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Nick and Sue. This edition of the Chatterbox

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Redux podcast is brought to you in association

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More from them in a bit. Chatterbox. When the

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stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue. Welcome

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back to the Chatterbox Redux podcast with Sue

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and Nick and today our special guest is Australian

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actor Alan Fletcher most famous for playing Dr.

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Carl Kennedy in Neighbours. This is Nick and

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Sue with Chatterbox giving you all you need to

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know about music. You've been around for a while.

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Yes, I suppose you heard what happened. Yes,

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mate, yes, I did hear. But I'm so sorry, it's

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real bad luck. I hope you know why things happen.

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Thanks, sir. I suppose it would be difficult

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for anyone in Ram's history not having a pinyon.

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Well, believe you me, the fewer people who take

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sides in matters like this, the better. Bless

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my philosophy. Bless your philosophy. So, where

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are you hiding at? Let's get together one night.

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Let me give you a number. To be honest, I wasn't

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sure how anyone might be feeling about it. Mate,

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I've had two marriages go on the blink. I'll

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be the last person to go around casting aspersions.

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If anyone knows what you're going through, it's

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yours truly. Well, thanks, I appreciate that.

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See you about, look me up. Sure. If you're feeling

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miserable, you want to spend time with someone

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who's worse off than yourself. What do you think

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the chances are? Reconciliation. Oh, no, it's

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the life of that Susan's pretty bleak. Never

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give up, eh? Actually, I'm waiting for Louise

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and the new nanny. We're having lunch together.

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Running a bit late. Should be here any minute

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now. That'll be nice. And now on Chatterbox,

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we're just lucky enough to welcome Alan Fletcher.

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Alan, welcome to Chatterbox. How are you, sir?

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Hello, Alan. Nicholas, Sue. Lovely to see your

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faces and lovely to be here. And you. Nice to

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see you as well. And you look bright and breezy

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for 9pm on a Sunday night in Australia. You're

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looking good. Oh, that's very kind. I'm very

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refreshed at the moment. I tend to get up early

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and work hard on Neighbours and things like that.

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Then I do a bit of, sorry, not Neighbours, but

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on my tour. And then I jump into some exercise

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and then watch a bit of TV, so I'm feeling very

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refreshed. because the main thing obviously I'm

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going to be talking to you about is of course

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you're coming over to the UK for a concert tour

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and I see here obviously to be doing some research

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that singing is nothing new, it's nothing to

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do with neighbours finishing and you're going

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into that. I could see that you had a group in

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the past called Waiting Room I've got a date

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here of 2004, seems to have got formed. But you've

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also been doing a tour in Australia for your

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concerts as well. We've got some shows in Australia.

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Primarily we do focus on the UK. That's fair

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to say because I've got a very strong supporter

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base there. But we try to do shows in Australia.

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It's just very hard to do shows in Australia

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because the distances are so vast. I mean, you

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know if you have a look at the map of where I'm

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going and Nicholas over the UK You'll see that

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a lot of the places are like two hours apart

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So, you know, it's actually completely feasible

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to play a lot of venues, but here in Australia.

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Well, you know Brisbane where I'm gonna go and

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do some shows is 2 ,000 kilometers away, you

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know, and so it has to be a plane and That gets

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very expensive and it makes it very hard to tour

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and that is more than twice the length of the

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entire That's actually double that Two hours

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traveling to us is a long way, but of course

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in Australian terms Well, it's it's interesting.

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You say that because you know what? In Australia

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trying to convince people to go for drive for

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like 40 minutes to see a show Many cases people

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won't do it. They'd sort of to be honest too

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far. Whereas in the UK I might be doing a show

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in York and people from way up near Scarborough,

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quite happily have driven down. If I'm in Newcastle,

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I've got people from Middlesbrough have just

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driven up. And it's quite common, I find, in

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the UK for people to travel quite long distances

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just to see a show. In those terms, yeah. I mean,

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Scarborough to York doesn't sound far to us.

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And for us to go to Brighton, you mentioned 40

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miles. Brightened from where we are on the South

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Coast is about 40 miles. So to us. It's better

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now that I was driving So that's not too bad.

