August 11, 2025 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hello, what bit of the pala cleansa. My name is
Art Simone and I am coming to you live from
edinby Fringe. Now, yes, and welcome to the pala Clanser,
my darlings. Now what is the palate cleanser. Well, every
second week we take a moment to reflect on the
current happenings in my life. We like to talk to
(00:32):
you guys and interact with you, and also just give
me a break from a bit of makeup because drag
is absolutely devastating on my skin and I thought, you
know what, let me cleanse the face as well on
this palate cleanser here today. But as I said, I
am here live at Edinburgh Fringe, coming to you from
the University of Edinburgh because I have gone back to university.
(00:53):
Yes I am a mature age student apparently because we
are staying within the wonderful establishment called Pollock Hoo. And
yes it sounds just as beautiful as it looks, Polo calls.
I'm actually sitting here in my beautiful dorm looking out
the window at the moment, and I can see rolling
Scottish hills. I can see a beautiful lake and a
nice thick coating of bird pool on my window, which
(01:15):
I think really sums up Edinburgh Fringe as a whole.
It's glamorous, it's beautiful and it's a little bit dirty,
but hey, that's the fun thing. Now I am here
with our show Fountain Les in Lockdown, which is very exciting,
our Kath and Kim drag parody play which we've been
touring the nation with for the last couple of years,
and now we've gone international, baby, And I'll tell you what,
(01:36):
doing shows to a room full of Scots is very
daunting because we've managed to go and see some of
the shows here in Edinburgh Fringe and I tell you
what their accents are so thick. I have no idea
what they're saying, so I can only imagine how much
they're feeling the same thing here with us, because as
kathin Kima Fishinado's, our voices aren't exactly the easiest to understand,
(01:58):
but that language is quite useful. We went out and
saw a local drag show here, as we like to do,
at a wonderful venue called c C Blooms, and there
was this wonderful young queen and yeah, we're having conversations
with each other and we did no idea what was
going on. So the language barrier is a little bit difficult.
But the exciting thing about living at a university dorm
(02:20):
is there's no students here at the moment because it's
summer holidays, so instead the student halls have been taken
up by so many different walks of life. So we've
got all these kids that are here for Edinburgh Fringe
on some theater camp thing from Connecticut and they are
just exactly how you would imagine them to be kids
from Connecticut. And then we've also got all these different
(02:41):
musicians here for the Edinburgh Tattoo, which is that big
military band thing that happens up at Edinburgh Castle, and
we've got people from Canada, we've got people from the
Ukrainian Navy Band, and they're also filling the halls as well.
So you've got fringe artists, you've got Edinburgh Tattoo people,
You've got kids from Connecticut. It is absolutely crazy. I
(03:03):
feel like I'm at the Olympics. Is this what it's
like to beat the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games? Just
sitting here amongst all these different nations. I'm so international
at the moment. But the exciting thing for me is
you may know that I've been recognized as dom Dollar,
or that you know Caste Night or even young Blood.
Well guess what, everyone, I have found another duppel ganger. Yes,
(03:26):
there is another Art Simone out in the world. However,
she is a six year old woman from Canada called
Ali and we saw her on the first day here
when we're at breakfast and we looked across the room
and there was from the back someone sitting there with
the same haircut as me, bright blue hair. And I
was sitting with Maxie Shield, who's also in the show
(03:47):
with us, and she goes, look, uh, there's Art Simone.
Hi Simone, that's Simone. And then this person turned around
and she got so excited to see someone else's blue hair,
and we said hello. We had a little chat and
she's in one of the Edinburgh Tattoo bands. But I
have let her know that I would like to do
like a Freaky Friday or parent Trap style thing where
we swap jobs. So one night during Edinburgh Fringe, so
(04:08):
I'm going to go and play in the Military Tattoo
and bang some drums, and I think she should come
and play Cat's Day Night. It'd be like exchange program
for students. That'd be nice. But the other thing is
so speaking of blue hair, I walk around blue hair.
Most people suit me to go, oh wow, you've got
blue hair. Crazy as I know. But in Edinburgh, we're
in Scotland. There's lots of redheads, but the amount of
(04:30):
people with blue hair is crazy. I don't know if
this is the land of my forefathers or something like,
this is where I meant to be from, because there
is blue head beauties everywhere. Everywhere you turn, there's another
blue haired person. So maybe I need to move here. Australia?
