This year, Australia.s longest running children.s series, Play School, celebrates 50 years on air. To mark the occasion, ABC Kids has enlisted some famous faces to join with Big Ted and Humpty Dumpty to host a special series. Entitled Play School Celebrity Covers, the mini-episodes will feature a lineup of popular Australian personalities, actors and musicians turning their hand to being a Play School presenter, either performing a song or reading a story. Daily episodes will air from July 4 on ABC Kids, as well as on iview. Featuring in Play School Celebrity Covers are: Adam Goodes, Annabel Crabb with Leigh Sales, Architecture in Helsinki, Benita Collings with Don Spencer, Bernard Fanning, Carrie Bickmore, Costa Georgiadis, Dami Im, Dan Sultan, Delta Goodrem, Emma Wiggle, Guy Sebastian, Hamish and Andy, Jeremy Fernandez, John Hamblin, Josh Thomas, Kate Ceberano with her daughter Gypsy, Kate Miller-Heidke, Katie Noonan, Kurt Fearnley with Rachael Coopes,...
- 6/23/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Tourism Australia and Qantas have teamed up with Icehouse singer Iva Davies to produce a four-minute video to mark the 30th anniversary of ‘Australia’s unofficial anthem’, Great Southern Land.
The film was made before Telstra’s Olympics ad, which featured another unofficial Australian anthem, Down Under by Men At Work – but after The Monkeys’ film for Sydney Opera House, which also features a succession of artists performing popular Aussie anthem Ship Song, by Nick Cave.
Great Southern Land, which was written while Davies was on a Qantas flight over central Australia in 1981, is performed in Ta’s video by artists including Katie Noonan, Van She, Eskimo Joe, The Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Cut Copy.
Though made without involving Ta’s ad agency, Ddb Sydney, some of the footage in the video was taken from Ddb’s most recent incarnation of the There’s Nothing Like Australia campaign, which cost $4m to produce.
The film was made before Telstra’s Olympics ad, which featured another unofficial Australian anthem, Down Under by Men At Work – but after The Monkeys’ film for Sydney Opera House, which also features a succession of artists performing popular Aussie anthem Ship Song, by Nick Cave.
Great Southern Land, which was written while Davies was on a Qantas flight over central Australia in 1981, is performed in Ta’s video by artists including Katie Noonan, Van She, Eskimo Joe, The Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Cut Copy.
Though made without involving Ta’s ad agency, Ddb Sydney, some of the footage in the video was taken from Ddb’s most recent incarnation of the There’s Nothing Like Australia campaign, which cost $4m to produce.
- 8/30/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
Music can make an average ad great. So why, Robin Hicks asks, is music the last thing a creative thinks about when writing an ad?
My favourite TV ad of the year so far is the Let Yourself Go spot for Kangaroo Island.
When it didn’t win Mumbrella’s Ad of the Month for March (it came third) I felt aggrieved for the agency that made it. But less so a week later when it emerged that the agency had paid celebrities to tweet nice things about its work.
Let Yourself Go is a stunning spot with lots of pretty images. But it would probably have had a similar effect on me if I’d watched a blank screen for 60 seconds.
John Baker of Adelaide ad agency Kwp!, which made the ad, told me that the music (Rise by Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder) “is 50% of the communication”. For me,...
My favourite TV ad of the year so far is the Let Yourself Go spot for Kangaroo Island.
When it didn’t win Mumbrella’s Ad of the Month for March (it came third) I felt aggrieved for the agency that made it. But less so a week later when it emerged that the agency had paid celebrities to tweet nice things about its work.
Let Yourself Go is a stunning spot with lots of pretty images. But it would probably have had a similar effect on me if I’d watched a blank screen for 60 seconds.
John Baker of Adelaide ad agency Kwp!, which made the ad, told me that the music (Rise by Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder) “is 50% of the communication”. For me,...
- 4/30/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
TEDxSydney has announced the speaker lineup for Saturday 26 May.
The announcement:
TEDxSydney today announced the 2012 lineup of speakers and performers, featuring 20 leaders in a range of fields from robotics to philosophy.
TEDxSydney Executive Producer, Janne Ryan said a focus for this year is around the new economies and Australia’s changing role in Asia and the Pacific.
“Our 2012 TEDxSydney speakers are change agents. Many are making discoveries that will transform and define our 21st century local, regional and global worlds. From the way we negotiate our personal and political relationships, to the economy, the design and building of our cities and the world of data and quantum physics, TEDxSydney 2012 will share a way forward,” she said.
