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LONG-FORM,
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CULTURE-LOVING SOCIAL
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with journalism, but it is the contact with everyday people that
Editor
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She has worked in newsrooms throughout Queensland and
took a brief deter to Melbourne and northern NSW before
returning to her beloved Sunshine State.
Sue edited the Weekend Edition of The Courier-Mail before
becoming Deputy Editor of The Sunday Mail and eventually
moved into a business role as State Managing Editor of News
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INTERVIEW FEATURE FOOD FOOD
MY LIFE
BROOKE SATCHWELL
ACTOR, 38,
SYDNEY
PASSIONS
INSPIRATIONS
Most life-changing song? Stairway To Heaven by
Led Zeppelin (below). It evolves with me as I travel A significant moment in my career? The winds
through life and never fails to move me. I have a of change and empowerment are blowing. Stay
corkboard of the final verse in a magnificent frame tuned. What makes me laugh? Poo. Vivid
on my wall. I bought it from a market when I was 14. childhood memory? Fish and chips at dusk on the
Favourite thing to do on weekends? Beach, surf, beach, a bunch of local families and all the boogie
barbecue, hang out with people I love, and laugh – a boards and surfboards serving as a massive communal
lot. Last person I spoke to on the phone? Workers’ table. Favourite quote? “When you walk to the edge
Compensation – I still have a “dicky knee” from the of all the light and take a step into the unknown, you
last play I did. Guilty pleasure? Buying more books must believe that one of two things will happen – there
as my “to-read” pile grows. Fact nobody knows will be something solid to stand upon, or you will be
about me? I find a lot of four-leaf clovers. I’d like to taught how to fly” (Patrick Overton). The one thing
learn … [Japanese martial art] aikido. Pet hate? Self- people wouldn’t expect from me … My truth always
obsession. I have a fear of … heights, but it doesn’t defies people’s expectations. It’s an endless source of
stop me. My hidden talent is … arranging the confoundment and joy. My first job? In a milk bar.
Tupperware drawer at speed. The skill extends to People I admire? People who own their
all sorts of packing/arranging – suitcase, car, stuff and tell the truth. What inspires
drawer. Master level at space maximising. Before me? Integrity and open minds.
I die I must … go storm-chasing in Tornado Alley. Biggest strength? Resilience.
Right now I’m Netflix-bingeing on … Just Biggest weakness? Over-
knocked over Marcella and Shameless. I wish I could analysis. Next on my bucket
… sing. When I retire … I hope list? The Camino trail.
we’ll have come to our senses
as global citizens committed to
engaging in sustainable and
respectful practices, valuing life HOME
over commerce on every level.
I have no interest in being I can’t live without … freezer chocolate (that’s
a “grey nomad”. where I like to keep it.) Most treasured possession?
My childhood bear – Brown Bear. We’ve been
through a lot together. Best place I ever lived?
I have a deep love for and nostalgic memories of
my childhood home in Shoreham, Victoria. A row of
STYLE fruit trees lining the back fence and 100 varieties of
heritage roses in the garden. My next challenge is
Typical outfit? Eddie Vedder meets Indiana Jones … to expand my professional capacities and realise
(below). I never leave the house without? My some long-held dreams. I’m stepping up to the
Kathmandu backpack and a fold-up reusable challenge of content creation for film and television
shopping bag. Favourite shoes and in 2019. I’m addicted to … stories. I love hearing
why? I have some pairs I love for their people’s tales. No detail is too mundane for me.
specific functional uses, but I hate Where do I go to relax? Ocean. Forest. Or home.
most shoes. Hence loving the ones What’s in my back yard? Pots full of trees from
that serve a good purpose. Most seedlings that blew in on the wind. I’ve got a worm
surprising thing in my handbag? farm and compost as well. Signature dish to
A head lamp. Most sentimental cook? I have refined a good weeknight meat and
item I own? I have more sentimental fresh salad veg bowl. My last supper? Sausages
items than cupboard space at the and mac and cheese. My friends use that knowledge
moment. Looking to address that this to coerce me out of the house and over for dinner
year. Time to get “light”. Favourite when they haven’t seen me for a while. Favourite
A
designer? Kit X for her fab, flowing, edgy vibe place to holiday? I am mad for “new horizons” but
and ethical practices, and Ginger & Smart: beautiful, udiences fell in love with Satchwell from the moment she there’s something about exploring our own back
sharp and enjoyable to wear – made for real first appeared on the small screen, playing Anne Wilkin- yard I find really grounding and connecting.
