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Selwyn Sounds
Thursday September 6 2018
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Currently on a break from
a 13-date United Kingdom
tour, pop artist Leo Sayer
spoke to reporter Matt
Salmons about new
albums, busy schedules
and his excitement for next
year’s Selwyn Sounds
BEST KNOWN for 1976 pop
tune You Make Me Feel Like
Dancing, English-born Leo Sayer
maintains a busy tour schedule.
Relaxing after his UK tour
with a family holiday in Italian
coastal town Porto Ercole with
partner Donatella, Sayer was
already looking to fit in an Australian
tour before the Selwyn
Sounds.
Perhaps surprisingly though,
it would not be the artist’s first
time in Lincoln.
Though he did not remember
much about it, he said he passed
by the area during a New Zealand
tour in the 1980s.
“I haven’t played a show there
but I’ve been in that part of the
world. It’s very pretty country,”
Sayer said.
Every year he said he pushed
his agent for New Zealand dates
and hoped the event in Lincoln
Domain could be a taster for a
future tour.
“It’s always a great audience
down there, I’m just sad I don’t
get there as much as I want.
When this came up I was really
excited.”
His last big event here was a
performance at Hawkes Bay winery
Mission Estate in 2014.
“We had a ball down there, it
was a really good one. I think the
angle was the Brits, but I’m more
of an Aussie these days.”
Based in the Southern Highlands
of New South Wales, and
down the road from Jimmy
Barnes, Sayer said he kept busy
working on his upcoming album
Selfie and his personal memoirs.
“My life’s very busy, but no
complaints. I just turned 70 in
May and it’s not getting any less
busy, I’m very happy.
“There’s plenty to do when I’m
not on the road.”
His new album was “a oneman-band
thing” he said, but
had a big sound.
Manipulating the sounds and
developing the album himself
over five months was an enjoyable
challenge he said.
“I’m really happy with the
result.
“I’m a musician, I can never
not be writing. The ironic thing
is, everyone at the concerts wants
to hear the classics from the
catalogue.”
He was not sure if he would be
ready to showcase Selfie at Selwyn
Sounds, but he had been running
his band through the title track
of the album.
“Hopefully we can throw that
in, that would be really fun.”
As well as Sayer, former INXS
front man and Noiseworks singer
Jon Stevens, Eagle Rock writer
Ross Wilson, legendary Kiwi
artists Midge Marsden and Peter
Urlich are on the bill.
Hits such as Gutter Black, Blue
Lady and Walking in the Light
will be belted out by a who’s who
of the New Zealand music scene
known as The Golden Kiwis,
which includes Harry Lyon from
Hello Sailor and Rikki Morris
from Crocodiles.
•Selwyn Sounds will be
held on Saturday, March 2,
at Lincoln Domain. Tickets
are now on sale from
www.selwynsounds.co.nz
EXCITED: Leo Sayer says he
pushes his promoters for
New Zealand shows every
year and is excited to play
Selwyn Sounds next year.
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