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30 Haziran 2009 Salı
28 Haziran 2009 Pazar
Michael Jackson tribute + Pink in Sydney at North Bondi Italian restaurant - 1
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,,25704125-5013560,00.html
MICHAEL Jackson songs were on high rotation on the club circuit at the weekend but failed to live up to their dancefloor-anthem status.
About 10.30pm at King St Wharf's Cargo Bar, which was hosting a Jackson tribute night, even Billie Jean failed to gets bums off seats. Although Pink dedicated her sixth Sydney show to the pop hero, the inappropriate choice award went to her Aussie support act Faker who opened their set with the hit This Heart Attack. Hmmm.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 28: Singer Alecia Moore (aka Pink) is seen at North Bondi Italian restaurant with friends on June 28, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by PhotoNews International Inc./FilmMagic)
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MICHAEL Jackson songs were on high rotation on the club circuit at the weekend but failed to live up to their dancefloor-anthem status.
About 10.30pm at King St Wharf's Cargo Bar, which was hosting a Jackson tribute night, even Billie Jean failed to gets bums off seats. Although Pink dedicated her sixth Sydney show to the pop hero, the inappropriate choice award went to her Aussie support act Faker who opened their set with the hit This Heart Attack. Hmmm.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 28: Singer Alecia Moore (aka Pink) is seen at North Bondi Italian restaurant with friends on June 28, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by PhotoNews International Inc./FilmMagic)
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20 Haziran 2009 Cumartesi
Pink has employed another Aussie in her entourage
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,,25664665-5009160,00.html
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SHOWING her immaculate taste, Pink has employed another Aussie in her entourage, this time as her personal chef: Kate Paul, 42, who runs LA-based catering company Foodink Catering.
Paul, versed in French and Asian cuisine, has spent 15 years cooking for bands and their crews, making the most of local and seasonal produce. She moved to LA and opened Foodink in 1992, as a boutique concept for creating food driven by client taste and seasonal produce.
Originally from Sydney, Paul has cooked for David Bowie, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner and Janet Jackson. Looking after Pink on her Australian tour was a perfect new role.
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SHOWING her immaculate taste, Pink has employed another Aussie in her entourage, this time as her personal chef: Kate Paul, 42, who runs LA-based catering company Foodink Catering.
Paul, versed in French and Asian cuisine, has spent 15 years cooking for bands and their crews, making the most of local and seasonal produce. She moved to LA and opened Foodink in 1992, as a boutique concept for creating food driven by client taste and seasonal produce.
Originally from Sydney, Paul has cooked for David Bowie, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner and Janet Jackson. Looking after Pink on her Australian tour was a perfect new role.
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19 Haziran 2009 Cuma
Bayliss shows style
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25649061-5012789,00.html
By Mark Hinchliffe
June 20, 2009 12:00am
A ROCK star, champion surfer and two motorbike riders have strapped into the world of V8 Supercars.
While last week's exercise was more about media exposure, one of the participants emerged as a potential V8 Supercar superstar.
Three-time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss impressed TeamVodafone with a stunning test drive in Craig Lowndes' former race car at Queensland Raceway.
Seven-time surfing world champion Layne Beachley also had a drive in the car, while across the other side of town rock singer Pink and husband, freestyle motocross rider Carey Hart, enjoyed drives in Russell Ingall's Supercheap Auto racing car at Norwell.
But it was Bayliss who caused the sensation in the pits.
TeamVodafone chief engineer Ludo Lacroix said Bayliss was the best driver they had yet officially evaluated.
"He could easily race in the top five of the development series or in the last 10 of the main series," Lacroix said.
Bayliss, who retired from motorcycle racing after winning his third world title last year, was happy with his time of 1:12.6, just moments after Lowndes had warmed up the car and tyres with an 1:11.8.
"First time out was fun. I've always been a big V8 fan," Bayliss said.
"The rest of the day has been like work."
After each timed session, Bayliss headed straight for Lowndes' race engineer Jeromy Moore to study the computer telemetry and seek advice on how to improve his times.
"I'm pretty happy with my times, but it gets to a point where it becomes hard to find that extra fraction of a second."
Late in the day he found that extra speed, tripping the clock at a very respectable 1:11.85. To put that into context, the race lap record is 1:11.0033, set by Garth Tander in 1999.
Bayliss said he was "really serious" about breaking into V8 Supercars.
"I want to leave a good impression. I don't want to just circulate," he said.
"I've ticked all the boxes so far and I've improved. I feel like I'm at home."
Lacroix said motorcycle road racers understood the correct racing lines and had the feel for the grip.
"They also don't like to come off because it hurts so they don't drive silly," he said.
"He now just needs to get his head around four wheels and a locked diff."
Bayliss was invited to test by TeamVodafone principal Roland Dane who owns several exotic sports bikes including a Ducati 1098R and a fully imported Ducati Desmosedici MotoGP race replica.
He said Bayliss was not fully appreciated in his home country.
"We don't realise what a superstar he is," he said.
"In the UK they know him as a superstar. They respect Casey Stoner, but they respect and like Troy.
"For me he became a god when he won the last 990cc GP race in Valencia in 2006."
Dane said the Ducati superstar deserved a go at four wheels.
"It would be nice to see him in the development series but there is a bit more to learn with the H-pattern gearbox," he said. "The sequential in this is more like a bike gearbox, so he should be comfortable with that.
"It would also be nice to see him make an enduro round.
"He just needs more seat time and race time."
Dane said they had already decided their endurance drivers for this year.
Meanwhile, Beachley grappled with the 600 horsepower machine after having competed in the much less powerful Mini Challenge.
"I had a complete brain explosion," she said when returning to the pits after grinding some gears, missing a turn and spinning out.
"Bloody chick drivers. Do I need to go back and get the gearbox? I think it's over at turn four," she joked with the pit crew.
"When you are surfing in shark-infested waters you know they're there, but here you have to deal with gravel pits, gearshifts and sharp corners."
At the Holden Performance Driving Centre in Norwell, Pink and Hart took turns driving in a Supercheap Auto race car.
"I was smooth, fast and picked some great lines," said Pink after her lap around the circuit with Ingall.
"I had an absolute ball out there today and was amazed at how fast the car went – my favourite part was the braking.
"I do most of the driving between us so it was good to take it to a track environment where it is totally different."
Carey was much more serious about his stint and impressed team manager Paul Morris with his first effort in a right-hand-drive car.
"He didn't put a foot wrong," a spokesman said.
Hart said it took a while to get used to the car, but was able to improve as the laps went by.
"The braking and cornering capabilities are incredible; something you can't get the feel for until you are actually sitting in the car," he said.
Hart has been headlining his Hart and Huntington Freestyle Tour which is a free show staged before each of Pink's Funhouse Tour concerts.
The three-hour events include an FMX show starring Hart who pioneered the sport of freestyle motocross and was the first person to backflip a motorcycle.
The FMX stunt demonstrations are accompanied by music, street art, fashion, custom bikes and cars.
The tour comes to the Gold Coast on June 20.
By Mark Hinchliffe
June 20, 2009 12:00am
A ROCK star, champion surfer and two motorbike riders have strapped into the world of V8 Supercars.
While last week's exercise was more about media exposure, one of the participants emerged as a potential V8 Supercar superstar.
Three-time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss impressed TeamVodafone with a stunning test drive in Craig Lowndes' former race car at Queensland Raceway.
Seven-time surfing world champion Layne Beachley also had a drive in the car, while across the other side of town rock singer Pink and husband, freestyle motocross rider Carey Hart, enjoyed drives in Russell Ingall's Supercheap Auto racing car at Norwell.
But it was Bayliss who caused the sensation in the pits.
TeamVodafone chief engineer Ludo Lacroix said Bayliss was the best driver they had yet officially evaluated.
"He could easily race in the top five of the development series or in the last 10 of the main series," Lacroix said.
Bayliss, who retired from motorcycle racing after winning his third world title last year, was happy with his time of 1:12.6, just moments after Lowndes had warmed up the car and tyres with an 1:11.8.
"First time out was fun. I've always been a big V8 fan," Bayliss said.
"The rest of the day has been like work."
After each timed session, Bayliss headed straight for Lowndes' race engineer Jeromy Moore to study the computer telemetry and seek advice on how to improve his times.
"I'm pretty happy with my times, but it gets to a point where it becomes hard to find that extra fraction of a second."
