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Cyndi Lauper, seen here performing at the Glastonbury Festival in England, 2024, is touring Australia in 2025 on her farewell tour.

The 25 best concerts to see in Brisbane in 2025

These are the biggest rock, pop, hip-hop and country concerts coming to town that you need to know about – and book ASAP.

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“Singing with other people is a very powerful human experience  … It does something to the soul.”

‘It does something to the soul’: Meg Washington on the power of singing en masse

The singer-songwriter discusses why she makes music, not being smart with money – and her hatred of leaf blowers.

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Daniel Henshall as Joe and xx as his son Angus in How To Make Gravy.

If Paul Kelly’s classic Christmas song makes you tear up, this film will too

Nick Waterman’s film adaptation, written with Meg Washington, captures the spirit of How to Make Gravy.

  • Garry Maddox
Dan (Brenton Thwaites), Rita (Agathe Rousselle), Joe (Daniel Henshall),  Angus (Jonah Wren Phillips), Dolly (Izzy Westlake) and Frank (Rose Statham). 

How Paul Kelly’s classic song How to Make Gravy was turned into a different kind of Christmas film

Co-writers Meg Washington and her director husband, Nick Waterman, knew the stakes were high: “We treated the song like it was Shakespeare.”

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‘It was like watching a brother and sister kiss’: Kate Mulvany’s secrets from the set

The How to Make Gravy star on bringing Paul Kelly’s iconic Christmas song to the screen.

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Meg Washington in character as ‘Kelly’ in How to Make Gravy, with her husband, director Nick Waterman. The two co-wrote the film’s screenplay.

How a Paul Kelly Christmas song became a Brisbane couple’s feature film debut

How to Make Gravy is co-written by actor-musician Meg Washington and her filmmaker husband Nick Waterman.

  • Nick Dent
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Driven by desire, Paul Kelly explores love, lust and longing on Fever Longing Still.

From making gravy to making love, Paul Kelly on his ‘toey’ record

Australia’s greatest songwriter on life, love, lust and learning from Taylor Swift.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Ian Darling’s new documentary The Pool is about Bondi Icebergs. “So we thought, let’s make the pool itself the central character.”

The response to the Bondi Icebergs documentary proves it’s not about swimming

All the world is Ian Darling’s stage, from business to theatre and documentaries.

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Meg Washington returns to the stage this month, having wrapped up filming of How To Make Gravy.

Meg Washington spills the gravy on screen adaptation of Paul Kelly classic

The singer turned screenwriter says the story of How To Make Gravy had to make sense to both fans of the song and newcomers.

  • Martin Boulton
Amy says the high costs of phone calls is keeping prisoners and their families apart at Christmas.

The Christmas push to end gravy train of exorbitant prison phone calls

Calls from public phones are free, but in Australian prisons they are prohibitively expensive, costing some prisoners almost their entire week’s wage on a single phone call.

  • Bianca Hall

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