CADET journalist at the Broken Hill Times and student at Broken Hill High School, Max Burrows, travelled to Sydney to perform for thousands at large-scale performing arts event, Pulse Alive, last month. They wrote about the experience of facing their fears to perform to a packed crowd at the Ken Rosewall Arena at Sydney Olympic Park.
I breathed in, and all I could smell was hairspray and adrenaline.
Backstage, hair glitter flashed under fluorescent lights, and nervous energy surged like static electricity.