Late in the day he found that extra speed, tripping the clock at a very respectable 1:11.85. To put that into context, the race lap record is 1:11.0033, set by Garth Tander in 1999.
Bayliss said he was "really serious" about breaking into V8 Supercars.
"I want to leave a good impression. I don't want to just circulate," he said.
"I've ticked all the boxes so far and I've improved. I feel like I'm at home."
Lacroix said motorcycle road racers understood the correct racing lines and had the feel for the grip.
"They also don't like to come off because it hurts so they don't drive silly," he said.
"He now just needs to get his head around four wheels and a locked diff."
Bayliss was invited to test by TeamVodafone principal Roland Dane who owns several exotic sports bikes including a Ducati 1098R and a fully imported Ducati Desmosedici MotoGP race replica.
He said Bayliss was not fully appreciated in his home country.
"We don't realise what a superstar he is," he said.
"In the UK they know him as a superstar. They respect Casey Stoner, but they respect and like Troy.
"For me he became a god when he won the last 990cc GP race in Valencia in 2006."
Dane said the Ducati superstar deserved a go at four wheels.
"It would be nice to see him in the development series but there is a bit more to learn with the H-pattern gearbox," he said. "The sequential in this is more like a bike gearbox, so he should be comfortable with that.
"It would also be nice to see him make an enduro round.
"He just needs more seat time and race time."
Dane said they had already decided their endurance drivers for this year.
Meanwhile, Beachley grappled with the 600 horsepower machine after having competed in the much less powerful Mini Challenge.
"I had a complete brain explosion," she said when returning to the pits after grinding some gears, missing a turn and spinning out.
"Bloody chick drivers. Do I need to go back and get the gearbox? I think it's over at turn four," she joked with the pit crew.
"When you are surfing in shark-infested waters you know they're there, but here you have to deal with gravel pits, gearshifts and sharp corners."
At the Holden Performance Driving Centre in Norwell, Pink and Hart took turns driving in a Supercheap Auto race car.
"I was smooth, fast and picked some great lines," said Pink after her lap around the circuit with Ingall.
"I had an absolute ball out there today and was amazed at how fast the car went – my favourite part was the braking.
"I do most of the driving between us so it was good to take it to a track environment where it is totally different."
Carey was much more serious about his stint and impressed team manager Paul Morris with his first effort in a right-hand-drive car.
"He didn't put a foot wrong," a spokesman said.
Hart said it took a while to get used to the car, but was able to improve as the laps went by.
"The braking and cornering capabilities are incredible; something you can't get the feel for until you are actually sitting in the car," he said.
Hart has been headlining his Hart and Huntington Freestyle Tour which is a free show staged before each of Pink's Funhouse Tour concerts.
The three-hour events include an FMX show starring Hart who pioneered the sport of freestyle motocross and was the first person to backflip a motorcycle.
The FMX stunt demonstrations are accompanied by music, street art, fashion, custom bikes and cars.
The tour comes to the Gold Coast on June 20.
18 Haziran 2009 Perşembe
Pink sees red over security lapse (2)
EXCLUSIVE PHOTO: POP/ROCK Princess Pink has complained of a fan's security breach at her luxury Palazzo Versace condo after being photographed here catching some sun with husband Carey on the hotel's balcony.
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June 18, 2009 12:00am
POP/ROCK Princess Pink has flown into a rage about a fan's "security breach" at her luxury Palazzo Versace condo.
It's understood Pink and her motocross hubby Carey Hart were enraged on Sunday morning to find a note pushed under their door from an admirer at the upmarket Palazzo Versace hotel on the Gold Coast.
The letter, from an in-house guest, explained that it came from a big fan of the star and begged for a face-to-face meeting.
But it didn't go down well with the So What? singer, who was horrified the note had found its way under the door of her private condo and claimed it was a major security breach.
As a result the star cut short her Palazzo Versace visit by three days, having originally booked the $1600-per-night condo up until Wednesday morning.
A rep for the hotel, regarded as one of the world's most discreet celebrity hideaways, did not return calls.
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June 18, 2009 12:00am
POP/ROCK Princess Pink has flown into a rage about a fan's "security breach" at her luxury Palazzo Versace condo.
It's understood Pink and her motocross hubby Carey Hart were enraged on Sunday morning to find a note pushed under their door from an admirer at the upmarket Palazzo Versace hotel on the Gold Coast.
The letter, from an in-house guest, explained that it came from a big fan of the star and begged for a face-to-face meeting.
But it didn't go down well with the So What? singer, who was horrified the note had found its way under the door of her private condo and claimed it was a major security breach.
As a result the star cut short her Palazzo Versace visit by three days, having originally booked the $1600-per-night condo up until Wednesday morning.
A rep for the hotel, regarded as one of the world's most discreet celebrity hideaways, did not return calls.
Pink's hubby wants to race at Bathurst
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,,25655951-7484,00.html
AAP
June 18, 2009 06:47pm
CAREY Hart might be known to most Australians as the hubby of pop rock sensation P!nk, but the freestyle motocross star has a plan up his sleeve to grab our attention.
Having taken his first V8 Supercar out for a spin two weeks ago, the pioneering motocross rider suggests a more permanent move to the four-wheelers might be on the cards.
Forget the dirt tracks, Hart hopes one day you will see him behind the wheel at Australia's most iconic track - Bathurst.
"It's something that I want to do,'' said Hart, who was invited for a trial run by Holden team owner Paul Morris on the Gold Coast earlier in the month.
"If I'm able to get teamed up - preferably it'd be with Paul because Paul's such a great guy - maybe I could start broadening my driving skills not to just the short course truck stop, but to get on asphalt.
"I don't want to just be pigeonholed into riding dirtbikes, I think I've got the skills to be able to make a crossover.''
Hart has already given Rally Cars a go and is scheduled to ride in the US-based Lucas Oil short course championships.
But in the meantime, the 33-year-old will have to strut his stuff in the action sport that made him famous in the first place.
He's on the Gold Coast for the last stop in his nationwide Hart and Huntington showcase tour, which has been running in conjunction with his wife's concerts.
The pair have parted ways for the moment - P!nk is in Melbourne to prepare for several more shows, while Hart, a die-hard Gold Coast fan, will host some of Australia's best riders on the glitter strip.
He will be joined by top Australian FMX riders Blake "Bilko'' Williams, Steve Mini and Kane Saul at the free event, which also includes mini-bike and street bike performances, graffiti art demos and fashion parades.
Despite motocross' hard edge, Hart said the event was aimed at drawing families.
Saul, 24, has proof the action sport crosses all age groups, having received a double thumbs up from his girlfriend's 75-years-plus grandmother during one recent show.
"She loved it,'' he said with a laugh.
Hart, who has endured more than 60 broken bones in his thrill-seeking pursuits, said wife P!nk was another fan and had taken her appreciation one step further.
"I got her her first dirtbike about four years ago ... and anytime we get a chance, we go do some laps and we also go out on the Harleys,'' he said.
"I'm not out there setting the world on fire, trying to chase medals anymore, but I'll always love riding and being on my motorcycle.''
AAP
June 18, 2009 06:47pm
CAREY Hart might be known to most Australians as the hubby of pop rock sensation P!nk, but the freestyle motocross star has a plan up his sleeve to grab our attention.
Having taken his first V8 Supercar out for a spin two weeks ago, the pioneering motocross rider suggests a more permanent move to the four-wheelers might be on the cards.
Forget the dirt tracks, Hart hopes one day you will see him behind the wheel at Australia's most iconic track - Bathurst.
"It's something that I want to do,'' said Hart, who was invited for a trial run by Holden team owner Paul Morris on the Gold Coast earlier in the month.
"If I'm able to get teamed up - preferably it'd be with Paul because Paul's such a great guy - maybe I could start broadening my driving skills not to just the short course truck stop, but to get on asphalt.
"I don't want to just be pigeonholed into riding dirtbikes, I think I've got the skills to be able to make a crossover.''
Hart has already given Rally Cars a go and is scheduled to ride in the US-based Lucas Oil short course championships.
But in the meantime, the 33-year-old will have to strut his stuff in the action sport that made him famous in the first place.
He's on the Gold Coast for the last stop in his nationwide Hart and Huntington showcase tour, which has been running in conjunction with his wife's concerts.
The pair have parted ways for the moment - P!nk is in Melbourne to prepare for several more shows, while Hart, a die-hard Gold Coast fan, will host some of Australia's best riders on the glitter strip.
