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Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dartford's Big Day Out festival to return this July - and it's free
Back by popular demand, Dartford's Big Day Out is returning for two days of free family fun in Central Park. The Big Day Out weekend festival will return to Dartford's Central Park on July 12 and July 13, bringing with it live music, vintage steam vehicles, family-friendly activities, and more. The festival is completely free to enjoy. Saturday will kick off with a DJ set and performances from tribute acts celebrating the music of P!nk, Coldplay, Motown, and Dolly Parton. The steam rally will also be returning on both days, with a collection of vintage vehicles on display. Read more Got tickets for Billie Eilish at the O2? 5 key things you need to know Got tickets to Oasis's reunion tour? Find out Wembley's seating plan Take in the summer scents from English Heritage's gorgeous gardens There will also be a kids zone at the event with face painting, craft workshops, and inclusive play. After the excitement on Saturday, the festival is set to wind down with the Big Chill Out on Sunday, July 13. Families can come along with a picnic to enjoy the more relaxed vibe, with local singers and performers appearing on the stage throughout the day. Food trucks will also park up over the weekend, with a variety of different foods on offer. A Dartford Borough Council spokesperson said: "Big Day Out is a fantastic way for the Dartford community to come together and enjoy a weekend of free entertainment in the beautiful surroundings of Central Park. "Our team has worked hard to put together an event that offers something for everyone without breaking the bank, and we hope to see you there."
Courier-Mail
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Courier-Mail
AC/DC sets new Aussie box office record with Power Up shows
Don't miss out on the headlines from Music Tours. Followed categories will be added to My News. Buying tickets to the hottest concerts and sporting events in Australia is an anxiety-spiking online hell. Yet we keep lining up in those virtual queues, often for hours, to secure the prize, with AC/DC fans breaking Ticketek's record for a music tour's first day sale last week. Fans who made it out of the 'lounge' to the checkout snapped up 320,000 tickets to the band's Power Up concerts in November and December. That first day of sales last Thursday eclipsed the band's previous record of 240,000 tickets for the Black Ice tour in 2009, which was the previous biggest concert on-sale day in Ticketek's history. X SUBSCRIBER ONLY The huge demand to welcome AC/DC back to Australia's stadiums after a decade's absence was funnelled into the general sale as the egalitarian rockers are old school and don't do ticket pre-sales, preferring everyone gets an equal shot. Most stadium-sized tours – think box office slayers Ed Sheeran, P!nk and Taylor Swift – offer promoter, credit card and telco-affiliated pre-sales over multiple days before the general sale. Or the artists add extra shows that go on sale at a later date. As the AC/DC shows went on sale – at staggered times for each city's gig to spread the online traffic across the day – 'second and final' concerts were added to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and immediately available to purchase. AC/DC set a first day sales box office record last week. Picture: Christie Goodwin. There are still seats available on Ticketek to the upper bays from $203 and some premium tickets for more than $400 to see the hard rock heroes, three days after the box office launch. And unlike the recent flood of complaints about virtual queues of more than 200,000 for the Ashes tickets sale, the AC/DC fans mostly hit social media to confirm they had been successful – or share their position in the queue, the new social media trend for ticket sales. 'It was an absolute nightmare getting tickets during the Ashes pre-sale, but I had no issues with AC/DC today,' one fan posted. But it was an infuriating experience for a raft of hopeful ticket buyers who made it through only to be booted to the back of queue when they pressed the pay button. 'Selected tickets for AC/DC, hit pay, got punted back to the lounge behind 50,000 other people. ridiculous,' an irate fan wrote. Ed Sheeran holds the record for the most tickets sold on an Australian tour. Picture: Jake Nowakowski There was also a recurring problem for some exasperated fans who protested they got to the front of the queue to be rudely greeted with a 'restricted access' message and booted back to square one. 