#107 Kora Naughton

19 May

Rae Leigh: Welcome to a Songwriters Trysts with Kora Noughton how you doing?

Kora Noughton: I'm good. How are you?

Rae Leigh: Yeah. Okay. So Kora, tell me about yourself. You're a songwriter, obviously.

Kora Noughton: Okay, well, I'm Kora, obviously I'm not entertained and I'm probably your typical everyday teenager who just happens to love music and songwriting as well. Yeah I've kind of just, I've never really grown up in the music world, but found my place in it. And yeah I wouldn't change it for the world.

A little bit of a nerd. And yeah, I've considered myself really lucky to have the people in the family and friends that I have around me. So it's probably the most important parts about me is the people that I surround myself. I think.

Rae Leigh: That's the most important thing about everyone, I reckon, although we can always just try to be better.

Kora Noughton: So

Rae Leigh: Well, you said you were node, what type of a nerd? Like a science nerd or like a gaming nerd?

Kora Noughton: science note, I love science. Yeah. Kind of always being, if I wasn't a musician, I would be assigned as you know, which is so opposite of each other.

It doesn't really

Rae Leigh: they are, but they're not.

Kora Noughton: yeah. Yeah.

Rae Leigh: Yeah, they're not.

Kora Noughton: science and I think, you know, I'm being considering that going to uni next year and doing a science course, which will be exciting if I do it.

I know I have kind of depends on how you see you guys with music, I guess.

Rae Leigh: Yeah. So you're doing like a gap year of music.

Kora Noughton: Yeah. Well, I mean, last year was supposed to be my gap year. I was supposed to go into full-time music last year and see how I go. And then do you, this, he obviously didn't kind of get the chance to, to COVID. So yeah, this is my second year. Yeah. making it work.

Rae Leigh: Yeah. Cool. I did a biomedical science degree after my high school, so like I love science and I think it just shows that you're inquisitive, curious person that's willing to learn. And that, that's really what a scientist is someone who is okay about asking questions

Kora Noughton: in this kind of work.

Rae Leigh: ask

Kora Noughton: Yeah. Yeah.

And I've kind of always wanted to go into that kind of research field. And it's been kind of between my head and my heart, whether I chase music or science. And I'm kind of now thinking, you know, maybe I can fit both into my life and want to know. We'll see how it works out.

Rae Leigh: It can be good to have a few strings to your bow, no matter what you do and just stay open-minded the right opportunities will present itself, but you still gotta go knock on those doors and just see what happens.

But yeah, no, that's cool. No, you're a scientist sister after my own heart who loves music and they do to totally go together.

I don't know why, but so many people who play instruments are also very scientific and have a skill in that area. So it must be like similar brainwaves or

Kora Noughton: Okay. So.

Rae Leigh: I haven't looked up the research behind that, but you know, that's how, that's my theory.

So tell me about how you wrote your first song.

How did you fall into this music world?

Kora Noughton: I vote my first song. Well, I mean the first song that I can remember in the festival that I can remember and actually finished and whatnot I was. Maybe 11 and I hadn't guitar, you know, I've never played, I don't even know you're tall, but I'd never played it or anything like that. I had no idea how to play it.

So I just kind of wrote down some lyrics. And so I've seen them and you know, my, my parents suggested, you know, you should learn guitar and start writing and I'm sure the song wasn't that great back then, but yeah.

I dunno from that moment on it is the first time that I can remember. You know, loving writing music.

And I kind of just once I picked up a guitar, it was probably a couple of years later, but once I did that, it felt like everything kind of clicked for me. It, everything felt like it was just. So meant to be, you know,

Rae Leigh: Yeah, just felt natural.

Kora Noughton: Ever thought about singing, you know, I never even wanted to sing in front of people.

I never wanted to be a performer. I wanted to be a songwriter. I want it to be that person behind the scenes that writes all the songs for you, famous fable, you know?

Rae Leigh: Yeah.

