I had a wonderful time on Thursday chatting to Julia Zemiro. We recorded an interview which I’ll be putting to air tomorrow morning during my radio programme on 98.5 Sonshine FM.
You can listen to the interview by clicking play on the audio player at the bottom of this post.
Many people will know Julia Zemiro from the SBS show, Rockwiz. She was also a regular on the comedy Totally Full Frontal and she was the winner of Channel 10‘s show Australia’s Brainiest TV Star in February this year.
Julia is in Perth for Eurobeat, a very funny musical stage show which parodies the Eurovision Song Contest.
During the show competitors from 12 countries compete for the big prize. Audience members are assigned to one of the 12 countries and are given the honour of voting for their favourite performers. In the spirit of Eurovision you can’t vote for your own country.
After the interval there’s the half time Bosnian spectacular, featuring Julia as her character, Bronya, singing “I’m Sarajevo, taste me”. Then, once all the votes are counted, they are added to the tally country by country.
Pauline and I went to the show on Thursday night and really enjoyed it. It’s well put together and very funny. The performers are brilliant. There is a cast of around 20 so most performers are involved in more than one act making for some very quick changes throughout the night. I would, however, point out that there is some material in the show that some may find a bit coarse.
After the show we briefly caught up with Julia. One of the other cast members took the photo of Pauline and me with Julia.
I talked to Julia about much more than her current project and our interview is certainly one of my all time favourites. I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to your comments.
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