Absentee cowgirl
She’s owned an 800 acre, 1000 cow dairy farm in Taupo for 25 years, but this year was the first time she’s seen it. In fact, this year is the first time she’s even been to New Zealand.
“I went there to see it. It was absolutely enormous. I stayed a few days in Taupo. It was beautiful, absolutely beautiful.” “But I wouldn’t know one end of a cow from another,” she says with a laugh.
So it was a pleasant surprise, she says from her Brisbane hotel, to be invited to visit New Zealand for a gig at St James Theatre and another at a variety show in Auckland.
“I was waiting to be asked,” she says. “I really don’t know why [it’s taken so long]. I tour all the time. Maybe it’s come up before but it wasn’t viable.”
Tyler’s best known for her 70s and 80s tracks Total Eclipse of the Heart, Lost in France and It’s a Heartache and expect lots of those numbers at her Wellington gig because, she says, they’re the ones that the audience sing along to.
“They expect those kinds of songs and, to be honest, I still love singing them. They sing along with me. It’s great fun.”
Tyler’s career has changed focus from the days of pop stardom and number one hits, but hasn’t yet slowed down. She says her manager has booked “loads of live performances” in Europe next year.
“[My manager says] it’s looking really busy and I’m going, ‘Aww, not too busy,” she says, but admits music is her life. She’s now on album 16.
“I couldn’t give it up. It’s a part of my life. It’s a big part of my life. I’ve been singing since 1969. You don’t have to be in the charts to be enjoying this life.”
Bonnie Tyler, St James Theatre, November 7.
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