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We would happy to me would travel to London Yeah,

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that's 160 something. So, you know, so yeah,

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we would do that I think in terms of but I don't

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think we appreciate until we look at it in Australian

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terms just how far we know sir bloody big islands

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but we you know appreciate quite how far those

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places are totally yeah totally totally yeah

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now tell me i mean obviously we know about uh

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the acting side and you know infamous not just

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famous infamous for being in neighbors in a nice

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way but soil ask you some neighbors questions

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but i would like to know if you're going back

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to when you were growing up What did you really

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want to be first? Was the priority of your aims

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in life going to be a singer or was it to be

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an actor? Oh definitely an actor. When I was

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12 years old I was at primary school still and

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I was doing a musical. for the local school was

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called Little Gypsy Gay and I played the gypsy

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king and at one stage in the rehearsal the director

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stopped the teacher who was directing stopped

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the rehearsal and said um something's not right

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something's not right um Alan could you not sing

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and And after I stopped singing then everyone

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was happy. So that was obviously the problem.

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So I wasn't going to be a singer early on. But

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acting was a big thing for me. It always was.

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And I was actually pretty good at school. My

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brothers and my father are all scientists and

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so forth. And I was quite good at all those things.

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But I just had to act. And I went professional

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when I was 20 years old. Wonderful. Absolutely

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wonderful, and you've not looked back. I'm going

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to pick up some more of the music side in a minute.

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I think Sue would like to ask you some acting

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and some neighbours questions. Just two questions.

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What age was you when you went into Neighbours?

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1994, so I would have been 37. In fact, I had

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only just turned 37. But it wasn't the only thing

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that happened in that year, Sue. My beautiful

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wife, Jennifer, when I started on Neighbours,

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she was about six months pregnant with our first

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child, Veronica. So you can imagine for an actor

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where life is pretty unstable, although mercifully

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I had worked a lot, but you know, you expect

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to be unemployed any minute. And so for someone

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to come along and say, oh, we're offering you

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a one -year job on a show called Neighbours,

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can you imagine how wonderful that was knowing

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I had a baby on the way? So it was fantastic.

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And you know what? I had 31 one -year contracts

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after that contract. Amazing. Yeah. So there

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you go. Now my daughter's 31 years old and sitting

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on the couch. How did you get the role as Carl

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Kennedy? Well, I was quite fortunate because

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I had worked with the Grundy Corporation, who

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made Neighbours, also made a show called Embassy,

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which was a new show that they were doing with

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the Australian Broadcasting Commission. And this

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was a very high quality drama. It was only 13

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episodes a year. And I auditioned for that and

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got a terrific lead role. So the casting agent

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for Grundy was this genius casting agent Jan

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Russ. who cast for Grundy for many, many years.

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And so when I, when Neighbours came around, the

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Kennedy family, she invited me to audition and,

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I mean, other people auditioned as well, but

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I was lucky enough to get the part. So I was

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very comfortable auditioning for Neighbours because

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I knew Jan very well, but I was more comfortable

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when I found out Jackie Woodburn was playing

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So how old were you when you first took to the

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microphone, when you decided, oh, I'm going to

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take this singing side up now? Well, it's interesting

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because I've always sung. I mean, when I started

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in the theatre in Perth in the 70s, I did a number

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of musicals then. Then I did some musicals in

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Sydney. And so singing wasn't alien to me. And

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I also... later in life, I started doing concerts,

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swing concerts and so forth. I was invited to

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do those as well, so I sang quite a bit. Then

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one night I was out to dinner with my beautiful

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wife, it was Valentine's Day actually, and there

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were a couple of guys there playing songs and

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we got chatting and they said, why don't you

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get up and sing a song with us? So I did and

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then a little while later they said, hey, you

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know what, we could form a band, we could do

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some work with you. I said you know what I'd

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love to do that but I can't go out and gig three

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sets a night until three in the morning but we

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could do it at the neighbor's night we have every

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Monday night in Melbourne. Well we did in 2004

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we started up and within a few months the word

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got around in the UK that this band existed and

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we got booked and we got booked for two tours

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in the first year, two in the second, and then

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after that one a year for the next six, seven

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years. So all up we did about 10 tours of the

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UK. It was a smash with students. We had a fantastic

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time playing rock and roll, recorded an album,

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made a bit of money out of that album. I'm very

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proud of it. In fact, I'm going to start singing

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a few more of the songs from that album on my

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next tour and making them a bit more country.

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So yeah, it was a really, really great time.

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So I suppose really In terms of, you know, band

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music, 2004 was where I started. My understanding,

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correct me if I'm wrong, is that neighbours basically

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only survived so long mainly because of a British

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audience. It was a huge British audience and

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I think that's why it had that second sort of

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life, if you like, and I think it was my understanding

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is it was generally due to the huge British audience

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that really kept it going so long. Yeah, well

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that's absolutely true. I've got to say, Neighbours

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was very different from Home and Away. Home and

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Away was funded by a television station in Australia,

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Channel 7, and was put on at prime time at 7pm

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at night. And so it was immensely popular in

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Australia. And the United Kingdom didn't, kind

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of, they bought home in a way for a cheaper fee,

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if you like, just to show it. But Neighbours

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was primarily paid for by the United Kingdom.