He will be joined by top Australian FMX riders Blake "Bilko'' Williams, Steve Mini and Kane Saul at the free event, which also includes mini-bike and street bike performances, graffiti art demos and fashion parades.
Despite motocross' hard edge, Hart said the event was aimed at drawing families.
Saul, 24, has proof the action sport crosses all age groups, having received a double thumbs up from his girlfriend's 75-years-plus grandmother during one recent show.
"She loved it,'' he said with a laugh.
Hart, who has endured more than 60 broken bones in his thrill-seeking pursuits, said wife P!nk was another fan and had taken her appreciation one step further.
"I got her her first dirtbike about four years ago ... and anytime we get a chance, we go do some laps and we also go out on the Harleys,'' he said.
"I'm not out there setting the world on fire, trying to chase medals anymore, but I'll always love riding and being on my motorcycle.''
17 Haziran 2009 Çarşamba
Bruno's nude GQ cover is wunderbar!
http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/06/brunos-nude-gq-cover-is-wunderbar.html
By Hanh Nguyen
June 16, 2009 9:55 AM
Sacha Baron Cohen pushes the envelope again, this time posing nude for the cover of GQ magazine in character as gay Austrian fashionista Bruno.
In addition to revealing skin, Bruno shares his thoughts on men's fashion by answering readers' burning questions.
Bruno also completed a full photo shoot for GQ.
A few highlights from the GQ interview:
- Yes, men can wear heels: "Some guys look great in heels -- ze singer Pink, for example."
- On whether men should copy Zac Efron's hairdo: "Ich vouldn’t bother getting a Zac Efron hairstyle right now, cos ich am about to change mine and he’s certain to copy me again."
- Defining Obama's style: "I find Obama an inspiration -- it gives me great hope zat, after years of struggle, someone can at last get to ze White House, despite being incredibly hot."
- The best-dressed world leaders of all time: "JFK. Obama. Castro. Timberlake."
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By Hanh Nguyen
June 16, 2009 9:55 AM
Sacha Baron Cohen pushes the envelope again, this time posing nude for the cover of GQ magazine in character as gay Austrian fashionista Bruno.
In addition to revealing skin, Bruno shares his thoughts on men's fashion by answering readers' burning questions.
Bruno also completed a full photo shoot for GQ.
A few highlights from the GQ interview:
- Yes, men can wear heels: "Some guys look great in heels -- ze singer Pink, for example."
- On whether men should copy Zac Efron's hairdo: "Ich vouldn’t bother getting a Zac Efron hairstyle right now, cos ich am about to change mine and he’s certain to copy me again."
- Defining Obama's style: "I find Obama an inspiration -- it gives me great hope zat, after years of struggle, someone can at last get to ze White House, despite being incredibly hot."
- The best-dressed world leaders of all time: "JFK. Obama. Castro. Timberlake."
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Pink sees red at slip-up (1)
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25651003-5012980,00.html
June 18, 2009 12:00am
POP/rock princess Pink had a less-than-desirable end to the first of her two Queensland stays, abruptly checking out of her condo at the Palazzo Versace three days early.
It's understood Pink and her motocross hubby Carey Hart were enraged on Sunday morning to find a note pushed under their door.
The letter, from an in-house guest, explained that it came from a big fan of the star and begged for a face-to-face meeting.
But it didn't go down well with the So What? singer, who was horrified the note had found its way under the door of her private condo and claimed it was a major security breach.
As a result the star cut short her Palazzo Versace visit by three days, having originally booked the $1600-per-night condo up until Wednesday morning. A rep for the hotel, regarded as one of the world's most discreet celebrity hideaways, did not return calls.
June 18, 2009 12:00am
POP/rock princess Pink had a less-than-desirable end to the first of her two Queensland stays, abruptly checking out of her condo at the Palazzo Versace three days early.
It's understood Pink and her motocross hubby Carey Hart were enraged on Sunday morning to find a note pushed under their door.
The letter, from an in-house guest, explained that it came from a big fan of the star and begged for a face-to-face meeting.
But it didn't go down well with the So What? singer, who was horrified the note had found its way under the door of her private condo and claimed it was a major security breach.
As a result the star cut short her Palazzo Versace visit by three days, having originally booked the $1600-per-night condo up until Wednesday morning. A rep for the hotel, regarded as one of the world's most discreet celebrity hideaways, did not return calls.
Pink's concert bungee scare
Carol Ferbrache
June 17, 2009 02:20pm
PINK'S record-breaking Funhouse tour took a death-defying turn last night when the star's bungee rope failed during a live performance.
"Tonight’s show was awesome! Audience was great - even when the bungees broke and I had to do the emergency silk climb:) that was so scary!!!" Pink wrote on her Twitter account.
Reportedly, the bungee didn’t lower during her gig at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, leaving Pink hanging in the air with some unaware of the danger, believing it was part of her act.
According to Twitter followers, her husband Carey Hart was in the audience.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25649816-5012980,00.html
June 17, 2009 02:20pm
PINK'S record-breaking Funhouse tour took a death-defying turn last night when the star's bungee rope failed during a live performance.
"Tonight’s show was awesome! Audience was great - even when the bungees broke and I had to do the emergency silk climb:) that was so scary!!!" Pink wrote on her Twitter account.
Reportedly, the bungee didn’t lower during her gig at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, leaving Pink hanging in the air with some unaware of the danger, believing it was part of her act.
According to Twitter followers, her husband Carey Hart was in the audience.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25649816-5012980,00.html
15 Haziran 2009 Pazartesi
Pink and Carey Hart take Gold Coast mountain ride
By Amy Harris
June 15, 2009 12:00am
POP star Pink made the most of a day off yesterday when she and hubby Carey Hart took to the Gold Coast hinterland for a long motorbike ride.
The visiting American rocker, who is set to perform her third Boondall show in Brisbane tonight, spent hours driving up and down Mt Tamborine on her Triumph road bike while Hart, who makes his living on motocross bikes, saddled up on a Harley Davidson.
The couple were briefly accompanied by security minders but later peeled off on their own at the Mt Tamborine exit.
"They were very chilled out and drove up and down Guanaba Rd all afternoon, stopping every now and then for a chat," said one spy who was impressed with Pink's riding skills.
"But I don't know how she managed it in spike heel boots ," he said.
It's understood the bikes were delivered to the couple at their Palazzo Versace digs late last week.
P!nk, meanwhile, returns to Sydney for the start of more shows at the Sydney Entertainment Centre from June 25.
The US superstar singer will clock up tens of thousands of kilometres as she crisscrosses the country on her energetic three-month Funhouse tour.
It's rumoured she and Hart plan on taking a break in the Whitsundays in late July.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,,25634713-5012327,00.html
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Easy rider ... P!nk on her Triumph motor bike on the Gold Coast yesterday. Picture: Peter Wallis
June 15, 2009 12:00am
POP star Pink made the most of a day off yesterday when she and hubby Carey Hart took to the Gold Coast hinterland for a long motorbike ride.
The visiting American rocker, who is set to perform her third Boondall show in Brisbane tonight, spent hours driving up and down Mt Tamborine on her Triumph road bike while Hart, who makes his living on motocross bikes, saddled up on a Harley Davidson.
The couple were briefly accompanied by security minders but later peeled off on their own at the Mt Tamborine exit.
"They were very chilled out and drove up and down Guanaba Rd all afternoon, stopping every now and then for a chat," said one spy who was impressed with Pink's riding skills.
"But I don't know how she managed it in spike heel boots ," he said.
It's understood the bikes were delivered to the couple at their Palazzo Versace digs late last week.
P!nk, meanwhile, returns to Sydney for the start of more shows at the Sydney Entertainment Centre from June 25.
The US superstar singer will clock up tens of thousands of kilometres as she crisscrosses the country on her energetic three-month Funhouse tour.
It's rumoured she and Hart plan on taking a break in the Whitsundays in late July.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,,25634713-5012327,00.html
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Easy rider ... P!nk on her Triumph motor bike on the Gold Coast yesterday. Picture: Peter Wallis
14 Haziran 2009 Pazar
Pink's entourage settles in to Coast
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25631742-5003421,00.html
Sally Browne and Kelmeny Fraser
June 14, 2009 12:00am
WHEN you have spent half the night performing aerial tricks and singing your lungs out, you're allowed a sleep in.
Pink rested in her $1600-a-night villa at Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast late yesterday morning ahead of her second show at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre last night.
