🎵 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Guy Sebastian

Our good friend Guy Sebastian joins Jonesy & Amanda ahead of the second season of ABC's The Piano.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gold it's Jonesy Demanda's jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Well, this is very exciting. The new season of The
Piano is back on our screens on Sunday. I just loved,
loved love being part of season one and I didn't
think anything could be better than season one. But I'll
tell you what I think. Season two hits it right
out of the park. Along for the ride this year
is Guy Sebastian, and Guy Sebastian joins us.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Now, yeah, hey, I've been waiting for the chance to
speak to you on your show about our show.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is exciting and isn't it a great thing to
be part of. It's a show that for those who
haven't seen The Piano, we put a piano in a
public place and we ask people to come down who
have a connection to the piano. People who don't want
to be stars, people who don't want record contracts, people
who just love music and have a story to tell us,
and they don't know that they're being watched. Well this series,

(00:51):
they did, but they didn't know who they're being watched by.
Andrea Lamb and Guy Sebastian, who pick someone from each
episode to join us on stage for a big concert
that in a nutshell is what the show is. But
that doesn't do justice to the emotion of the show. Guy,
does it.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
No. I'll mean, if you pitched a show to a
TV exec. I imagine if I was that TV exec
and someone said, Okay, we're going to place this inanimate
object in public. People are going to come and play
the piano a bit and we'll just ask them about
their life. Which should we make a whole show about it?
Let's do a whole series. I'd probably think they're mad

(01:26):
and there's not enough content. But then you watch it unfold,
and I mean, you know that it's very different to
the shiny floor format that I've been a part of
for a long time. And I think you know, there's
no winner, there's no record contract at the end, they're
just sharing what the instrument.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, this is what's so refreshing about this is that
you see someone who looks completely unassuming. They step up
and they tell you a story. And you when we're
filming at a shopping center or in a mall or
in ant and I stand there thinking, who is it,
who amongst these people is about to walk towards me
and tell me an amazing story.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, it covers the whole spectrum, doesn't it. It's very joyful,
Like you said, you know, we're sitting in circular key
and here comes this kind of tough looking bearded construction
worker in high viz and he sits down and plays
something called something Butterfly. It's a Lebanese folk song and

(02:28):
it's so unexpected, but in the hustle and bustle of Sydney,
very different to where I grew up in Adelaide. Everyone's
getting off the ferry and they're going to their office jobs.
But here's this piano and this bearded high viz guy
who says his influences raged from celid be onto Black Sabbath.
He sits down and stops people in their tracks.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
The catalyst for that is obviously that instrument eighty eight
keys in a box and ED can represent so many things.
It was kind of very soul drenching. If that's a.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Soul dranging and here it is. It's going to be
on Sunday when that construction workers showed up. We're sort
of hoping that there would be an Indian chief, a
motorcycle cop, a sailor and an army guy because that.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
We were hoping to form a group like one Direction called.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Who would be the Village?

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Who amongst us?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Who?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
The piano premiere is Sunday, the fifteenth of March. That's
this Sunday seven point thirty on the ABC and I
view Guys, Sebastian, thank you for joining us, My pleasure,