Am I going to leave you for Edinburgh? Is this
where I'm meant to be? It's actually perfect drag weather
(04:51):
because it doesn't get beyond twenty degrees, it rains most days.
And you know it's the cobblestone so I couldn't live
with the cobblestones. I don't like those. We were actually
at a party and we saw Miriam Margolis publicist now
Mary Marghlie. You may recognize her. She was in Harry
Potter as the herbology teacher. I can't remember the name
(05:13):
of her character. We were talking to her and she's
like she was telling a story about Mirra Marghlie and
how she needs a wheelchair to travel long distances instead
of walking, and she was wheeling Miriam around and she goes, oh, Miriam,
there's some cobblestones here. Do you want me will view
in the wheelchair? And Miriam goes, oh, I hope there's cobblestones.
(05:37):
They stimulate my conturists anyway. So that's the exciting thing
about friends. You never know who you're going to meet.
Is it Miriam Marghalese publicist? Is it going to be
your doppelganger? You never know what's going to happen. And
we're just beginning. There's so much more to happen here.
But the last thing I want to say about being
in these student halls is it has been beautiful. It's nice.
We've got breakfast included. We've also got the internet, we've
(05:59):
got Wi Fi. But the sad thing is there's no
HBO Max in Scotland currently, so I can't watch And
just like that, I'm sorry, I can't watch it. I'm devastated.
I can't watch my favorite hated show in the world,
So please don't spoil it for me. I'm gonna have
to wait and do a binge when I get back
to Australia and see what the hell Carrie Bradshaw has
(06:20):
been up to. Arts advice. It's advice from me. Ah
so it's arts advice where I'll give you advice that
you've asked for from my really intelligent brain. Don't forget.
You can send in one of your voice notes if
you head into the show notes or to our socials,
for me to be able to give you some really
(06:40):
beautiful tips and tricks on your issues. We've got one
from Frager now, so let's have a listen. What is
cu have you got, Frayer. I've been invited to my
quirky cousin's wedding. They've asked for whomade gifts only well
it's something a bit fun but rancid. I could give
them for that upcoming nuptils common nuptials Okay, we've got international,
(07:02):
at least phonetically. I don't even know if it's a word. Okay,
quirky cousin nuptials gift? Okay, Oh, what about a personalized
tote they're very in at the moment. What about a
pet rock? What about a lock of a lover's hair?
And you could really ruffle some feathers for the wedding
because you could just give a lock of hair in
(07:22):
a locket without any details, and I don't know, maybe
because a bit of drama and the you know, the honeymoon.
That'd be fun. What about some teeth from a random animal?
They're really cool? Oh look, I could list so many
different quirky things because I've actually never been to a
wedding personally in my life, so I don't know what
(07:42):
you traditionally give as a wedding. Is there a format
to that, you know, like we say something blue, something old,
something new, something new spew in. I don't know, I've
never been to the wedding, so I think, yeah, maybe
some teeth, a locket of hair, personalized tote, or what
about a buddings gift card? I think that's quite nice
actually as well, why don't you also give tickets to
(08:05):
my show Fountain Legs in Lockdown? Oh my book life?
Is that? Hey that's quirky artsimo dot com. I know
you're on too. Anyway, Thanks Frayer. Good luck at the
wedding with your quirky friend and your teeth concealed weapons.
(08:29):
Oh that was a seductive and sexy Concealed Weapon intro
and yes, it's time for a hack from a hack
and this week for the Concealed Weapon I want to
give to you free of charge. I mean, if you
do want to pay me back, you could just you know,
leave a five star review. That would be nice, you know,
because I'm giving this AUTI for free. But anyway, the
advice and the little hack I want to give to
(08:51):
you is something that was gifted to me during a
little time in my life called Drag Race down Under.
I don't know if you know. It was actually on
Drag Race and Under. You know, I was the first
of a queen in the franchise to be on there.
I was really good and you know, made it the finale.
But anyway, there was one particular episode but I wasn't
having a very good time and I was backstage and
my good friend Etce said she may know her she
(09:12):
hasn't been on the podcast. A couple of times. She
looked at me and she said, you know what, I remember,
none of this will matter when we're dead. And in
that moment, I just kept crying. But I well, you know,
I took it away from that moment and I really
manifested on it, and I realized it is quite true.
