My Big Week: Jackie Clarke

Jackie Clarke. Photo / Supplied

Friday night drinks? Meet me at:
The rocky beach just out of Kaikoura where we'll scull expensive champagne out of a bottle, eat crayfish wrapped in newspaper and worry about how to get home later.

Where I'll be wearing my new:
Nana Mouskouri spectacles

And this weekend I'm planning on:
Getting up early enough on Saturday morning to get to the Grey Lynn Festival before it gets feral, Saturday night I'll be singing up a storm with the Jubilation Gospel Choir - can't wait to sing Leak in the Building (sooooo Auckland) and the last 16 bars of Nobody's Fault But Mine.

But first I'll need to refuel at my favourite cafe:
My place. Great coffee, it's really cheap and nobody minds if you're in your manky bathrobe. Papaya and lime followed by fresh eggs supplied by our chickens Rita, Butter and Cassie, with bacon, Vogel's toast and some slow-roasted tomatoes.

Saturday evening. If my dreams came true there would be a gig by:
Dolly Parton, the Beatles, Elvis Costello, Prince Tui Teka and Peggy Lee.

But if there's nothing else doing I'll probably just:
Turn up to my own gig wearing some fabulous new interpretation of the "black with a splash of white and red" colour scheme that is choir regulation. Then apres gig is the compulsory choir sing-along where everything from Curtis Mayfield to Bohemian Rhapsody and 60s TV themes can get spontaneously and semi-drunkenly harmonised.

On my stereo/headphones right now is:
The new Paul Weller album. I also have Don't Give Up on Me by Solomon Burke on high rotate to commemorate his recent passing.

The books I can't put down are:
Non-existent - I don't have time to read unless its my annual summer holiday when reading 10 novels is compulsory.

The TV show I take the phone off the hook for:
I try to watch 7 Days every week to see who the rostered woman of the week is.

The movie I've been dying to see:
I have a feeling the next movie I see will be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One.

A non-cooking Monday night means takeaways from:
Satya - the coconut-bean thing and the dahi puri is compulsory, plus something lamby and spinachy and something chickeny.

Or a splash-out Wednesday night restaurant would be:
Merediths - I've always wanted to go there and have the degustation menu.

*Jackie Clarke is part of the Jubilation Choir which plays at the Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall on Saturday at 8pm.

-TimeOut