Kora Noughton: Yeah.

Rae Leigh: That's unusual though, as well.

Like, I mean, I've talked to so many people who are like, yeah, I just want to be on stage. And which just fine, like attention is a very healthy part of being human. But it's less likely to come across people who are like, no, I just want to write the

Kora Noughton: Yeah. Well, I mean, that was kind of that's kind of what I've always said, that if I couldn't perform anymore for the rest of my life, I would be absolutely heartbroken. But if I couldn't write songs, I think my life would be over, you know, like it's just kind of. Where I feel like I've fit into this world more than anywhere else.

You know, I love being on stage. I adore it. But at the end of the day, I love putting my songs out there and people hearing what I write. And I think that's the big difference for me is that songwriting isn't something that I do so that I can perform. So writing is something that I do. Because I love it and I perform it because I lack that people can hear those songs.

that I wrote. Yeah,

Rae Leigh: Yeah, absolutely. That's beautiful. And what do you sort of want people to get out of your songs that they hear, whether you perform them or not?

Is there like a golfing

Kora Noughton: I guess everyone's thing is kind of connecting with the music, but at the same time, you know, every song has its own soul, its own purpose, its own hot. And I think that's a really great thing about music is that there's no rules, especially when it comes to song writing. You can write a song of that.

Your dog, you can write a song about your guitar. You can write a song about the most important world problems and someone out there is still going to connect to it. And that's what I think is so awesome is that you can find people who connect to your music in their own way. And it might not even be the way that you intended it. that?

might not be the way that you wrote it, but people find connections in this world. And I think That's really awesome.

Rae Leigh: That's what I live for is that connection with other people that I don't know, some people can see your soul in there. They're open to it. And other people, you know, clash and that's perfectly normal. That's fine. We just got to keep going and be drawn to the souls that we need to be drawn to. We're not meant to be drawn to everyone or that be kind of creepy.

Kora Noughton: Okay. Yeah. I mean, I guess that's what this is for me, you know, I write songs and you take it or leave it. I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but at the end of the day, it's my, it's kind of like it's my heart on a platter and you either love it or you don't And that's fine with me.

Rae Leigh: And that's a really healthy attitude to have. And I think that stopped me from doing music for such a long time, because I was like too scared that if someone didn't like it, that like I would lose my passion or love for it. And like you said, if I couldn't write songs anymore, I'd my life would be over

Kora Noughton: Yeah. And it's, kind of like

Rae Leigh: It's a vulnerable thing to do.

Do you have any inspirations that, you know, kind of made you realize that this was a possible option? Cause it's. It's not, I mean, like we've done, we've talked about it. You're thinking you still do I do music or do I do science? Like that? That's a question you're going to be asking yourself probably for the rest of your life.

If I'm honest, like we're always questioning who are we and what should we be doing? But what made you decide to take this gap year and actually give music at Papago?

Kora Noughton: well, I mean, I'd already released my first album. I was 16 and in year 10 and you know, I was going through kind of, I was starting to go through those. You know, hardest years of high school. And it was so much going on all at once and, you know, it's so stressful, but then I'd go to a weekend.

I'd, it'd be a weekend. And every, all my friends would be out at parties and I would be doing gigs and I would have absolutely no regrets because I loved it. I

adored, you know, doing gigs and stuff like that. And it just kind of felt so right to me. And. When it came down to what I was like, I would love to go to uni, but at the end of the day, I want to do music and that's kind of where I want to be. and you know, I would love to explore that science Avenue, but right now I want to dive headfirst into music and find out if I can do this, you know, I think I can do this, you know, it's easier said than done. I think.

Rae Leigh: you can do whichever one you choose. And I think that's the hardest thing is knowing what the right choice is. But whatever you choose is fun and it will work.

Kora Noughton: I think so. I kind of, it's hard cause I've think I've been looking for the best of both worlds for a while, but I do love my music and I genuinely think I couldn't give it up. It's just going to be a matter of whether I can make both work or whether I just stick to music. Right?