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and the Australian TV station didn't have to

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pay as much. So we relied very much on the UK.

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Now obviously when we moved from the BBC to Channel

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5, that was one particular deal, but then when

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Channel 5 decided they didn't want neighbours

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anymore, the money dried up and neighbours wouldn't

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survive without a British broadcaster and along

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came Amazon. We were saved in that respect. So

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we've got two more years than we ever would have

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had. Very grateful for that. And that's 40 years

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of television there. And, you know, this is a

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good opportunity, as any, for me to say thank

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you so much to everyone in the UK who watched

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Neighbours, because you kept us going for 40

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years. Going back, it was the very clever part

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on the BBC where they didn't go 7pm in the evening.

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They went like 5 something. On the other side

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now there was a soap opera on ITV called Crossroads

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been going since the early 60s was going right

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through to 88 times something like that and Central

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television they just wanted it gone. They killed

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off all the main characters I mean ridiculously

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killed them off and he finished oddly enough.

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Nobody watched it anymore, but the BBC thought

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We got something here. There was a market in

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the UK for a tea time soap opera and basically

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on the BBC Neighbours went in at the same time

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as Crossroads would have been on on the other

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side and it worked The late teens and all that

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sort of age group and it worked the same audience

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of Crossroads had lost I believe Became the neighbors

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audience and what a great idea something the

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BBC was thinking that day and it yeah I'm framed

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and 5 p .m. Might not work. So if I 30 may not

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works in Australia, but it's certainly worth

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No, 530s would have been a death slot in Australia.

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It's interesting you say that because my understanding

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also is that when Neighbours first started it

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was only on in the middle of the day. But it

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was so popular that a lot of people were skiving

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off work or skiving off school. to watch the

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show. And so, as I understand it, there were

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actually requests made to the BBC to show it

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a second time so that people would actually turn

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up for classes again. I don't know, that might

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not be true. Sue's nodding. If it's not true,

00:17:25.380 --> 00:17:27.420
it sounds great, so let's just make it an urban

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myth. We heard it on Shatterbox, that's true.

00:17:32.659 --> 00:17:36.160
That's the one, brilliant. Tell us about, I mean

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I was, I didn't sky for two o 'clock in the afternoon,

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well I wasn't at school, I was at work by then,

00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:44.000
old man. They used to change our lunch break,

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it was an hour, but they changed the time so

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we could watch Neighbours. The whole UK curriculum

00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.660
changes for Neighbours. Yeah. Brilliant. Love

00:17:51.660 --> 00:17:55.319
it, the whole school day. Okay Alan, so let's

00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:58.140
get to 20, obviously Neighbours has finished,

00:17:58.380 --> 00:18:00.980
unfortunately, last year I believe, but Amazon

00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:04.529
didn't. come up more money for another yeah another

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series or not as yet at least they're like it

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could it happen I shouldn't think so at this

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stage I shouldn't think so yeah right anyway

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that brings us to 2026 and you're coming over

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for what I would say is the massive tour of the

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UK and a couple of dates yeah a couple in Northern

00:18:22.329 --> 00:18:25.329
Ireland I think so yeah I mean obviously you

00:18:25.329 --> 00:18:28.329
feel the times right yeah it's very ambitious

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Well, we toured last year, we did 34 dates last

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year. It was very ambitious. So and I originally

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thought to myself, I'll come back again in 2026,

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but I'll probably do less dates. And then I just

00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:48.119
kept booking dates. I don't know, I just couldn't

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stop myself. And so I'm actually going to be

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in the UK and Ireland and Europe for four months.

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I'll basically be living over there and we're

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going to be doing kind of three tours, but I'm

00:19:03.589 --> 00:19:06.349
going to play a couple of festivals. I'm going

00:19:06.349 --> 00:19:09.789
to do a tour of just a trio, just myself, Jen

00:19:09.789 --> 00:19:13.869
and my guitarist in some cities. Then I'm going

00:19:13.869 --> 00:19:17.569
to jump in and play the full band for three weeks,

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take a month off while they go back to Australia

00:19:20.829 --> 00:19:23.480
to play and then they come back we'll do another

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three weeks. So I start on the 31st of July and

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I finish on the 1st of November. That's brilliant

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and very impressive. So it's not too short a

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tour at all. I can see how many dates you had.

