Matt Hadgraft and I met a few years ago when we worked together on the musical The Boy From OZ. Matt is a huge Peter Allen fan. He has created his own Peter Allen cabaret show. He has also created an Elton John tribute show and he was part of an ABBA tribute band that toured Australia. Matt has been involved in community and professional entertainment for a very long time.

So I guess music and performing is a bit more than a hobby for you.
It is it is somewhat. I always wanted to be a film director or have my own sitcom. Something else like that. But as a kid I was a choirboy. Let’s skip forward past all of school to I went to uni at the Queensland Conservatorium. I was astonished to find out how much music I had already learned through the choir. Anyway, music just was so much in my bones that I noticed when it was missing. And I think that’s more how I fell into it as a Korea of sorts. But that said, I never started making any kind of a living out of music until I moved to Melbourne, which is part of the reason I came here because there was so much more going on. I played in an ABBA tribute band, which was easily one of the best summative experiences you can have in such a good way to see Australia because no matter where you land, people know ABBA and they are prepared to get loose screaming a lot