‘My default position is melancholy; Alice’s isn’t’: You Am I’s frontman on love

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After two failed attempts at a relationship, musician Tim Rogers and choreographer Alice Topp have made a home among the kangaroos in rural Victoria.

Alice Topp, 39, a ballet dancer-turned-choreographer, met You Am I frontman Tim Rogers, 54, in 2010. After two failed attempts to make a relationship work, they’ve finally made a home for themselves among kangaroos in rural Victoria.

The next time we saw a show, in 2011, Juliet invited him over to have a beer and he told me the rest of the story: about not being a good flyer and during a turbulent flight, he’d grabbed the in-flight magazine, which had an article in it on me. He thought if he focused on my face, everything would be fine. We all went back to a friend’s place and played records till 2am.

Then, in 2021, we reconnected. I’d just retired and found that palpable, magnetic energy between us hadn’t dissipated. Instinctively, I didn’t ever want to be separated again. We were splitting our time between Coburg and St Kilda, which confirmed that we could live together. We decided to move to regional Victoria, found the perfect place and moved in May 2022.Tim makes me laugh like no one else and I’ve always felt I can be my bogan self around him.

In 2012, I was doing a show in Sydney and we made contact a little clandestinely. I was living a little ingloriously at the time. My daughter had just moved with her mum to New York and I’d brushed it away thinking, “If it’s OK for Ruby, that’s the main thing,” but I was still dealing immaturely with a lot of things. The first time we spent a night together, I woke up and made coffee but decided on a beer and cigarette instead.

 

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