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And yeah, Jen and I are at a point in our life

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where we both just concentrate on the music.

00:19:43.490 --> 00:19:46.450
We do a lot of duets. Jen writes her own music.

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She plays the keyboards and she sings with me.

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So yeah, we're the von Trapps. Yes, very good.

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I like it. Chichester is the nearest I've seen

00:19:57.759 --> 00:19:59.960
so far. We've got some great dates here, actually.

00:20:00.019 --> 00:20:01.539
You've got Camden. You're in North London. You're

00:20:01.539 --> 00:20:05.880
at Camden. 31st of July. Lincoln 19th of August.

00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:08.759
Sheffield 20th of August. Chichester, nearest

00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.799
one I've seen to us so far. 22nd of August. And

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you're in Royal Lemton Spa. 23rd of August. Northern

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Ireland, you go to Belfast, 26th of August. Then

00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:24.440
in Republic of Ireland, 27th of August, Dublin.

00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:33.109
That's quite close to us. 2nd of September Canterbury,

00:20:33.670 --> 00:20:35.549
and then skimming through Worthing, that's the

00:20:35.549 --> 00:20:39.130
nearest one so far, Southampton, Falmouth, Swansea,

00:20:39.450 --> 00:20:42.329
Cheltham, Exeter, Bristol, you've got some good

00:20:42.329 --> 00:20:45.329
cities here, Manchester, Liverpool, I'm skipping

00:20:45.329 --> 00:20:47.369
through a bit now because you've got so many.

00:20:48.789 --> 00:20:54.430
Yeah, Craig Yarmouth, Cambridge, Lancaster, Scarborough,

00:20:56.269 --> 00:20:59.819
Edinburgh. Yeah, we get it. We get that. This

00:20:59.819 --> 00:21:03.740
is one hell of a tour. Yeah, we're gonna have

00:21:03.740 --> 00:21:05.359
a great time. I'm really looking forward to getting

00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:08.519
back to Inverness, actually, because I did a

00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:10.940
show there, a stage show, and people kept saying,

00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:12.680
oh, when are you gonna come play here with the

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band? We haven't been up there, so I'm very excited

00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:18.579
to get to Inverness. So, you know, we're just

00:21:18.579 --> 00:21:20.460
trying a few different things too. Glasgow is

00:21:20.460 --> 00:21:23.259
always great, but we couldn't get a venue in

00:21:23.259 --> 00:21:25.660
Glasgow Central, so we're going to Motherwell.

00:21:25.980 --> 00:21:29.960
That joins on, yeah. Yeah, just nearby. It will

00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:32.420
be in Scottish Borders as well, which is terrific.

00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:35.740
Never played in there. Carlisle. It would be

00:21:35.740 --> 00:21:38.559
great. Otley and places like that. So yeah, we're

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Chatterbox. Darling, please can we go and watch

00:23:02.849 --> 00:23:05.509
and listen to Alan? Well I'll be watching and

00:23:05.509 --> 00:23:07.309
listening, you can watch or listen or do what

00:23:07.309 --> 00:23:14.339
you like. I'll organise some tickets there, don't

00:23:14.339 --> 00:23:16.299
you worry about that. You just email me and tell

00:23:16.299 --> 00:23:17.839
me what show you'd like to come to and of course

00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:20.880
I'll make sure you're there. We get to meet Alan

00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:23.799
Fletcher as a musician and I get to meet Cole

00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:29.089
Kennedy as the actor. Yes. I have to say a lot

00:23:29.089 --> 00:23:31.230
of people do come to my shows because obviously

00:23:31.230 --> 00:23:34.710
they are Neighbours fans, that's true. A lot

00:23:34.710 --> 00:23:37.049
of people who come are people who have been to

00:23:37.049 --> 00:23:39.410
my gigs before and they've really liked the music

00:23:39.410 --> 00:23:41.269
so they're coming back for the music which is

00:23:41.269 --> 00:23:45.789
very, very heartwarming for me. And yeah, the

00:23:45.789 --> 00:23:50.369
music has always been a big part of my audience's

00:23:50.369 --> 00:23:54.288
reason for being there. So yeah, it's a double...