The pop superstar was so hyped on Friday night she stayed up on the Twitter social website from her BlackBerry to say thanks to the Brisbane crowd.
"Brisbane! I had so much fun tonight! U people got good energy. Fo' sho'," she wrote.
It's little wonder she's excited by the response she's received in the Sunshine State. With more than 126,000 Queenslanders buying tickets for her shows, it's estimated her 11 performances in Brisbane will generate up to $16 million.
As she slept yesterday morning, her motocross star husband Carey Hart slipped into a local McDonald's for coffee before heading to Brisbane for his Hart and Huntington Freestyle Tour show, also at the Entertainment Centre.
Staff said he sat alone and downed two sausage-and-egg McMuffins before returning to the hotel foyer with orange juice and cup of filtered coffee.
"He didn't make a fuss. He put his rubbish in the bin before leaving," one staff member said.
Pink has maintained a low profile during her Gold Coast stay, but there is plenty of action behind the scenes keeping her mega-show on the road. The 29-year-old star employs 61 people in her entourage, including her band, five dancers, a trapeze artist, security guards, road crew, drivers, a personal trainer and her personal chef.
Pink prefers vegetarian meals, but keeps her concert fridge stocked with her favourite Aussie beer, VB.
Her days involve a morning training session with her personal trainer and specially prepared low-GI meals.
Cirque du Soleil performer Sebastien Stella, who trained Pink in her acrobatic stunts, is also travelling with her, as is her manager Roger Davies, who has looked after the interests of Tina Turner, Cher and Olivia Newton-John.
While concert promoters would not reveal how much Pink will earn from her 58-show Australian tour, she was expected to perform to more than 600,000 fans.
With ticket prices up to $129.90, it's estimated she will make about $70 million.
Eleven trucks transport the massive Funhouse show - which features elaborate acrobatics, burlesque and ballet - clocking up tens of thousands of kilometres around the country.
As Pink prepared for last night's show, Hart said his wife was holding up well to the physical demands, although she had a slight cold.
"She is doing great. She is feeling a little bit under the weather right now but other than that she is top notch, she is happy. The fans out here have been very supportive of her. I think we have both hit a home run," he said.
Pink will soon have 10 days off between shows, during which time she and Carey will be able to escape to a holiday destination.
Her last performance here this month is on Tuesday. She then returns on July 20 to play five more dates, and will return for two final concerts at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on August 25 and 26.
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June 14, 2009 12:00am
WHEN you have spent half the night performing aerial tricks and singing your lungs out, you're allowed a sleep in.
Pink rested in her $1600-a-night villa at Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast late yesterday morning ahead of her second show at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre last night.
The pop superstar was so hyped on Friday night she stayed up on the Twitter social website from her BlackBerry to say thanks to the Brisbane crowd.
"Brisbane! I had so much fun tonight! U people got good energy. Fo' sho'," she wrote.
It's little wonder she's excited by the response she's received in the Sunshine State. With more than 126,000 Queenslanders buying tickets for her shows, it's estimated her 11 performances in Brisbane will generate up to $16 million.
As she slept yesterday morning, her motocross star husband Carey Hart slipped into a local McDonald's for coffee before heading to Brisbane for his Hart and Huntington Freestyle Tour show, also at the Entertainment Centre.
Staff said he sat alone and downed two sausage-and-egg McMuffins before returning to the hotel foyer with orange juice and cup of filtered coffee.
"He didn't make a fuss. He put his rubbish in the bin before leaving," one staff member said.
Pink has maintained a low profile during her Gold Coast stay, but there is plenty of action behind the scenes keeping her mega-show on the road. The 29-year-old star employs 61 people in her entourage, including her band, five dancers, a trapeze artist, security guards, road crew, drivers, a personal trainer and her personal chef.
Pink prefers vegetarian meals, but keeps her concert fridge stocked with her favourite Aussie beer, VB.
Her days involve a morning training session with her personal trainer and specially prepared low-GI meals.
Cirque du Soleil performer Sebastien Stella, who trained Pink in her acrobatic stunts, is also travelling with her, as is her manager Roger Davies, who has looked after the interests of Tina Turner, Cher and Olivia Newton-John.
While concert promoters would not reveal how much Pink will earn from her 58-show Australian tour, she was expected to perform to more than 600,000 fans.
With ticket prices up to $129.90, it's estimated she will make about $70 million.
Eleven trucks transport the massive Funhouse show - which features elaborate acrobatics, burlesque and ballet - clocking up tens of thousands of kilometres around the country.
As Pink prepared for last night's show, Hart said his wife was holding up well to the physical demands, although she had a slight cold.
"She is doing great. She is feeling a little bit under the weather right now but other than that she is top notch, she is happy. The fans out here have been very supportive of her. I think we have both hit a home run," he said.
Pink will soon have 10 days off between shows, during which time she and Carey will be able to escape to a holiday destination.
Her last performance here this month is on Tuesday. She then returns on July 20 to play five more dates, and will return for two final concerts at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on August 25 and 26.
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12 Haziran 2009 Cuma
Pink rocks at Boondall to sold out crowd
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Anna Caldwell
June 13, 2009 12:00am
ROLL up, roll up - last night the Queensland love affair with US rock goddess Pink began in spectacular fashion at the at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
With a record-breaking 10 shows still to come, and an unprecedented one in 37 Queenslanders expected to see one of the circus-inspired Funhouse gigs, it needed to be dazzling.
Her enamoured fans, the Pink army, had assembled early dripping in Pink merchandise, glitter and heavy mascara – their hopes were high.
And when she soared in above the packed crowd, hoisted in a high-ropes extravaganza, the 29-year-old rocker didn't disappoint.
The stage, a fairground/Moulin Rouge hybrid, set the scene for jaw-dropping ballet, burlesque and bungee stunts.
Having trained with Cirque du Soleil trapeze artist Sebastien Stella for two months, Pink was more than up to the task of impressing the crowd – an eclectic mix ranging from wide-eyed pre-teens to awestruck pensioners.
The set included many of the big hits that have seen the star this week rack up all six of her albums dating back to 2001 in the Aria charts.
The crowd laughed when she belted out her break-up anthem So What that had been an unreserved dig at her husband after their now-repaired split in 2008.
The big hits were peppered by a variety of covers including AC/DC and Queen, rewarding the music-savvy in the crowd.
With Brisbane the fifth stop on this 58-gig tour, the element of surprise was dwindling. But as Pink might say, So What?
The screams were deafening, her laugh was infectious and the show is set to continue.
Tickets go on sale next week for concerts on August 25 and 26.
Anna Caldwell
June 13, 2009 12:00am
ROLL up, roll up - last night the Queensland love affair with US rock goddess Pink began in spectacular fashion at the at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
With a record-breaking 10 shows still to come, and an unprecedented one in 37 Queenslanders expected to see one of the circus-inspired Funhouse gigs, it needed to be dazzling.
Her enamoured fans, the Pink army, had assembled early dripping in Pink merchandise, glitter and heavy mascara – their hopes were high.
And when she soared in above the packed crowd, hoisted in a high-ropes extravaganza, the 29-year-old rocker didn't disappoint.
The stage, a fairground/Moulin Rouge hybrid, set the scene for jaw-dropping ballet, burlesque and bungee stunts.
Having trained with Cirque du Soleil trapeze artist Sebastien Stella for two months, Pink was more than up to the task of impressing the crowd – an eclectic mix ranging from wide-eyed pre-teens to awestruck pensioners.
The set included many of the big hits that have seen the star this week rack up all six of her albums dating back to 2001 in the Aria charts.
The crowd laughed when she belted out her break-up anthem So What that had been an unreserved dig at her husband after their now-repaired split in 2008.
The big hits were peppered by a variety of covers including AC/DC and Queen, rewarding the music-savvy in the crowd.
With Brisbane the fifth stop on this 58-gig tour, the element of surprise was dwindling. But as Pink might say, So What?
The screams were deafening, her laugh was infectious and the show is set to continue.
Tickets go on sale next week for concerts on August 25 and 26.
Pink gig causes traffic woes
Jane Chudleigh
June 12, 2009 04:40pm
POP star Pink's first Brisbane concert at Boondall tonight is causing traffic headaches for motorists heading north on the Gateway Motorway.
The sell-out performance at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Boondall, doesn't start until 7.30pm but traffic is already congested from the toll booths to Sandgate.
Pink's Funhouse Tour has 11 Brisbane performances over June, July and August.