women’s bodies. Most worn item in my son on Neighbours in 1996. The talented performer went Favourite room in my home? I’m good at finding
wardrobe? Black T-shirt – it’s the Melburnian in on to win the Logie for Most Popular New Talent and homes with great juju. There’s
me. Last shop I went into? Spotlight. I repair all of People’s Choice Award for Most Popular Teen Idol, and has not a room in my house
my belongings and clothes until they disintegrate. appeared in Fox8’s Dangerous (opposite Joel Edgerton), the that doesn’t feel good.
Who would I want to be for a day? Aslan. Who ABC’s Dirty Laundry, Jack Irish, sketch series Black Comedy, Mr One thing I wish I had
wouldn’t want to be a magical, wise and benevolent Inbetween and Dead Lucky. In 2017, Satchwell toured nationally in my house? A tree.
king? Good excuse to go to Narnia too. How would in the British production of The Play That Goes Wrong. She has (I love those houses built
I describe my style? I dance to the beat of “all” recently been filming Ride Like a Girl, directed by Rachel Grif- around them.) I’m most
the drums … Favourite accessory I can’t live fiths, and is currently shooting See-Saw Films’ The End. Satchwell proud of … my ninja
without? Rocks. I wear them with every outfit. has also joined the team on Ten’s Show Me The Movie. domestic skills.
JANE ARMITSTEAD
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ARTS
ARTS
Early As a girl, South
African singer
is right
Belinda Davids
worshipped Whitney
Qweekend publishes
Houston – never
PHIL BROWN guessing that one
on
day she would travel
the globe carrying
Portrait of the torch for the
time the real Barry
fallen star
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QWEEKEND
Early music exponen Australian comedian Dame Edna Everage
ded his personas – notably– but his forthcoming
Savall brings like-min for a and Sir Les Patterson The Man Behind
musicians to Brisbane s
show, Barry Humphries: to The Star Gold
comes
The Mask, which May, promises to focus
concert across the centurie Coast and QPAC
on Barry himself,
in
although I believe
Dame
will appear via the her, and I’m not
Edna and Sir Les technology. when I discovered says. “But I never saw
wonders of modern to have a Davids in
making this up,”
she
2018 I’ve been lucky enough really sad, but there’s saw anyone because
PHIL BROWN SEPTEMB ER 22-23, end of it all. It was character as
her perform. I hardly We couldn’t afford
Courier-Mail.
, now 83, on this business and
people
interviewed Humphries with lot of pressure in Whitney Houston
we grew up poor.
My first encounter in it takes.” and no major
artists
Jordi Savall is several occasions. Coast have no idea what tour here, audiences (above) and
was on the Gold tickets to shows,
To early music aficionados and that makes him him, and Sir Les,
was a time when
the local PHIL BROWN On Davids’ first voice. offstage,
came to where we
lived anyway.” BOOKINGS qpac.com.au
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something of a deity, he’s smiling when the early ’80s. It the purity of her sans wig. vocal training, Davids
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smile.