00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:56.460
double -edged sword really you know people come

00:23:56.460 --> 00:23:58.519
people like to say hello to me and get a photo

00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:02.900
but also they like the tunes. I bet you get that

00:24:02.900 --> 00:24:05.200
all the time you're walking down the street and

00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:07.700
people ask for your autograph or a photograph

00:24:07.700 --> 00:24:10.849
with you. Yeah, it's quite common, of course,

00:24:10.910 --> 00:24:12.990
and I'm more than happy to do it because, you

00:24:12.990 --> 00:24:17.430
know, I enjoy a fairly gentle level of fame,

00:24:17.589 --> 00:24:19.990
Sue, to be honest. People, you know, people are

00:24:19.990 --> 00:24:22.789
always lovely to me. It's always a very warm

00:24:22.789 --> 00:24:25.930
experience and it never troubles me and I'm always

00:24:25.930 --> 00:24:27.670
delighted to do it. A lot of times people don't

00:24:27.670 --> 00:24:31.250
recognise me though, I'll be fair to say. It's

00:24:31.250 --> 00:24:36.559
your eyes and your voice. This must be good on

00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:39.680
your part of an actor. I'm not a soap opera person.

00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:42.759
And other than hearing the Neighbours theme in

00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:45.480
the background, when I first thought it started

00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:47.339
at tea time, obviously it moved there later on,

00:24:48.500 --> 00:24:50.240
but knowing the theme, and knowing that Jason

00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:52.680
and Kylie were on it, I've actually never seen

00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:55.299
an episode. But I knew who you were, what you

00:24:55.299 --> 00:24:57.680
looked like, and the part you played. So that

00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:00.319
must be how good you are, because I've never

00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:02.720
actually watched it. There you go, there you

00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:05.980
go. I'm all pervasive. Yeah, that's all right.

00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:09.099
Now that's a massive tour you've got coming up.

00:25:10.379 --> 00:25:12.819
Now, um, I only skimmed through some of the dates

00:25:12.819 --> 00:25:15.039
and didn't give them all properly so people can

00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:19.200
go to alanfletchermusic .com and there's a whole

00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:20.880
thing of all your shows there if they click on

00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:23.839
your list and I understand, just correct me if

00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:26.200
I'm wrong, people, the thing here where people

00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:28.400
can join your mailing list for your latest news

00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:32.880
and find that you're not on tour and they receive

00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:36.059
15 % discount on tickets and merchandise, yeah?

00:25:36.299 --> 00:25:39.119
That's correct. So, um, I really encourage people

00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:41.259
to do that. I have a lot of subscribers who do

00:25:41.259 --> 00:25:43.180
that and a lot of people who come to see my shows

00:25:43.180 --> 00:25:46.500
are my subscribers. If people subscribe to my

00:25:46.500 --> 00:25:48.859
other website, alanfletcher .net, they get the

00:25:48.859 --> 00:25:51.859
same deal and they get a birthday message. So

00:25:51.859 --> 00:25:54.539
a lot of people love that one. But you can just

00:25:54.539 --> 00:25:57.660
subscribe to Alan Fletcher Music and the same

00:25:57.660 --> 00:26:00.259
sort of things will apply there. And it's wonderful

00:26:00.259 --> 00:26:02.420
when people do join the mailing list because

00:26:02.420 --> 00:26:05.440
it forms a personal connection. I've got a live

00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:08.640
album coming out this year, which I'll be touring

00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:11.599
with. and what I did was I invited everyone who

00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:13.880
would come to see my gigs to send me a photo

00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:17.900
of us together and I've montage that and they'll

00:26:17.900 --> 00:26:21.759
be on the album sleeve. So it's really, it's

00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:24.009
beautiful to have that connection. That's cool.

00:26:25.549 --> 00:26:27.730
We'll finish shortly, but we do all your social

00:26:27.730 --> 00:26:29.750
media properly right at the end, so if you want

00:26:29.750 --> 00:26:31.509
to chuck the other website at them, which I haven't

00:26:31.509 --> 00:26:33.490
got in front of me, then you can do all that.

00:26:34.650 --> 00:26:37.329
I'd like to ask you a question. It's kind of

00:26:37.329 --> 00:26:39.230
a personal question, but not really personal.