Anyone can participate in the annual ideas event via simulcast or tune into one of the partner livestreams. However, only a limited number can actually be seated in the theatre itself. Applications to be...
The announcement:
TEDxSydney today announced the 2012 lineup of speakers and performers, featuring 20 leaders in a range of fields from robotics to philosophy.
TEDxSydney Executive Producer, Janne Ryan said a focus for this year is around the new economies and Australia’s changing role in Asia and the Pacific.
“Our 2012 TEDxSydney speakers are change agents. Many are making discoveries that will transform and define our 21st century local, regional and global worlds. From the way we negotiate our personal and political relationships, to the economy, the design and building of our cities and the world of data and quantum physics, TEDxSydney 2012 will share a way forward,” she said.
Anyone can participate in the annual ideas event via simulcast or tune into one of the partner livestreams. However, only a limited number can actually be seated in the theatre itself. Applications to be...
- 3/26/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Katie Noonan has revealed that she is a "different" person now to the beginning of her career. The 33-year-old Australian singer, who is currently in jazz trio Elixir, said that marrying her bandmate Zac Hurren and giving birth to sons Dexter and Jonah has only boosted her creativity in the studio. Noonan told Woman's Day magazine: "Obviously I am a very different person. When I made the first Elixir record, I was single and now I am married and a mother, so that is a pretty enormous, wonderful difference. "This is my fifth record since I've had my children and my oldest is six, so parenthood has been incredibly fertile for me and my husband on the creative front." > Yoko Ono allows Aussie band to re-record (more)...
- 9/20/2011
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
The 9th Astra Awards on Thursday 21 July at Sydney Theatre has officially sold out, it was announced today.
The awards show will announce the winners from the 20 categories and acknowledge the 200 Australian subscription broadcast channels from Foxtel, Austar and Optus platforms.
Hosted by three of subscription television’s brightest female stars; Lee Furlong, Tara Moss and Helen Dalley, the event will follow last year’s format, a shorter theatre style ceremony followed by an after party. Pre drinks and canapes will take place before the ceremony.Musical performances during the night will come from Jessica Mauboy, Katie Noonan’s Elixir Trio and Guineafowl. Presenters of awards include Rove McManus, Sarah Murdoch, Laura Dundovic, Erin McNaught, Luke & Wyatt and more.
Music by Channel [V] DJs Danny Clayton and Jane Gazzo will be providing the soundtrack.
Astra is the peak industry body for subscription television in Australia, www.astra.org.au...
The awards show will announce the winners from the 20 categories and acknowledge the 200 Australian subscription broadcast channels from Foxtel, Austar and Optus platforms.
Hosted by three of subscription television’s brightest female stars; Lee Furlong, Tara Moss and Helen Dalley, the event will follow last year’s format, a shorter theatre style ceremony followed by an after party. Pre drinks and canapes will take place before the ceremony.Musical performances during the night will come from Jessica Mauboy, Katie Noonan’s Elixir Trio and Guineafowl. Presenters of awards include Rove McManus, Sarah Murdoch, Laura Dundovic, Erin McNaught, Luke & Wyatt and more.
Music by Channel [V] DJs Danny Clayton and Jane Gazzo will be providing the soundtrack.
Astra is the peak industry body for subscription television in Australia, www.astra.org.au...
- 7/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Melbourne, Dec 3 – Australian singers and songwriters are set to hold a one-off concert in tribute to Abba in Sydney to mark the launch of the 70’s pop group’s new exhibition.
The event, which is set for 3-hours, will be hosted by Julia Zemiro, 43, acclaimed comedienne, radio star, actor, and lover of Europop, promising an evening of pure Abba fun.tars like Katie Noonan,.
The event, which is set for 3-hours, will be hosted by Julia Zemiro, 43, acclaimed comedienne, radio star, actor, and lover of Europop, promising an evening of pure Abba fun.tars like Katie Noonan,.
- 12/3/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
An Australian music group have become the first act given permission to re-record John Lennon's song 'Give Peace A Chance' by his widow Yoko Ono. Peacebeliever's version of the song is due for release next week and will feature vocals from Aussie artists including Blue King Brown, Tim Freedman, Katie Noonan and Don Spencer, together with international artists such as Newton Faulkner. The group's founder Yolanda Vega told the ABC: "The fact that Yoko Ono has allowed a (more)...
- 12/1/2010
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
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