1. When did you start performing Rumpelstiltskin?

I started performing about 10-12 years ago. I guess I always had an unusual style... & did quite a few different characters... in my first few years. My first jestering marathon show was in 95....when I did an 11 & a half hour show in Byron Bay... at the Byron Bay Music & Arts Festival. The following year I did 11 hrs the first night, 2 the next night... & 16 hrs on the last night! I've been a jester character since the very start of my performing career. I was also a bit of a natural class-room clown in school & would always get things mixed up! Ever since I was born... I was noted for being a bit peculiar. Kids in school would also make constant jokes about me (especially my voice) from elementary school to high school. I guess I've been performing in a way... since I was born... but ore professionally... perhaps in the last 4-5 years. I also used to perform in psychedelic clothes that I painted & had rainbow dread-locks & everyone used to call me Rainbow... before I started doing Rumpelstiltskin. I went through a mix of punk & goth & psychedelic when I was 14-18. I used to also perform in a kilt... wearing a big yellow velvet cape... & tacky tartan minstrel top with fake hair in platted pony-tails. Also used to perform in purple bell bottom flares... & other times in a white wedding dress with long 3 metre white cape... while wearing boxing boots & wearing green lip-stick & having scruffy matted pony-tails....also having green goatee & black starry eyes.

1. How many countries you've been performing in?

Well New Zealand in January next year will make 30.I've performed in countries like Romania, San Marino, Croatia, Liechtenstein... Greece... Serbia (Kosovo).... Luxembourg..... to the Portuguese Azores etc.

1. May you define Rumpelstiltskin character?

  Rumpelstiltskin is a multi-dimensional fool... who in appearance really looks like an Olde Worlde authentic jester... but can transcend tradition combining the best of the old & new worlds. I guess Rumpelstiltskin is quite a personal character... but can also be an extrovert. My character is a bit of a paradox... like an extension of myself... or is it the other way around? I naturally feel akin to the archetype of the fool whether I look like Rumpelstiltskin or not. My life is a natural tragic comedy... a bit like Rumpelstiltskin is really. I don't associate myself with the Rumpelstiltskin fairy-tale character from the Brothers Grim who spins straw into gold (well there are some small similarities perhaps) I just called myself Rumpelstiltskin many years ago... when I first went to Tasmania & saw a Rumpelstiltskin record in a second-hand shop & liked the name... & it has been the same ever since. Once you adopt a name it can be hard to get rid of! My character is a bit of a mythological fairy-tale ethereal eternal kind so I feel at times I don't even have to try & be a fool as it all just unfolds coincidently. Rumpel can be a bit cheeky, odd, enigmatical, weird, silly, philosophical, magical, bizarre, funny, sensitive, outlandish, anarchaic, illogical, impish, bohemian, heathen, extra-terrestrial... whatever etc or even a reflection of the spectrum of the Universe! Gosh! I could go on forever!!!

1. Do you have any other wired goal to reach?

a) Wouldn't mind saving up for a castle... but at the rate I'm going as I've done the maths on it... it could take me till the end of time + 1 day etc to afford one.
b) Perhaps I should start up the Church Of Nonsense... & get everyone to do laughter mantras... until it becomes so contagious... that it will catch on world-wide until we all die laughing! P.S. Just joking!
c)To do a duo show with a pet rooster & train it to do tricks... so we can out-fool each other... until we don't know which one is which?

1. Tell us about your plans for the future?

Well I'm not really sure yet... as anything can happen. I think I will eventually do a theatre show for sure. I don't do so well financially on the street at all… so I'll probably do much better off the street. I would like to do some stand-up comedy as well. I will also publish some books + more of course.