🎵 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Kim Wilde

The legendary Kim Wilde joins Jonesy & Amanda ahead of her long awaited return to Australian shores with her first tour in eight years!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
About Kim wild quite the back catalog.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
I just had some amazing songs.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Keep me hanging on. I like this like Checkered Love.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Do you want to dance? Don't you?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
What about.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
I've got this.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
One and this one I don't want nobody baby and
he's years Kim Wilder as we Live.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
And Breathe Jonesy, Amanda, how the hell are you?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
We are great? You have great to see you. Your
room looks amazing.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
So you've got this swirling light above your head like
you're some astral being.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
That's right, that's right, it's actually it's a Christmas present
from my son. I absolutely love it and it's a
very relaxing thing to have in the room. It isn't
that beautiful?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
It is beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, it's been eight years since you've come to Australia.
I'm concerned about who's going to look after your garden
while you're away.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Well, yeah, I mean I've been working very hard on
the garden, so it'll be all right by October. I'll
look after itself in October and I'm down under. But yeah,
I mean gardening is a big thing for me. It's all,
it's all it's all going on in the UK right now.
Summer is at its height. It's absolutely beautiful out there.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I love the story about how you went to evening
courses as a horticulturist because you just wanted to make
a home garden, and some has become this huge career
shift for you.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, I mean it did become that way. I mean
I haven't really done any professional gardening for quite a
few years now. I've sort of gone back to the
day job and I'm nutreading the boards and singing kids
in America and god knows what. So gardening has returned
to becoming a private passion. But I still go seeds
every year. I still go, you know, I always grow

(01:58):
a few vegetables. You know, I'm out there. I mean
it's my it's a gym for me as well. I
mean it's it's it's quite it's hard working, you know,
being out in the garden.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, we've spoken to you over a few years now,
and there was a time when you were just as
you said, you were working as a professional gardener, and
now you're back to your to your day job, which
is great to see.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
I love it. I love it. I mean a few
things happened. I mean I got I got seduced back
to doing eighties tours actually back at the early two thousands.
And the fact in two thousand and two we all
came to Australia. I mean I think it was Paul
Young and Belinda Carlisle Human League. We all came down

(02:40):
and then I just sort of fell in love with
it all again. I didn't realize that there was still
an audience for women of a certain age and two
kids and married with a mortgage, singing kids in America.
I just had no idea that everyone was still up
for the up for the fun. But actually on you know,

(03:01):
I'm sort of in a whole other decade, and and yeah,
I just felt ready to rock even more than I
ever have before.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, it's it's the greatest hits show from you. They're
all floor fillers.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I just can't wait. People is going to go crazy.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
What is it about about these songs that people of of?

Speaker 4 (03:22):
It?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Just still it's in our dna.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
We just have to get up and dance when we
hear them.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, yeah, I know that feeling because I feel the
same way when I go and see Ask if you
know whose records I bought when I was growing up,
or or you know that that formed the soundtrack of
my life. And you hear that song and it takes
you back to that guy you were dating, that that
girl you're going out with. Uh, you know what college
you were going to? What heartbreaks you are? You know

(03:47):
going through that job. You didn't get that argument you
had with your mom, and that first car and that
first kiss and that first all everid thing out. Yeah,
So it's you know, that's the wonder. That's the magic
of music, the power of music. And I love that
I will be bringing those memories down to Australia in

(04:08):
October to share them with everyone down there, because We've
always had such a huge reaction every time I've come
down there, I've left feeling like one of you guys.
I felt like I want to take you all, bring
you all home with.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Me, But we'll stay on the divan at Kim's place.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's right. I know that I can get some vegetables
in the backyard.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Of a god. What now I was reading that you
saw a UFI is this true or is this fake news?

Speaker 4 (04:40):
No, it's not fake news. In two thousand and nine,
I was standing in my gardener, and I saw an
orb and then a smaller orb followed it, and it
was in the sky. I saw it with a girlfriend
of mine and last of several minutes. And I had
no idea about orbs at the time. I didn't know
they were a thing and that people were seeing them
all over the world. I know a lot more about

(05:03):
it now, and I've read a lot more books about it.
But I'm pretty damn sure, guys, that what I saw
was not of human origin. I've just had a spooky
little feeling that whatever was up there was not from
this planet.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, would be pretty arrogant to think that we're the
only people here. Surely there's going to be some intelligent life.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
For intelligent life here as well.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
You'd like to pick them with some here first they
found nothing.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
You know, it's inspiring to think about the space space
and our world and all the mystery in our world,
you know. I mean, we think we know everything, and
we've got Instagram and we've got the Internet, and everyone
sort of has this like, oh, yeah, we know everything
there is to know about this planet. But we know hard.
We know literally nothing. I felt absolutely sure of that

(05:56):
We've only scratched the chip of the iceberg about what's
what it is to be human and what it is
to live on this planet, and I find that hugely exciting.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well, what I do know is that you're coming to
town in October, and you get your tickets now to
seek him on her Greatest Hits Tour at TIC Tech,
Kim Wild. It's always a treat to catch up with you, guys.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
I hope to see you when I come down. I
can't wait to see everyone. It's going to be a blast, brillant.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
We'll see you in October.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
We'll break out the Divan.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Okay, guys, thanks for thanks for having a chat.