Why worry about issues in life when we're all going
to carg it very soon? And I want you just
(09:35):
to maybe think about that sometimes, you know, you know,
maybe something's bothering you. Maybe your coffee order was wrong,
or maybe you I don't know, you sat on a
hot Japanese toilet seat. Maybe you are I don't know,
forgot to pay your bill and now you have interest
on it, and now the tax department's trying to chase
you down, and you're trying to run from them, and
(09:55):
you don't want to talk about it to anyone. Just
think in a moment and go, you know what, none
of this will matter when we're dead. I believe in
this notion so much that I actually write a song
about it, None of this Matter when We're Dead, which
is actually out on Spotify and iTunes, So if you
do want to listen to it or watch the music video,
head to my YouTube. But always remember, none of this
will matter when we're dead. And that's my gift to you.
(10:17):
Remember life is but temporary. You're going to carck it
anytime soon, so enjoy life. Bye Okay. Australia I need
to declare a state of emergency, or should I say
state of she emergency, because our music industry has not
been delivering the goods as of recent And are you going, Oh,
(10:40):
what do you mean? There's so much good stuff around
at the moment. I was such cool songs from Australia artists. Yeah,
but where are the girl groups? Where are the girl groups?
Because as a drag queen, one of my passions and
fortes and specialties is performing girl group songs. It's the
only way to unite an entire group of drag queens
on stage to perform something subpar for the audience. And
(11:01):
we really haven't had anything since the Young Divas. And
I don't even care which version of the Young Divers
whoever was in and out at the time, the music
was still good. They were formed out of the ex
contestants from Australian Idol the Good Years, So we had
a bit of Ricky Lee in there. We had just Mowboy,
we had Emily Williams, we had Kate Deruge. Pauline was
(11:22):
in there for a while. I don't know if it
was pre or post driving offenses, but anyway, lots of
great girl talent performing excellent numbers, excellent songs. You may
recognize some of their songs as searching. That's a good one. Oh,
I always do. Dear stand to bring me a man. Oh,
they do a great she works hard for the money.
(11:42):
Oh that's a good one too. So many good songs
and so many great members and we really haven't had
anything as good ever since, and unfortunately no longer performing together,
which is really sad. So now what I thought, I
would take the pressure off everyone else, you know, and
I would actually formulate my new modern version of the
(12:04):
Young Divers. So I've compiled a list of four or
five different artists that I think would be perfect. Now,
please factor in that while I do have my own music,
I'm not that musical at all, and I don't know
if any of these voices will actually go together pheinically
and will sound good together. I'm just picking on vibes only, okay,
and that's all that matters, because music is about vibes
(12:27):
and performance is about vibes. So I've gone with vibes,
So sorry about it, okay. First up on the list,
I have Peach PRC. I think she'd be the first
member one because she's really prepared because she's finally been
to her first bush Stuff and we're really excited for her.
She's really good there. She's got the very aesthetic, so
I think, you know, if you think about sugar and spa,
(12:49):
she's the sugar element. So I think she's really good,
great singer, songwriter and good vibes and she's got extra
glarance sparkle, and I think that's what we need. Second
on the list, I've got a Taylor from Ammal and
the Sniffers. I think she'd be really perfect because you know,
she's having a great time with Ammial and the Sniffers.
She works in a team as well, because she's already
in a band, and I think she'd be all for
(13:10):
the girl power. She's really fun, she's really cool, she's
really edgy, and I think that'd be really good vibe.
Third on the list is someone you may not have
heard of, but I think you should go and find
out all about them. Is an Australian artist. Her name
is Bes. She is an indie artist. She's a singer songwriter.
(13:31):
She's had some great hits like all the Good Boys
Are Gay, ah so good. So Bes is like pop star.
She is like the best bits of Brittany, the best
bits of Gaga. She is like blonde, bombshell, sleek, sexy, cool,
but she also can have a laugh, so I think
that's good. And I am biased because she did co
(13:51):
write Encore with et cetera, et cetera and myself, So
sorry nepotism here it is. So we've got the fairy,
We've got the rocker, We've got the hop star. Next
up I'm throwing back to I don't know if many
of you people remember the band Operator Please. They did
a song about ping pong that they had some really
really great songs and the lead singer her name was
(14:14):
Amanda Wilkinson, and I would love to see her come
back on the scene. She has guessed and featured on
a couple of songs. Recently. She was just on a
Drawbreakers song, and I think she's so cool, vocal, powerhouse.
