Pink to perform at 2009 MTV Video Music Awards

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July 30, 2009
Green Day and Pink are set to perform at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, due to take place on September 13.They join Muse and Taylor Swift on the list of performers, with further acts to be announced in the weeks leading up to the event.Swift will sing her song ‘You Belong With Me’, while Muse will debut their single ‘Uprising’ at the ceremony which will return to Radio City Music Hall after stints over the past two years in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.Russell Brand will host the event for the second year in a row.

Off-colour Pink cans swinging highlight

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Anna Caldwell
July 24, 2009 12:00am
FANS waiting to see Pink's trademark trapeze act were left disappointed when it was cut from the rock star's Brisbane performance on Wednesday.
The cut came after the sell-out star had cancelled her Monday night Brisbane gig, citing a bout of laryngitis.
Promoters said at the time the night off was necessary "to enable Pink to continue to deliver her spectacular performances".
On Wednesday the promoters said that she was ready to return to the stage, but only hours later the show quietly decided not to run with the singer's famed trapeze act and her hit song Sober.
The abandoned performance would usually see the singer swing from high above the Brisbane Entertainment Centre audience on a trapeze, paired with a male trapeze artist.
Fans who had done their research were expecting to see the Cirque du Soleil-trained singer perform a number of backflips from a great height without missing a vocal beat.
They were left bitterly disappointed.
Pink admitted to the 11,000-strong crowd that she'd never sung one of her favourites, Family Portrait, at "such a low octave", and joked with her on-stage band about why her voice was so low.

PINK CANCELS AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATE

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Pop star PINK has had to scrap her first concert in two years - a bout of laryngitis has forced her to pull out of a scheduled gig in Brisbane, Australia on Monday (20Jul09).The So What hitmaker is currently on tour Down Under, but she has been ordered by doctors to give her voice a rest as she struggles to regain full health. A statement from the gig promoter says the decision to cancel the first of five dates in the city was made "to enable Pink to continue delivering her spectacular show for audiences around the country". Pink has also reached out to fans to apologise for the axed show, writing on her Twitter.com blog, "Had to cancel my first show in two years. No one feels worse than I do. Very sorry." The Funhouse Tour is due to resume in Brisbane on Wednesday (22Jul09), but as WENN went to press, it was unknown whether Pink would be well enough to go ahead with the show.
20 July 2009 19:08

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Sick Pink cancels Australian tour date

Monday, July 20 2009, 22:24 BST
By Lara Martin, Entertainment Reporter

Pink has apologised to fans in Brisbane for being forced to cancel an upcoming concert in the Australian city after falling ill with a bout of laryngitis.
The 'So What' star had been scheduled to bring her Funhouse tour to the Brisbane Entertainment Centre tonight, but a representative has since confirmed that the date has been postponed to allow her to recuperate.
Speaking to The Brisbane Times, a tour spokesperson said: "The decision to reschedule has been made to enable Pink to continue delivering her spectacular show for audiences around the country."
Writing on her Twitter account, the singer said: "Had to cancel my first show in two years. No-one feels worse than I do. Very sorry."
The concert has now been rescheduled for July 27, while Pink is also slated to play in Brisbane on July 22 and 23 as well as August 25 and 26.

Pink has been attacked by a frog.

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The 'So What' singer was enjoying a bike trip in Australia with husband Carey Hart, but when the pair stopped for a toilet break the excited amphibian jumped at Pink's face.
A source said: "They were relieving themselves by the road when a frog jumped up and hit Pink bang in the eyes. She freaked."
Luckily, the 29-year-old star - real name Alecia Moore - was not injured by the slimy creature.
Earlier this month, Pink revealed she was taking time off from her 'Funhouse' tour to head off on a road trip with motocross racer Carey.
The 'Sober' star, who has performed 27 shows across Australia since arriving in the country in May, said: "We're going on a motorcycle trip.
"I get to retire Pink for nine days and be good old Alecia."
However, the singer admitted she was scared of the Australian wildlife, asking: "How is anyone still living in this country?"
Pink and Carey separated briefly in 2008 but reunited earlier this year. Carey has been hosting motocross events across Australia while his wife has been performing.
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Pink's hot sex tip - naked wrestling

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July 09, 2009 11:00am
PINK has revealed the two passions that brought her and husband Carey Hart back together - wrestling and naked dancing.The 29-year-old singer and the motocross star, 33, separated earlier this year then reunited a month later.
The 29-year-old singer and the motocross star, 33, separated earlier this year then reunited a month later.
And Pink, currently touring Australia with Carey in tow, says: "Everything is good again now and we're having a blast. "Carey and I spend a lot of time wrestling in our hotel room. We have naked dance parties too. It's so much fun. "We have a lot of fun together. He's so yummy."

