Delta Goodrem on feeling like a Lancashire local and loving Preston

Lancashire Post

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00:00Hi, my name's Chad Marshall and I'm a digital reporter with the Lancia Post and Blackpool

00:05Gazette newspapers and recently I was at BBC Radio 2 in the park to kind of soak up the

00:09atmosphere at the festival itself as well as speaking to a few of the headline acts

00:14who were performing on the day and one of those people who I was lucky enough to grab

00:18a quick chat with was the Australian actor, singer, songwriter, general performer and

00:24entertainer Delta Goodrum. Now we spoke to Delta about a number of things including the

00:28inclement British weather, what she loves most about British festivals, becoming almost

00:33a local in the North West after her performance at the Lytton Festival earlier this year as

00:38well as BBC Radio 2 in the park in Moor Park in Preston and countless other things including

00:44the fact that she just loves being an all-rounder in the entertainment industry, doing everything

00:47from the acting to the songwriting and the performing on stage as a singer. So yeah,

00:51here's what she had to say to us.

00:54How are you finding the British weather?

00:56You know what, that's what I was saying, I don't come over here for the weather, I come

00:59for the people, the culture, the music, the fun and frankly a little bit of rain is not

01:04going to stop a great day.

01:05She said, what do you like about the UK, the culture, what do you like about it?

01:08You know what, for me, it is a long way from Australia and when we come over here, there

01:13is so much about it that I love and I mean, when we're in the city, I've been coming to

01:18Preston as well, I've had a great time just getting to see everybody and just the history

01:25of it.

01:26The more coming over to this side of the world, the better. I have felt a lot of love here

01:30and in coming back with Hearts for the Run and Back to Your Heart, especially with Radio

01:352 and I feel really at home and it feels really nice to be back.

01:39You mentioned just how special it is to come to the UK to perform these kind of events,

01:42but specifically coming to Preston, have you been to Preston before, how did you find it?

01:46Well, I had been to Litham actually with the Shania Twain show, so I wasn't far from here

01:52and that was an amazing show. We'd done it with Rag and Bone and Shania and that was

01:58the last time, I wasn't here that long ago on that tour, but now I feel like I've been

02:07here in this vicinity near Manchester and in Preston near Litham like twice in this

02:12year, so I think there will be a third soon.

02:14You're practically a local.

02:15There must be, I'm pretty much a local around here guys and I've heard there's hotels named

02:20after me around here, so frankly there's a calling.

02:25Which do you enjoy the most, the acting, the singing, which side of your career really

02:29appeals to you the most?

02:30I mean I always have been a hybrid and I love that in this kind of day and age people accept

02:35that a lot more, I think even when I started people were a bit more like are you a singer

02:39or an actress, I do all of it, it's all part of a story and it's an expression of something

02:47that you want to share through a piece of art or form, so I kind of love that now I

02:54can strongly stand in both and love them both very much.

02:58Because when I was growing up I did the singing, dancing, acting, piano, guitar, I did all

03:05the musical elements and all the parts of the creative, so writing songs, producing

03:12them and it gets even more fun as time goes on, you tend to enjoy it even more because

03:18you get even more experienced and there's more of a mastery to being able to find different

03:23things in the songs or the shows.

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