Australia's Queen of Trance: Altitude, Dreamstate, Symbiotic, Hypersonic & More | Janette Bishara
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How did Janette first get into the trance scene and meet MaRLo?
Welcome back to Danny Rands. Today I have a very special guest, one of the queens of trance, one of the most dominant promoters in Australia. None other than probably doesn't even need an introduction, Jeanette Bashira. How are you today?
I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Thanks for that intro.
I've been uh chasing you for a long while and I'm up in Sydney. That's how it seriously took it when you reached out to me. I was like, I will come straight away.
So that's awesome. Appreciate that.
So whining all the way back right, obviously you're from Sydney originally.
Yes.
You obviously get into trance at some point.
Yes.
When and how does that begin? Your love of music?
When I started dating Marlo, my husband now, um, that was like twelve something years ago. Um, I was an R and B girly. I was like Beyoncé, all that kind of stuff. And then he was obviously already DJing in the clubs and I would go with him to his gigs. And I just started to like the music from that. I was never really into the partying side of things. But yeah, that's how I got into the music.
And so when you were going out originally into those clubs, like what clubs were you going to?
Daydreams, it's like a recovery party in Sydney. Um, sometimes his set time would be like five AM. So it was like hard transit point.
So Sydney is very famous when it comes to trance. They love it. Like some of the festivals here are humongous.
Yeah.
What is the connection and sort of the I guess it's such an the interest that Sydney has with trance, you think?
I don't know, I feel like trance and hardstyle in Sydney, they're one of those they're the two genres that are just have always been there and will always be there. I don't know the reason, but they just love it. It's just ingrained in people here.
And the other thing I like to see with trance is that people don't age out of it. So it's like you talk about house or you know commercial, even EDM, for whatever reason, people continue to stay in trance. Like you go, I've been to plenty of your festivals. Yeah. There's sixty year olds there. Yeah, like they just sort of stick to it and it's has some sort of emotional connection to them that they never kind of opt out.
No, I think and I think it's the emotional connection. It's one once you're hooked on trance music, yeah, it stays with you. Forever. We just had Above and Beyond on the weekend and there were sixty year olds there and they love it and they've been going, you know, for So so so many years and they'll keep going. And it's great. I love it.
Yeah, it's like it's like their version of uh John Farnham, the voice.
Yeah.
So going back to there, you're to going to Dreamers, it's five o'clock in the morning. At what point do you start to say, I actually might make this a career also?
Well, I think that was the thing. I was going to all of these gigs with him and I d wasn't really into the partying. I don't drink, I don't party or or anything like that. So I just started offering my services to the promoters, whoever it was. I'll work on the door, I'll take some photos, I'll sell some tickets for you, I'll promote it. Like Just things like that and that kind of grew one step into the other, into yeah, where I am now.
What were the clubs that you were doing that stuff with?
Brown Alley, do you remember Brad Drummond back in the day? So he rock star. Yeah. He took me under his wing when he started doing sensation and stuff with I D and T. Um and then I was kind of doing the club sort of stuff for him. So that's sort of where it started in Melbourne for sure.
Did you m when did you move to Melbourne from Sydney?
Oof. We actually lived in Sydney, then we moved to Amsterdam, and then we moved to Melbourne like Twenty fifteen? Twenty sixteen.
Yeah, there you go.
Do they off? Okay, we move so we We lived in Sydney, then we moved to Amsterdam, then we moved to Melbourne like two thousand eight.
So you come into two thousand and eight? Jake.
There you go. Exactly. Yeah, far out.
So you're coming down to Melbourne in two thousand eight, two thousand six, it's uh their verdict's out on when that was.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Janette first get into the trance scene and meet MaRLo?
0:00–5:39
2
What motivated her to start working behind the door and become a promoter?
5:39–12:14
3
How did Symbiotic, Altitude and other brands get created and grow?
12:14–18:22
4
Why are there so few female promoters in Australia and how has that changed?
18:22–25:00
5
What challenges does she face balancing motherhood, touring and running large events?
25:00–31:29
6
How does the production team develop the unique visual concepts for events like Hyperdome?
31:29–38:12
7
What are the biggest lessons learned from scaling festivals from 5 000 to 20 000+ attendees?
38:12–44:03
8
What new shows are coming up and what’s the vision for the future of Australian trance festivals?
44:03–52:08
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