00:26:40.109 --> 00:26:42.309
If Wikipedia's got your date right, it ties up

00:26:42.309 --> 00:26:44.170
with what you said during the interview. You're

00:26:44.170 --> 00:26:47.910
69. You're looking really good on it. What is

00:26:47.910 --> 00:26:50.690
the secret, Alan? Well, what is it? How are you

00:26:50.690 --> 00:26:53.980
looking so great? You're very kind. You're very

00:26:53.980 --> 00:26:56.359
kind. I mean, exercise is a big thing. You know,

00:26:56.380 --> 00:27:00.220
I mainly just walk and I do a few light weights

00:27:00.220 --> 00:27:03.319
and so forth and stretching. So exercise is a

00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:04.900
big part of just, you know, keeping yourself

00:27:04.900 --> 00:27:07.619
upright and keeping yourself fit and feeling

00:27:07.619 --> 00:27:10.579
good. You know, I've got a very beautiful wife.

00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:13.500
I mean, she's a little bit younger than myself.

00:27:13.539 --> 00:27:17.539
She's very vibrant. She's very active and I've

00:27:17.539 --> 00:27:20.500
got to keep up with her. So, you know, she keeps

00:27:20.500 --> 00:27:23.119
me young. I like that. I like it. I like it.

00:27:23.140 --> 00:27:26.680
Keep me young. Have a younger lady. Thank you.

00:27:27.259 --> 00:27:29.140
Another question. This is quite an interesting

00:27:29.140 --> 00:27:32.220
one. I see you're over it now but a little while

00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:35.259
ago you had a bit of an alopecia issue and I

00:27:35.259 --> 00:27:39.460
know you spoke to the papers about it. Now there's

00:27:39.460 --> 00:27:41.299
going to be somebody on some of these stations

00:27:41.299 --> 00:27:45.180
that have alopecia, maybe they've just had it

00:27:45.180 --> 00:27:47.940
and they've got a confidence issue and that.

00:27:48.299 --> 00:27:50.599
How would you, and you look great now and I can

00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:52.660
see you're over it, but what would you say to

00:27:52.660 --> 00:27:55.519
them if they're going through that now, the confidence

00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:58.539
thing? What would you say? Yeah, look, that's

00:27:58.539 --> 00:28:01.900
really interesting because for myself, being

00:28:01.900 --> 00:28:05.230
older, I didn't let it trouble me I thought okay

00:28:05.230 --> 00:28:07.069
I've just got to accept it there's nothing to

00:28:07.069 --> 00:28:10.230
be done about this so I mean it's not a pleasant

00:28:10.230 --> 00:28:12.130
thing to go through but you know it's really

00:28:12.130 --> 00:28:15.349
tough on younger people particularly women particularly

00:28:15.349 --> 00:28:17.650
young girls because they can often lose big chunks

00:28:17.650 --> 00:28:20.029
of their hair come out and they get ridiculed

00:28:20.029 --> 00:28:22.470
and so forth so I totally appreciate how tricky

00:28:22.470 --> 00:28:25.569
it is for people I was I was very fortunate over

00:28:25.569 --> 00:28:28.309
here because First of all, I lost my hair in

00:28:28.309 --> 00:28:31.190
some patches, which was a bit weird, but then

00:28:31.190 --> 00:28:34.009
it all fell out. I lost every hair on my body.

00:28:34.069 --> 00:28:38.710
So it was what they call alopecia totalis. I

00:28:38.710 --> 00:28:41.930
was lucky enough to be treated by a professor

00:28:41.930 --> 00:28:44.609
of dermatology over here, who's a world expert.

00:28:45.369 --> 00:28:48.450
And with the use of some pretty potent drugs,

00:28:48.470 --> 00:28:51.829
I have to say, he was able to suppress my immune

00:28:51.829 --> 00:28:54.130
system so that my hair could grow back without

00:28:54.130 --> 00:28:56.809
my own immune system killing it, which is what

00:28:56.809 --> 00:28:59.609
alopecia is. So yeah, I got lucky from that point

00:28:59.609 --> 00:29:03.210
of view. Yeah, I'm very pleased it's come back.

00:29:03.309 --> 00:29:04.890
I mean, I haven't got it all back. If I turned

00:29:04.890 --> 00:29:06.769
around, there'd be a nice little ball spot there

00:29:06.769 --> 00:29:10.150
for you at the back. But that's got nothing to

00:29:10.150 --> 00:29:13.450
do with alopecia. So yeah, I'm very pleased.