phone. He’s in France a
on council was
the city needed on stage is more Watch her singing by her talent. When started singing professiona
we chat over the Playing her idol hit the club circuit
in
this to him. It follows local residents suggestedmore and Sir Les African singer Belinda d
will be gobsmacke songs such as Dance 12. It was when she that people began to
THIS WEEK
tour when I put a gig for South be too much of
with Brisbane early a new sewerage system a new sewer fact it wouldn’t she’s onstage singing All, she her home country sounded like Hous-
conversation I had performer Margaret build Davids. In being Whitney Hous- Greatest Love of
suggested the city With Somebody or notice how much
she
music teacher and drain it to use it for a stretch to say that hours a night is an and it would be spooky inter-
president of the and occasionally . Brilliant! of becomes Houston, Her voice is so extra- ton. She opened
shows for many
is a former and art exhibitions ton for a couple Her tribute show The visiting South
Africa,
Caley, who of Queensland. Prior performances again in 1987 when
he if it wasn’t so moving. once suspected of lip- national acts
Early Music Society to chat about his I met Humphries almost sacred duty. – The Whitney Hous- was s and Peaches &
Picture: David Ignaszewski somewhat ill-fated
film
Greatest Love of
All ordinary that she recordings, so Davids including the Temptation as
to speaking to Savall I d viola da gamba. was publicising his it!) The Star, Gold Coast, to Houston began performing
Brisbane next month, Savall with his centuries-ol The World. (I liked ton Show comes
to synching
prove it was just
her. Herb, and in 2014 an
QPAC concert in expert perspective. Les Patterson Saves to a press conference features Davids
singing
sang a cappella to there is talk of actors was cast following
an years next month and Houston after she audition process. A
probed Caley for of Jordi Savall?”
I to it. He spent We were summoned to chat, first with hits with an other- In show business,
“What do you think by dedicated himself mus- Houston’s greatest roles.
born to play certain case exhaustive global people auditioned SATURDAY
immediately: “He’s
a be joined on stage practising and
scouring Europe’s ten at the Hilton Brisbane or singers being staggering 15,000 Ben McCartney: Nevermind
asked. She shot backat this “typical exag- World, and he will music ensembles: his charming as always. worldly familiarity. cliche but in Davids’ in was an obvious choice
eums and libraries
for long-forgot Barry – dapper and would 41, was crowned That might be a
god.” Savall laughs But there’s no deny- two acclaimed early – and Tembembe early instrument
s to be himself and said he Last year Davids, Better Than The true. As a young
girl worldwide. Davids perfectly. 7.30pm
scores. “We use the sound, technique and Then he excused him. Even it happens to be and the gig suits
her Show 1.30pm
geration of a friend”. Spanish Catalan own – Hesperion
XXI a we were ready for winner of BBC1’s Africa, she listened idol,” Davids says. The Rocky Horror
from Mexico, in context with the go and tell Sir Les shambolic, safari that pitted the world’s Port Elizabeth, South was eight years old “Because she’s my idol. For me it’s an
ing the 76-year-old superstar of early Ensamble Continuo, recreating connec- music,” he says. “It minutes later the Real Thing, a show each other. On the
& 7.30pm
Booking deadline:
“I be my
to phrasing of the original Five attache arrived with
top tribute acts againsthas a forthcoming to Houston daily. “She will always of MAMMA MIA! 2pm
& 7.30pm
musician is a global it go mainstream. group dedicated
the Hispanic Baroque
to the musicians suit-wearing cultural There are a lot
tions between makes us feel connected in hand. (It was tea,
of
strength of that
she emotional tribute. acts but for me,
music and has helped music from Mexico is a beautiful thing.” a glass of Scotch right now she’s touring SUNDAY
definitions, but “early” period and traditional of the past, and that named a UNESCO is teetotal.) He tour of the UK but first, in people who do Whitney I’m & 6.30pm
There are various between 1250 and “These forms evolved In 2008, Savall was course, since Humphries second time. The be Whitney Houston. MAMMA MIA! 1pm
and Latin America. of the Americas,” musical us, slurping his drink Australia, for the I’m not trying to Show 1.30pm
means music written e for outstanding proceeded to outragecold tea as he rambled. because Houston’s to her, and the diehard The Rocky Horror
medieval, Renaissanc after the discovery Artist for Peace 2015, was bittersweet towards the end of just paying tribute react to that. At times
1750 embracing wasn’t the only
thing intercultural dialogue. and spraying us with & 6.30pm
which has become Savall says. “Gold the Americas. It also commitment to Humphries a few of
times
own Australian
tour, Whitney fans really When you look
and Baroque music, “From the ’60s and in the baroque violin, I’ve interviewed a bit of a disaster.
