i mean, it was quite a quick sort of not particularly thought about decision about the end of 200a. i was in sydney writing a little musical with my friends, actually, and this cabaret thing i was doing was definitely quite clearly looking like the thing i should concentrate on. people were really enjoying it and the room was... you know, sometimes i was playing to two people in the audience, but in general, people were starting to take a bit of an interest. # you could be clever as voltaire # but it won't get you nowhere if you want to sell discs # and very early 2005, i did a show at the seymour centre in sydney and i had just decided to... i've got very curly hair. i decided to straighten my hair, don't know why. and i'd lost a bit of weight and ijust thought, ijust had this sense that maybe this show i was doing, which at the time was called dark side, might be a bit of a chance. and so i thought... i've always had a fairly pragmatic attitude to this. i'm not someone who thinks,