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Geraldine Quinn
 Geraldine Quinn sounds like a woman who keeps on the go every waking moment; the sort of person who could juggle two or three demands upon her time, no worries.
"You've caught me trying to catch things before they close... banks they give me money. Oh, and I've got to get a Medicare form as well. I'm standing right outside the Medicare office now... and I'm about to go in."
In the spirit of compromise I agree to call back in ten minutes rather than force her to continue the conversation in the deeply unfriendly atmosphere of a quasi-government agency.
Hence, when we catch up again she's walking down Bourke St Melbourne and suddenly is talking about 'Flight Of The Phoenix'.
What? That remake of the 1965 classic from a couple of years ago starring Dennis Quaid and Miranda Otto, amongst others. "The very one," she titters... "Oh, from 2004 you're saying. Why is there a really big poster for it screening here now? Maybe Melbourne is that backward."
Just as quickly we've conducted a warp-speed conversation about bad actors and bad acting and arrived at a logical endpoint; limping Hugh Lawrie,and his faux US accent.
"I am an actor but I've been doing my own thing lately," Quinn announces when I suggest she might be slightly overqualified as a standup comedy type. "I first went on stage when I was about four, but once an agent once asked me to do it again but be a little less psycho. I couldn't follow that."
She's done more than a fair day's work in the theatre, attended the National Drama School, and hold a degree in professional writing, apparently, though I reckon that's just the tip of the iceberg.
"I used to be a musician, but then I discovered that girls don't form bands; so that combined with a spectacularly unsuccessful career as an actor meant I had to do something else..."
'You're finding a niche? Finding something that no one else is doing?' I enquire helpfully.
"A bit of both, you certainly find a bit of something to keep you busy," she agrees. "But I love music, music was my first love. I'll never give it up. So for this show you get me and a guitar onstage...
"My show is 'Sexdeathbowie' and it's a world premiere event. 'It was a difficult second album' is the way I'm enjoying describing it. The very aspect of getting up on stage is very weird, there's a lot of strange noises and breathing. However wanky it might seem it's really helpful to have trained as an actor."
"This show is about how everything boils down to these three points. Sex. Death. And in between, David Bowie. But I play my music, not his."
Alex Wheaton
Geraldine Quinn performs at the Rhino Room from Wed 7 March
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