At
late. that Spain took from dance rhythms of Caley, a specialist of he had an exhibition her career, had been in February 2010 the they think I am Whitney. in the audience, TUESDAY
very popular of strong interest but
it “one of the pioneers since – once when crying
brought the lovely and Creole music describes Savall as with Philip Bacon her Brisbane concert described as “breath- out and see people that I MAMMA MIA! 7.30pm
’70s there was always get a of) early music”. his paintings in Brisbanegoing on a painting fulfilling, to know Show 7.30pm
says. “You would indigenous, African (the popularisation a generation of he’s American singer
was and for me that’s very The Rocky Horror
was limited,” Savall to a concert probably new variations “He has inspired Galleries. I believe and out of control” I try to concentrate
to Europe. With s with passion ,” Caley friend, artist Tim less, shambolic have struck a nerve. not on the tragedy.” WEDNESDAY
few hundred people a back performers with his all the wrong reasons.
Wednesday 12pm week prior to publication
if I do expedition last was,
it exploded. Now played on early instrument historically informed hardware and the upcoming tour. The made headlines for on February 11, 2012, on how great she through to 2020
with & 7.30pm
but, in the 1990s, venue it’s a disaster, a world of emotion says. “You have
the Storrier, before his was in June Two years later, Davids is booked
MAMMA MIA! 1pm
concert in a small and energy, we createcan’t wait to share hardware is the old instru- time I spoke to Humphries wife dead in her room
at is a joy, although
it
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fit everyone in.” that we software. The the soft- in Brisbane, with was found her show, which road a lot and away
because we can’t s that are hun-
and beauty gut strings and 2015 when he was
Houston Los Angeles. The the & 7.30pm
.” ments with the ing the musical open Storrier’s show the Beverly Hilton, had means she’s on back in Cape Town,
Savall plays instrumentas the viola da with Australians and composer as Lizzie Spender, to report showed she
such Savall (a conductor ware is understand music was com- That show featured official coroner’s from her two sons “But as busy as I am, I THURSDAY
dreds of years old, a musician) has recorded
a the at Philip Bacon’s. portrait of Sir Les, in the bathtub, with
instrument resemblinghe well as a working conventions, how . Early music is now accidentally drowned as where she now lives. she says. “Each show MAMMA MIA! 7.30pm
gamba, a bowed since, as a 24-year- Storrier’s wonderful Room Prize at cocaine use listed never get sick of
it,” Show 7.30pm
or the rebec, which five staggering 230 albums early music and posed and improvised people hear it with- heart disease and The Rocky Horror
shrunken cello,
a little fiddle with
and which won the Packing for portraiture. restores my passion
for her music.”
QT Black is the New
White 7.30pm
describes as “like old cellist, he discovered very mainstream they are hearing
it. Prize contributing factors. Davids arrived with
was made in 1450
and
out even realising the 2014 Archibald of the Three years later,
strings”. His rebec to Handel, standing in front here I Houston FRIDAY
when he travels he some- They hear it when they listen Seeing Humphries drooled, teeth
Les her show. “The
first time I came in The Greatest Love
of All – The Whitney
from
he explains that music.” MAMMA MIA! 7.30pm
s so
Bach or Vivaldi. It’s
wonderful painting while Sir to restore her nameover Show, February 3,
The Star, Gold Coast,
times books seats
for his instrument acclaimed as him was quite a sight, thought, I have Show 7.30pm
And Savall is universally protruding, behind I can’t says when we chat $79.90; ticketek.com
.au The Rocky Horror
he can watch over
them. he insists that reports forget in a hurry. Australia,” Davids most recent arrival in QT Black is the New
White 7.30pm
Savall tends to be and not one I will and am glad to hear
its master, although the phone after her
Material deadline:
This music helps you
A concert featuring exaggerated. time
lesson. of his godliness are wait for his new show an appearance. dreadfully difficult the
something of a
musical history Perth. “It was a she was right at 23
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