, which is old David
Higgins from Duco Events and he created Symphony and now
(12:40):
it's a brand and he's had Jeremy Redmore singing with
him from Midnight Youth around the world. Now he's asked
you to come along and sing. And this is interesting
because they take big songs, they score them for an orchestra,
and then they say, now it's in your lap. So
this is a new challenge for you.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
This is a new challenge for me.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I've always admired, like I've always loved orchestras, and I
love when an orchestra takes on a popular song. It's
very very cool to see how a song that we've
heard on the radio for ten years can be translated
into violins and brass sections and stuff. And it's as
a musician I adore. As the singer of the songs,
(13:20):
I feel like I will feel some pressure because you've
got all of these incredibly talented musicians doing their bit,
and then it's just your job to add the icing
on the cake. So I'm very excited. They bring in
the most incredible crowds, people who love to just dance
and enjoy music, and that's myche.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You like playing in front of forty thousand people versus
five hundred.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Yeah, I love playing in front of any size crowd.
I think those intimate ones are so fun. There's something
in the crazy energy of a really packed out show
which I feed off as an artist. And yeah, I
think it's going to be an amazing show to be
a part of and also an amazing show to watch.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
So absolutely very excited. I'm going. I can't wait because Faithless,
oh brilliant and Faithless is the main act and I've
been listening to faith this for the last twenty five
thirty years and they are a brilliant act. And it's
full band, and of course there's there's yourself as well,
and I think you're just going to be primo and
I think it's going to be great. Of course. Marnica
Fuel Symphony Festival takes place at the organd Domain March
(14:21):
the twenty first, and if you want tickets to go
to Synthhony s y n t h o n y
synthhony dot com. Cassie Henderson will be there.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And you've done so well and it sounds as that
you're going to keep on doing well, and I thank
you so much for taking the time and the effort
to come in here and talk about your stuff and
you'll be great.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
And I thank you, thank you for excusing my workout
where we've been talking about your talking Heads T shirt.
And I feel very envious now that I'm in my
workout here.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Don't worry. Thank you so much, Cassie Henderson. Ladies and gentlemen,
it is eleven twenty two and this is News Talks.
By the way, at that Symphony Festival shaped shister kve Bell,
another person who did well in entertainment programs, picking Duck
from Australia, Faithless the exponent with an orchestra. How good
is that? The Black Seeds? How good is that? Of
course Peter Erlich with his DJ team Nice and Erlctric
(15:13):
playing as well, and a whole heap of others, including
the Yorkland Fill Armonia. It's gonna be a great show.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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