'Beyond frustrated, waiting for an hour to get to the front of the queue and be told my access is restricted & now 60k in the queue, I frequently purchase AFL tix with no issue, this service has to be looked into,' wrote a disappointed fan on X. Ticketek advised fans ahead of the AC/DC sale to disable VPNs or IP-masking tools as 'your unique IP helps us confirm you're a real person, not a bot.' Honorary Aussie P!nk is the highest selling female touring artist here. Picture: Tom Parrish Other tips include turning off any browser extensions and to access sales from a single browser on one device only to reduce the risk of triggering bot detection and being booted to the back of the queue. While Ed Sheeran, P!nk and Taylor Swift have moved more tickets on their tours of Australia over the past two years, rolled out over pre-sales and a general public sale, AC/DC was the biggest first-day seller for Ticketek. This past summer saw the highest live event sales in nearly a decade, with two million Australians buying tickets. The box office agency achieved another record last Thursday with over 370,000 tickets moved in a single day, setting a new all-time high for daily sales and surpassing the previous record set during The Ashes on-sale earlier this month. In addition to the AC/DC tickets, Ticketek traded almost 50,000 tickets to other events including NRL and AFL matches. Originally published as AC/DC's Power Up tour sets new concert box office record for first-day sales
Daily Record
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Huge 80s boyband star now mastermind behind some of today's biggest hits
Some of Adele, Cline Dion and P!nk's biggest hits are down to this one 80's boy band pop star after his career take a drastic turn three decades ago Once a teen heartthrob in one of the original British boy bands, Eg White from Brother Beyond has quietly become one of the masterminds behind some of the biggest pop hits of recent times. While his face no longer be front and centre some of the biggest pop hits his lyrics are still woven into songs from the links of Adele, Celine Dion and James Blunt. Winding the clock back more than three decades ago to the late 1980s, Brother Beyond released classic catchy pop songs with plenty of quintessentially 80s synth. The band was first created in 1985 and was quick to release a selection of singles including some of their classic songs, Should Have Lied, How Many Times, Chain-Gang Smile and Can You Keep a Secret?. Although some of their first songs managed to hit the charts, it wasn't quite the instant success they were looking for. However their first album Get Even, proved to be the hit they were looking for, with The Harder I Try reaching number two in the charts and He Ain't No Competition reaching number six. However, after a more muted response to their second album, Trust, the band lost a lot of their momentum and took a hiatus away from the business before some live shows in the early 2000s. Despite the rollercoaster success of Brother Beyond, the band's bassist Eg White decided to embark on a very different musical journey. Eg was the creator of many of the original band's tunes so it seemed only natural to continue his journey into songwriting, penning various songs for some big-name artists. One of his earliest and most impactful hits came in 2003 when he teamed up with the newly crowned inaugural Pop Idol winner Will Young for the song "Leave Right Now". The song became a smash hit, soaring to number one and is still to this day Young's most streamed song. But the singer wasn't the only one to gain recognition from the song, as Eg scooped an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for his work on the song. In 2008 he teamed up with Adele to create three songs on her first album 19, including one one of her first big hits Chasing Pavements. The two would also pair up two years later to create Take It All which appeared on her follow-up album 21. A year later he would also create his own record label, Spilt Milk Records where he would work as both a writer and producer. Over the coming decades, he would cement his place as one of the most in-demand songwriters in the UK picking up credits on several songs by James Blunt, Florence and The Machine, P!nk, Celine Dion and many more.
