Five minutes with... DELTA GOODREM
THIS ‘VOICE’ QUEEN IS PREPARING TO HIT THE ROAD FOR HER FIRST TOUR IN FOUR YEARS
After wrapping on Season 9 of The Voice Australia, Delta Goodrem has not only been busy filming her Bunker Down sessions for home with boyfriend Matthew Copley, she’s also plotting her return to the stage.
What made you want to tour again? Playing live is one of my favourite things in the entire world. Everyone has had an extremely tough year … The idea of this tour is truly something to look forward to. Coming together, healing through music and singing songs that we all know.
Can you tell us about the tour’s title?
I called the tour Bridge Over Troubled Dreams for many reasons – it is a line from the single, ‘Keep Climbing’. The lyric has a lot of meaning right now – no dreams come without troubles but it’s also aspirational … It’s about moving forward and taking each step even in uncertain times.
And you’ve got a new album coming out? I’m currently working on it. This record has really been about being transparent and finding that part of me that wants to be its authentic self at all times. This album was about coming into my own as a woman and going back to where it all started.
What have you been up to in iso? We have done 14 weeks of Bunker Down sessions and they’ve given me the opportunity to stay connected and interact with everyone around the world. Being able to perform live during this difficult time has been remarkable. This year has been … a confronting reminder of how fragile life is and how important health is. It has also offered all of us a moment to pause, reset and to really reflect on the most important things in life.
Tickets for the Bridge Over Troubled Dreams Tour are available from Ticketek and Ticketmaster.
What book do you recall being read and loving when you were very young?
A Child’s Treasury of Poetry. My father used to read (or sing) them to me, my brother and sister, and it gave me a life-long love of poetry. It contained the wonderful, ‘Just the place for a Snark’ and The WraggleTaggle Gypsies.
What book did you read as a teenager or child and enjoy despite it perhaps being meant for adults?
John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos – I think I was about 11 and it was one of the first things I read after a diet of pony and boarding school books. Oh, and The Omen – that absolutely terrified me!
What books inspired you to write?
Do you know, it was actually a rather terrible book (I won’t say which one) and I threw it down in disgust and thought that even I could do better than that. Little did I know at the time just how hard a process it is!
What books do you gift to friends? Cookbooks! I love to cook and think that most of my friends do too. In terms of fiction, Sarah Winman’s When God Was a
Rabbit or Tin Man. What’s The Silk House about? It’s the story of a prestigious boarding school about to admit girls for the first time, an old house with a troubled past, and a length of fabric woven with a pattern of deadly flowers. It’s a mystery and a ghost story and I hope it sends a shiver down the reader’s spine! The Silk House is out now.