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IOL News
04-07-2025
- Business
- IOL News
Win big with Cell C: R10 million in prizes awaits you
Cell C is giving South Africans 10 million reasons to stay connected with the return of its thrilling Win Big campaign – Amplified. Why settle for small wins when you can have amplified ones? Cell C is cranking up the volume on rewards - from instant prizes to R100,000 in cash, this campaign is designed to change lives. Whether you're recharging, upgrading, or signing up, every move you make brings you closer to winning life-changing rewards from instant vouchers to R100,000 in cash. This year's Win Big campaign is bigger and better across every touchpoint, with over R10 million in prizes up for grabs across national, regional, in-store, and radio platforms. Here's how to Win Big – amplified style: Recharge, upgrade, or sign up – each action is an entry. Score instant vouchers and weekly in-store wins of R1,000. Win big with cash prizes of up to R100,000 – and possibly your contract for life! And there's more!
Time Out
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Explore the history of rock 'n' roll at this new immersive exhibit in NYC
Transport yourself to the heart of the mosh pit—figuratively, that is—at this new immersive exhibit all about rock 'n' roll. Titled " Rolling Stone Presents Amplified: The Immersive Rock Experience," this digital exhibition is hosted at ARTECHOUSE in Chelsea, known for its stunning visual and audio presentations. You'll get to explore the legacy of Rolling Stone magazine through more than 50 years of music and pop culture. Narrated by Kevin Bacon, "Amplified" features more than 1,000 photographs, 1,300 iconic magazine covers and a massive 270-degree digital canvas. Adult tickets start at $39, and the show is on view through August 31. The show will take you on a 50-minute journey featuring iconic visuals and, of course, incredible music. You'll get a tour through the story of revolutionary music and the changes it brought. Expect to see rare live performance and behind-the-scenes footage, exclusive portrait sessions, album art and posters, delivering one of the most comprehensive collections of rock 'n' roll imagery ever assembled. More than 300 iconic artists whose music changed the world are featured in the show, including The Who, David Bowie, Sam Cooke, and Tinashe, to name a few. As for imagery, more than 500 photographers and film directors, such as Mark Seliger, Danny Clinch, Lynn Goldsmith, Anton Corbijn, Bob Gruen, Jim Marshall, Neal Preston, Janette Beckman and Pooneh Ghana, are included. Amplified was originally produced by Illuminarium Experiences and created by Brand New World Studios in partnership with Rolling Stone. It was then adapted for by ARTECHOUSE Studio for the New York location. Brad Siegel, founder of Brand New World Studios, calls the show "the ultimate immersive rock experience." "Bringing Amplified to New York City—where Rolling Stone has been based for decades—feels especially meaningful," Gus Wenner, CEO of Rolling Stone, said in a press release. "New York has been at the heart of so many important artists, so we're thrilled to debut this powerful, immersive celebration of rock 'n' roll and its legacy here." If you've never been to ARTECHOUSE, the venue itself is a very cool, subterranean spot with its own XR Bar. It's located at 439 West 15th Street inside the 100-year-old boiler room of Chelsea Market where you can grab a bite to eat after you see the art.
ABC News
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Spirit of rock legend Chrissy Amphlett channelled in Rising cabaret Amplified
As frontwoman of Australian rock group Divinyls, formed in Sydney in 1980 with guitarist Mark McEntee, Chrissy Amphlett was renowned for her powerful stage charisma. Her thick, bright red hair; short, black-and-white sailor tunic with suspender belt and fishnets; her "Monster Schoolgirl" persona and sexually provocative stage-writhing, are legendary. And her music is still incredibly powerful. "When you're in the centre of those songs and they're a wall of rage, it feels mythically enormous," says Sheridan Harbridge, who performs in Amplified: the Exquisite Rock and Rage of Chrissy Amphlett, as part of Melbourne's Rising festival. The word that keeps coming up as I talk about Amphlett with Harbridge and the show's director, Sarah Goodes, is "electric". "People who I've spoken to, her friends and people who saw her, they really describe her as conjuring an electricity that just gripped the room," Harbridge says. "There were no women in rock doing what she did at the time. She was getting up there and giving sex, passion and rock'n'roll, any way she wanted to. With no rules of pandering for men or pandering for women." Amplified, a cabaret, brings to life Amphlett's story through her music. Goodes is quick to point out that the rockstar contained multitudes, beyond her on-stage, rage-filled persona. "At the time you had to pre-empt it, you know. To avoid being eaten alive, you had to kill first," Goodes says. The show aims to let all Amphlett's contradictions — of rage, vulnerability and anger — "shimmer in the air together", Goodes says. Harbridge is drawn to telling stories of the women society has labelled "disobedient". "As a writer, it's always been my sort of manifesto … making sure that their story is on the record." Amphlett rejected feminist ideas prevalent in the late 1970s and early 80s, that dismissed overt sexuality as pandering to a male gaze. "Chrissy was like, 'I don't need to follow any of these rules,'" Harbridge says. "That was her punk." "It's that ancient [contradiction of] women being too sexual or not sexual enough," Goodes says. "It's this impossible shadow-boxing with what it means to be a woman. And she just burst through it and roared. Everyone just shut up and loved it and embraced it." The idea for a one-woman show about Amphlett's life was conceived by Amphlett herself. She'd been working on the idea before she died of breast cancer in 2013. It was Amphlett's longtime friend Simon Morley (of Puppetry of the Penis