Nastassja Bassi (Jacqueline Amidy) who I haven’t seen for more than 30 years drops into Maynard International Studios to deconstruct and celebrate her time with the Castanet Club 1985 -1990. Jacqueline Amidy in NY 2004 The Castanet Club was more than theatrical, it was cinematic.Natassja Bassi (Jacqueline Amidy) For those fancy pants people who like to read, here is a heavily edited transcript of our conversation. Maynard: One day you’re in your lounge room and you turn around and there’s someone you haven’t seen for 34 years standing at the door. Jacquie. Good to see you. Jacqueline: How long has it been? Maynard: 36 years ago. Since I’ve seen you. Jacqueline: I was born about then. So I don’t know how that works. Maynard: You are in Maynard International Studios. I’ve the same nervousness with you that I had with when Warren Coleman came over to the studios as well. Jacqueline: Well, I’m real. Maynard: Is there something you could point out to people? Jacqueline: The hell? I’m not sure what to make of this I’m looking at, is that a signed Kylie single? There’s a photo of you and Kylie underneath at the Double Bay hotel. Is that the one that Michael died at? I blame you. Jacqueline: I like your speakers. Very seventies speakers. So I’m sitting on the seventies lounge. I actually think I’ve sat on this lounge somewhere else. In my past. I’m really loving it. I’m going to use the word juxtaposition of seventies, sixties and fifties. Maynard: Cross-generational carpets here as well. I’ve only, just recently got the CDs into order. They’re all actually in decades etc. Jacqueline: I don’t think I have seen CDs for a long time. Maynard: When I say CDs, people say, what? Jacqueline: I’ve got a CD player in my 2004 Mercedes Compressor, black, black interior, two door, sexy. I do like cars in the last year I’ve had five cars. Maynard: You strike me as being a station wagon woman. Jacqueline: I love a station wagon. That’s what upsets me so much about the coupe. I can’t drive along and pick things up from the side of the road. I like freebies. Maynard: I’ve got you here because we’ve have the Castanet Club exhibition come up. We’re talking about the Castanet Club time. I was just doing crazy dancing up the back. Jacqueline: Everybody in the Castanet Club was extremely complex. Maynard: Is there a great stage memory? Of course, Wuthering Heights was almost a signature piece for you. Jacqueline: Thinking about it, my role was show stopper. I did all the show-stopping songs, Devil Gate Drive etc. I was in the second coming of the Castanet Club. We really put it together as a theatre show. We got a real director. Maynard: That’d be Neil Armfield. Jacqueline: We were in a theatre and a very cool theatre. Belvoir Street was at that stage, I think THE theatre. Maynard: Yeah. Jacqueline: An RSL club band in a theatre. Maynard: That was one of the great things about the Castanet Club. We could do shows at an RSL, and we could go and do a theatre season at the Playhouse or at Belvoir Street and we could make it work.