Pink's romantic getaway in Port Douglas

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Peter Michael
July 09, 2009 12:00am
POP-rock superstar Pink is no shrinking violet when it comes to public displays of affection.
The 29-year-old singer, seen here wearing a beanie and without make-up, was spotted hugging and kissing husband Carey Hart on a romantic getaway in far north Queensland.
The So What singer and her motocross racer husband – who split in February last year after two years of marriage – are basking in marital bliss after recently renewing their wedding vows.
Tourist Sergio Ricchiugi, who took a happy snap of the pair, said they seemed very much in love.
"She's a very affectionate woman. She was kissing and hugging him lots," Mr Ricchiugi said.
He took the shot of Pink as she kicked back with a mojito cocktail outside the Iron Bar in the main street of Port Douglas yesterday.
"She was very relaxed because . . . no one was making a fuss, no one hunting her for her autograph, lots of people walked straight past. It must have been the disguise with the beanie. Not many people wear beanies up here. It's too hot."
Taking some downtime from her record-breaking Funhouse tour, the singer took in the Daintree rainforest on a motorcycle adventure.
She also hit the Great Barrier Reef two days ago as part of her week-long break in Port Douglas.
The 29-year-old wrote on Twitter that she was looking forward to being "good ole Alecia (her real name) again".
Port Douglas tourism boss Doug Ryan said Pink had been a huge hit with the locals.
"Everyone says she's been really friendly and chatty," he said.

Pink, Carey Hart goes troppo in Queensland, motorcycle trip

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The Daily Telegraph
July 07, 2009 12:00am

AFTER 27 Aussie shows, no one can say Pink hasn't earned herself a few days holiday.
Thanks to a mid-season break plotted by the promoters of her record-breaking Funhouse tour, the pop-rock superstar reunited with husband Carey Hart and will spend this week show-free in Queensland.

But, since she's used to performing for two hours a night several times a week, there's no sign of a slow-down for the diminutive singer.
"We're going on a motorcycle trip," she said.
The 29-year-old said she was scared of our wildlife, asking: "How is anyone still living in this country?"

Pink keys into her grim past

By Jonathon Moran
July 05, 2009 12:00am
POP superstar Pink spoke from the heart when she met homeless kids in Sydney last week.
Performing her 10th show in Sydney as part of her whopping 58-date Australian tour, Pink invited students from Surry Hills' independent high school Key College backstage. The school caters for Sydney's homeless youth.
"That was me," Pink told The Sunday Telegraph.
"I wish I had something like that when I was a kid. I was kicked out of my house when I was 15. I was on drugs, the whole nine. I could have used a school like that."
But despite a difficult childhood and battles with drugs, the 29-year-old managed to turn her life around to become a top recording artist, selling millions of albums.
Pink learned about Key College after reading an article in The Sunday Telegraph's Sunday magazine in May - the same issue in which she featured on the cover.
The school opened in 1996 and is the brainchild of Youth Off The Streets founder Father Chris Riley.
So moved by the story, she contacted the school and invited more than 20 of its students to her Sydney shows.
"The kids are so tough and cool and it's fun, I just hope they have a good time," she said.
"Maybe them seeing the show is a little kick in the a*** to show they can do whatever they want 'cos I was that kid."
One student, Simon, 16, was overcome with emotion when he met his idol.
He was so excited to meet her that he had to hold his hands together to stop them from shaking, explaining Pink's music had kept him alive during serious bouts of depression.
"Pink was pretty much my salvation when I was growing up," said Simon, who had dyed his hair pink and painted his fingernails to meet the singer.
"She gave me a way to escape all the problems that were happening around me. Her music gave me a way of building myself up. Pink's music made me feel stronger inside," Simon said.
Meeting the students was equally as moving for Pink.
"That's the stuff that hits you," she said. "That is where I was at. That is how I felt about Linda Perry and Janis Joplin, so here we are."