I think she is like the heart and the soul
of this girl group that I'm putting together. So I
really really want her in there. Maybe she could be
(14:36):
like Nicole Scherzinger in Pussycat Dolls Vibes. I want her
to be in the center. I think she'd be really
good and think of the ping pong games, you know,
think of the merch. We could already bring back the
ping pong balls. I don't know if she's into that anymore.
She probably hates them, but anyway, so I want her.
And then finally, because we're modern now and we also
need to relate to the children, and you know, I
(14:58):
appeal to the mass market, and I thought I'd bring
in an international superstar for this final member who could
just transcend generations, continents, places out of space. Because I
want the final member to be Queensland legend Bluie. I
think Blue could be really good, you know, a little bitch.
(15:18):
We can have a little bit of a bitch into
the girl group and I think that's good vibes. You know,
she's famous. She's also a cartoon so you know, she
probably doesn't cost that much. And that's really modern, you know,
because I was recently overseas and they just have like
Abba Is holograms now and they're performing across in Japan.
They've got like a superstar who's a hologram. Why not
have Blue and she's a Queensland legend. So that's my
(15:39):
girl group. I don't have a name for them yet.
So maybe you could send in your suggestions what we
should call them. But they're not the young Divas, they're
the new generation, the new girl Group. And call me
Simon Cowe because I've just created a masterpiece. Might drop.
Thank you so much for joining us here for the
(16:00):
palate cleansa once again, and don't forget to join us
next week for another episode of Consumed with Artsimoan, where
we have our extra special guest Robert, who is from Arizona.
He likes cooking thal dye bread, watches the Last of Us,
and really wants to go to New Zealand. So if
that sounds interesting to you, then please join us, and
(16:21):
don't forget to jump into the Stowe Notes and click
on the link because you can send in a voice
note for the soapbox, or for arts advice, or just
send me a bit of a love letter because I
love your gratitude and affection. Anyway, there's usim own. That's
been the palate cleanser. You've been fabulous and I'll see
you next week, babe,
Hello, what bit of the pala cleansa. My name is
Art Simone and I am coming to you live from
edinby Fringe. Now, yes, and welcome to the pala Clanser,
my darlings. Now what is the palate cleanser. Well, every
second week we take a moment to reflect on the
current happenings in my life. We like to talk to
(00:32):
you guys and interact with you, and also just give
me a break from a bit of makeup because drag
is absolutely devastating on my skin and I thought, you
know what, let me cleanse the face as well on
this palate cleanser here today. But as I said, I
am here live at Edinburgh Fringe, coming to you from
the University of Edinburgh because I have gone back to university.
(00:53):
Yes I am a mature age student apparently because we
are staying within the wonderful establishment called Pollock Hoo. And
yes it sounds just as beautiful as it looks, Polo calls.
I'm actually sitting here in my beautiful dorm looking out
the window at the moment, and I can see rolling
Scottish hills. I can see a beautiful lake and a
nice thick coating of bird pool on my window, which
(01:15):
I think really sums up Edinburgh Fringe as a whole.
It's glamorous, it's beautiful and it's a little bit dirty,
but hey, that's the fun thing. Now I am here
with our show Fountain Les in Lockdown, which is very exciting,
our Kath and Kim drag parody play which we've been
touring the nation with for the last couple of years,
and now we've gone international, baby, And I'll tell you what,
(01:36):
doing shows to a room full of Scots is very
daunting because we've managed to go and see some of
the shows here in Edinburgh Fringe and I tell you
what their accents are so thick. I have no idea
what they're saying, so I can only imagine how much
they're feeling the same thing here with us, because as
kathin Kima Fishinado's, our voices aren't exactly the easiest to understand,
(01:58):
but that language is quite useful. We went out and
saw a local drag show here, as we like to do,
at a wonderful venue called c C Blooms, and there
was this wonderful young queen and yeah, we're having conversations
with each other and we did no idea what was
going on. So the language barrier is a little bit difficult.