00:29:13.589 --> 00:29:16.009
I'm chuffed that I got my hair back. What about

00:29:16.009 --> 00:29:19.069
that singer that was on... um she used to sing

00:29:19.069 --> 00:29:21.529
for her audiences she had her own show but she

00:29:21.529 --> 00:29:23.710
wasn't famous i can't think of her name she had

00:29:23.710 --> 00:29:27.230
a alopecia that alan was talking about she was

00:29:27.230 --> 00:29:29.150
singing wouldn't she and letting people know

00:29:29.150 --> 00:29:32.170
about it yeah it's just it's just you know i

00:29:32.170 --> 00:29:34.170
could see there's going to be somebody at home

00:29:34.170 --> 00:29:36.569
going through it you know and totally and i wish

00:29:36.569 --> 00:29:39.009
them all the best and you know just dealing talking

00:29:39.009 --> 00:29:42.890
to a good dermatologist is the key and and uh

00:29:42.890 --> 00:29:44.650
um but the most important thing to remember is

00:29:44.650 --> 00:29:47.890
that we are not defined by our hair You know,

00:29:47.910 --> 00:29:50.930
we are who we are. What do you got coming up

00:29:50.930 --> 00:29:54.119
next after this tour? Oh, that's interesting.

00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:57.759
Well, when I get back, it'll be November. So

00:29:57.759 --> 00:29:59.839
obviously, at Christmas time, there's not a lot

00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:03.380
happens in Australia. But I have already planned

00:30:03.380 --> 00:30:06.279
a show for next year, which is kind of a bit

00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:09.680
different at one of our major venues here in

00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:12.000
Melbourne, a show which will involve other musicians,

00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:14.799
as well as, of course, every year we go to the

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:17.700
Tamworth Country Music Festival, which is Australia's

00:30:17.700 --> 00:30:21.460
biggest country music festival. And I'll be planning

00:30:21.460 --> 00:30:24.569
Australian dates. like crazy but also be honest

00:30:24.569 --> 00:30:26.890
before this tour is even over I'll be booking

00:30:26.890 --> 00:30:30.269
probably booking tours for next year so you've

00:30:30.269 --> 00:30:32.809
got to book them a long way ahead so it's it's

00:30:32.809 --> 00:30:34.910
it's never stops basically we're going to be

00:30:34.910 --> 00:30:37.490
very busy I think the way you're going with the

00:30:37.490 --> 00:30:39.130
size of the tours bearing in mind this was going

00:30:39.130 --> 00:30:40.970
to be a smaller tour but is it I think it's is

00:30:40.970 --> 00:30:43.690
it too bigger than last year already now yeah

00:30:43.690 --> 00:30:47.890
yeah I got a feeling if you booked the Albert

00:30:47.890 --> 00:30:49.829
Hall you could fill it up now I have no doubt

00:30:51.259 --> 00:30:54.519
I've got a lot of doubts about that, but that's

00:30:54.519 --> 00:30:56.920
fine. Tell you what, we'll be chatting about

00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:59.039
that in a very short period of time, whether

00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:00.519
it be next year or the year after, and you'll

00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:02.839
be filling it up, and I'm going to say, told

00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:05.269
you so, Alan. Oh, bless you for that. Thank you

00:31:05.269 --> 00:31:10.369
very much. I do like the, yeah, I choose my venues

00:31:10.369 --> 00:31:12.910
based on about a hundred between a hundred, a

00:31:12.910 --> 00:31:16.710
hundred and thirty attendance. I like that sort

00:31:16.710 --> 00:31:19.069
of size. I like the intimacy of those audiences.

00:31:19.450 --> 00:31:22.049
It means I can get to meet everybody. Now, you

00:31:22.049 --> 00:31:25.130
know, if you do a show to 400 people, you can't

00:31:25.130 --> 00:31:27.769
say hello to everyone. So it's kind of, you know,

00:31:27.970 --> 00:31:29.730
it's a different show. It's a different show.

00:31:29.789 --> 00:31:33.250
And it's not what I do. And in terms of albums

00:31:33.250 --> 00:31:35.410
and things that you've got out at the moment

00:31:35.410 --> 00:31:38.460
or you got coming out, tell us about those. Right,

00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:41.279
well the first album, first of all I released

00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:43.779
a single and then an EP when I first started

00:31:43.779 --> 00:31:48.400
out in this new genre of music in 2023. I released

00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:53.500
an album in 2024, late 2024 called The Point,

00:31:54.059 --> 00:31:57.420
which I'm very proud of, and then very recently

00:31:57.420 --> 00:32:00.880
released another album which is called Back to

00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:04.220
School. So I've got quite a bit of material out