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Pink sells herself

By Claire Harvey
July 05, 2009 12:00am
INSIDE the Entertainment Centre on a chilly weeknight, Alecia Moore is getting ready for her show.
The artist formally known as Pink - or P!nk, as her merchandise department prefers - is about to launch into a hugely entertaining two-hour spectacular of dance, song and acrobatics.
Pink will dangle from the ceiling in a purple court jester outfit. She'll skip around - actually skip - in super-high black heels.
She'll pay homage to the household gods of babedom in a skin-tight body suit of nude fabric, criss-crossed with white ribbon - it's the granddaughter of that black seat belt Cher wore in her Turn Back Time video clip (although tonight's crowd is so young they think Cher is something to do with illegal downloading).
The catsuit-ancestry is no coincidence: Pink's costumier, Bob Mackie, is the sequin svengali behind Cher's behind, and Pink has a clear sense of pop history. This 29-year-old is a complete performer. She sings like Steven Tyler, dances like Beyonce, charms like Robbie Williams, cracks wise like Bette Midler, touches herself like Chrissie Amphlett and yowls with the voicebox - and the tight pants - of a young Robert Plant.
What's more, she markets like Coca-Cola - and that is the foundation of the 58-gig roadshow she's trundling across Australia. A van outside the Entertainment Centre is where Pink's sales team makes it all pay: a five-deep queue of early-teen girls and their mothers, sales are robust, although there's plenty of please-mum wheedling and counting of pocket-money.
T-shirts are $50. Socks are $40 a pair. You can have a key-ring for $10 or a lanyard that looks sort-of-not-really like a roadie's backstage pass for $20. For the studious Pinkette, there are library bags for $25. And this is my favourite: panties for $50 a pair. Little girls' panties, in black and, obviously, pink.
The one item of merchandise that's not for sale is recorded music: there are no CDs, no vinyl, no iTunes vouchers. These are the depressing economics of modern rock.
Piracy, streaming and file-sharing have all shredded traditional revenue sources. Fans have decided recorded music is effectively free - if we pay for music at all, it's with a grudging sense of old-fashioned values or the kindness of our hearts.
That has forced musicians out on the road; the internet has restored live music to its rightful position at the top of the authenticity register.
Music's intimacy isn't between you and your headphones, it's between you and your idol, as long as you can ignore the cellphone-waving hordes. I get that. I'm not blaming Pink for the web, or suggesting she's any different from Madonna or Coldplay or Green Day or any other pop juggernaut.
Except for this: Pink has always claimed she is different.
Carefully, she has cultivated herself as the opposite of Britney, the remedy to Jessica Simpson, the anti-Cristina. "I'm sick of being compared to damn Britney Spears," she sang in 2002's Don't Let Me Get Me, the song that, fittingly, brought her to the attention of Spears' mainstream audience for the first time.
But then she appeared in a Pepsi commercial - with Britney.
In that same lyrical breath, Pink had slammed her old record-label boss, L.A. Reid, for telling her to change everything about herself if she wanted to be successful - except that she was still signed to Reid's label, LaFace, and is now the label's most lucrative name.
More recently, Pink said she had refused to write a song for Spears because she didn't think of Britney as an artist.
"The only people I write for are real singers - not that she's not a real singer, but she's more of an entertainer. When I mean real singers, I mean the likes of Lauryn Hill, Faith Hill - and I'd write for Amy Winehouse , because you need serious attitude to carry off the dumb stuff I write about," Pink said in 2007.
But what's the difference, apart from that Pink - despite all her talk about booze and bar-fights, is far too professional and savvy to ever get wasted on YouTube, or to slur her way through an interview?
The reason six Pink recordings are in the ARIA physical album charts right now is that they're co-written and produced by the same people who bring you Britney, Ricky Martin, the Backstreet Boys and Kelly Clarkson - people like the pop guru Max Martin (who wrote Pink's hit So What) and Billy Mann.

I'm hugely admiring of Alecia Moore; her voice, athleticism, charisma, intelligence and genuine charm. She seems a decent, thoughtful, fun person, as well as a stupendous performer. I think she's got twice the talent of any of the women she criticises.
If Pink really wants to occupy feisty feminist rock territory, maybe she should stop letting her label flog $50 knickers to little girls from the suburbs.
They're not worth that much.

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Pink Twitters about Wombat after Nova's True Blue Party

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July 01, 2009 10:28am
IT SEEMS even baby wombats can't keep their eyes off Pink's breasts!The singer who is now touring Australia has been twittering about her experiences. She was thrown a surprise party yesterday that included visiting Australian wildlife with Nova radio station's Merrick & Ross and Kate Ritchie. Pink duly related on Twitter that "the baby wombat was looking for my boobies". The visit was part of an Australian themed party yesterday afternoon for Pink thrown by Nova. Thirty-six winning listeners came dressed in their Aussie gear armed with gifts for their favourite artist. Pink hung out with guests, tried a traditional Aussie lamington and chatted live on air with Merrick & Rosso & Kate Ritchie during Ryan, Monty & Wippa’s Drive shift in Perth from 4pm-6pm yesterday. Merrick & Rosso & Kate Ritchie surprised Pink with a baby dingo, a baby wombat, a baby wallaby and a baby koala from the Featherdale Wildlife Park as Pink is such a known animal lover. She was just besotted with them all and could barely speak she loved all the animals so much. The baby dingo was yet to be named so the handler suggested that Pink could name it … after a few suggestions she settled on Sandy. Pink was so taken with the animals she was seen commenting on Twitter about it several times last night after the event “I miss wombat, I miss him. I miss him so much…”’