Coca-Cola and Jim Beam Fiji Island Party

Last week I flew out to beautiful Fiji to perform once again at the Coca-Cola & Jim Beam Fiji Island Party! I was so excited when I was asked to perform again this year as I had such an amazing time on my last trip and this time was no different. I had the best time ever with an amazing cast and crew and a big group of some of my closest friends. Here's the breakdown of what we got up to each day...

Day 1:
I arrived in Fiji and we headed straight to our hotel resort on Denarau Island, checked in and had a quick cast and crew dinner. We then headed down to the beach to do a final technical rehearsal on our big stage built on the waters edge. Very cool.

Day 2: 

We have the entire day to ourselves, so after a morning walk down to Port Denarau Marina I spent the day swimming and drinking cocktails by the pool. The weather is absolutely amazing, so beautiful and sunny. Doing it really tough!! 

Tonight is our first show for the opening night of the Coca-Cola & Jim Beam parties choreographed and styled by the incredible Ame Delves. Our first performance on the waterfront stage is a mix of lingerie, leather and corsets and the second performance was all about black, gold and silver with lots of sequins and sparkles. I wore a black sequin skirt, corseted top, black diamante high heels and an amazing super sparkly diamante necklace.

Day 3: 

Today was again spent by the pool swimming and dancing to the DJ's spinning tunes by the pool. Lots of fun. 

In the evening we headed down to Sandy Point beach for a quick tech rehearsal at sunset before the guests arrived, on our stage built in the sand right in the middle of the beach. 

Tonight's show has a "Paradise" theme so the dancers and I are styled in various Mijanou swimwear pieces. I wore a black one shoulder one piece swimsuit with cut-out details and wore a wreath of real flowers made by the local Fijian women on my head! How cool is that?! The flowers smelled divine. The show began with the dancers and myself being carried out on to the beach and being placed on the stage on the shoulders of some big Fijian men! That was definitely a first for me!!

After the show we hit up the Coca-Cola Jim Beam nightclub bar where we danced the night away to some super cool music played by the live band and DJ's. 

Day 4: 

Today was yet another day of absolutely stunning weather! Sooo hot and sunny!! I spent the day dancing on the beach to some awesome tunes played by the DJ's, and drinking fresh coconuts in the pool. This is absolute bliss and I don't want it to end!!!

Later that evening the dancers headed out to tonight's venue for the big final night of the Coca-Cola and Jim Beam island parties where they performed various sets dancing in beautiful costumes adorned with diamante jewellery and Victoria's Secret inspired huge feathered or silver mirror ball angel wings. 

I arrived soon after and performed my contortion show to a live rock band! It was so much fun. I can't even explain how much I love performing accompanied with a live band!! I wore my flesh coloured Swarovski encrusted signature catsuit with metallic gold PeepToe high heels and chandelier earrings. 

After my performance Samantha Jade took to the stage who was then followed by Diesel! We stayed and partied with the performers, band and DJ's. It was such a fun night with a great group of people. 

Samantha Jade

Diesel

With vocalist and guitarist Andre Kaman who played during my contortion performance

Day 5: 

We were up super early this morning, surviving on next to no sleep...and actually no sleep for some of us after a crazy night last night to catch our early morning flight back to Sydney. Fiji certainly knows how to turn on a great sunrise. So beautiful. I had such an AMAZING time in Fiji and am so sad to leave, I can't wait to head back again soon. I think I said this last time but I really do mean it. Best job ever. 

Get ready Fiji, here we come!

Flying out to beautiful Fiji today to perform at the Coca-Cola & Jim Beam Big Island Experience events!! I'm very excited to be heading back again this year to perform. So stay tuned, lots of exciting things to come over the next few days!

Jim Beam Fiji Island Party

Last week I flew out to Fiji with a bunch of my beautiful friends to perform at the Jim Beam Fiji island parties! Can I just say...best job ever!!! We had so much fun it was ridiculous. Here's the breakdown of my day to day blog.

Day 1:
Early flight this morning. Not loving all these crack of dawn flights I keep getting lately, but it's 5am at the airport once again. We arrived at our hotel and I was seriously loving my huge executive suite beach front room. Amazing. We had a yummy dinner watching the Fijian fire dancers.

Day 2:
We have a quick tech run and rehearsal on the stage before we hit the pool for a bit of swimming and cocktails. Life is tough sometimes. 

Tonight is the first night of the Jim Beam parties. Angry Anderson is the host for the shows and is so sweet, we love Angry! The girls and I performed two routines both choreographed by the wonderful Ame Delves, the first on the main stage wearing coloured one piece swimsuits and visors and the second on a wet stage wearing black swimsuits with metallic shoulder pads and fingerless black gloves. The performance on the wet stage was so much fun! We got to kick and splash the water, it was very sexy and looked great! The majority of the audience were standing in the pool so we splashed them and they splashed us back! Great fun.

Day 3:
Today's working activities were really hard to take...not! We went on jet boat rides and banana boat rides and danced and swam in the pool for hours listening to a live band! It was the most beautiful day today also, so hot and sunny! 

With Angry Anderson

In the afternoon we took a boat ride out to an island not far from Denarau for the evenings shows. The girls were all styled in various tribal inspired costumes and all performed a different style of act while the guests arrived and the night got underway. Some girls were stilt walkers, others were sexy human snakes in trees and a couple of girls did acrobatic tricks through the crowd.
A band took to the main stage and began playing a mash-up of tracks and that was my cue to take the stage just in front of the main stage. I performed my contortion show in a black and gold swarovski encrusted catsuit, black stilettos and red and black feather headpiece with black fingerless gloves. It was so good performing with a live band behind me! I loved it and they were great. Below is the video of my performance.

After my performance Shannon Noll and band did their set, followed by the Hoodoo Gurus! The girls and I were front row barefoot on the sand singing and dancing watching the Gurus. They were fantastic! We were so close I was actually sitting on the stage at one point! I bumped in to Jimmy Barnes backstage and Angry Anderson was there too. All the guys were really friendly and lovely. After the show we caught the boat back to Denarau with the Hoodoo Gurus which was fun. It was an amazing warm night with not a cloud in the sky and full of stars.

With Shannon Noll

With Rick Grossman from the Hoodoo Gurus

With Jimmy Barnes

Day 4:
Another day spent lounging poolside with pretty coloured drinks and music. Rick and Brad from the Hoodoo Gurus joined us for a swim, chat and some chill out time.

With Rick Grossman from the Hoodoo Gurus

With Brad Shepherd from the Hoodoo Gurus

Our last performance was tonight. Three big stages made a half semi circle with large round tables and chairs filling the centre on the sand of the beach. We performed another routine choreographed by Ame Delves, all wearing different styles of costumes again. Some girls wore black swimsuits with military inspired jackets and hats, others wore high waisted satin and lace underwear with white shirts, patterned stockings and white top hats. I wore black lycra leggings, a black fishnet top, black corset with swarovski stone detailing, silver reflector aviators and a long red mullet wig! Very crazy but looked really cool.
After our performance Jimmy Barnes and band took to the stage. Jimmy was incredible as always. We once again danced and sang barefoot on the sand and had so much fun. After Jimmy's set we all partied in the pool until the wee hours of the morning.

Day 5:
The hotel is like a ghost town. There must be a lot of sore heads out there this morning. After two hours sleep we're up and packing before our flight back to Sydney in a few hours. It's a bumpy plane trip but we're back in Australia. Wow. It really was the best job EVER! I had the best time and wish I was back in that pool dancing all day and night to all that great music!

Fiji dreaming