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Men's Style Men of Influence 2017 th 2017 200810 MEN OF INFLUENCE 2017 THE 10TH EDITION OF OUR MEN OF INFLUENCE LIST FEATURES A HUGELY DIVERSE COLLECTION OF MEN FROM VERY DIFFERENT PROFESSIONS AND VERY DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE... men’s style 95 th men’s10 style MEN OF INFLUENCE ‘You’re not very important so be nice to people. Learn people’s JADDAN names and ask them questions.’ COMERFORD FOUNDER & CEO, UNIFIED MUSIC GROUP 33 Comerford started UNIFIED in 2011 to consolidate a number of things he was doing in the area of artist services and is now considered one of the most influential young music executives in the world, encompassing a label, artist management, merchandising, licensing and more. “I take what I do very seriously. People sometimes say we’re not saving lives or curing cancer. This is obviously true but at the same time, we are dealing with people’s lives, their careers and we are contributing to culture. In the current state of the world, a song or an amazing concert can change someone’s life, even if it’s only for 45 minutes.” NAZEEM NICK MIKEY RHYS HUSSAIN KYRGIOS ENRIGHT NICHOLSON COMEDIAN 31 TENNIS PLAYER 22 BUSINESSMAN 45 COMEDIAN 27 You have to credit a man who The most talented Australian The stylish Brit behind bar/salon An increasingly regular and PETER helped soften the views of a right- player of his generation has also The Barber Shop in Sydney’s York distinctive presence on Australia’s STEFANOVIC wing shock jock as influential. seemed, in the past couple of Street and at Barangaroo has also comedy festival circuit, the The creative force behind stage years, the most troubled. recently launched an eponymous camp lad from Newcastle who JOURNALIST 34 show Fear Of A Brown Planet and Headline-grabbing incidents scented men’s grooming range, says he dresses like a “lesbian SBS show Legally Brown did that in which Kyrgios has been Enright’s Original Gin. debutante” nails a bitchy, rapid- What responsibilities during his stint on I’m A Celebrity... offhandedly rude and dismissive “I’ve been in the hospitality fire observational style. come with influence? My Get Me Out Of Here where he about fans, opponents and even industry for over 25 years but Does a high profile bring with responsibilities are reporting forged a surprising friendship with his own interest in the sport started my career in hairdressing. it responsibility? accurately and fairly. The work hyper-opinionated Steve Price. have cast serious doubt on his Since then I’ve owned a gin “I could word this really I do can be highly influential Price later credited one of his chats motivation to become one of bar, grooming product range, carefully, or I could just say don’t as it informs viewers about a with Hussain for helping him tennis’ next giants. The Barber Shop York St and be a dick,” he says. “It’s pretty easy story or situation. They can better “understand the pressure But as he proved during the Barangaroo and have another bar not to be a dick. You’re not very then form their own opinion Muslim Australians are under”. recent Davis Cup quarter-final in the works. How’s that for a full important so be nice to people. so it’s very important that the “I’m very irresponsible, and win over the Americans in circle in your career?” Learn people’s names and ask information I provide is correct. probably not equipped to be Brisbane, and twice in earlier As for the implications of the them questions.” What talent are you proud of? My influential,” he tell us. “I’m victories over Novak Djokovic this ‘influence’ tag, Enright is direct. What would he like his legacy work ethic is very strong. I’ve actually very easily influenced. year, on his day he’s Australia’s “Treat people as you would like to to be? worked hard ever since I was a My responsibility is therefore to best chance of another major be treated, never sell yourself short “Either ‘He worked really hard stablehand at 12 years of age. surround myself with people who winner. If can just keep injury and remember, integrity is key on some pretty dumb stuff’ or Work hard, things happen. will influence me positively. I need and his sometimes troubled mind to your success. We only get one ‘Miss Universe 2019’.” What’s a weakness you’d to drop a lot of my friends.” at bay. chance at this!” admit to? Food. Always food! 96 men’s style men’s style 97 th men’s10 style MEN OF INFLUENCE DANNY HARLEY WILL MUSICIAN/PRODUCER 27 EDWARDS FOUNDER, ARCHIE ROSE Probably better known as The DISTILLING CO. 28 Kite