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\"Cherie<\/a>
\n\u201cI just don\u2019t feel any different to when I was a kid, I think it\u2019s truly all in your head, my parents at fifty six, my Dad especially and my grandparents they thought they were way over the hill at fifty, and to me I\u2019m still like a teenager I\u2019m out there carving and still like I was in my twenties. So it\u2019s all truly a state of mind, some of us are just born to be forever young.\u201d<\/p>\n

From release: The Runaways\u00a0were one of the biggest stories on the 70\u2019s and will go down in history for their legacy as an all teenage girl hard rock act that sparked controversy and every teenage boy\u2019s desire. CHERIE CURRIE\u00a0fronted the band that have had timeless hits like\u00a0CHERRY BOMB & I LOVE PLAYIN\u2019 WITH FIRE. Their story was so compelling it prompted the making of the\u00a02010 movie\u00a0The Runaways<\/em>,\u00a0in which\u00a0Dakota Fanning portrayed\u00a0Currie!\u00a0The Runaways never made it downunder, so don\u2019t miss seeing the original \u201cCherry Bomb\u201d for Cherie Currie\u2019s first ever Australia and New Zealand tour.<\/p>\n

In Los Angeles we gave the absolutely delightful Cherie Currie a call to talk about her upcoming tour of Australia, old music, new music, legacy and much, much more\u2026<\/p>\n

This is amazingly your first tour to Australia, what are you most looking forward to about heading down here?<\/strong>
\nI have wanted to come to Australia for forty years, it has been a dream come true for me the possibility\u2026 I was gonna come eventually, possibly, even if it was in a walker but the fact that I\u2019ve been asked to come now is a gift, I feel like I must have done something right in my life.<\/p>\n

How are you planning to shape the set for these shows?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m actually using the same band that I used for my UK tour in November, they\u2019re fantastic, and I am a strong believer in giving fans what they want, because hey, I\u2019m a fan and any time I\u2019ve gone to see bands or solo artists I always want to hear my favourite songs and I am going to deliver that to The Runaways fans in Australia and have a couple of surprises along the way as well.<\/p>\n

You’ve kept busy over the years with solo albums as well as acting and with your art, as a performer what do you enjoy about the balance of these mediums?<\/strong>
\nWell, as far as being on stage for me it\u2019s just so natural that it\u2019s a joy, just a complete joy, I love the audiences and the people that I get to meet. Chainsaw art, I love the fact that I\u2019m my own boss and I don\u2019t have somebody telling me what to do, the chainsaw though sometimes tries to tell me, so I have to wrestle with that a little bit, but I love the fact I was able to overcome something as scary as a chainsaw and work so up close and personal with such a dangerous piece of machinery for the last fifteen years and keep myself intact. Acting is something I don\u2019t really do much anymore, but I certainly did enjoy it when I did, and if something ever came up I would definitely do it. I never say no to things anymore.<\/p>\n

Last year you released ‘Reverie’, your first solo album in quite some time. Why was now the right time for a new album?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019d actually made a record with Matt Sorum for Blackheart Records back in 2010 which is actually finally going to be coming out in September but that album was shelved for a few years and I got very frustrated so I left my management company there at Blackheart and decided to go out on the road myself. So I did four tours and then when I got back Kim Fowley and I had rekindled a friendship and spent countless hours going over the past and getting all that in order which was very important for me to do, and then he became very ill and then he reached out about making a record with him which of course I just jumped at the chance, because my goodness, I\u2019m not this terrified na\u00efve little girl anymore, I\u2019m a woman that actually really was interested in working with him again, and bring my son along with me. Jake and Kim wrote together beautifully and worked together and of course when Kim got very ill after the fourth song, he turned the entire record over to Jake, so it was quite an experience. I just wish we would have finished it, he died two weeks before the album was finished. \u00a0He actually moved into my home, he was bed ridden, but I took care of him for almost ten days then he had to go back into the hospital for surgery. Those are days I will always cherish because forty years changes a person, and he was not the same man, he still had the brilliance and the wit that Kim always had but he was a different person and it was great to know him now before he passed away instead of walking around with this misconception of what I thought that he might still be. So for me it was a great opportunity. It gave me the possibility to put the past behind me and all the things that troubled me as a young girl, now I\u2019ve replaced them with wonderful memories and I\u2019m so grateful for that.<\/p>\n

In another almost rekindling, what was it like playing with Lita again on ‘Reverie’?<\/strong>
\nWell actually I\u2019d worked with Lita for about a year before this record happened and she actually reached out to me to do a duet for a Christmas single she had written called \u2018Rock This Christmas Down\u2019 and I flew in from my last day on tour, and went directly from the airport to the studio and worked with her for the first time in forty years and it was absolutely so much fun. Then we had a friendship and she would ask me to do shows with her and I loved it, and then when this album happened she was involved from almost the very beginning, she was there when we were writing songs and leant her voice to \u2018Dark World\u2019 which was awesome, and then of course when we decided to do a couple of Runaways songs I had to have her involved, I couldn\u2019t not. So now that she\u2019s a singer I had her sing with me, so that was really cool.<\/p>\n

