Bek was in Brisbane on Easter Sunday and Blackbeat radio station managed to score an interview with the boookah.
[D = Dan]
[B = Bookah]
D: Folks we have a special guest who has just entered out studios and graced us with her presence, it’s an angel in disguise would you please welcome to the blackbeat radio show,(laughs) bek! as she giggles, now bek when you talk into the microphone please shoot straight down the barrelly(?!?) (bek interrupts)
B: straight down..
D: yes.. so first of all i would like to thank you for joining us
B: Thank you for having me!
D: ahhh.. we’ve been anticipating this all week, a chance to chat with the Australian Idol… (bek interrupts)
B: LIAR!
D: oh look! honestly! we’ve been thinking about you going yeah.. bek’s coming to our show..
(meanwhile Bek is giggling in the background)
D: So tell us about bek.. who is bek?
B: bek… who’s bek… I’M BEK!
D: yeah.. what’s.. where you from.. (bek interrupts) what do you do..
B: ohh.. this is where i say something really intellectual eey.. i’m not good at that!! uhh… no.. no… just me! same bek from idol
D: What’s your full name bek?
B: Rebekah LaVauney
D: And where is Rebekah LaVauney from?
B: Based from Sydney
D: Uh-huh
B: Yup
D: Background?
B: Samoan-English..
D: and into rnb..
B: half-caste..
D: sorry?
B: half-caste..
D: and um.. sorry i’m lost on that..
B: it means half half.. you know when you got a bit of something else.. bit half.. yup.. cool!! (dan laughs) next question!!
(They alll laugh)
D: Where are you at now with your recording career, your music career, your singing career?
B: Yeah.. i’m recording at the moment in sydney..umm.. original songs, so that’s really cool
D: Yeah..
B: And.. i’m just performing.. yeah.. Melbourne.. Brisbane… Sydney.. you know, Corporate gigs and clubs and that.. just doing what i can..
D: yeah? (bek interrupts)
B: it’s cool…busy as…
D: are you getting paid the big bucks?
B: Pardon?
D: Are you getting paid the big bucks??
B: Yeah! It’s really reallly freaky when you look at your bank balance and your used to you know… two dollars… minus
(They all crack up laughing…) lol
B: and then instead it’s more than that.. but yeah! enjoying it while it lasts!
D: What you doing here in Queensland?
B: Singing at this.. um… (Dan interrupts)
D: See.. see now your talking off the microphone
B: ohh.. yeah…uuuh…
D: okay now you got it..
B: Singing at Infusion, heard that place goes off, so… that should be fun! and also mel’s singing before me so i’m looking forward to seeing her perform, should be good
D: She’s one of our local favourites you know?
B: Well.. she’s now one of MY local favourites..
D: She’s been around for yeaars.. oh my god i remember singing with her a long long time ago
Bek giggles…
Dan laughs…
B: She’s not that old.. she looks pretty young to me..
D: Yeah.. she looks 18!
Bek giggles..
D: Sweet girl.. Let’s talk about your future, where are you planning to go with your future?
B: ummmm… well pretty much hoping.. yeah! to be able to get a record deal doing what i’d like to do instead of doing what the record companies wants you to do.. which is hard to get at the moment.. but umm.. i just want to keep writing and singing..
D: What stlye of music are you writing?
B: uuhh RnB/Hip Hop instead of RnB/Pop
D: yeah?
B: so that’s why.. RnB/Hip Hop is pretty hard to breakthrough with the record companies in Australia, so hopefully i’ll be one of the first girls..so..
D: Do you think you’ll make it?
B: Do i think i will?
D: yeah?
B: i think there’s a chance…
D: oohhhh… who you working with down in Sydney? who’s the producer?? and who’s the..
B: ahhh i’m working with Richard Stanford who worked on…umm…with… Guy!
D: yeah..
B: and delta.. and ummm.. just a few other people..
D: is there any surprises in your recording we should expect?
B: surprises?? awww.. not really! (Bek laughs – gotta love that laugh!) I’m not very exciting am i?? Your going.. aww.. she’s a bit boring.. nah nah…
D: naaaahh… naaahh.. i don’t think that at all.. i must explain to the people that you know.. standing here.. just looking at you smiling.. i mean.. oh! your a beautiful person and when we hear you sing you’re going to take us to another level i’m sure..
B: thank you..
D: ummm.. i’ve just got a couple of questions from our people that post on the forum at the blackbeat website.. one of our members.. uhh.. ‘crunchaka’ has asked umm… (bek giggles in background) when are you going to be going to be going to melbourne??
B: Melbourne! On the 23rd and the 24th of this month and also on the 8th of May
D: where will you performing there?
B: At next blue on the friday and saturday and also at.. oooOOoooo they’re going to kill me.. illusions? and then on the 8th of May at illusions again..
D: you are busy aren’t you?
B: yes i am..
D: you liking it?
B: i am.. very much!
D: she likes it.. beksmyidol is one of our members as well at the blackbeat website…. she says when are you going to go to melbourne (oops! booboo dan!) because she spoke to a couple of guys.. some friends of yours, from lethbridge and she said that they said they were going to get you up to Bundaberg, so when are you going to go to Bundaberg?
B: Bundaberg?? ohh!! that’s news to me!!
Bek laughs, Dan laughs
B: But i’ll love to come to yup.. yup.. yup… yup… i havent been invited!!
Bek laughs
D: ohh we’ll try and find out someone to get in contact with you and we’ll put you up at Bundaberg at the sugar mill factory or something like that..
B: Yup.. that will be good
D: okay.. Well, thank you so much for joining us today.. she’s rubbing her eyes and thinkin oh my god i’m so embarrassed
bek mumbles some words..
D: It’s okay to be you!
B: yes..
D: People will accept you for being you
B: yup..
D: Well, on behalf of Blackbeat Community we would like to thank you so much for joining us today
B: And thank you for having me
D: Um.. Can we get a snippet of Bek? singing live acrosss the airwaves?
B: Singing? oOOOooo umm…
BEK SINGS!! woohooo!! lol..
*everytime i see your face i feel like dancing*
D: ohhhhh yeah! can we get a round of an applause for bek! thank you soo much for joining us here!! i’m sure we’ll be talking to her very soon.
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