Rae Leigh: Well, I didn't think that music was a viable option. I came from a family of academics, so, you know, it was, I was going to be a doctor. But every time I came to exam time, I would be like just popping out songs like 10 songs in a night, you know, because I should be studying like a pre procrastination tool, but it was also the one thing that relaxed me when I was really stressed.

So like, if I needed a break, I'd go pick up the guitar and I'd write a song. And I never thought about it. Really what I was doing until later doing psychology and counseling and realizing just how much music got me through those anxious moments and those times of real stress. It's amazing what it does without even realizing, you know, what it's doing.

You know, it just there's magic

Kora Noughton: Yeah, I think so, too. And as a kind of, I mean, it's been the same for me. It's definitely been my biggest procrastination tool, but it's also been, you know, a really helpful tool in learning. You give the amount of songs that I've written to remember dumb things in high school. You remember that quote in history is brought a song about it. You know?

Yeah. And it's so like, I feel like I'll never forget half these things from my HSE because they're burned into my memory with songs.

Rae Leigh: Well done. I used to do that with like chemistry equations and specialist mass equations. I would write them on a 94 and I would highlight them in different, big colors, you know, and they would be like this big thing. And then I had my whole wall in my bedroom covered in these equations that you have to know for exams.

But I did that because that like it burnt into the back of my brain. So when I was in sitting in the exams, I could literally like sit back and close my eyes and imagine the wall. And I knew each letter was different color. And like, I don't know, like everyone learns differently and I am definitely like, I'm slightly autistic.

I learnt differently to everyone else that I studied with. And it was, it took me longer to learn. But it was possible. And I think what it taught me was work ethic. Like, if you want something, you can make it happen. You might have to work harder than someone else where it comes more naturally, but hard work will pay off more in the end than talent

Kora Noughton: absolutely. I kind of feel like that's been, and that's been something that I guess I've had to learn in my life too. It's been really easy to just say I can't do this. You know, I've had a long list of health issues and it's kind of just being this whole big thing about it. This is so much easier for other people.

I can't, I'm not going to do it. But at the end of the day, it's just, like you said, it might take a little bit more for one person than another, but that doesn't mean that you can't, and it doesn't mean that you should, right.

Rae Leigh: Yeah. What health issues have you like? You can talk in general vague if you don't want to, but are you okay now?

Kora Noughton: I was actually, I was born with

born with spinal bifida. So I've spent my life. Slowly, if this sounds worse than it is slowly kind of like declining with the way my, my legs and my feet work. So as a kid, you know, it was kind of, it was all fine. And then I went through this growth spurt when I was about 12 or 13 and it stretched my spinal cord out and all of a sudden I had, no, I can't, I have no feeling in my feet.

And yet kind of legs, strength went down really quickly. And that's kind of really hard thing to go through when you're in,

Rae Leigh: Oh,

Kora Noughton: trying to, feed in and all of a sudden you can't even get up the stairs properly. You can't keep up with your friends. And it seems like the worst thing in the world, but at the same time, it's kind of always been something that I've had to work.

It's like, it's the same, like. you have to work hard and it's never easy. And sometimes it's really easy to lose that motivation because you just say, I can't do it. But Yeah.

It's something that I've had to work out through a really long time. It's something that I'm still working. Yeah. But yeah, we'll get there.

Rae Leigh: And ha have you had to have like multiple surgeries and

Kora Noughton: Yeah. I've had for spinal surgeries. is fun. A couple of surgeries on my fate and yeah. I don't know, just a couple of different little things and physio every week. And Yeah.

I don't know. It's something that it's just kind of become a part of my life. Now you manage.