00:32:04.220 --> 00:32:06.180
there and it's all available of course on the

00:32:06.180 --> 00:32:09.049
streaming services. And that waiting room band

00:32:09.049 --> 00:32:12.009
we talked about, ironically, that music is still

00:32:12.009 --> 00:32:15.329
out there too, also, as Alan Fletcher and The

00:32:15.329 --> 00:32:18.490
Waiting Room. And a lot of people, well, still

00:32:18.490 --> 00:32:20.710
a lot of people listening to that as well. So

00:32:20.710 --> 00:32:23.410
I'm all over Spotify and Apple Music and Amazon

00:32:23.410 --> 00:32:27.849
Music and the like, and all of them. So if people

00:32:27.849 --> 00:32:29.750
are interested in my music, I'd love it if they

00:32:29.750 --> 00:32:32.150
went out and had a listen. AlanFletcherMusic

00:32:32.150 --> 00:32:34.710
.com, which you mentioned, has also got some

00:32:34.710 --> 00:32:38.920
video clips on it. Uber Savvy Music has a YouTube

00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:41.559
channel where all my songs and videos can be

00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:44.599
seen. So there's plenty to check out, plenty

00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:47.559
to listen to. I'd be delighted if people did.

00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:50.940
And as we said earlier, people can go on your

00:32:50.940 --> 00:32:54.180
websites, join your mailing lists, and not only

00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:55.819
do they get the latest news, they can receive

00:32:55.819 --> 00:33:00.099
15 % discounts on tickets and merch. True, true

00:33:00.099 --> 00:33:02.960
that. And I've got another website too, alanfletcher

00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:05.299
.net, which is kind of primarily for acting,

00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:08.660
where most of my subscribers join because they

00:33:08.660 --> 00:33:12.640
get a birthday message as well. So in their first

00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:15.619
year of subscription. So I've got quite a few

00:33:15.619 --> 00:33:18.319
people who subscribe to there and they get the

00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:20.640
same deal on discounts. Fantastic. And what other

00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:23.420
social media? I think there's some YouTube stuff,

00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:26.539
isn't there? Yeah, you're going to go looking

00:33:26.539 --> 00:33:32.859
for Ubersavvy Music. savvy music and you're going

00:33:32.859 --> 00:33:35.000
to go looking for Alan Fletcher on Instagram,

00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:42.259
Alan Fletcher on X and facebook .com backslash

00:33:42.259 --> 00:33:46.019
Alan Fletch for my page on Facebook as well.

00:33:46.500 --> 00:33:49.720
Love it, love it, okay that's great. Before we

00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:52.200
go, Alan, can I just say thank you very much

00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:54.839
for this interview. It's been so amazing and

00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:57.220
thank you for your acting career because it brings

00:33:57.220 --> 00:33:59.859
so much memory back. Watching you as an actor

00:33:59.859 --> 00:34:02.279
with my mum and my brothers, it was brilliant,

00:34:02.380 --> 00:34:05.019
so thank you. It's very kind of you to say so

00:34:05.019 --> 00:34:07.180
and I very much appreciate the opportunity to

00:34:07.180 --> 00:34:09.940
have a chat to you and and Say hello to all of

00:34:09.940 --> 00:34:12.480
your audience. I didn't believe Nick when he

00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:14.179
told me you've been in contact. I didn't believe

00:34:14.179 --> 00:34:17.539
him. First of all, okay Yeah, absolutely. Thank

00:34:17.539 --> 00:34:19.920
me. Well, he's he's always good for it He knows

00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:22.400
there's a good show and he knows that it helps

00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:27.159
each other. Yeah platform where of course people

00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:29.230
are going to listen and it could only help each

00:34:29.230 --> 00:34:31.929
other, you know, we've got a great list. You're

00:34:31.929 --> 00:34:33.210
going to get some tickets out of it, let's say

00:34:33.210 --> 00:34:35.429
you get lots out of it, you know. Thank you.

00:34:37.349 --> 00:34:40.309
Anyway, Alan Fletcher, thank you so much for

00:34:40.309 --> 00:34:44.280
coming on Chatterbox UK. You're so busy now.

00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:45.820
There might be no neighbours now, but you're

00:34:45.820 --> 00:34:48.519
so busy. You're already planning next year. So

00:34:48.519 --> 00:34:51.960
let's do it again. Bless you. Love to chat again.

00:34:52.059 --> 00:34:54.780
And I'll see you when I'm over. Maybe at Chichester,

00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:56.860
maybe Worthing. I don't know. We'll see what

00:34:56.860 --> 00:34:59.360
happens. Thank you so much, Alan. And you take

00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:01.480
care. Thank you. You too. Look after yourselves.

00:35:01.940 --> 00:35:33.480
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00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:36.340
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00:35:39.099 --> 00:35:41.519
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