Past Event

Em Rusciano: Stories, Songs and Self Flagellation

24th Sep 2011

Presenter: Butterfly @ Trades
Website: http://butterflyattrades.com/
Event Duration: 60 minutes

Making ample use of her strong, husky vocals and razor sharp comic timing, Em Rusciano will lead you through her "colourful" life story. This includes falling pregnant at the age of 21, a stint on Australian Idol, hosting breakfast radio and then a complete mental breakdown all backed up with regular bursts of re-interpreted pop bliss.

The show has *impressive special effects including a wind machine and a temperamental self operated fog producing unit. By turns funny, savage, camp and poignant - The Saintly Bitch Sings will leave you thinking: Thank God I'm not her!

ONE SHOW ONLY!

"A voice to die for" – Alan O'Riordan, Theatre Critic
"A very talented lady" - Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay
"Good at everything that doesn't matter" - Her mother

* may not be impressive or present

Artist Bio

If Freddie Mercury and Joan Rivers had a love child, the result might be something like Em Rusciano. Television and radio presenter, singer, former athlete and Italian mother of two, Em can basically do everything. As a nimble-footed high-school sprinter, Em pursued hurdling, going on to train at the Australian Institute of sport and making the national team.

After cracking a few good notes in the shower in her early twenties, Em auditioned for Australian Idol, finally making the top ten during the show's fabulously popular second season. And after tossing off some decent quips in her post-Idol interviews, Em was snapped up by the Austereo network. Going on to host Perth's 92.9FM breakfast radio show for four years, Em flirted with AFL footballers, traded baby-stories with suburban mums and jammed with the Black Eyed Peas.

She riffed on everything from US politics, to post-natal depression to Lady Gaga's man-bits, and drove the network to ratings supremacy, year after year. Now appearing on Network Ten's The 7pm Project, Em has the looks of a young Judy Garland, the warmth of a mother in a Dolmio commercial, the razor-sharp wit of a 1930s screwball heroine, and the musical tastes of a mid-forties gay man from Memphis.