Rae Leigh: yep. Yeah.

all well done. I have some really close friends who have spinal bifida and it is a struggle and like, yes, the medicine and the medical technology has come a really long way. And to me, it makes so much more sense why you're interested in, in, in science as well now, because that'll play such a huge role into your life and your quality of life and what your able to do because of what other people have done with the science and research and medical research And so, yeah, I think it's amazing the attitude that you have, you know, cause it could be so easy to swing the other way, but to have such a positive, beautiful attitude and have an outlet like music to get you through that is amazing. You're an inspirational

lady at you.

Kora Noughton: look, I'm, I certainly try to keep positive and I try to, you know, make the best of every situation, but there don't get me wrong. There are times when it's been. I've wanted to give up. I have given up a couple of times and kind of, it's just about picking yourself back up in those moments that I think, you know, it's okay to have those moments where you don't want to go through with it.

You don't want to, I guess, but Yeah. The thing is how you deal with them and how you get back up after that.

Rae Leigh: Yeah. The emotional strength and training, like what you've just said, like when you feel like giving up and then you've, you know, you've. Gotten on, I've gotten on with it. And sometimes you do give up, but like the emotional strength is a muscle. And like that in itself is going to make you stronger and train you for greater things to

Kora Noughton: Yeah. Yeah no, it does. And I think that's kind of

why, where I've kind of had my head up for a long time. It's been, you know, if you don't pick yourself back up then the, what have you know, think about everything that your you've got in your life. And to me, it's kind of been like what you could have in your ass.

If you work for it, if you see key and you feel sorry for yourself, then you're never going to get anywhere. And I guess the first step is.

Rae Leigh: That's amazing. Yeah. You have to create the life that you want for yourself. No one else is going to knock on your door and give it to

Kora Noughton: so too.

Rae Leigh: You know, it's your choice. And like, I struggled with loads of learning disabilities and I don't come from a hugely academic family, immediate family. Like I'm the only one in my family with a degree.

And like I said, you know, I really struggled. To learn, but I wanted to be a doctor, but I wanted to be a doctor because I struggle, but with anxiety and and I used to get like this chest cramps when I was a kid and I didn't know what it was. And I had all the tests in the sun and the doctors turned around to my mum one day and said, look, there's nothing wrong with her.

She's probably just lying to get out of school. That's what the doctor said to my mom in front of me. And it's like, I'm sitting there going like I'm in physical

Kora Noughton: Yes.

Rae Leigh: And you're telling me that I'm just Elia, like, Oh, it was the worst thing to hear as a kid. And so that was probably one of the biggest drives for me wanting to become a doctor and why I worked so hard to get my medical degree.

And it wasn't until I had kids and started to deal with all of the psychological and emotional trauma that I actually had from a kid that made me realize, hang on a second, I had anxiety and fair enough. Cause I had like a sexual abuse situation happened in my childhood and psychologically and emotionally really crippling and it can take a long time to work through it, but those.

Challenges that we go through as kids is as much as it can be really hard at the same time, we have a greater gift because we're learning and strengthening that emotional strength from a really young age. And it matures you in ways that other people don't even have that option until they're much

Kora Noughton: And I think I've kind of always thought

the same thing. I mean, for different reasons, but I've had to grow up. Much more quickly than most of my friends, I guess. And for me, you know, it's silly things that saying no to a night out because it makes me uncomfortable being around so many people when I have all these problems with my feet and things like that you know, it's just, it's little things that kind of build up and you sit there and you realize that you've kind of grown up in the blink of an eye and it kind of feels so weird, but you know, I guess that's life, isn't it.

Rae Leigh: Yeah. And it can make you feel abnormal. Like I remember, but feeling like so many people would be like, Oh, you're so mature for your age. And like, I probably, I wasn't mature. I was just emotionally shutdown, which some people mistake for maturity, but it is hard to when you've been through something that other kids don't go through and don't experience, you have another level of understanding.

And like, even when I went to uni, a lot of my friends at uni. We're at home still, the moms still cook for them, paid their bills, like wash their clothes. All they had to do was like, go to uni, go home, study, go to uni, go home, study, and then like they'd party and all that sort of stuff. Whereas like I had to move out of home cause I was from the country.