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June 12, 2009 04:40pm
POP star Pink's first Brisbane concert at Boondall tonight is causing traffic headaches for motorists heading north on the Gateway Motorway.
The sell-out performance at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Boondall, doesn't start until 7.30pm but traffic is already congested from the toll booths to Sandgate.
Pink's Funhouse Tour has 11 Brisbane performances over June, July and August.
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11 Haziran 2009 Perşembe
Pink thinks big on Australian tour de force
By Stephen Downie
The Daily Telegraph
June 12, 2009 12:00am
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SHE calls it her Funhouse tour but Pink's punishing Australian schedule makes it more of a workhouse. The US superstar singer will clock up tens of thousands of kilometres as she criss-crosses the country on her energetic three-month tour.
With an extra four shows announced yesterday - two of them in Sydney - Pink will play 58 gigs in Australia, entertaining more than 600,000 fans in the process.
Pink tickles her biggest Sydney fan
With such a near-record touring schedule, it's no wonder Pink will need a two-week mid-tour break.
Pink and her motorcycle champ husband Carey Hart, who is with her on the tour, are rumoured to be flying to the Whitsundays later next month.
It could be a chance for the couple to get their marriage back on track following their split last year.
Pink - real name Alecia Moore - has smashed attendance records for female artists performing at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. By the end of her 10-date run there she will have played to 115,598 people.
The next closest is Australia's own Kylie Minogue who did nine shows at the Entertainment Centre in front of 92,695 adoring fans.
The sick kids that silenced Pink
But the overall concert record in Australia's premier city remains with Dire Straits, who played a staggering 21 dates at the venue as part of their 1986 Brothers In Arms tour.
For a star of Pink's standing, there are so far no reports of diva-like behaviour. Entertainment Centre staff say she's a dream to work with.
"She loves a joke," Entertainment Centre's marketing manager Wendy Aldridge said yesterday. "I think she's half-Australian now."
Backstage, the Entertainment Centre has dressing rooms with names dedicated to its star clientele.
There's the John Farnham room and the Elton John Suite, which acknowledges his 41 concerts there over his career. Will we soon see a Pink room? Not likely.
"She would have to get up there in the stratosphere of an Elton John first," Ms Aldridge said.
Pink yesterday announced she will perform two final concerts in Sydney, on August 28 and 29, this time at Acer Arena instead of the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
Tickets for these gigs go on sale on Tuesday at 9am, with a pre-sale starting on Friday at 2pm and ending on Monday at 5pm.
The Sydney shows will be the last in this country before Pink takes a short break and then plunges into the US leg of her tour.
"We feel privileged that she's chosen to finish her record-breaking tour here," Acer Arena's business development manager Don Elford said yesterday.
The Daily Telegraph
June 12, 2009 12:00am
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,,25623402-5013560,00.html
SHE calls it her Funhouse tour but Pink's punishing Australian schedule makes it more of a workhouse. The US superstar singer will clock up tens of thousands of kilometres as she criss-crosses the country on her energetic three-month tour.
With an extra four shows announced yesterday - two of them in Sydney - Pink will play 58 gigs in Australia, entertaining more than 600,000 fans in the process.
Pink tickles her biggest Sydney fan
With such a near-record touring schedule, it's no wonder Pink will need a two-week mid-tour break.
Pink and her motorcycle champ husband Carey Hart, who is with her on the tour, are rumoured to be flying to the Whitsundays later next month.
It could be a chance for the couple to get their marriage back on track following their split last year.
Pink - real name Alecia Moore - has smashed attendance records for female artists performing at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. By the end of her 10-date run there she will have played to 115,598 people.
The next closest is Australia's own Kylie Minogue who did nine shows at the Entertainment Centre in front of 92,695 adoring fans.
The sick kids that silenced Pink
But the overall concert record in Australia's premier city remains with Dire Straits, who played a staggering 21 dates at the venue as part of their 1986 Brothers In Arms tour.
For a star of Pink's standing, there are so far no reports of diva-like behaviour. Entertainment Centre staff say she's a dream to work with.
"She loves a joke," Entertainment Centre's marketing manager Wendy Aldridge said yesterday. "I think she's half-Australian now."
Backstage, the Entertainment Centre has dressing rooms with names dedicated to its star clientele.
There's the John Farnham room and the Elton John Suite, which acknowledges his 41 concerts there over his career. Will we soon see a Pink room? Not likely.
"She would have to get up there in the stratosphere of an Elton John first," Ms Aldridge said.
Pink yesterday announced she will perform two final concerts in Sydney, on August 28 and 29, this time at Acer Arena instead of the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
Tickets for these gigs go on sale on Tuesday at 9am, with a pre-sale starting on Friday at 2pm and ending on Monday at 5pm.
The Sydney shows will be the last in this country before Pink takes a short break and then plunges into the US leg of her tour.
"We feel privileged that she's chosen to finish her record-breaking tour here," Acer Arena's business development manager Don Elford said yesterday.
Pink makes her biggest fan's day with hospital visit
June 10, 2009 12:00am
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EDWARD Pickard spent Sunday night at the Sydney Children's Hospital while his mum Melinda went out to see her favourite act, Pink, who also happens to be his favourite too.
"A friend had an extra ticket but I couldn't afford to take Edward and he was really upset," the Heathcote mum said yesterday.
Then, by coincidence, cystic fibrosis sufferer Edward, 13, and his mum were sitting in his ward when the star herself walked in unannounced yesterday afternoon.
She came straight up to me and I went all funny and didn't know what to say," Edward said.
"But we talked about how Mum went to the show and I couldn't - and she said she had some contacts and will get me a ticket."
Edward, who spends eight days in hospital every three to four months, said he was thrilled.
"She's my favourite singer but she was just so normal and nice," he said of Pink, who regularly visits sick children.
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EDWARD Pickard spent Sunday night at the Sydney Children's Hospital while his mum Melinda went out to see her favourite act, Pink, who also happens to be his favourite too.
"A friend had an extra ticket but I couldn't afford to take Edward and he was really upset," the Heathcote mum said yesterday.
Then, by coincidence, cystic fibrosis sufferer Edward, 13, and his mum were sitting in his ward when the star herself walked in unannounced yesterday afternoon.
She came straight up to me and I went all funny and didn't know what to say," Edward said.
"But we talked about how Mum went to the show and I couldn't - and she said she had some contacts and will get me a ticket."
Edward, who spends eight days in hospital every three to four months, said he was thrilled.
"She's my favourite singer but she was just so normal and nice," he said of Pink, who regularly visits sick children.
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Pink and Carey Hart pair flat out
Nathan Richter
June 12, 2009 12:00am
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SOME sun, a few hot laps and a long lunch. Pink and her motocross star hubby Carey Hart proved themselves to be "Very GC" yesterday as they made the most of their first day on the Glitter Strip.
After checking into Palazzo Versace, the glamour couple later headed north to the Holden High Performance Driving Centre at Norwell where Hart got his speed fix in a Paul Morris V8.
Flanked by security, the pair went on to Saks waterfront restaurant at Marina Mirage where they ordered up an appropriately-themed seafood spread.
The couple chowed down on a dozen oysters kilpatrick, a plate of lemon pepper calamari and mixed bread while sipping St Clair sauvignon blanc and Vasse Felix dry white.
And as is befitting the multimillionaire singer – who is set to pocket a motzah on the back of her marathon 14-week Australian tour – Pink left a sizeable tip.
"Oh yes," said a Saks spy. "They were very nice."
The newly-reunited lovebirds then went their separate ways as Pink headed back to the hotel while Hart made his way to Brisbane, appearing at surf store City Beach in the Queen Street Mall.
Hart, who couldn't quite draw a crowd like his megastar missus, hugged and signed autographs for the handful of fans who showed at the in-store appearance – a lead-up to his motocross show at the Boondall Entertainment Centre tomorrow.
Tonight Pink makes Queensland history when she kicks off the first of a record 11 concerts at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. An extra two shows were added when the rock goddess arrived in Queensland yesterday morning.
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June 12, 2009 12:00am
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SOME sun, a few hot laps and a long lunch. Pink and her motocross star hubby Carey Hart proved themselves to be "Very GC" yesterday as they made the most of their first day on the Glitter Strip.
After checking into Palazzo Versace, the glamour couple later headed north to the Holden High Performance Driving Centre at Norwell where Hart got his speed fix in a Paul Morris V8.
