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May 24, 2025 15 mins

Kiwi musician Georgia Lines is back with her new musical projects, and she's set to make an appearance at the upcoming cabaret festival.

She released her new single Wonderful Life last Friday - and she's a finalist for four Tui’s at the Aotearoa Music Awards, including Single of the Year for her song The Letter.   

She says it was an 'amazing' experience to be nominated for these awards.

"When I saw the email about the music awards, I think there were a few things I didn't quite know how to feel...I was feeling the sense of - oh my goodness, this project that I've poured my life into meant something to people and it's being recognized." 

Georgia Lines' cabaret festival show Under the Stars with Friends takes place on June 15 - tickets are on sale now. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News talks'b SO.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Every May since twenty twenty two, the wonderful and generous
Georgia Lions has come in for a chat and a
song and I love tradition, so for the four straight year,
she's back again. On Friday, Georgia released her first single
of twenty twenty five. It's called Wonderful Life and she's
going to perform it for us soon. And this Thursday
she has a finalist for four toys at the Terra
Music Awards, including Single of the Year for this song,

(00:35):
the letter Georgia lines welcome. It is lovey to see
you again.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
It is so nice to be here. Thank you for
having me. And I love tradition too. I'm such a
tradition gal.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great, So we committed. Then I'm going.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Forever and ever and ever and always.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Until you end up maybe based somewhere, but then we
can still do some part.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Christ is thinking soon. Yeah, very good point.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yes, Hey, look these music Awards. Last year you won
Best Pop Artist Breakthrough Art in twenty twenty three. This
year up for another four awards, Album of the Year,
Single of the Year, Best Soller Artist and Best Pop Artists,
all off the back of the debut album, The Rows
of Jericho. The album also got you nominated for Tait

(01:20):
Awards and the Silver Scrolls. It's done incredibly well and
it's a fantastic album. What is it like getting that
kind of recognition off the back of the debut album?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
How do you like?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Even reading that out? I'm like, oh my goodness, me.
You know, I was not expecting any of that. I
just made an album that I was really proud of
and loved, and you know, it was this byproduct of
my own life, and so it just was what it was,
and it was exactly what it needed to be, and
it was this marker of my journey. And you know,

(01:56):
I don't have any tattoos because I changed my mind
so often I don't know what I would get, but
you know, this album was like a tattoo for me.
It was this very significant thing that I had to say,
and you kind of you don't make things for the recognition,
and so coming out the back of that and having
all of these lovely, you know, nominations, it's crazy and

(02:18):
pretty amazing. I cried when I saw the email about
the Music Awards. I just I think there was a
few things there For me, I didn't quite know how
to feel. It was like feeling the sense of, oh,
my goodness, like this project that I've poured my life into,
you know, meant something to people, and it's been recognized

(02:38):
in that way, And what an honor And a strange
feeling too, being like this thing that I've poured my
life into has meant something to other people as well.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
So yeah, it's been crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Because what you do, even if you have a team
around you, is very individual. It's something that you do
kind of do on your own, and you do put
yourself out there and you go, well, look, I'm proud
of it. I don't know how other people are going
to react to it. It sort of has a second life,
you know, once it's once it's out in the public.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
You cannot control. Once something lives outside of your own safety,
of your own little world, you know what people say
and how they respond and if things get misinterpreted, which
has happened so much, and you're like, I can't control
the narrative of what you think this album is about,
or what you think these songs are about. Like I
just I have created this as hopefully a gift to myself,

(03:32):
and then it's meant something to other people, so it's like, Okay,
here we go.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I often wonder whether Taylor Swift release an album and
then just laughs at everybody's interpretations of who it's all about.
That I I wonder if she's just sitting there quietly
behind the scenes, just having a girl going. You've all
got no idea, but I'm glad you're loving it, and
I'm glad you're enjoying it. Do you see these awards
as competition or a celebration? Like is it good to

(03:58):
sort of have that have the competition against other words?
I just think it's.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Such a celebration. You know, there is this kind of
strangeness to.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
It where you are.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
I know all of these people and love all of
these artists that are creating incredible projects, which I am
now in a category against, which is strange.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
You know.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
I want them to do well, and I want them
to be celebrated and acknowledged. I just honestly think it's
such a lovely thing to be celebrated and to go,
you know, with your team. I'm bringing my family, which
is really nice to the night and to kind of
be like, you know, we've done this project and look
at what we've done, and let's hang out together.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
And I don't know, I know that you're a big
champion of undiscovered talent. Yes, tell me a little bit
about the Intro series.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, this is I think the fourth I could have
that wrong. I should know. This the fourth season that
we've done. So if you haven't heard of Intros before,
it is an online web series where I interview up
and coming artists based here in Alturo and we talk
about their journey, we talk about, you know, the things

(05:08):
they've learned. When we came up with this idea, we
realized that there was such a big group of artists
everywhere constantly that were kind of doing amazing things and
not no one was discovering them, or they were kind
of getting a little bit not necessarily lost, but they're

(05:28):
fighting really hard to be heard. And I remember that
feeling when no one really cared what you did and
you couldn't get an interview and you couldn't you know,
come and see you every year, And I just was like,
how do we help that, How do we kind of
bridge that gap where we can have a conversation. You know,
there might be a following already for that person, but
there's there's going to be so many unknown unknown what

(05:50):
am I saying? So many people that don't know that artist?
So how do we kind of spotlight and create that platform.
And then on the other hand, which I'm very passionate about,
is trying to create a resource for artists, Like how
do we share the knowledge of the things that we've
learned and got wrong along the way or had to
find out the hard way. How do we create some
content in a way that artists can you see and understand.