I had to have a part-time job. I had to pay my rent. I had to do my, all my own washing, all my own cooking, all my own cleaning. And like, they didn't get it. They're like, like all year I could do all that and get the same grades I get now. And it's like, Oh, you don't know what you're talking about. And it's really hard because.

It's just ignorance. And it's really hard when someone's ignorant to have compassion but we're all ignorant Of something.

Kora Noughton: else's situation. Yeah.

Rae Leigh: Yeah. And so it is, it's about learning to have love and compassion for one another, no matter what we're going through and always be kind. Wow. Anyway, that's beautiful. I love you so much right now.

This is good. This is good. All right, let's go back to songwriting. Tell me about like your co-writing experiences and like, how did you get to write an album

at 16? How did that come about?

Kora Noughton: honestly, I have not done much co-writing at all. I've co-written so of the songs that I've released of my two albums that I've got I have COVID in one song. The rest of them are all just amazing in my bedroom. And I've always kind of said, songwriting for me is like keeping a diary. So it's like sitting in my room and physically writing out like a dire. Yeah.

I guess. And then maybe it's song writing has been my outlet, my therapy, I guess you could say. And you know, I would love to do more co-writing but at the same time, I, that I don't think anything compares for me to sitting in my room and kind of just letting out whatever you're feeling in that moment.

Which is really awesome. So Yeah.

I am kind of a lone Wolf when it comes to songwriting, but maybe not forever. I do like the idea of co-writing and I am definitely planning on doing some more of it this year.

Rae Leigh: Yeah.

I look, I did a lot of bedroom diary writing as well for a long time. But yeah, it's just a different experience. It's definitely not the same because it's not as intimate and personal and inward because you're working with other people, but it's kind of like a merger of, I think if you've got that solid background of bedroom warrior writing, when you rock up to a co-write.

You've got you, you know, you and you know what feels right and what feels wrong. So when you can, if you can constantly take that person that you've been developing as a songwriter into a co-write with another person who has also done that, what you're going to create is like a little song, baby.

That's a mishmash and intimate connection of the two of you. And it's going to be something completely, it's going to be a new flavor, but it will be a bit of your flavor and a bit of their flavor, you know? And I think that's, what's so cool about co-writing is that. Sometimes it'll work. And sometimes it really works and it really used like that intimate connection that you have with another person.

It's like, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it still can create a beautiful baby, you know,

Kora Noughton: Yeah,

Rae Leigh: it's the way it works.

Kora Noughton: I think for me, my most challenging part about kind of thinking about co-writing is that. For me sitting there writing a song is like I said, it's my outlet, but it's me. It's 110% may want to Potter. And I guess I've never been. Very good at sharing who I am. And I guess still running, you know, songwriting is that it's telling everyone who you are just like that. And I guess sitting down in the car guiding

Rae Leigh: the walls.

Kora Noughton: scares the hell out of me because I'm finding me like, Oh goodness, like what, what happens. They don't like my ideas, you know, what happens if they don't like who I am, you know, these songs are me. And I guess that's kind of the that you have to get over it in my own head.

You know, it's a ridiculous thing to think sometimes, but Yeah.

I dunno. It's just kind of some of those things that sit there and making you nervous and when you've done it on your own for so long, it's hard to kind of share that with someone else,

Rae Leigh: yeah. Oh, absolutely. But you know what? Some of the greatest things are on the other side of fear.

Oh, you're awesome. What's the best advice that you've ever been given when it comes to your music? You reckon.

Kora Noughton: advice I've ever been given? I would say so it was 2017 and I was at the junior Academy up in Tamworth. And my. My coach was actually Dallas who is a beautiful human being. And she, she kinda said to me, don't let anyone tell you who you are. Don't let anyone tell you what they want you to do.

Don't let people dictate what you do. And I think the amazing thing was that I didn't believe in myself before those 10 days of the Academy. I kind of thought, you know, I love music? but I don't think I can do this. And Ash said, You can do this, just be, you stay true to yourself and don't ever let anyone else tell you what you are.