Flanked by security, the pair went on to Saks waterfront restaurant at Marina Mirage where they ordered up an appropriately-themed seafood spread.
The couple chowed down on a dozen oysters kilpatrick, a plate of lemon pepper calamari and mixed bread while sipping St Clair sauvignon blanc and Vasse Felix dry white.
And as is befitting the multimillionaire singer – who is set to pocket a motzah on the back of her marathon 14-week Australian tour – Pink left a sizeable tip.
"Oh yes," said a Saks spy. "They were very nice."
The newly-reunited lovebirds then went their separate ways as Pink headed back to the hotel while Hart made his way to Brisbane, appearing at surf store City Beach in the Queen Street Mall.
Hart, who couldn't quite draw a crowd like his megastar missus, hugged and signed autographs for the handful of fans who showed at the in-store appearance – a lead-up to his motocross show at the Boondall Entertainment Centre tomorrow.
Tonight Pink makes Queensland history when she kicks off the first of a record 11 concerts at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. An extra two shows were added when the rock goddess arrived in Queensland yesterday morning.
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9 Haziran 2009 Salı
Pink and her husband Carey Hart explore the city on bicycles on June 8, 2009 in Sydney, Australia.
Pink Sighting In Sydney - June 8, 2009
(EXCLUSIVE, Premium Rates Apply) SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 08: ***EXCLUSIVE*** Singer Alecia Moore (aka Pink) and her husband Carey Hart explore the city on bicycles on June 8, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. The recently re-united pair are in Australia for a series of concerts and events in which they are both performing and enjoying time out in Sydney, including touring famous Bondi beach and the Sydney harbour foreshore. (Photo by PhotoNews International Inc./FilmMagic)
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(EXCLUSIVE, Premium Rates Apply) SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 08: ***EXCLUSIVE*** Singer Alecia Moore (aka Pink) and her husband Carey Hart explore the city on bicycles on June 8, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. The recently re-united pair are in Australia for a series of concerts and events in which they are both performing and enjoying time out in Sydney, including touring famous Bondi beach and the Sydney harbour foreshore. (Photo by PhotoNews International Inc./FilmMagic)
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8 Haziran 2009 Pazartesi
Pink And Carey Hart At Fox Studios
Singer Pink and husband Carey Hart look very much in love as they stroll through Fox Studios in Sydney where Carey has been performing in a Freestyle event.
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5 Haziran 2009 Cuma
In the Pink of condition, despite major partying
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The Daily Telegraph
June 06, 2009 12:00am
PINK is being separated from her entourage and is staying in a separate hotel to her band and crew in an apparent effort to reduce post-show partying.
Her three-month tour has just begun and management doesn't want the pop rock dynamo to burn out - so they booked her into the Park Hyatt while the rest stay at the Intercontinental.
Her 61-strong team plans to use Sydney as the main base for the national tour but have so far had a low-key week in Sydney before tonight's opening show.
When she toured here in 2007, Pink stayed at the Inter- continental, where she staged parties in various rooms.
This week she was spotted out more in the day than night, bicycling through the CBD and Centennial Park with motocross legend husband Carey Hart.
But fans worried she is mellowing can rest easy.
The word is that the party did start when the rocker left the Park Hyatt for the other side of Circular Quay to hook up with her crew at the Intercontinental one night this week.
A hotel source said a lively party followed, leading to some complaints from other hotel guests who were being kept awake by the noise.
An Intercontinental spokeswoman would not confirm the party but said the hotel was long a favourite of visiting international celebrities.
A Sony spokesman confirmed Pink and her entourage had been housed in separate locations - but claimed the move was for "logistical reasons".
While Pink performs at the Entertainment Centre tonight, her motocross champion husband will do a free stunt show on his Hart Huntington Tour at Moore Park's Entertainment Quarter from 1pm today.
The Daily Telegraph
June 06, 2009 12:00am
PINK is being separated from her entourage and is staying in a separate hotel to her band and crew in an apparent effort to reduce post-show partying.
Her three-month tour has just begun and management doesn't want the pop rock dynamo to burn out - so they booked her into the Park Hyatt while the rest stay at the Intercontinental.
Her 61-strong team plans to use Sydney as the main base for the national tour but have so far had a low-key week in Sydney before tonight's opening show.
When she toured here in 2007, Pink stayed at the Inter- continental, where she staged parties in various rooms.
This week she was spotted out more in the day than night, bicycling through the CBD and Centennial Park with motocross legend husband Carey Hart.
But fans worried she is mellowing can rest easy.
The word is that the party did start when the rocker left the Park Hyatt for the other side of Circular Quay to hook up with her crew at the Intercontinental one night this week.
A hotel source said a lively party followed, leading to some complaints from other hotel guests who were being kept awake by the noise.
An Intercontinental spokeswoman would not confirm the party but said the hotel was long a favourite of visiting international celebrities.
A Sony spokesman confirmed Pink and her entourage had been housed in separate locations - but claimed the move was for "logistical reasons".
While Pink performs at the Entertainment Centre tonight, her motocross champion husband will do a free stunt show on his Hart Huntington Tour at Moore Park's Entertainment Quarter from 1pm today.
Pink And Carey Hart Out Bike Riding In Sydney
Pink and Carey Hart spend the day bike riding in Centennial Park, they stopped off for lunch. Carey had to fix Pink's tire as she got a flat...
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4 Haziran 2009 Perşembe
Pink, behind scenes of her Funhouse Australian tour
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By Cameron Adams
June 05, 2009 12:00am
PINK is deep in her inner sanctum backstage at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena.
She is Alecia in here; still a few hours away from showtime and still in her civilian clothes, not the Bob Mackie-designed outfits only someone bold and fit can pull off (his other main client is Cher). A bar fridge is stocked with her beer of choice – VB.
She is tweeting like a mad woman, her laptop next to newspaper clippings of reviews from her Melbourne shows she’s already scoured. More than half a million tickets for her record-breaking Funhouse tour have been sold nationally. In an era where even superstars struggle to sell CDs, Pink’s entire back catalogue is trucking out of stores. Her two most recent albums, Funhouse and I’m Not Dead, have sold more than 1.2 million copies in Australia between them. All four of her albums are back in the Top 60 this week. Recession? What recession? Pink struggles to verbalise how it feels to be the drawcard of such a successful – and lengthy – international pop tour of Australia. She has now broken her own record – after 35 shows on the I’m Not Dead tour in 2007, there are now 52 on the Australian leg of the Funhouse tour – so far. “I thought the last time was a fluke, I really did,” Pink says. “I don’t get it but it’s awesome. It’s not something I’ve been able to put into words.” There is another moment in the Funhouse tour where Pink is similarly silent. It’s during Sober. Three-quarters through the hit song to be precise. Pink takes a huge pause and some heavy, audible intakes of breath. Mind you, she’s hanging upside down somewhere near the venue’s roof, being dangled by her leg by a trapeze artist. She’s already switched limbs – both feet, both arms – several times, catapulting her body in mid air, climbing the trapeze artist as a human ladder. And all the time she’s singing Sober totally live without missing a note, thanks to a microphone strapped to the side of her face. This is not a Britney Spears concert. “The reason I scream ‘Sing it’ during that song and make sure everyone can hear me breathing is so they know I’m singing,” Pink says. “A lot of people at first were saying, ‘There’s no way she can be singing. She’s lip-synching.’ That’s bulls….” On that last tour Pink party-hopped around Sydney, nursing both a constant beer and a broken heart after her marriage to motocross star Carey Hart had dissolved. Those days are over on this tour. There are regularly scheduled days off where the recently reunited couple enjoy their downtime and renewed relationship. But party time is over. “This is the most physically, emotionally and vocally demanding show I’ve ever done in my life,” Pink says.
“It’s full on. I read a review that said you don’t have to be a Pink fan to enjoy it, that it’s just pure entertainment. I f…ing love that. That’s why Bette Midler, cheesy as it sounds, is my f…ing hero. You can go to her show not knowing a single song but The Rose and have a good time. She’s like a stand-up comedian/theatre/actress/singer girl. That’s what I want. I want all of that.” After her Australian tour ends in August, Pink will finally play a headline tour in the US throughout September and October.