fame) who brought the idea to Goodes, back in 2018. COVID delays pushed the project back but, eventually, Morley asked Goodes to direct. She was interested, on one condition. "If I can do it with Sheridan," Goodes says. "I couldn't really imagine anyone else who can traverse that tightrope between rock'n'roll and theatre. "You don't want someone impersonating Chrissy," Goodes says. "What [Sheridan is] able to do is channel the spirit of her." Harbridge describes Amplified as a "rock odyssey". The cabaret format allows her to directly address the audience, to conjure memories of what Amphlett was like on stage. "The fans who adored her are as much a character as I am," Harbridge says. "I want it to be a communion of an artist. So yeah, we're in the room together." The weight of responsibility in creating a show centred on the life and music of someone so beloved by fans doesn't escape Harbridge. "People get this distant, shimmering, glossy look in their eyes when you mention Chrissy Amphlett. They go, 'Oh yeah, I saw her in Toowoomba in '88. And she just blew the roof off.'" Goodes has directed numerous plays about other trailblazing Australian women — art patron and founder of Melbourne's Heide gallery, Sunday Reed (Anthony Weigh's Sunday, for MTC in 2023, STC in 2024), former prime minster Julia Gillard (Joanna Murray Smith's Julia, National Tour in 2024). And she says that the key is not in attempting to imitate that person, but in finding ways to bring their essence to life in the room. Harbridge and Goodes hope Amplified: The Exquisite Rock and Rage of Chrissy Amphlett will offer younger audiences the chance to get to know Amphlett's music and celebrate her as an artist and rule-breaker 20 years ahead of her time; as a pioneering woman who kicked down doors for future generations of women artists to walk through. "I think an artist who enrages at the time, is often giving you a glimmer of the rules of the future," Harbridge says. "Someone who just keeps pushing other people's brains into that kind of considerate sponginess. Until one day, the whole matrix moves. "I know I stand on the shoulders of women like her, who demanded to work in an art form. And now I don't take that for granted." And what would Amphlett think of the show? "That's all I'm worried about," she admits. "I hope we're honouring her. I really hope we are. And I hope we're letting people meet her beyond the 'monster' persona. Which is what she wanted from doing the show." Amplified: the Exquisite Rock and Rage of Chrissy Amphlett runs as part of Rising festival from June 11-13.
The Age
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
‘She just conjured electricity': Celebrating Divinyls legend Chrissy Amphlett
Before Madonna talked sex and sexuality on stage, a working-class girl on the other side of the globe was shocking audiences with her fierce and powerful performances. Chrissy Amphlett was unlike anything Australians had seen when she burst on the stage in 1980 as lead singer of Divinyls. Without her it's hard to imagine Amy Taylor from Amyl & the Sniffers, or Amphlett's fellow Geelong-born rocker Adalita. A new show opening next week called Amplified showcases the work of the late artist – Amphlett died from breast cancer in 2013, aged just 53 – as well as her extraordinary impact and legacy. Making the work has been a wonderful process, says Sheridan Harbridge, who stars in the show, and co-created it with acclaimed director Sarah Goodes and musical director Glenn Moorhouse (Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Trawling through YouTube and watching old performances by the Divinyls and Amphlett solo, Harbridge says there are hundreds of comments from people writing things such as 'I saw them at the Crystal Ballroom and it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen'. 'And then women saying, 'I'd never seen a woman act like that and I didn't know you could',' the actor-singer-writer says, adding that 'equally for men, they were watching something quite electric'. 'I spoke to someone who worked with her and they said, 'she just conjured electricity'.' Raised in a Pentecostal Christian family in Gippsland, Harbridge wasn't allowed to watch shows like The Simpsons and The Golden Girls, but thankfully her mum didn't know what Rage was, so that was where she first came across Amphlett.
Sydney Morning Herald
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘She just conjured electricity': Celebrating Divinyls legend Chrissy Amphlett
Before Madonna talked sex and sexuality on stage, a working-class girl on the other side of the globe was shocking audiences with her fierce and powerful performances. Chrissy Amphlett was unlike anything Australians had seen when she burst on the stage in 1980 as lead singer of Divinyls. Without her it's hard to imagine Amy Taylor from Amyl & the Sniffers, or Amphlett's fellow Geelong-born rocker Adalita. A new show opening next week called Amplified showcases the work of the late artist – Amphlett died from breast cancer in 2013, aged just 53 – as well as her extraordinary impact and legacy. Making the work has been a wonderful process, says Sheridan Harbridge, who stars in the show, and co-created it with acclaimed director Sarah Goodes and musical director Glenn Moorhouse (Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Trawling through YouTube and watching old performances by the Divinyls and Amphlett solo, Harbridge says there are hundreds of comments from people writing things such as 'I saw them at the Crystal Ballroom and it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen'. 'And then women saying, 'I'd never seen a woman act like that and I didn't know you could',' the actor-singer-writer says, adding that 'equally for men, they were watching something quite electric'. 'I spoke to someone who worked with her and they said, 'she just conjured electricity'.' Raised in a Pentecostal Christian family in Gippsland, Harbridge wasn't allowed to watch shows like The Simpsons and The Golden Girls, but thankfully her mum didn't know what Rage was, so that was where she first came across Amphlett.