And I went back, I recorded an album after that. So,

Rae Leigh: that's amazing. Thank you, Ashley

Kora Noughton: I reckon he's kind of just being like that moment kind of just changed everything for me. I guess it was like, she's she can, she could sing 1,000,001 different kinds of music and would sound like an angel, but she seems okay.

With this such a unique and wonderful sound that is so truly Ashley, Dallas, that, you know, listening to her say that, and then listening to her music and seeing that what she does is so unique and so wonderful. I was kind of like, all

right, that's it. I'm going to do it.

Rae Leigh: Beautiful. I love it. And I think I had the same sort of feeling when I met

Cal birdie. I met him at a songwriting retreat and in term with, and it was the year before he passed away, actually. But. Seeing him, he sings with a really unique voice as well. And I think before him, I really hadn't, I hadn't much country music experience and really all I was exposed to, it was like top 40 pop music, you know, like R and B and whatever. And everyone has these like powerful, unique voices. But to a point that made me believe that I couldn't sing. Do you know what I mean? Like, I didn't think I had a voice. I didn't think I was good enough to sing in front of people because it wasn't cool. And I, it's not that he had a bad voice, he had a beautiful voice, but it was his voice.

And it was so unique that it Hey, he can do this. And it sounds so good. Of course I can do it, you know? And it's like, sometimes you just need someone else to believe in

Kora Noughton: I think so too. I think that's kind of been my biggest thing. I've never believed in myself, but sometimes I guess I've had these people around me who believe in me for me, you know, which has helped me believe in myself. And that's the kind of thing, even in my worst moments, when I felt like I cannot do this, I've had more people than I can count.

You know, counting on me, betting on me and I guess that's. Kind of being the one thing that's makes it so much easier to get back up and do it again.

Rae Leigh: Oh, man. I believe in you. Well, okay. There we'll do it together.

All right. If you could give advice to maybe someone else out there, like a teenager or someone who's owned a high school and maybe they're feeling like what we've just talked about. You know, not sure if you can do this, what one piece of advice would you give them?

If you were to speak to those kids?

Kora Noughton: I would say you can do anything you put your mind to, and it sounds so incredibly cheesy. But I think. The thing is you can do it If you're committed to it and you're here for it. And you're actually, you know, you want to do it. If you're passionate about it, you can do it. And that's kind of the thing that's, it's always been for me.

I would not be able to do this if I didn't dive in head first and go all the way. And that's just, you know, that's the kind of person that I am. I can't put half. You know, half of what I've got into this it's all or nothing for me. And music has always been one of the thing for me. You know, I love what I do, but I had to dive in head first.

I had to put everything that I had into it. I had to sacrifice some time with friends and whatnot, but at the end of the day, if it's what you want to do, and if it's what you really love. You can do it and it is worth it. You just have to put in so much time and so much effort. And sometimes it seems daunting or, you know, some of it kind of seems annoying.

You know, you don't want to go, you don't want to do this. It's too hard. Or but Yeah.

it's just, I think for me anyway, it was about diving in headfirst and just do it.

Rae Leigh: You're incredible. You really are. That's so beautiful. All right. If you could co-write with anyone in the world. Dead or alive. Who would it be and why?

Kora Noughton: Oh, good question. I think Freddie

mercury, because why wouldn't you want to

Rae Leigh: everyone wants to write with him? Why specifically for

Kora Noughton: Oh, I dunno. I dunno what it is. He's just a cool dude.

Rae Leigh: Yeah.

Kora Noughton: you know, everything that you see that he's kind of written just has its own unique, like Freddie stamp on it. I don't know how you? could go past that.

Like if. If I ever, you know, like if I hadn't had the chance obviously, but I, Yeah.I would have been blown away. I think even sitting in the same room with him would probably be too much for me.

Rae Leigh: Yeah, I think that'd be too much for me too, but you know, I'd keep cool.