Her career in her homeland has been hit and miss. She topped the charts with Missundaztood, then sales dropped. Unconcerned, Pink just toured the rest of the world where people wanted her. Belatedly U + UR Hand and Who Knew were Top 20 US hits, and last year So What gave Pink her first US No.1 single. From supporting the likes of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake, she will now tour the US on her own – although she’s playing more shows just in Melbourne than the entire North American region. “I’m proud to go home and play in my home town and play Madison Square Garden,” Pink says. “I’ve waited ’til I’m 30 years old to do it. It’s almost better to have to work this hard for stuff, be the underdog. Then you appreciate it more. It’s a long time coming and I credit the success in Australia to helping that happen in America. People went, ‘What the f… are we missing? There must be something there’.” Pink turns 30 on September 8 this year. She’s been granted a four-day break from the tour, after Australia and before America. “I’m going to be in a motorhome with my dirtbikes, my motorcycles, my dogs and Carey,” Pink says of her 30th plans. “We’re just going to take off, go camp, drink wine, play acoustic guitar by a fire and play with my dogs.” Pink and Hart’s reunion came around the time a UK paper ran a fabricated story where the singer supposedly outed herself as bisexual. “It was unnecessary,” Pink says. “It’s a shame that these are the kind of things that make headlines. Ever since my first record people have been claiming me ethnically, sexually and musically. It’s always this little box I’m supposed to jump into. But I’m about the truth, whatever it is, that’s not my truth, so I defended it.” Pink dismissed the bisexual story by saying it was “so 1991”, via Twitter – so 2009. “I’ve heard worse about myself,” Pink says. “I heard I was at a gay bar in Louisiana challenging women to wrestling and losing. It wasn’t the gay bar bit that bothered me but the losing, that was taking it too far. “I’ve always said I’m trisexual – I’ll try anything. Well, not anything. But my connection with gay and lesbians – the whole community – is that I identify with people who struggle. That and the fact I’m androgynous and masculine and crazy.” Pink is flattered when women find her attractive: “It’s not a bad thing. Not bad at all.” But she’s taken. By the man many of Funhouse’s most emotional break-up songs are about. One of those, I Don’t Believe You, brought her to tears as she wrote it. In the tour she regularly struggles to get through the song (which she plays on acoustic guitar) without laughing or forgetting the words. “I was joking the other day that if a psychologist was in the audience they’d say, ‘She’s laughing because it’s too painful for her to sing’.” Is she? “Nah, I don’t think it’s that deep. I think it’s just that I’m not a great guitar player.” Hart also has to hear So What document their split each night, including a chorus where he is labelled a “tool” and flipped the bird. “That’s fun,” Pink says. “He’s got a good sense of humour. It kind of stings, I’m sure. But if someone wrote an entire album about me, even if it’s a pissed-off album, I’d be flattered, so I’m sure that’s part of it. It’s funny to me. Plus Carey taught me the word ‘tool’ so it’s good to give back.” Pink performs at the Sydney Entertainment Centre tomorrow, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and June 26, 27, 29, 30 and July 17 and 18
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Pink's Grown Up Love
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Pink's husband says they had to "grow up" to save their marriage.
The singer recently reconciled with motocross star Carey Hart after they split last February and both parties only learned how to be together during the separation.
Carey said in a radio interview on Australia's 2Day FM's Kyle and Jackie O Show: "We both had a lot of growing up to do over the course of the last year. No relationship's perfect and sometimes you have to take a couple of steps backward to move forward which is what happened to us. We were apart for about a year and we started putting things back together and this is a big part of the putting back together process.
"We had to come up with a system in a way for us both to accomplish our goals. Here we are in Australia and it's our first attempt and it's going amazingly so far."
The 'So What' singer recently admitted she loves singing the songs she wrote in the aftermath of her break up with Carey, even though they are now back together.
She explained: "It's funny to sing them now because he's in the audience. So when I sing, 'He's a tool,' now that's my favourite line. I'm like, 'Hi honey, that's you!' "
Pink's track 'So What' includes the lyrics: "And guess what, I'm havin' more fun/ And now that we're done, I'm gonna show you tonight."
Several other songs on her 2008 album 'Funhouse' include lyrics about her split from Carey.
By Cameron Adams
June 05, 2009 12:00am
PINK is deep in her inner sanctum backstage at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena.
She is Alecia in here; still a few hours away from showtime and still in her civilian clothes, not the Bob Mackie-designed outfits only someone bold and fit can pull off (his other main client is Cher). A bar fridge is stocked with her beer of choice – VB.
She is tweeting like a mad woman, her laptop next to newspaper clippings of reviews from her Melbourne shows she’s already scoured. More than half a million tickets for her record-breaking Funhouse tour have been sold nationally. In an era where even superstars struggle to sell CDs, Pink’s entire back catalogue is trucking out of stores. Her two most recent albums, Funhouse and I’m Not Dead, have sold more than 1.2 million copies in Australia between them. All four of her albums are back in the Top 60 this week. Recession? What recession? Pink struggles to verbalise how it feels to be the drawcard of such a successful – and lengthy – international pop tour of Australia. She has now broken her own record – after 35 shows on the I’m Not Dead tour in 2007, there are now 52 on the Australian leg of the Funhouse tour – so far. “I thought the last time was a fluke, I really did,” Pink says. “I don’t get it but it’s awesome. It’s not something I’ve been able to put into words.” There is another moment in the Funhouse tour where Pink is similarly silent. It’s during Sober. Three-quarters through the hit song to be precise. Pink takes a huge pause and some heavy, audible intakes of breath. Mind you, she’s hanging upside down somewhere near the venue’s roof, being dangled by her leg by a trapeze artist. She’s already switched limbs – both feet, both arms – several times, catapulting her body in mid air, climbing the trapeze artist as a human ladder. And all the time she’s singing Sober totally live without missing a note, thanks to a microphone strapped to the side of her face. This is not a Britney Spears concert. “The reason I scream ‘Sing it’ during that song and make sure everyone can hear me breathing is so they know I’m singing,” Pink says. “A lot of people at first were saying, ‘There’s no way she can be singing. She’s lip-synching.’ That’s bulls….” On that last tour Pink party-hopped around Sydney, nursing both a constant beer and a broken heart after her marriage to motocross star Carey Hart had dissolved. Those days are over on this tour. There are regularly scheduled days off where the recently reunited couple enjoy their downtime and renewed relationship. But party time is over. “This is the most physically, emotionally and vocally demanding show I’ve ever done in my life,” Pink says.
“It’s full on. I read a review that said you don’t have to be a Pink fan to enjoy it, that it’s just pure entertainment. I f…ing love that. That’s why Bette Midler, cheesy as it sounds, is my f…ing hero. You can go to her show not knowing a single song but The Rose and have a good time. She’s like a stand-up comedian/theatre/actress/singer girl. That’s what I want. I want all of that.” After her Australian tour ends in August, Pink will finally play a headline tour in the US throughout September and October.
Her career in her homeland has been hit and miss. She topped the charts with Missundaztood, then sales dropped. Unconcerned, Pink just toured the rest of the world where people wanted her. Belatedly U + UR Hand and Who Knew were Top 20 US hits, and last year So What gave Pink her first US No.1 single. From supporting the likes of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake, she will now tour the US on her own – although she’s playing more shows just in Melbourne than the entire North American region. “I’m proud to go home and play in my home town and play Madison Square Garden,” Pink says. “I’ve waited ’til I’m 30 years old to do it. It’s almost better to have to work this hard for stuff, be the underdog. Then you appreciate it more. It’s a long time coming and I credit the success in Australia to helping that happen in America. People went, ‘What the f… are we missing? There must be something there’.” Pink turns 30 on September 8 this year. She’s been granted a four-day break from the tour, after Australia and before America. “I’m going to be in a motorhome with my dirtbikes, my motorcycles, my dogs and Carey,” Pink says of her 30th plans. “We’re just going to take off, go camp, drink wine, play acoustic guitar by a fire and play with my dogs.” Pink and Hart’s reunion came around the time a UK paper ran a fabricated story where the singer supposedly outed herself as bisexual. “It was unnecessary,” Pink says. “It’s a shame that these are the kind of things that make headlines. Ever since my first record people have been claiming me ethnically, sexually and musically. It’s always this little box I’m supposed to jump into. But I’m about the truth, whatever it is, that’s not my truth, so I defended it.” Pink dismissed the bisexual story by saying it was “so 1991”, via Twitter – so 2009. “I’ve heard worse about myself,” Pink says. “I heard I was at a gay bar in Louisiana challenging women to wrestling and losing. It wasn’t the gay bar bit that bothered me but the losing, that was taking it too far. “I’ve always said I’m trisexual – I’ll try anything. Well, not anything. But my connection with gay and lesbians – the whole community – is that I identify with people who struggle. That and the fact I’m androgynous and masculine and crazy.” Pink is flattered when women find her attractive: “It’s not a bad thing. Not bad at all.” But she’s taken. By the man many of Funhouse’s most emotional break-up songs are about. One of those, I Don’t Believe You, brought her to tears as she wrote it. In the tour she regularly struggles to get through the song (which she plays on acoustic guitar) without laughing or forgetting the words. “I was joking the other day that if a psychologist was in the audience they’d say, ‘She’s laughing because it’s too painful for her to sing’.” Is she? “Nah, I don’t think it’s that deep. I think it’s just that I’m not a great guitar player.” Hart also has to hear So What document their split each night, including a chorus where he is labelled a “tool” and flipped the bird. “That’s fun,” Pink says. “He’s got a good sense of humour. It kind of stings, I’m sure. But if someone wrote an entire album about me, even if it’s a pissed-off album, I’d be flattered, so I’m sure that’s part of it. It’s funny to me. Plus Carey taught me the word ‘tool’ so it’s good to give back.” Pink performs at the Sydney Entertainment Centre tomorrow, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and June 26, 27, 29, 30 and July 17 and 18
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Pink's Grown Up Love
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Pink's husband says they had to "grow up" to save their marriage.
