The band’s English-born vocalist Grace Knight began her musical life singing around a piano with her large musical family before a job singing on a cruise ship saw her dock in Perth, a place that would change her life forever.

After meeting guitarist Bernie Lynch, the then 21-year-old decided to stay and after jamming with various local bands the Eurogliders were born.

However, Knight’s musical journey wasn’t always easy.

“I loved playing instruments but I got thrown out of every music lesson at school because I couldn’t read music,” Knight said from her home in Healesville, 52 kilometres north-east of Melbourne.

“I would learn the songs by ear and play them while pretending to read the music, trying to trick the teacher, but it never worked.

“I tried really hard but I found it impossible to learn because it was like maths, and I didn’t like maths.”

Despite theoretical setbacks Knight let the feel of music take her over.

“I was very musical and I would bury myself in it day after day, immersed in it,” she said.

“Music is all feel for me and learning to sing was all about telling a story.”

Knight became well-known for using body language to help in her story telling and was labelled the “manic ballerina” by the US press.

“I use my voice and and body to create shapes I think are relevant to the story,” she said.

“I would use my body to accentuate words and feeling.

“That is my job as a story teller to engage because I want their hearts to be touched.”

Knight has evolved as a person since even her time as a solo artist in the 1990s, and she feels the music industry has become more exploitative since the band’s days of touring the world.

“When you see those awful shows on TV where people are embarrassing themselves when they can’t sing, it is really just a dream,” she said.

“People allow themselves to be lead on when they are told to follow their dreams it just allows the audience to laugh at them.

“Reality TV doesn’t cost as much as making a good drama and chefs have now become celebrities, but I do like the dancing shows,” she said with a laugh.

Knight will be bringing the Eurogliders’ pop, post punk, new wave sounds to Merimbula’s Club Sapphire on Friday, November 25, along with Lynch.