String Tangle, the multi- instrumentalist and vocalist from When Will Edwards fulfilled his Brisbane gained attention after dream of opening a spirits distillery releasing “Given The Chance” in 2015, it was the first such facility in 2013, a song that put him on to open in Sydney since the 1850s. the music festival circuit, led to Now Archie Rose is already a acclaimed solo shows, and even ‘name’, both for the whiskys, gins TOBY made Triple J’s Hottest 100. and vodkas it’s producing at the PRICE Now Harley has started a label, distillery but also for the adjacent Exist.Recordings and released bar in inner-city Rosebery. ENDURO RIDER 29 new work, “Selfish” on the back ‘I hope I can be the role model I “In the most romantic sense, of a sold-out national tour, needed when I was a kid struggling what we’re trying to do at Archie The first Australian to ever win confirming him as one of the Rose is make the best quality, the famed Dakar Rally in 2016, most influential exponents of new to come to terms with who I was.’ most innovative spirits we NSW country boy Price has electronic music in these parts. possibly can while showcasing racing in his blood. A five-time other incredible Australian winner of the Bikes category in growers, producers, coopers, the famously tough Finke Desert bartenders and retailers,” says Race in Australia, he also races Will. “I hope we end up being cars and Stadium Super Trucks. known for first of all, the quality performing to a high level even of our spirits, but also the fact shortly after a gruelling and JASON BRENTON that we helped in some way to seemingly endless list of breaks BALL THWAITES raise the profile of the Australian and fractures sustained during Distilling Industry.” races. Now he’d like the Dakar to ADVOCATE 29 ACTOR 27 come to Australia. “If I can get two or three Dakar wins to my Ball achieved something of a The former Home And Away name ... maybe I can convince national profile after he took on star originally from Far North them into it, bring them on here the not inconsiderable challenge Queensland has a veritable stack to Australia.” of combatting homophobia in of new film work coming up, sport, most notably by starting a including a chunky role in Pirates change.org petition directed at the Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell The Nine political correspondent AFL in 2012. Ball, a lower level No Tales alongside your Depps, and sometime Today presenter is a AFL player, had earlier come out Rushes and Blooms. Later, the relatively fresh face on our screens as gay. Since then he’s become lead in an intense WW11 drama but already has a few exclusives an ambassador for beyondblue, Ghosts Of War. under the belt. “As a reporter, the a Greens candidate in the 2016 “One minute you’re auditioning greatest influence you can have is Federal election and Victoria’s and you’re unemployed, the presenting facts and letting viewers Young Australian of the Year 2017. next minute, you’ve booked a make up their own mind,” says “Growing up, I thought being huge movie,” the father-of-one Croucher. “These days there are so gay was the worst thing a person told AAP of his States-side many so-called influencers yelling could be,” he says. “I didn’t have experiences. “I don’t know how at cameras, bashing at a keyboard any positive gay role models and actors do it man, [but you’ve] and blindly pushing their cause, therefore I didn’t see a future for just got to relax, take it easy, wait the challenge has become sifting myself. I guess I hope my legacy for the next thing to come and CHARLES through the bullshit.” is that I was able to be that role don’t freak out.” CROUCHER What’s something we don’t model that I needed when I was know about him? “My first job a kid struggling to come to terms JOURNALIST 29 was in a bottle shop at age 14. You with who I was.” could do that in a small town.” 98 men’s style men’s style 99 th men’s10 style MEN OF INFLUENCE BRYAN WRENCH LAWYER 29 Working for high-profile and sometimes controversial Sydney solicitor Chris Murphy means that Bryan Wrench, with his square jaw, powerlifter’s frame and dapper bouble-breasted suits, ‘My thumbnails are wide. Unusually is often seen alongside high- wide. I’ve been using them as an profile, sometimes controversial ice-breaker for years, but now I’m clients as they try and escape TV cameras while leaving court. DAMIEN 28 I feel it’s time to move on .’ Next up – the Anthony Bell RINALDO divorce case which has all of HAIRDRESSER 41 Sydney talking.
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