The singer recently reconciled with motocross star Carey Hart after they split last February and both parties only learned how to be together during the separation.
Carey said in a radio interview on Australia's 2Day FM's Kyle and Jackie O Show: "We both had a lot of growing up to do over the course of the last year. No relationship's perfect and sometimes you have to take a couple of steps backward to move forward which is what happened to us. We were apart for about a year and we started putting things back together and this is a big part of the putting back together process.
"We had to come up with a system in a way for us both to accomplish our goals. Here we are in Australia and it's our first attempt and it's going amazingly so far."
The 'So What' singer recently admitted she loves singing the songs she wrote in the aftermath of her break up with Carey, even though they are now back together.
She explained: "It's funny to sing them now because he's in the audience. So when I sing, 'He's a tool,' now that's my favourite line. I'm like, 'Hi honey, that's you!' "
Pink's track 'So What' includes the lyrics: "And guess what, I'm havin' more fun/ And now that we're done, I'm gonna show you tonight."
Several other songs on her 2008 album 'Funhouse' include lyrics about her split from Carey.
Ze world according to Bruno
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By Fiona Cummins 3/06/2009
SACHA'S BITCHY ALTER-EGO IS CAMPING IT UP
Ooooh get him! Sacha Baron Cohen's camp alter-ego Bruno has got his manicured claws out for his bitchiest interview yet.
A host of female celebrities, including Madonna, Pink and Amy Winehouse, are well and truly Eurotrashed as the Austrian fashion icon launches into a full-on hissy fit.
Motormouth Bruno even finds time to crack controversial gags about his fellow "countrymen" Adolf Hitler and sex beast Josef Fritzl.
All in a day's work for Bruno, the brainchild of Ali G and Borat creator Sacha, who revealed his A-Z of fashion must-haves for Marie Claire.
In a nod to Fritzl, he says that A is for Austria, where they are raised to "try und achieve ze Austrian dream - find a job, get a dungeon und raise a family in it".
He says that B is for "bulimia... still to me ze number one eating disorder if you want a great body".
Meanwhile, K is for "Kampf, Mein... ze fashion bible written by Austria's black sheep Adolf Hitler. It literally translates as 'My Flamboyance'."
He then ridicules Madonna's adoption of Malawian baby David Banda, claiming that L is for "Little black child... thanks to Madonna und Bruno, it's zis season's vardrobe essential".
Sharpening his claws, Bruno also rounds on model Naomi Campbell. He says: "She's amazing - 20 years in ze business und all ze pressure und fame hasn't changed her a bit. She's remained a total bitch."
Us singer Pink and our very own Amy Winehouse also feel the wrath of Bruno's withering tongue.
On the American Get The Party Started singer, he says: "Just vatching him now on MTV. A great singer und so hunky" while Winehouse is "... not too skinny, in fact, for ein junkie she is actually zehr fat."
But the interview, which is sure to offend many, wasn't all about big-name stars.
He said that S stood for September 11, 2001, a date "famous, of course, for being ze day on vich Oscar de la Renta reintroduced ze chambray peasant blouse".
The interview rounds off a highly controversial week for Bruno, who has a mockumentary, Brüno, out in cinemas next month.
For the full interview and more pictures, see July's issue of Marie Claire, out on Thursday
ON PINK...
Just watching him now on MTV. A great singer und so hunky
ON AMY...
Not too skinny, in fact, for ein junkie she is actually zehr fat
ON NAOMI...
Fame hasn't changed her a bit, she's still a total bitch
3 Haziran 2009 Çarşamba
Carey Hart admits to Pink that he was injured in bike accident
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The Daily Telegraph
June 04, 2009 12:00am
FOLLOWING reports that one of his motocross riders took a tumble during practice for an upcoming Sydney stunt show, Carey Hart, the motorbike champion husband of Pink, called Confidential yesterday to admit: "It was me."
On Tuesday, Pink enthusiasts informed this column that one of Hart's fellow revheads was injured while practising for Saturday's freestyle demonstration and was taken to hospital.
Yesterday the heavily tattooed adrenaline junkie phoned us to say he was actually the injured party following the spill but, too tough to bleed, he denied being dropped at a Sydney hospital.
While rehearsing for the Entertainment Centre show this Saturday (coinciding with his wife's Sydney concert), Hart found Sydney's weather a bit too windy for his liking.
"It was pretty windy . . . I was fighting the wind the whole ride," he said. "It was swirling on and off and hard to predict" he said of the test-run. "On the last (jump) of the day a heavy gust slowed me down and I landed a little short. It's what we call hitting the deck. I hit my ankle pretty hard."
Hart maintained he didn't fall off the bike and didn't go to hospital - but probably should have, adding that while it hurt it was nothing new.
The couple's journey Down Under has been as much a reconciliation trip for them as it has been a record-breaking tour. Hart also has a new love: he got behind the wheel of a Holden at the weekend.
"They're fun cars . . . I'm actually going to test with (Aussie supercar star) Paul Morris in the next couple of weeks with a V8 supercar which is cool."
Pink began her NSW leg in Newcastle last night. Her first Sydney Funhouse gig is on Saturday night.
The Daily Telegraph
June 04, 2009 12:00am
FOLLOWING reports that one of his motocross riders took a tumble during practice for an upcoming Sydney stunt show, Carey Hart, the motorbike champion husband of Pink, called Confidential yesterday to admit: "It was me."
On Tuesday, Pink enthusiasts informed this column that one of Hart's fellow revheads was injured while practising for Saturday's freestyle demonstration and was taken to hospital.
Yesterday the heavily tattooed adrenaline junkie phoned us to say he was actually the injured party following the spill but, too tough to bleed, he denied being dropped at a Sydney hospital.
While rehearsing for the Entertainment Centre show this Saturday (coinciding with his wife's Sydney concert), Hart found Sydney's weather a bit too windy for his liking.
"It was pretty windy . . . I was fighting the wind the whole ride," he said. "It was swirling on and off and hard to predict" he said of the test-run. "On the last (jump) of the day a heavy gust slowed me down and I landed a little short. It's what we call hitting the deck. I hit my ankle pretty hard."
Hart maintained he didn't fall off the bike and didn't go to hospital - but probably should have, adding that while it hurt it was nothing new.
The couple's journey Down Under has been as much a reconciliation trip for them as it has been a record-breaking tour. Hart also has a new love: he got behind the wheel of a Holden at the weekend.
"They're fun cars . . . I'm actually going to test with (Aussie supercar star) Paul Morris in the next couple of weeks with a V8 supercar which is cool."
Pink began her NSW leg in Newcastle last night. Her first Sydney Funhouse gig is on Saturday night.
Pink And Carey Hart Dine At Doyles In Watsons Bay
Pink and her husband Carey Hart leave Doyles restaraunt in Watsons Bay via boat.
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Pink And Carey Hart At A Spa In Sydney
Pink and her husband Carey Hart, go to a day spa in the city before heading out to Newcastle for one of her concerts. Carey was delegated to the sofa with her body guard as she indulged in some self therapy.
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