(06:15):
It's not just reading like a big giant what do
you call it textbook textbook or some blog post that
is very hard to read, or you know, online web forum,
Like how can we help each other? So that's what
intros has been about, and we will continue to do
intros also, Bee Forever and Always.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Now tell me about Under the Stars. So on June fifteenth,
you're performing your biggest show to date, Under the Stars
with Friends. It's part of the Cabaret Festival. You're not
only performing in it, but you're curating it as well.
Talk to me about the idea behind this show.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
I'm so excited. I'm so excited. We've been talking about
the show for a little while. The team came to
us and said, you know, we're curating the festival, the
Cabaret Festival, and we want you to put together a
night for us on the closing night of the Cabaret Festival,
which is such an honor. I'm like a sure, like okay,

(07:14):
thank you. So we came back to them with this
idea of doing a show partly in the dark, which
is where the under the Stars, you know, kind of
title of the show comes in. Where there's a portion
of in the middle of the show where the curtain
comes down, so the audience no longer sees what's happening
on stage and the stars. If you've ever been in

(07:35):
the Civic you know that incredible star ceiling. So the
star I don't know what they call it, the sequence
of the stars will happen, and it'll be this very
intimate moment for yourself where you can hear the music
and kind of sit in that space but also be
by yourself with your eyes closed or eyes open and

(07:57):
kind of very sensory. You're just you're you're focused on
what you're hearing and so we wanted to create something
that was an experience for people and something that you know,
so it wasn't just your typical show. How can we
create a moment where people really remember and feel something deeply.
So we have you know, amazing artists Louis Baker, Holy Smith,

(08:20):
Nico Grace coming to join me, which is going to
be amazing, and we've got members from the API as well,
and it's in the civic as Like, I just feel like,
what an amazing show. It's going to be incredible. There's
so many people working so hard to pull the show together.
So yeah, come along.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Tell me about this new song, Wonderful Life that you're
about to perform for us.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
New song, Yes, very very exciting. I have been holding
onto this one for a little while. It's the first
release since my album. And I don't know if you
ever do this or if I'm the only person that
does this in the whole entire world, but I love
writing things out and post it notes and putting them
on my mirror and putting them on my fridge, and

(09:05):
you know, creating little walls of collections of postcards and
things that have kind of spoken to me or affirmed
something in my.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Real life, real life page.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Like we used to do with your pens and your
you know, like a real life I mean, I did
that ever since I was a kid. It was just
I loved to collect and have this kind of like
you say, a mood board. And I've been doing that
again and loving you know this. I don't know where
it kind of came from, but I kind of kept
saying to myself, you will live a wonderful life. It's

(09:38):
a wonderful life. And I kind of kept saying that
I use the word wonderful all the time anyway, which
I've obviously said unintentionally throughout this interview so many times.
But it's just a word that happens to roll out
of my brain. And this saying has just attached itself
to me over the last few years. And I really
wanted to write about that and include that in you know,

(10:02):
a song. And so Matt Hales, who wrote the song
and produced the song with me, he wrote with me
and produced a song, shouldn't take credit for that because
he's done an amazing job. Yeah, we wrote this together
in La and in this dingy little studio that looked
like someone's garage, and the song kind of just rolled out,

(10:24):
and it was so fun to make. I love it
so much. It just feels like this. I don't know,
I don't know how to describe that, very human, very textured,
these sixties drums and this acoustic guitar that I am playing. Yeah,
feels good to have it out.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
You're going to perform it for us. Now you've got
Dave with us. Yes, well, good Dave, Yes fantastic. Should
we do it?

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Let's still it?

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Okay californiosas not. It feels like add pineycrating the same and.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Or walking as far as anil still at the beach,
so WHATSI will travelway from the sea, so.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
And letting you go.

Speaker 6 (11:33):
Because it's a wonderful.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Life, baby on the full line, even less waving goodbye,
dollok back, you're gonna make it just fay because it's
a a full day, baby, It's a beautiful day. Even

(11:59):
though you're walking all way. Do look back and know
I'm too being okay because it's so want to fall,
it's all want a full life.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Who I was leaving from terminal be I was waiting
and he asks, what do you think it would feel like?

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Falling? Now it's stays it's on a day dream's gone,
and I guess you still don't.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
But it's a wonderful lot of.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Baby, it's a wonderful life, even less waving goodbye, so
look back. You're gonna make it just fun.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Because it's a full day.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
Baby, It's a beautiful day, even though you're walking all
way to look back and know them to be open,
because it's a wonderful life. Baby's on. Want a full life,

(13:32):
even not waving good bye, talk back, You're gonna make
it just back and so want a full day. Baby,
It's a beautiful day, even though.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
You're walking all way to look.

Speaker 7 (13:53):
Back and know them to be open, and so want
a fool life. It's on, wantful lam go just kip drivel.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
So and you go.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Georgia Dave, thank you so much. That was absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Thank you so much for having us, and.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
We will get that.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
We also made a video of that. We will get
that up at Newstalks beat our co dot in z
ed Slash Sunday for you also to enjoy. That was
the wonderful Georgia lines. The song Georgia Just Performed is
out now on all streaming platforms. If You're Keen to Capture.
As part of the Cabaret Festival, her show was called
Under the Stars with Friends. It's taking place on June fifteenth.

(15:00):
Tickets are on sale now.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
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