Globe and Mail
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Globe and Mail
How the Canadian behind the Glambot became a ‘talent whisperer' for celebrity red carpets
Cole Walliser didn't move to Los Angeles with the intent of becoming a presence on red carpets. But today, the charismatic 43-year-old's signature laid-back energy and voluminous curls stand out even among the glitterati. You've likely seen Walliser's work, even if you didn't realize it. Since 2016, he's been helming the Glambot, a high-speed robotic camera that captures slow-motion portraits of celebrities, from Cynthia Erivo to Demi Moore to Ice Spice, at major awards shows such as the Oscars and the Grammys. At the same time, Walliser engages A-listers in candid moments as they decide how to co-create the most iconic shots. Originally from Richmond, B.C., Walliser came to L.A. in 2004 with a psychology degree from the University of British Columbia and a love of videography cultivated while filming his friends doing kickflips at the skate park. It was his keen attention to detail in motion that made him the ideal director of the Glambot. The execs at E! Entertainment 'were looking for someone who had directed beauty stuff, done a bunch of movement and choreography, and worked with A-listers,' says Walliser of getting the gig. After early-career experience directing beauty campaigns and music videos for artists such as P!nk and Miley Cyrus, 'I checked all those boxes,' he says. His role, technically, is director. But in practice, Walliser is part cinematographer, part movement coach, part talent whisperer. 'The big challenge is trying to get talent to do a cool, interesting move,' he says. Once Walliser calls out to his operator, the camera rapidly flies forward, capturing its subject's twirling or hair-tossing in a dazzling 1,000 frames per second at 4K resolution. The cost to operate the Glambot at a single event is upward of US$500,000. It's a serious piece of equipment, requiring a team of 13 to run, including video editors and social-media managers. Most Glambot clips are filmed in one superquick take. To nail it, Walliser is watching closely – trying to read what kind of direction a celebrity needs; how they are preparing to move, whether they seem nervous about the giant robot arm about to fly toward their face. He says his psychology background helps. 'I use that every day in the approach I have to creating.' What sets the Glambot apart from other red-carpet photography, he believes, isn't just the spectacle of hi-def slow motion – it's the raw, behind-the-scenes moment that happens between him and the celebrity before the shoot begins. 'You really get a candid, creative conversation which you essentially get nowhere else in entertainment,' he says of these interactions, which are captured and uploaded to social media in near-real time during awards shows. 'Even in behind-the-scenes footage for movies and TV shows, you never actually hear a director and actor talk about a shot. With Glambot, that moment is front and centre.' It's that mix of real-time collaboration and cinematic payoff that keeps the public fascinated. 'A lot of people who watch these envision what they would do if they had the chance to do a Glambot,' he says. 'And to see others confidently – or self-consciously – go through it makes it feel relatable.' Walliser's top Glambot moments include viral clips with Ariana Grande ('arguably the best ever Glambot shot,' he says of the singer's 2020 Oscars capture in a tiered Giambattista Valli gown), Brad Pitt, Billie Eilish and even Weird Al. He's now a kind of avatar for the experience, someone who has been doing it long enough that emerging actors see walking up to him as a rite of passage. 'There are people who've been watching for years, dreaming of doing one, and then they book a TV show and show up at the Emmys,' he says. 'That's just the coolest thing ever.' Representation matters to him, too. Walliser, who is half Chinese, says, 'I feel a sense of pride when I see Asians get opportunities to portray roles that are no longer stereotypical. If they find success and end up on the Glambot, it's so fun to shoot.' Walliser, a freelancer, is also busy with work beyond the Glambot. He's shot Super Bowl commercials, hosted a photography show on Hulu and hopes to direct his own narrative feature films. On weekends, he races cars, surfs and cares for his pet fish in a coral reef tank at home. He has no plans to stop vibing on the red carpet. 'I'll continue doing it so long as E! will have me,' he says. 'It's been so much fun, and my career has grown tremendously.' And if he could Glambot anyone in history? 'Michael Jackson,' he says. 'You couldn't get any better than that.' 'The pose at which you feel most natural is more likely the pose at which you're going to look your best,' says Walliser. 'Find a position that feels comfortable in your body and that you feel confident in. ... That's really going to resonate the most.' If you're working with video, try what Walliser calls a movement pose: 'You just sort of alternate, you twist, you turn in and out of that position, and then when someone says 'three, two, one, action,' you go into it.' 'I wouldn't be ashamed about practising,' says Walliser. 'The people on the red carpet, they're so good because literally their job is to pose. ... Set your phone up, hit a couple of poses, watch it, see what's good.' And most importantly, don't psych yourself out. 'If you're like, 'Oh no, I can't pose, I'm so awkward' – you're guaranteed going to be awkward. Let that go. Just relax and feel comfortable and natural,' he says. Making a lower-tech DIY Glambot is totally possible. 'The new iPhones shoot at 240 frames a second, which is pretty slow-mo,' says Walliser. Ask a friend with a steady hand to film while moving toward you and zooming in as you move into your chosen pose. For inspiration, Walliser recommends checking out the tutorial he made with creator Haley Kalil (a.k.a. Haley Baylee). 'People do home Glambots for their proms, for their events. I get tagged in them all the time, and it's really awesome to see.'
