I'm excited to let you know that I'm currently gearing up for my biggest project yet! My show

Rogue Romantic is touring to London and Edinburgh! This is an exciting opportunity to represent Adelaide and Australia as an independent original cabaret artist in an international market and will be huge leap forward. I'm engaging the support of friends and fans to make it all a reality. 

Following on from the success of my Adelaide Fringe season (there 3000 gorgeous humans saw my show, I was named "Best in Fringe" by the Adelaide Advertiser and was a recipient of the Edinburgh Award), I have been invited to present my show Rogue Romantic at the London Wonderground Festival in Southbank in the Famous Spiegeltent in July, and the Edinburgh Fringe for all of August! 

This is a huge and thrilling undertaking to tour Rogue Romantic to the UK, so it is with our eyes firmly set on our dreams that my all-female all-star band, my favourite palm tree, and my alter-egos are packing our bags ready to hit the road in July.

We are smashing together all sorts of exciting events in the build up to this tour to engage all our supporters friends and fans- THAT'S YOU! - in events, and magical happenings as we whip up a creative storm and try to meet our fundraising target!

You will have the opportunity to attend parts of our tour VIRTUALLY, have a date with the Rogue Romantic LITERALLY, or receive a postcard from overseas PHYSICALLY as well as all sorts of other great prizes and fundraising events along the way in both Adelaide and Melbourne.

All of this sound like madness? You're right! It is ! A sheer creative, fierce storm of determination and activity hurtling towards the end goal of pulling off this tour. And I want to let you - my supporters - in on all of the unfolding experiences. I want to give you the chance to be the first to hear a new song as I write it! I want to send you a letter when my band and I arrive in London! Let's do this together, come and get drenched in glitter and song in the winter with me and my friends.

SO YOU LOVED THE VIDEO?! ME TO! What a scream. Huge creative team that pulled it together

Thanks to Max MacKinnon of Same River Studio who filmed, edited and co-directed the piece.

Special thanks to:

Ninja - starring as NINJA the CHICKEN who was loved and doted on in the making of this movie, and she ate all the muffins.

Karen Davies - (Green Green Grass Communications) co-director, co-writer, lead-ninja-care-officer

Bec Francis - (If, Creativity) special credits- production design & skippy-paws-wrangler

Amanda Grace Nash - Make Up & Hair

Steve Pitkin - Lighting operation and design

Dean Donnovan and Yvonne Odegaard (Antique Market South Australia)

Will Spartalis - tech, mech, assistant and head-ops.

Alex DePorteus - helping hands and talent PA

Mackenzie Francis Brown - helping hands

Jemima Alford -helping hands

Skippy - paw model

Photography by Daniel Marks

An overview of some of the costs involved in this tour.

We have received $5000 from Arts SA through coming runner up in the Made in Adelaide award, and I anticipate based on last years attendence that most of the personell and hire fees will be covered by ticket sales, but I estimate we will be falling short. If successful, this Pozible campaign is what is going to make it all acheivable.

Venue fee (40% of ticket sales)

Festival registration costs £320

Inclusion in Joint Venues brochure £500

Production Crew

Lighting Design

technical staff £25 +VAT x 2 operators x 26 shows

Venue & Equipment 

Specials hire - lx 3 x profile specials (£30) haze fluid (£25) 

Equipment hire  BACKLINE for drums £960)+ (HEADSET MIC £50)+(receiver system £400)+(DI boxes £50)(other radio mic pack £420)+(keyboard hire £500) 

Piano hire x 2 London & Edinburgh 5 weeks

Rehearsal space hire to rehearse in new band £40 per day x 3 days

radio licence £35 per wavelength

Artist Related Fees

Artist Fees – BEC MATTHEWS (drums) 

Artist Fees – ANYA ANASTASIA 

Artist Fees – Alana Dawes (Bass)

Artist Fees – Piano player Laurie Black 

Accommodation 3 pax x 32 days @ £40 per night per person

Performer Flights

Transport and vehicle costs

Costumes & Consumables

Costume repair

Make up and costume disposables, batteries, drinks consumed in show, party poppers 

Confetti Canons x 26

Publicity & Promotions

Publicist fee 

Flyerer £10 / hr 2 hr per night Thurs-Sat 2 hours

Flyer printing x 5000 flyers

Poster printing and distribution

On site FOAMEX printed boards

Social Media advertising campaign around key points in the campaign

Poster and DL Flyer design Sarie Tardif

Promo video – Chris Bennett

Promo images - Kate Pardey

Merchandise production CDs 100 for £150 

There are of course a number of challenges in presenting this tour, largely fitting in all that needs to be done to get there.

From fundraising efforts, to tour preparations. Liaising about the marketing, and technical sides of the show, which is all still done by myself and my core team. But with the experience of last year's EdinburghFringe under my belt, I know what needs to be done, and with my great team around me, and a big push on the fundraising front, we're going to acheive the impossible, again!