Kora Noughton: Oh, dry.

Rae Leigh: You would even want that. Try it. It's one of those, isn't it like I've realized recently that when I was looking at all the artists that I really liked, cause I have a really diverse range of artists that I enjoy and. I think I realized that the commonality between all of them is that they seem to just be comfortable in their own skin and sharing their heart, you know, and what they're doing seems to come from a real place of authenticity and love and just who they are.

Whereas I think. Other ones that maybe I don't connect to, maybe don't come from that sort of simple, honest and openness, which a lot of people do, but maybe it's just those ones that, that might like Amy Winehouse. Oh God. You know, like just, there's so many people out there that it's just, you can feel them and you can feel the essence of who they are through their music and it's it's stunning.

Yeah.

Kora Noughton: of been something that I've been working on for awhile. And when I first started, it was so easy to, you know, I always liked writing stories as a kid, and it was so easy for me to just write a song that meant absolutely nothing to me and put it out there and people liked the song, but I feel like they didn't really know who I was as an artist. and I kind of feel like even, you know, a lot of my first album is really personal, but a lot of it also is kind of just. Random stuff that I wrote, songs that I really liked really enjoyed, but I don't feel like people would getting the real core unnecessarily.

So this second album that I've released this year 19 is kind of just completely different for me.

It feels like, you know, I am out there. You know, every time someone's playing it, I feel like, like I'm probably I'm in the Hills, you know,

Rae Leigh: yeah. Yeah.

Kora Noughton: it to them. And I kind of feel like that's really awesome. that people get to see me. And I feel like it's not necessarily that I wasn't authentic back then. I just don't think I knew who I was.

Rae Leigh: yeah. And that'll change as well as you get older. And that's the best thing about being an

Kora Noughton: Yeah.

Rae Leigh: is that you can change and that's fun because that's what people do they grow up. So tell me, I mean, I'm going to put your album links and all your music and socials and everything, so people can find you and come check you out online in the description of the podcast, along with the software to tryst website. But please tell me what your plans are next. What are you doing now?

Kora Noughton: I am actually looking at, releasing the next single, which is going to be a track from the album. I'm kind of tossing up between a couple of them. But I'm planning to up, which is very exciting heading into site for the first time I have. Kind of not really done too much out of new South Wales.

So yeah, it will be really nice to get across to places I haven't been for meet some new people maybe that I've spoken to online a fair bit who were interested in my music, but I've never got to see me play. So I'm really prided for that. Yeah, it's kind of all in the works at the moment, but later in the year, they'll definitely be a tour

Rae Leigh: that's cool. You didn't come to the Gold Coast

Kora Noughton: Yes, I hope so. It's definitely on the list. I'm kind of working out. Dates, but I'm 99.9%. Sure. I'll be there.

Rae Leigh: Well, let me know if you need any help, because I'll definitely want to come along. And, Yeah, that'd be cool. Maybe we can do a co-write together.

Kora Noughton: That would be great.

Rae Leigh: All right. Well, this has been absolutely perfect. Is there anything else you would like to share that we haven't mentioned or anything you'd like to say to everyone?

Kora Noughton: I don't think so. I think we've about covered it.

Rae Leigh: You've done well, you've done really. You spoke so well. And I'm just excited to really support what you're doing and get behind you and hope in a small kind of cheeky way. I kind of hope that you continue to do music instead of science, but that is your choice.

Kora Noughton: look, I don't see myself giving

Rae Leigh: I'm biased,

Kora Noughton: I don't, see myself giving up music anytime in the future, like the near future. I guess for me, it's kind of always been a question of whether I can fit both. But music's not going anywhere. Don't worry.

Rae Leigh: Yeah. Good good, Well, keep up the good work and thank you so much for sharing your heart and soul with us through music and in his chat. And yeah, I look forward to sharing with everyone.

Kora Noughton: Thanks very much for having me. It's been a pleasure.