Entertainment Editor Peter Ford on AC/DC rocking Melbourne, Robert Irwin's royal flush and Baz Luhrmann bringing the next blockbuster to Australia.
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Melbourne rocked to its call last night as ACDC kicked
off their Australian tour.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Let's get some more from our entertainment editor Peter Ford. Peter,
eighty thousand fans packed out MCG last night.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah, there's a real buzz into out at the moment.
I got to tell you this was really an extraordinary
event and it was like a homecoming. We claim we
own ACDC. I know Sydney says they do, even per
se they do, but we believe it's Melbourne and last
night eighty thousand real diehard fans just.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Got right into it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
We took calls this morning on three ow from people
all over Melbourne, like ten kilometers away from the MCG who.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Could go out into their backyard and here.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
So I'm not sure if any bylaws or council laws were.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Broken, but yeah, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
People who follow ACDC know that the gig last night
wasn't just another gig for them because they actually did
jail Break. Now that's the song.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
They have not performed for thirty four years.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So for the real die hard fans, some of this
vision you can see a shot by seven is some
of it is supplied by ACDC. The interesting thing when
you look at some of the crowd vision, it's a
real cross section of agents. You know, it's not just
people fifty plus. They seem to have gathered a lot
of younger followers through the years as well, but they
were absolutely on fire.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Now, there was another event that took place earlier in
the day which was a.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
World record gathering of bagpipe players, very much playing on
the memory of Along Lay to the Top, which took
place at Federation Square.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Which is right on Swanson.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Street where that famous video was shot fifty years ago.
So what I'm going to show you now is a
little bit of the band in action last night, butted
together with a little bit of the world record breaking gathering.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Have a look.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Now, if you want blood to go out and if
you want loud music, you really got it. Interestingly, in
that gathering of the bagpipe players, there were the two
there were three on the day, but there are two
who were there yesterday from that original video clip fifty
years down the track getting there and playing it again.
So yeah, look out Australia, this is going to be
a massive tour.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I was just saying during the commercial break, I flew
down to Melbourne yesterday and they're all on the plane,
all the ACDC fans with the cutoff, the cut off
flat lad shirts. Then this morning, coming back on the
six o'clock flight, it smelt like Britty Tree and Jim Beaman.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Coke a big night and they were all smiling there
right Yet, Robert Irwin had an epic evening on the
dance floor over there on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Pete, Yeah, a perfect score. He's kind of been hovering,
hasn't he. And it was the first perfect score for
the whole season for anyone. So that's a claim to
fame in itself. You get the feeling that they've mapped
this out, Like every week there is something about what
they're doing that is making them a breakout news story.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Every week there's something.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Last night we had Bindy actually on the dance floor
briefly with Robert as well and Prince William, Prince. We
don't get better than that, getting Prince William to do
a bit for you. Obviously a bit of cross promotion
there for the Earth Shot Prize.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
But he was in great form. Again. I'll show you
a little bit of Robert Irwin in action last night.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, fantastic again, and you just think, what are they
going to think up next week to make them step
away from the rest of the pack.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, just oh, I think I think an image of
his dad came up on there it is we need
to see that.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I have a question, a non dancing related question, Kylie,
if you don't mind. If you are the next King
of England and your own half the world, are you
getting someone to organize some better lighting if hypothetically you're bald.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
It wasn't the best, was it?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It was a shocker.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I liked it for its raw authenticity, Larry, Yeah, because
you're such a fan of authenticity.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
In more film news, baslerman as we move on his
fans in for a treat. Why is that, Pete?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, because he announced that his next movie, Joan of Arc.
He may not call it that, but it's about Joan
of Arc, will be shot in Australia, which is good
news in itself.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
But where is the interesting question?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Because Baz now has his headquarters on the Gold Coast,
So whether the Gold Coast will get it, whether it
be Sydney, we don't know yet, but obviously somewhere will
be very excited because he employs so many people. And
of course he's telling of that story. It's been done
many times, going way back to Ingrid Bergman in nineteen
forty eight. But Faz always has such a unique way
(04:30):
of telling stories, so that'll be fun. The other interesting
one is Jerrard Butler's arrived in Melbourne. He's making a
movie called Empire City here, and that's about a movie
a whole bunch of hostages are trapped in a building
in New York. He's got to get them out, you
know how it works. But the funny twist in that
is the building they're using, which will be supposedly a
building in New York, is actually the old Channel seven
(04:51):
premises that we moved out of six months ago. It's
been empty there for six months and now it's going
to be the scene of this hostage drama.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Ah. How good.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Maybe Prince William can get bas Lehrman to help with
his lighting with himself.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Thank you, Ma, saying
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