{"id":91157,"date":"2025-08-24T00:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91157\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:25:11","slug":"leo-sayer-says-best-years-are-ahead-as-he-plays-mundi-mundi-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91157\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Sayer says best years are ahead as he plays Mundi Mundi music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overlooking a sea of more than 15,000 people on the red earth plains in outback New South Wales on Saturday, Leo Sayer had the crowd rocking.<\/p>\n

The British-born singer who calls Australia home is best known for hits like You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, When I Need You, and Moonlighting, which was released 50 years ago last Friday.<\/p>\n

But at 77, the singer who first rose to fame in the 1970s believes the best is yet to come.<\/p>\n

“I’ve still got a fire in my belly to do better and better,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I know that’s silly sometimes because, you know, you get to a ripe old age and \u2026 all you can do is look back \u2026 but no, I’m looking forward.<\/p>\n

“[And] I keep thinking that there’s more to come.”<\/p>\n

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More than 15,000 people are attending this year’s Mundi Mundi Bash. (ABC Broken Hill: Bill Ormonde)<\/p>\n

After more than 55 years of performing, Sayer says he still loves it, and was thrilled to get the chance to strut his stuff at the Mundi Mundi Bash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now in its fifth year, the outback music festival is held every August on a goat station 35 kilometres west of Broken Hill.<\/p>\n

“I feel most at home \u2026 the amazing thing is I’m finding it just as refreshing and just as inviting to be touring now as I’ve ever done,” Sayer said.<\/p>\n

‘It beckons you’<\/p>\n

For Sayer, music has a transformative power and an ability to improve lives in many ways.<\/p>\n

“Especially in the world that we’re in at the minute, which is so mixed up,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a world that we have now, we don’t know what is fact and what is fiction.<\/p>\n

“So I think that music is a great power to carry us into our own minds and make us make our own decisions, which is terribly important at the moment.”<\/p>\n

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Leo Sayer says he is getting better with age. (ABC Broken Hill: Bill Ormonde)<\/p>\n

With a backlog of 60 or so songs, Sayer plans to continue releasing music well into the future.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been a very prolific worker. Whether that’s seen the light of day or not that doesn’t really matter,” he said.<\/p>\n

“If you’ve got the material it calls to come out, it beckons you. It just says ‘come on, release me’.”<\/p>\n

However, he was happy to admit not all of those songs were “all great”.<\/p>\n

“I don’t even know if they’re great until, you know, you get a reaction back,” he said.<\/p>\n

“That’s the weird thing about our business.”<\/p>\n

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The Mundi Mundi Bash, held this weekend, is in its fifth year. (ABC Broken Hill: Bill Ormonde)<\/p>\n

When it comes to stage presence, Sayer believes performers can be “like a fine wine”, in that they only get better with age.<\/p>\n

“You may not have the great voice you had [when you were younger], you may not have the energy \u2026 but you just get better,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Without sounding egotistical, I think I’m performing better than I’ve ever performed now.”<\/p>\n

Bash still getting bigger<\/p>\n

Mundi Mundi Bash organiser Greg Donovan said the festival was generating a positive reputation within the music industry, which helped lure artists such as Sayer, The Cat Empire and Missy Higgins.<\/p>\n

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Leo Sayer had a chance to explore Broken Hill while he was in town. (ABC Broken Hill: Bill Ormonde)<\/p>\n

“They’re happy to come and play \u2026 but you do have to start working a long way out. The 2026 line-up is almost locked in,” Mr Donovan said.<\/p>\n

“[Sayer] loves Australia and playing in Australia \u2026 and yeah, he was really happy to do that \u2026 he’s got so many great songs.”<\/p>\n

For his part, Sayer said he was “so thrilled to be a part” of the bash and had enjoyed exploring the outback city of Broken Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overlooking a sea of more than 15,000 people on the red earth plains in outback New South Wales…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,67673,67676,67680,67675,67677,67678,67679,67674],"class_list":["post-91157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-leo-sayer","tag-mundi-mundi","tag-mundi-mundi-2025","tag-mundi-mundi-bash","tag-mundi-mundi-bash-music-festival","tag-music-festival","tag-outback-music-festival","tag-you-make-me-feel-like-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}