But the exciting thing about living at a university dorm
(02:20):
is there's no students here at the moment because it's
summer holidays, so instead the student halls have been taken
up by so many different walks of life. So we've
got all these kids that are here for Edinburgh Fringe
on some theater camp thing from Connecticut and they are
just exactly how you would imagine them to be kids
from Connecticut. And then we've also got all these different
(02:41):
musicians here for the Edinburgh Tattoo, which is that big
military band thing that happens up at Edinburgh Castle, and
we've got people from Canada, we've got people from the
Ukrainian Navy Band, and they're also filling the halls as well.
So you've got fringe artists, you've got Edinburgh Tattoo people,
You've got kids from Connecticut. It is absolutely crazy. I
(03:03):
feel like I'm at the Olympics. Is this what it's
like to beat the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games? Just
sitting here amongst all these different nations. I'm so international
at the moment. But the exciting thing for me is
you may know that I've been recognized as dom Dollar,
or that you know Caste Night or even young Blood.
Well guess what, everyone, I have found another duppel ganger. Yes,
(03:26):
there is another Art Simone out in the world. However,
she is a six year old woman from Canada called
Ali and we saw her on the first day here
when we're at breakfast and we looked across the room
and there was from the back someone sitting there with
the same haircut as me, bright blue hair. And I
was sitting with Maxie Shield, who's also in the show
(03:47):
with us, and she goes, look, uh, there's Art Simone.
Hi Simone, that's Simone. And then this person turned around
and she got so excited to see someone else's blue hair,
and we said hello. We had a little chat and
she's in one of the Edinburgh Tattoo bands. But I
have let her know that I would like to do
like a Freaky Friday or parent Trap style thing where
we swap jobs. So one night during Edinburgh Fringe, so
(04:08):
I'm going to go and play in the Military Tattoo
and bang some drums, and I think she should come
and play Cat's Day Night. It'd be like exchange program
for students. That'd be nice. But the other thing is
so speaking of blue hair, I walk around blue hair.
Most people suit me to go, oh wow, you've got
blue hair. Crazy as I know. But in Edinburgh, we're
in Scotland. There's lots of redheads, but the amount of
(04:30):
people with blue hair is crazy. I don't know if
this is the land of my forefathers or something like,
this is where I meant to be from, because there
is blue head beauties everywhere. Everywhere you turn, there's another
blue haired person. So maybe I need to move here. Australia?
Am I going to leave you for Edinburgh? Is this
where I'm meant to be? It's actually perfect drag weather
(04:51):
because it doesn't get beyond twenty degrees, it rains most days.
And you know it's the cobblestone so I couldn't live
with the cobblestones. I don't like those. We were actually
at a party and we saw Miriam Margolis publicist now
Mary Marghlie. You may recognize her. She was in Harry
Potter as the herbology teacher. I can't remember the name
(05:13):
of her character. We were talking to her and she's
like she was telling a story about Mirra Marghlie and
how she needs a wheelchair to travel long distances instead
of walking, and she was wheeling Miriam around and she goes, oh, Miriam,
there's some cobblestones here. Do you want me will view
in the wheelchair? And Miriam goes, oh, I hope there's cobblestones.
(05:37):
They stimulate my conturists anyway. So that's the exciting thing
about friends. You never know who you're going to meet.
Is it Miriam Marghalese publicist? Is it going to be
your doppelganger? You never know what's going to happen. And
we're just beginning. There's so much more to happen here.
But the last thing I want to say about being
in these student halls is it has been beautiful. It's nice.
We've got breakfast included. We've also got the internet, we've
(05:59):
got Wi Fi. But the sad thing is there's no
HBO Max in Scotland currently, so I can't watch And
just like that, I'm sorry, I can't watch it. I'm devastated.
I can't watch my favorite hated show in the world,
So please don't spoil it for me. I'm gonna have
to wait and do a binge when I get back
to Australia and see what the hell Carrie Bradshaw has
(06:20):
been up to. Arts advice. It's advice from me. Ah
so it's arts advice where I'll give you advice that
you've asked for from my really intelligent brain. Don't forget.
You can send in one of your voice notes if
you head into the show notes or to our socials,
for me to be able to give you some really
(06:40):
beautiful tips and tricks on your issues. We've got one
from Frager now, so let's have a listen. What is
cu have you got, Frayer. I've been invited to my
quirky cousin's wedding. They've asked for whomade gifts only well
it's something a bit fun but rancid. I could give
them for that upcoming nuptils common nuptials Okay, we've got international,
(07:02):
at least phonetically. I don't even know if it's a word. Okay,
quirky cousin nuptials gift? Okay, Oh, what about a personalized
tote they're very in at the moment. What about a
pet rock? What about a lock of a lover's hair?
