And no-one makes depravity sounds quite so delicious a prospect as Ute Lemper. Making her Australian debut, the German songstress is bringing her smouldering act to Sydney in September, part of the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival. According to Lemper, you would be pushed to find true cabaret in the Berlin of today. It doesn't have the naughty, provocative edge. Lemper doesn't think so.
Nothing can shock any more.
What counts is the way you tell the story. The craft is the storytelling. You can do it with a young personal attitude or an older person's view. It can be tortured. It can be fresh.