Post by Ava on Jun 16, 2004 20:34:04 GMT 10
thanks to Christine:
Bert: Mark it’s an exciting time for you again because you’re back into it aren’t you?
Mark: Yes you remember this time last year we were having the same conversation and I said to you.” Bert I think I feel so confident about Australian idol 1, I’m absolutely sure it’s going to be a hit, well this year I feel exactly the same, in fact I feel its going to be a bigger hit this year.
Bert: Are the auditions over and done with?
Mark: The auditions are done, the auditions (marks starts laughing)Ohhhh Man. I have never laughed so much, last year I got kind of upset by all the loonies cause I was looking ..You know I am seriously looking for the real actual talent sort of and the loonies kind off annoyed me. This year I just sat back and had the biggest laugh, its been fantastic.
Bert: Good talent though
Mark: Yeah I will tell you what’s happened this year that I am actually pretty excited about. There is a crop of sixteen and seventeen year olds that haven’t been culled by all the shows over the last few years, they are a fresh crop. I reckon there is probably 20 kids who are 16 or 17 who have come through the audition process who are just fantastic and I reckon probably 10 of them are really, really, really special, and I reckon there’s probably 3 or 4 of them are going to end up being big stars.
Bert: You can’t give us names of course cause that would ruin the whole series, but I mean have you seen someone there that you really believe could be international?
Mark: yeah ahhh there’s one, well as I said there a number of these 16 year olds who really do shine and ahh look I’m predicting that its going to bigger than last year. I really feel that. Its been a riot listening to Dicko being a complete idiot you know for 6 weeks on the road. He is so funny.
Bert: And Marcia?
Mark: Marcia, Marcia has kind of morphed. She did this thing last year where everybody is lovely everybody’s beautiful everything’s lovely. This year there this character that I have termed Martha and Martha is kind of Morphed out of Marcia and is sorta Martha and the vendettas. Martha is kind of a bit vicious and, and, and Martha actually tells the truth whereas Marcia everything is Love and light you know. So it’s lovely to see that confidence in Marcia.
Bert: And Dicko is funny
Mark: Dicko is a riot.
Bert: Are any of the acts as good as Levi?
Mark: AHHHHHH UMMMM
Bert: Levi was on the show yesterday
Mark: Yes
Bert: he thinks you’re the loony
Mark: Yeah….He dogged me???
Bert: Yeah
Mark: Look I hope for Levi’s sake that I’m not wrong about him because in fact I’m a huge supporter of Levi’s and I was a huge support of Levi all through the season last year
Bert: Until?
Mark: NO, NO I never stopped being a supporter of his and to this day I am a supporter of his and I hope that Lethbridge his band and him go on to bigger and better things.
Mark:There is 4 of the guys now that have had chart hits you know from the show and were about to have Paulini drop her single, and I was with Cosima Last week and Cosima, Cosima’s heading of to America to make a record with Diane Warren who is the NO1 song writer in the world.
Bert: Right.
Mark: so reckon were going to have at least six of them, six out of the final 12 having hits. I reckon that’s a pretty good record.
Bert: Yeah Sure is
Bert: (Levi) He talked about your early career well actually asked me about your early career because he wasn’t around then. He said that ahh he’s seen you sing on the Panel with Marcia or Martha whoever it was that night.
Mark: (laughing) It was Marcia that night as I recall
Bert: Mark it’s an exciting time for you again because you’re back into it aren’t you?
Mark: Yes you remember this time last year we were having the same conversation and I said to you.” Bert I think I feel so confident about Australian idol 1, I’m absolutely sure it’s going to be a hit, well this year I feel exactly the same, in fact I feel its going to be a bigger hit this year.
Bert: Are the auditions over and done with?
Mark: The auditions are done, the auditions (marks starts laughing)Ohhhh Man. I have never laughed so much, last year I got kind of upset by all the loonies cause I was looking ..You know I am seriously looking for the real actual talent sort of and the loonies kind off annoyed me. This year I just sat back and had the biggest laugh, its been fantastic.
Bert: Good talent though
Mark: Yeah I will tell you what’s happened this year that I am actually pretty excited about. There is a crop of sixteen and seventeen year olds that haven’t been culled by all the shows over the last few years, they are a fresh crop. I reckon there is probably 20 kids who are 16 or 17 who have come through the audition process who are just fantastic and I reckon probably 10 of them are really, really, really special, and I reckon there’s probably 3 or 4 of them are going to end up being big stars.
Bert: You can’t give us names of course cause that would ruin the whole series, but I mean have you seen someone there that you really believe could be international?
Mark: yeah ahhh there’s one, well as I said there a number of these 16 year olds who really do shine and ahh look I’m predicting that its going to bigger than last year. I really feel that. Its been a riot listening to Dicko being a complete idiot you know for 6 weeks on the road. He is so funny.
Bert: And Marcia?
Mark: Marcia, Marcia has kind of morphed. She did this thing last year where everybody is lovely everybody’s beautiful everything’s lovely. This year there this character that I have termed Martha and Martha is kind of Morphed out of Marcia and is sorta Martha and the vendettas. Martha is kind of a bit vicious and, and, and Martha actually tells the truth whereas Marcia everything is Love and light you know. So it’s lovely to see that confidence in Marcia.
Bert: And Dicko is funny
Mark: Dicko is a riot.
Bert: Are any of the acts as good as Levi?
Mark: AHHHHHH UMMMM
Bert: Levi was on the show yesterday
Mark: Yes
Bert: he thinks you’re the loony
Mark: Yeah….He dogged me???
Bert: Yeah
Mark: Look I hope for Levi’s sake that I’m not wrong about him because in fact I’m a huge supporter of Levi’s and I was a huge support of Levi all through the season last year
Bert: Until?
Mark: NO, NO I never stopped being a supporter of his and to this day I am a supporter of his and I hope that Lethbridge his band and him go on to bigger and better things.
Mark:There is 4 of the guys now that have had chart hits you know from the show and were about to have Paulini drop her single, and I was with Cosima Last week and Cosima, Cosima’s heading of to America to make a record with Diane Warren who is the NO1 song writer in the world.
Bert: Right.
Mark: so reckon were going to have at least six of them, six out of the final 12 having hits. I reckon that’s a pretty good record.
Bert: Yeah Sure is
Bert: (Levi) He talked about your early career well actually asked me about your early career because he wasn’t around then. He said that ahh he’s seen you sing on the Panel with Marcia or Martha whoever it was that night.
Mark: (laughing) It was Marcia that night as I recall
