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| 20 January 2009 |
| Lindi Jane |
LINDI JANE: Well, do you want to warm up? What is the matter? SNAPS: I've got a hand in my throat. HA HA HA! LINDI JANE: Just sing the song, alright. SNAPS: Okay, [sings] DAISY: So, I'm going to interview you. LINDI JANE: Oh alright, well, go ahead. DAISY: I'm Daisy by the way. She knows me. Now how did you start working with us guys? Puppets. LINDI JANE: Well, I had a hole in the heart when I was a little kid and I was in hospital for so long one of the nurses gave me a puppet and said it was great for therapy, and I decided to do it from there. SNAP: [sings] You're just jealous. DAISY: What do you think about doing this as a living? LINDI JANE: Well, it's a lot of fun because I get to make people completely happy. SNAP: Watch out, my fly's undone. FLUFFY FELINE: I'm French, I'm from gay Paris. MAN: So do you know Pepe La Pew? FLUFFY FELINE: No, he's a skunk. Isn't he a skunk? DAISY: Can you please tell us a little bit about ventriloquism? I can just say it. LINDI JANE: Ventriloquism means, it's like Latin for I speak from the belly, or I speak from the stomach. SNAP: What are you lookin' at! LINDI JANE: And it's a very old fashioned sort of trick. It's a trick of the eye and the ear. And you throw your voice which again is very similar to a bit of a trick… DAISY: Ooh, like this? Hello, hello, hello, hello. Is that right? LINDI JANE: Yes. And so it's like a magician. SNIFFER: I'm Canadian Golden retriever. Yes. DAISY: Did it take a long time to learn how to do ventriloquism? I said it again. LINDI JANE: You're very clever. DAISY: Ooh, I am. LINDI JANE: It did take a while. I started when I was four. So I was four years old. By the time I was eight I was doing it perfectly, never taught and I just mastered it from there. SNAP: You could laugh all day? DAISY: How do you develop us characters, being puppets? LINDI JANE: Daisy was from just a little cartoon that I did and I think that's probably various Wombles cum Womble era, many years ago. Where are you from? DAISY: Well, that's right. I'm from the London Zoo. I went there on the breeding program. LINDI JANE: That's how she got her accent. So I mean that personality came out of that, and Fluffy Feline, the French kitty, she obviously loves singing and she just became all French being all feathers and a kitty cat and Snaps, the typical Australian - DAISY: Crocodile.. LINDI JANE: Yes. he's a SNAC, a sensitive new age crocodile, and he just became the ocker. And then Sniffer was a Canadian Retriever so he obviously had an accent. So they've all got a little bit of a background that comes from a little piece of me and I think to develop the characters, it is by chance and experimenting with the crowds. DAISY: Yes, and seeing if they like you which they liked me, right? FLUFFY FELINE: What is your name? AMBER: My name is Amber. DAISY: Anbur? AMBER: Amber. LINDI JANE: Amber? That's fantastic. FLUFFY FELINE: You could look at me, not her. LINDI JANE: Ad libbing is probably my favourite. I'm terrible with scripts. DAISY: Ooh, She is. Never remembers a thing. What was that? Now you like singing, is that right? Do you like to sing a lot? LINDI JANE: I do, I think it started in the shower, very badly. DAISY: It was, I heard it. LINDI JANE: And then from there I just developed the singing and now I sing and dance in the shows called Snap's Kakadu Club, which is my kids show. FLUFFY FELINE: [Sings - Hey Big Spender] What do you think? MAN: Not really my type. |
