Page 184 David Pocock reveals his open side Page 189 Best music-streaming apps Page 192 Mazda’s city SUV star iQ. Page 200 Art and soul (2014) by Shin Kwang Ho, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore The Sydney Contemporary art fair returns Untitled Untitled with vibrant artworks from 13 countries. September 2015 | QANTAS 183 iQ. Who Knew? grandfather’s farm in Zimbabwe, listening to the scops owls and hyenas calling. If you could have dinner with two famous people, who would you choose? Russell Brand and [American organic farmer and author] Joel Salatin. What travel experience is on your bucket list? A big road trip through Sub-Saharan Africa. I would love to have six months and an old Land Rover to travel and explore. How do you switch off? Usually gardening or painting. I had two knee reconstructions in two years and gardening helped keep me sane. And the produce was delicious. What’s your guilty pleasure? Cream with blackberries and macadamia nuts. I have it a few times a week. What quality do you most admire in people? People who do what they love. Not sure if that’s a quality but I love spending time with people who have found ways to live out their passions in life. If you could turn back time, what in your life would you change? I’d have spent more time with my brothers during my last few years of school. I was really focused on sport and then moved from Brisbane, where my family still lives, to Perth straight after school. What is your greatest achievement? The Cherokee purple tomatoes I grew this year were pretty amazing. I know it’s not hard to beat store-bought tomatoes for taste but even compared to homegrown ones, these were next level. Who is your personal hero? What’s your greatest strength? I’ve always viewed Desmond Tutu as a hero. David Pocock Maybe being able to laugh at myself He’s someone who has done the things life and not take myself too seriously. has asked of him and in doing so shown What’s your greatest weakness? people how we can create a more just world. My Aunty Denise’s banofee pie. What would you say is the most Australian Sporting skills. Good looks. Social What scares you? thing about you? conscience. Just when it seems the Having regrets when I’m an old man Probably that I’m an immigrant. Apart from Zimbabwe-born Qantas Wallabies looking back on my life. I know it’s Indigenous Australians, we all arrived here fanker is the perfect package, a cliché but I think that’s because from somewhere else. he admits to a weakness. And he it’s true for so many of us. Where would we fnd you at a party? blames Aunty Denise. What’s your favourite karaoke song? I have dreams of being a DJ but I’d probably Something by Paul Simon, probably just be on the dance foor. You Can Call Me Al. But I’m an How would you like to be remembered? awful singer. I’m not too sure but there is a quote from If you had any other job, what would it be? an author I love, James Hollis, that maybe A game-park ranger in Southern Africa. sums it up: “We are not here to ft in, be well What’s one thing about you that would balanced or provide exempla for others. We surprise people? are here to be eccentric, diferent, perhaps I enjoy painting. I’m not very good and didn’t strange, perhaps merely to add our small do art at school but I really enjoy it and piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, I usually have a painting on the go at home. to the great mosaic of being. As the gods INTERVIEW BY DI WEBSTER What’s your idea of absolute happiness? intended, we are here to become more PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAMIAN BENNETT Sitting around the fre at night on my and more ourselves.” Styling by Emma Fagg. Grooming by Craig Rhodes. Shot on location at HotelSaba Hotel, knit, Canberra; $150, saba.com.au; hotel-hotel.com.au. Trenery chinos, David $99.95, trenery.com.au; wears Tudor “Pelagos” watch, $5250, tudorwatch.com 184 QANTAS | September 2015 iQ. Books & Music REVIEWS BY PAUL ROBINSON THE PLAYLIST SHORT HAUL LONG HAUL STOPOVER SAMUEL MARGIN Lead singer of The Rubens They’ve supported Bruce Springsteen and The Black Keys. If that The Crossing Sweet Caress Waterfront doesn’t cement The Rubens’ Andrew Miller William Boyd Duncan McNab rock credentials, their new Hachette, $29.99 Bloomsbury, $29.99 Hachette, $32.99 album, Hoops, should. Frontman Samuel Margin Musician Tim meets infatuated- Growing up with an absentee In 1789, a year after the arrival credits his dad for his with-the-ocean biologist Maud father, Amory Clay bonds with of the First