When Kate Ceberano played the Australian Made tour with her band I'm Talking in the summer of 1986-87, she was already a veteran of the Australian music industry at barely 20 years old.

The concert series - which saw her share the big stage with INXS, Jimmy Barnes, Divinyls and more came at a time when most of the headline acts were making inroads overseas.

"I remember being very shy around all of the other acts and I overcompensated by trying to pretend I was a lot more cool with it than I actually was," Ceberano remembers.

She describes being overwhelmed, starstruck; and hints at the sort of shenanigans to be expected of 20-year-old rock stars.

"A lot went down on that tour," she concedes.

"It was a blessing that we didn't have social media back in those days!"

But Ceberano was far

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