And you could really ruffle some feathers for the wedding
because you could just give a lock of hair in
(07:22):
a locket without any details, and I don't know, maybe
because a bit of drama and the you know, the honeymoon.
That'd be fun. What about some teeth from a random animal?
They're really cool? Oh look, I could list so many
different quirky things because I've actually never been to a
wedding personally in my life, so I don't know what
(07:42):
you traditionally give as a wedding. Is there a format
to that, you know, like we say something blue, something old,
something new, something new spew in. I don't know, I've
never been to the wedding, so I think, yeah, maybe
some teeth, a locket of hair, personalized tote, or what
about a buddings gift card? I think that's quite nice
actually as well, why don't you also give tickets to
(08:05):
my show Fountain Legs in Lockdown? Oh my book life?
Is that? Hey that's quirky artsimo dot com. I know
you're on too. Anyway, Thanks Frayer. Good luck at the
wedding with your quirky friend and your teeth concealed weapons.
(08:29):
Oh that was a seductive and sexy Concealed Weapon intro
and yes, it's time for a hack from a hack
and this week for the Concealed Weapon I want to
give to you free of charge. I mean, if you
do want to pay me back, you could just you know,
leave a five star review. That would be nice, you know,
because I'm giving this AUTI for free. But anyway, the
advice and the little hack I want to give to
(08:51):
you is something that was gifted to me during a
little time in my life called Drag Race down Under.
I don't know if you know. It was actually on
Drag Race and Under. You know, I was the first
of a queen in the franchise to be on there.
I was really good and you know, made it the finale.
But anyway, there was one particular episode but I wasn't
having a very good time and I was backstage and
my good friend Etce said she may know her she
(09:12):
hasn't been on the podcast. A couple of times. She
looked at me and she said, you know what, I remember,
none of this will matter when we're dead. And in
that moment, I just kept crying. But I well, you know,
I took it away from that moment and I really
manifested on it, and I realized it is quite true.
Why worry about issues in life when we're all going
to carg it very soon? And I want you just
(09:35):
to maybe think about that sometimes, you know, you know,
maybe something's bothering you. Maybe your coffee order was wrong,
or maybe you I don't know, you sat on a
hot Japanese toilet seat. Maybe you are I don't know,
forgot to pay your bill and now you have interest
on it, and now the tax department's trying to chase
you down, and you're trying to run from them, and
(09:55):
you don't want to talk about it to anyone. Just
think in a moment and go, you know what, none
of this will matter when we're dead. I believe in
this notion so much that I actually write a song
about it, None of this Matter when We're Dead, which
is actually out on Spotify and iTunes, So if you
do want to listen to it or watch the music video,
head to my YouTube. But always remember, none of this
will matter when we're dead. And that's my gift to you.
(10:17):
Remember life is but temporary. You're going to carck it
anytime soon, so enjoy life. Bye Okay. Australia I need
to declare a state of emergency, or should I say
state of she emergency, because our music industry has not
been delivering the goods as of recent And are you going, Oh,
(10:40):
what do you mean? There's so much good stuff around
at the moment. I was such cool songs from Australia artists. Yeah,
but where are the girl groups? Where are the girl groups?
Because as a drag queen, one of my passions and
fortes and specialties is performing girl group songs. It's the
only way to unite an entire group of drag queens
on stage to perform something subpar for the audience. And
(11:01):
we really haven't had anything since the Young Divas. And
I don't even care which version of the Young Divers
whoever was in and out at the time, the music
was still good. They were formed out of the ex
contestants from Australian Idol the Good Years, So we had
a bit of Ricky Lee in there. We had just Mowboy,
we had Emily Williams, we had Kate Deruge. Pauline was
(11:22):
in there for a while. I don't know if it
was pre or post driving offenses, but anyway, lots of
great girl talent performing excellent numbers, excellent songs. You may
recognize some of their songs as searching. That's a good one. Oh,
I always do. Dear stand to bring me a man. Oh,
they do a great she works hard for the money.
