Australia News: TEG, Tame Impala, Marvel Stadium & More

TEG’s UK-based division TEG MJR signed a five-year deal with Snoop Dogg in collaboration with Ireland’s MPI Artists. The multimillion-dollar global deal sees TEG MJR promote the hip- hop act’s tours outside of North America, beginning with his 2022 World Tour including rescheduled sold-out shows at O2 Arena in London, 3 Arena in Dublin and Ziggo Dome Arena in Amsterdam.

TEG MJR CEO Richard Buck brokered the deal with Snoop’s international agents Julian O’Brien and MPI’s Minneapolis-based partner Nabil Ghebre, who works with Bobby D (Robert Dreislen) who run Dogg’s operations in LA.

As part of 10th anniversary celebrations of the Innerspeaker album, Tame Impala will perform it in its entirety from Western Australia’s Wave House, where it was recorded, and livestreamed April 21 on digital live platform Moment House.

Times are 5 pm AWST, 6 pm JST and 7 pm AEST for Australia, New Zealand and Asia. For UK, Europe and Africa, it’s 6 pm BST. For viewers in North and South America, it’s 6 pm PDT and 9 pm EDT.

The Australian Football League got the go-ahead for $224 million ($170.4 million) upgrade of Melbourne’s 56,000-seat Marvel Stadium. The first part, to begin mid-2021 at $109 million ($82.9 million), includes a Town Square, with skylights and windows for an ‘indoor-outdoor” space’ effect with cafes, bars and restaurants and capable of hosting community markets and public events.

An extension of the venue provides city views for function areas.  There’s “thematic color controlled dynamic lighting’’ to integrate branding, outdoor seating zones and landscaping as “vertical greening” of the façade.

Deputy mayor Nick Reece said: “Marvel Stadium and the surrounding precinct is now more than 20 years old and it needs an upgrade to make it more comfortable and appealing for players, spectators and event promoters.”

Work began at the sports and entertainment Memorial Drive Tennis Centre in Adelaide, with the $44 million ($33.4 million) funding for two new spectator stands, new seating with better sightlines, food and beverage facilities and enhanced amenity.

The 42,500 seat Sydney Football Stadium is on track to host major sports and music events 2022. The concourse has just been completed, offering 35 food and beverage outlets, merchandise stands and accessible amenities. 

The next step is the roof, involving 4,000 individual pieces of steel mostly made in Sydney.

Stadiums Queensland chose Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, to turn the 25,000-seat Queensland Country Bank Stadium in Townsville into “the most technically comprehensive stadium in Queensland offering extremely fast, high-density Wi-Fi to patrons, with speeds of up to 100Mbps.”

Six hundred access points were deployed in an under-seat small cell wireless design for patrons to upload, download and use apps without the struggle to use mobile internet in a packed venue. The stadium opened in February 2020.

Multi-platinum Los Angeles-based Australian singer songwriter Vanessa Amorosi launched Supreme Court action against her estranged mother Joyleen Robinson, the Melbourne Age has reported.

Amorosi was a 17-year-old schoolgirl when she signed her first management and label deals, and Robinson, a casual cleaner, according to a 40-page statement of claim, set up a company called VanJoy in September 1999 as the artist broke in Australia and Europe and sold 2 million records.

Amorosi claimed some income went to Robinson in management fees or in trusts that benefited family members and “persons unknown” and in one case went to paying off Robinson’s house in Melbourne. Amorosi wants to regain control of her finances, be compensated for monies that went to others, and for Robinson’s house to be sold and proceeds to go to the performer.