David Goldthorpe would like to introduce you to his good friend, the infamous Chet Baker.

“Why Chet Baker? I’ve always loved Chet Baker’s music. I was introduced to him later in life when I saw ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ where Matt Damon does the impersonation of Chet Baker. That's what did it. I walked down to the record store and bought one of his albums and started listening to it. I really fell in love with his trumpet playing as well as his singing.

“Then, I had to develop a theatrical piece for something in my last year of drama school that I had a personal connection with. I had quite a personal connection with his music already and I was interested in the darker side of his life with drug abuse as I've always wondered what would have happened if I had wandered down that path myself.

“The juxtaposition between his sweet music and the dark character he shows most of the time makes him a really interesting person. That's why I went with Chet Baker.”

David has performed ‘Chet Baker: Like Someone In Love’ every year since its first production in 2007.

“It’s like putting on an old worn pair of shoes that I really like wearing. Every time I come back to the performance it fits well and is so comfortable but every time I do it, it's always in a different place with different audiences, in different cities, in different venues.”

Chet Baker: Like Someone In Love plays the QUT Gardens Theatre August 22-23.