(11:42):
Oh that's a good one too. So many good songs
and so many great members and we really haven't had
anything as good ever since, and unfortunately no longer performing together,
which is really sad. So now what I thought, I
would take the pressure off everyone else, you know, and
I would actually formulate my new modern version of the
(12:04):
Young Divers. So I've compiled a list of four or
five different artists that I think would be perfect. Now,
please factor in that while I do have my own music,
I'm not that musical at all, and I don't know
if any of these voices will actually go together pheinically
and will sound good together. I'm just picking on vibes only, okay,
and that's all that matters, because music is about vibes
(12:27):
and performance is about vibes. So I've gone with vibes,
So sorry about it, okay. First up on the list,
I have Peach PRC. I think she'd be the first
member one because she's really prepared because she's finally been
to her first bush Stuff and we're really excited for her.
She's really good there. She's got the very aesthetic, so
I think, you know, if you think about sugar and spa,
(12:49):
she's the sugar element. So I think she's really good,
great singer, songwriter and good vibes and she's got extra
glarance sparkle, and I think that's what we need. Second
on the list, I've got a Taylor from Ammal and
the Sniffers. I think she'd be really perfect because you know,
she's having a great time with Ammial and the Sniffers.
She works in a team as well, because she's already
in a band, and I think she'd be all for
(13:10):
the girl power. She's really fun, she's really cool, she's
really edgy, and I think that'd be really good vibe.
Third on the list is someone you may not have
heard of, but I think you should go and find
out all about them. Is an Australian artist. Her name
is Bes. She is an indie artist. She's a singer songwriter.
(13:31):
She's had some great hits like all the Good Boys
Are Gay, ah so good. So Bes is like pop star.
She is like the best bits of Brittany, the best
bits of Gaga. She is like blonde, bombshell, sleek, sexy, cool,
but she also can have a laugh, so I think
that's good. And I am biased because she did co
(13:51):
write Encore with et cetera, et cetera and myself, So
sorry nepotism here it is. So we've got the fairy,
We've got the rocker, We've got the hop star. Next
up I'm throwing back to I don't know if many
of you people remember the band Operator Please. They did
a song about ping pong that they had some really
really great songs and the lead singer her name was
(14:14):
Amanda Wilkinson, and I would love to see her come
back on the scene. She has guessed and featured on
a couple of songs. Recently. She was just on a
Drawbreakers song, and I think she's so cool, vocal, powerhouse.
I think she is like the heart and the soul
of this girl group that I'm putting together. So I
really really want her in there. Maybe she could be
(14:36):
like Nicole Scherzinger in Pussycat Dolls Vibes. I want her
to be in the center. I think she'd be really
good and think of the ping pong games, you know,
think of the merch. We could already bring back the
ping pong balls. I don't know if she's into that anymore.
She probably hates them, but anyway, so I want her.
And then finally, because we're modern now and we also
need to relate to the children, and you know, I
(14:58):
appeal to the mass market, and I thought I'd bring
in an international superstar for this final member who could
just transcend generations, continents, places out of space. Because I
want the final member to be Queensland legend Bluie. I
think Blue could be really good, you know, a little bitch.
(15:18):
We can have a little bit of a bitch into
the girl group and I think that's good vibes. You know,
she's famous. She's also a cartoon so you know, she
probably doesn't cost that much. And that's really modern, you know,
because I was recently overseas and they just have like
Abba Is holograms now and they're performing across in Japan.
They've got like a superstar who's a hologram. Why not
have Blue and she's a Queensland legend. So that's my
(15:39):
girl group. I don't have a name for them yet.
So maybe you could send in your suggestions what we
should call them. But they're not the young Divas, they're
the new generation, the new girl Group. And call me
Simon Cowe because I've just created a masterpiece. Might drop.
Thank you so much for joining us here for the
(16:00):
palate cleansa once again, and don't forget to join us
next week for another episode of Consumed with Artsimoan, where
we have our extra special guest Robert, who is from Arizona.
He likes cooking thal dye bread, watches the Last of Us,
and really wants to go to New Zealand. So if
that sounds interesting to you, then please join us, and
(16:21):
don't forget to jump into the Stowe Notes and click
on the link because you can send in a voice
note for the soapbox, or for arts advice, or just
send me a bit of a love letter because I
love your gratitude and affection. Anyway, there's usim own. That's
been the palate cleanser. You've been fabulous and I'll see
you next week, babe,
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