Fleet in Sydney “all-time fave” tracks when she falls from a boat in her photographer uncle, Greville, Cove, the first wharf in the colony (“he always played Van a dry dock then tries to walk, who gives her a camera and was built, six Royal Marines were Morrison in the car when despite her injuries. He escorts her first job – snapping socialites executed for stealing government we were kids”). He’s still her to casualty and a relationship for a magazine. This lights a fire stores and a night watch was listening to them, too. ensues. They go on to have in the fiercely independent established to prevent further a daughter but when the woman. Through Amory’s lens, pilfering. Over the centuries, young girl dies, Maud begins William Boyd portrays some from settlement through the Van Morrison to withdraw. Telling no-one, of the momentous events of gold rush, the Depression, wars Sweet Thing she embarks on a solo voyage the 20th century, including the and royal commissions, the across the Atlantic. Andrew Miller demimonde decadence of Berlin nation’s ports have been a Pond has previously been short-listed in the 1920s, New York during gateway for trade and corruption Medicine Hat for the Booker Prize and won the Depression and the rise of in equal measure. Notable has the 2011 Costa Book Award. fascism in Europe. Sweet Caress been the relative indifference The Rolling Stones Unhurriedly paced, his writing is almost filmic in its panoramic of authorities to address the Can’t You Hear is so well crafted and descriptive sweep across the pages of problem. After exhaustive Me Knocking it verges on the poetic. Here he recent history and photographs research, journalist and former creates a disturbingly enigmatic throughout the text amp up the detective Duncan McNab has Pink Floyd central character whose demons authenticity. This could well be produced a fascinating dark- Comfortably Numb become more apparent as the the award-winning author’s side history that makes for an journey gets more harrowing. finest effort yet. enthralling read. Mos Def Mathematics Pusha T Numbers on the Boards LIE ON THE BEACH One Hundred than despair, Lucio sets out Rolls Bayce Days of Happiness to win back his wife’s affection Mutate Fausto Brizzi and make every moment count. Picador, $29.99 Fausto Brizzi lays out what Bill Withers should be a heartbreaking Hope She’ll Be Happier Womanising rogue Lucio story in a conversational, Battistini is sleeping in the matter-of-fact manner that Kings of Leon back room of his father-in-law’s draws the reader in. Lucio is King of the Rodeo bakery, kicked out of home after extremely likeable, with all-too- his wife discovered an ongoing human flaws. This is a gently Unknown affair. Then he gets worse humorous, poignant and Mortal Orchestra news: inoperable cancer and uplifting reminder that life Multi-Love three months to live. Rather is too precious to squander. 186 QANTAS | September 2015 iQ. Technology Access all areas Remember when you had to physically walk into a store to buy music? Or you needed a specifc type of music player? Nowadays, while anyone can access music over the internet, serious music fans fnd the best bang for their buck lies in music-streaming services. Unlike iTunes, where you pay to download individual singles or albums, music-streaming services give you access to millions of tracks on a subscription basis via apps that work across desktop and mobile devices. You don’t own any of the music (which means you lose access as soon as you stop paying) but the monthly fee is half what you’d pay for a new-release album. Most services also ofer free access that’s either subsidised by ads or has fewer features. REVIEWS BY ILLUSTRATION BY JENNETH ORANTIA ROHAN CAIN Spotify Apple Music Tidal Deezer Premium access $12 a month From $12 a month HiFi access $24 a month Premium+ access $12 a month spotify.com apple.com/music tidal.com deezer.com One of the best things about Apple was instrumental in driving Practising audiophiles are It isn’t as well known as Spotify Spotify – which has more than legitimate music downloads so already used to paying more but Deezer certainly has the chops 75 million users worldwide and it’s no surprise to see it jumping than “regular” music fans and to give it a run for its money. around 30 million tracks – is that on the streaming bandwagon. viewed in that context, the $24 This service offers a 35-million- it offers many ways to discover While it doesn’t offer a free tier subscription for Tidal’s flagship strong catalogue of songs and new music.