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Paul Kelly has announced his new album, Seventy, anchored by lead single, Rita Wrote A Letter.

Paul Kelly releases How to Make Gravy follow-up after viral tease

Joe, Dan and Rita all return for the sequel song, which marks the first single off Paul Kelly’s newly announced album, Seventy.

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Paul Kelly has posted a funeral notice in The Age prompting speculation a sequel to his song How To Make Gravy was on the way.

Joe’s dead, who’s going to make the gravy? Paul Kelly takes out funeral notice in The Age

Paul Kelly has published a death notice in The Age newspaper for Joe, the fictional hero of his track, How To Make Gravy, prompting speculation a follow-up to the hit 1996 song may be on its way. 

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Record producers Ernie Rose (left) and Roger Savage, with researcher and author John Olson (right) outside the former Armstrong Studios site in South Melbourne.

Australia’s ‘Abbey Road’ produced a generation of musical genius. It’ll never happen again

Armstrong Studios – later AAV and Metropolis – produced countless hits and a generation of producers and audio engineers. Roger Savage doubts Australia will have anything like it again.

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Lewis Capaldi has made a triumphant return to Glastonbury.

The best concerts still to see in Brisbane in 2025

Have you booked yet for the rest of the year’s biggest live music events?

  • Nick Dent

Kate Ceberano: ‘Michael Hutchence climbed on my balcony one night … and stayed for breakfast’

On her latest tour, Kate Ceberano will share stories from her remarkable career. And, as she tells Fitzy, there are many tales to tell.

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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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Gail Sorronda dress.

‘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