Has this given you a taste for it again and can we expect more music more often from you?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know, I really don\u2019t\u2026 I think it\u2019s something I\u2019ll always do because it\u2019s the easiest thing that I do in my life and that\u2019s performing and meeting people. I guess when you started as young as I was it\u2019s something that just comes very naturally and it\u2019s something that I feel I was meant to do, but we\u2019ll just see, after this tour, I just kind of take it day by day and see what happens. I do know for sure that the Blackheart record coming out in September, more than likely I will continue to tour.<\/p>\n

Was it even a thought in your mind back when The Runaways were at their peak of how influential they’d be in music so many years on?<\/strong>
\nI had a hope for it and of course how popular we got in the two years we were together definitely made me see that we were doing something that was changing people\u2019s ideas of what not only young girls being able to play but being tough enough to be in a male dominated business. Then I thought that we had all but been forgotten, especially when everybody said Madonna was the first one to put a corset on I went no that\u2019s not true and she should know better and she should give me kudos which she didn\u2019t *laughs*. You know, I just feel so blessed that I was a part of such a ground breaking band.<\/p>\n

Along with each member going on to do great things which is kind of unheard of with bands, is that a testament to the talent that was in the band?<\/strong>
\nI definitely think so, I feel bad that Sandy who unfortunately passed away, it would have meant so much for her to see this movie happen but I do believe that she is still with us in spirit, so that gives me a lot of comfort.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so great that you guys are still out there rockin\u2019 too\u2026<\/strong>
\nI just don\u2019t feel any different to when I was a kid, I think it\u2019s truly all in your head, my parents at fifty six, my Dad especially and my grandparents they thought they were way over the hill at fifty, and to me I\u2019m still like a teenager I\u2019m out there carving and still like I was in my twenties. So it\u2019s all truly a state of mind.<\/p>\n

Completely, I\u2019m the same, it\u2019s all about just going out and having fun, that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about I think\u2026<\/strong>
\nYes!\u00a0 Some of us are just born to be forever young. That\u2019s what I think, Troy, what about you? *laughs*<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, I sit here and go to gigs and interview rock stars and have a ball doing it, I don\u2019t feel my age at all\u2026<\/strong>
\nWell you know what? You\u2019re really good at it too so you\u2019re definitely doing the right thing.<\/p>\n

Thank you very much! Now, so how does it make you feel that a song like ‘Cherry Bomb’ is so loved after over 40 years?<\/strong>
\nOh my gosh, thrilled! You know what? The thing I feel that\u2019s lacking in music today is that and I talk about this when you\u2019ve got TV shows like \u2018The Voice\u2019 or \u2018Idol\u2019 and all of these huge expectations that are laid on young people of today, I mean how could anyone move forward, even if they\u2019re born to do it without trepidation and fear, and I feel that\u2019s the one thing about this stretch of time in music where either you are the best of the best of the best or you\u2019re thrown off a stage in disgrace. We wouldn\u2019t have had Mick Jagger and Rolling Stones, we wouldn\u2019t have had so many amazing performers had it been that way as it is today. I can\u2019t wait until we have more people out there just baring their soles that aren\u2019t these great, amazing almost impossible singers because it doesn\u2019t do anything for me. I haven\u2019t listened to current music is so many years now because it\u2019s just overdone and produced and every note has to be perfect and to me life isn\u2019t like that, so yeah\u2026.<\/p>\n

So what do you like to listen to?<\/strong>
\nWell I listen to my son\u2019s band Maudlin Strangers, I listen to classic rock, and again, like I say what I\u2019m gonna give to the people that come to my shows, the music I grew up with meant something to me and that\u2019s 70\u2019s rock and roll.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve talked about music and the industry being a much different place now than it was when you were in The Runaways, what for you is the most notable change in the way music is created and broadcast to the world now?<\/strong>
\nWell, my goodness, you don\u2019t even need a record company to have a record out these days and everything is just right at your fingertips with iPhones. I kind of miss the days where you had to actually save up your money and go down to the local record store after you\u2019ve saved up for a month to get a Bowie record, or something like that. It\u2019s so different in this day and age, I long for the old days really.<\/p>\n

Over your career has there been a stand out moment that will always stick with you?<\/strong>
\nI will have to say, well there were many\u2026 meeting David Bowie for the first time at The Rathskeller a tiny little club that he came to when we played in Boston, and meeting Debbie Harry, and also stepping off the plane in japan to just a sea of Beatlemania where we really realised that all that work we had been doing for the past two years actually meant something.<\/p>\n

I love that you were together for only two years and the impact was so big that it continues after forty years\u2026<\/strong>
\nThanks, well those are my memories and they were really great ones, and you know what? I can\u2019t wait to make memories in Australia. I\u2019ve been waiting for this for forty years *laughs*<\/p>\n

Lastly let’s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence for me, the one thing Cherie Currie wants to do in 2016 is…<\/strong>
\nCome to Australia\u2026 *laughs*<\/p>\n

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Catch Cherie Currie on her first ever tour of Australia at the following dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 26th | The Triffid, BRISBANE
\nMay 27th | Manning Bar, SYDNEY
\nMay 28th | Corner Hotel, MELBOURNE
\nMay 31st | The Gov, ADELAIDE
\nJune 1st | Rosemount Hotel, PERTH<\/p>\n

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Presented by David Roy Williams and Tombowler<\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong>\u00a0Los Angeles, CA, USA<\/p>\n

Band Members:<\/strong>\u00a0Cherie Currie<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.cheriecurrie.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018Reverie\u2019 (Out Now)<\/p>\n

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