Picture by Kylie Coutts Yesterday, Sarah Blasko explained how her life was turned upside down as the things she thought she knew about herself were shown to be far less steady. “I had to rid myself of a lot of unnecessary stuff and start again.” Read part 1 here. In the second part of this interview, she bares more scars and explains why it hasn’t always made sense to be open. At the same time as becoming a mother upturned her sense of self in many ways – most of them positiv

Picture by Kylie Coutts In the fully exposed, glassed-walled conference room plonked in the middle of the floor at her multi-national record company, Sarah Blasko isn’t pissing about with soft terms or obfuscation. “My identity was completely broken,” says the multi award-winning singer/songwriter/producer with surprising, almost shocking frankness. “I came into writing this album a broken person.” Having spent most of her 16-year solo career being what some might call button

SARAH BLASKO Depth Of Field (EMI) Sarah Blasko is often at her best, and always at her most intriguing, when emotionally/physically displaced and more than a little bit tense. Discomfort is her most comfortable creative zone, and her most rewarding musical environment. It may sound counter-intuitive but in fact it makes perfect sense. For many years her gigs were a clash/melding of her social awkwardness and a strong desire to be a performer, which then expressed itself in ge

Sarah Blasko has it figured out. Or has us figured out. Those of us who will hear her fifth album, Eternal Return, and its songs of unabashed declarations of love and happiness and make assumptions. Those who will want to ask why, and how, and who, behind those assumptions. Those who she would much rather were looking elsewhere. Listening, yes, please, she wants you to listen. But looking elsewhere for answers. "I can hear the sort of piece that people want this to be: ‘Sarah