30 ENTERTAINMENT WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 13 2017 Spiteri confident fan base will embrace tour KATHY McCABE ing the world by storm with era who have toured here suc- ‘Hell yeah!’” Spiteri says. The as the 1989 debut Southside, the able fanbase remains for the their debut single I Don’t Want cessfully in the past decade truth is that for touring is a 1997 commercially successful Scottish band who took their SHARLEEN Spiteri was over A Lover in 1989. that there was plenty of love risky business and if shows White On Blonde and new name from the 1984 Wim hearing the same spiel, that It reached top 5 here and for Texas. don’t sell out quickly, promot- songs to play from this year’s Wenders movie Paris, Texas. bringing her band Texas back they nudged the top 10 again “So I passed everybody who ers and bands are likely to cut Jump On Board. Texas play Melbourne to- to Australia just wouldn’t eight years later with Say What kept telling me the same bulls their losses and cancel. Having sold more than 40 night, The Gov, Adelaide, to- work. You Want. ... that financially a tour Spiteri said they were pre- million albums over nine stu- morrow, Astor Theatre, Perth, The Scottish band has en- And she knew from plenty wouldn’t work and asked the pared to roll the dice and back dio records and the ubiquitous December 15, Metro Theatre, joyed more than decent chart of her friends living in Austra- Australian promoters if they themselves to tour here, armed greatest hits compilation, there Sydney, December 18 and The success in Australia since tak- lia and fellow musicians of her wanted us to come. They said with the hits from albums such was no doubting a consider- Triffid, Brisbane, December 19. Aussie musos’ no more appeal DANIELLE McGRANE accounts of abuse in the indus- try. One woman relayed her AUSTRALIAN female musi- experience of being groomed cians including Courtney Bar- and sexually abused by an nett, Tina Arena and Sarah Australian musician after win- Blasko have called for sexism ning a a national high school and harassment in the music music competition. Another industry to stop in an open let- described how their head was ter containing anonymous sto- pushed to their colleague’s ries of abuse in the industry. crotch and held there, despite Other leading musicians in- saying no. cluding Missy Higgins, The “When I was 18, a particular Veronicas’ Jessica Origliasso, frontman took advantage of Isabella Manfredi, Jen Cloher me, in a way that opened my and Clare Bowditch have also eyes to see that the music in- added their name to the letter, dustry isn’t all that great,” one which contains the hashtag woman wrote. “He was the #meNOmore. frontman who after a show Nearly 200 women who would force kiss you. He would work in the Australian music text you saying come to this industry, including musicians, bar, gig, band and... he’d try managers, lawyers, booking having sex with you and when agents, record label employees you’d say no, and he would say and publicists have added their that “sex is just sex, it doesn’t Liz Hurley has been showing off her bikini bod on Instagram to promote her new swimwear line Pictures: INSTAGRAM names to the campaign, which matter”. Another said she was came about after the #meToo unable to reveal the details of campaign in the wider enter- her experience as she was tainment field. forced to sign a confidentiality Hurley flaunts incredible beach body “We all have our own sto- agreement. ries, or know someone who One woman who wanted to OLIVIA WARING and celebration over reaching 100k delight of fans round the globe. rumours she had got close with does. We are not whingers or become a DJ was forced to do STAFF WRITERS followers on the social media The star of The Royals has her ex Hugh Grant again — as vibe-killers. We are passionate sexual things with someone app, reports The Sun. stepped back into the public he is a mentor to her son — she people dedicating our lives to important in the electronic LIZ Hurley takes her bikini Liz, who is mum to 15-year- eye this year and she recently has declared that she’s given music,” the letter said. music scene who drove her prowess to new levels as she old Damian, was promoting attended the Cairo Film up on dating as she has no “In the face of uncountable somewhere secluded at night sprawls out in a bright pink her new swimwear line in the Festival. time. discrimination, harassment, vi- under the proviso that he was two-piece for her latest snap — tagging the brand She also stood shoulder to Asked whether she ever olence, and the general men- going to discuss her potential Instagram portrait. name, Elizabeth Hurley Beach. shoulder with Nicole went on romantic evening ace of sexist jargon, we have music career. The letter, posted The 53-year-old actor The halter-neck pink Scherzinger in eye-popping outings, she confessed: “When gritted our teeth and gotten on on The Industry Observer, was looked incredible in the pic, number is named Isla and is outfits while serving food at a I’m filming, I don’t go out at all. with the job. But today we say, inspired by a similar open let- which highlighted her slender one of dozens Liz has posed in London gala. “Not at all. I walk in the no more.” The letter includes ter from nearly 3000 women figure, following her on her feed lately, to the However, following door and go straight to bed.” some harrowing anonymous in the Swedish music industry. Kim K talks surrogacy Filmmaker Brown dies KIM Kardashian says having than you could really im- DOCUMENTARY filmmaker began making filmsm and her third baby via a surrogate agine,” Kardashian said on the Bruce Brown, known for surf- worked with submarines for has been “difficult”. latest Keeping Up With The ing movie Endless Summer, the US Navy. Brown became a The reality star, 37, and her Kardashians. died Sunday in Santa Barbara, documentary filmmaker and rapper husband Kanye West “You have to like make California of natural causes, his released his first film Slippery are expecting their new arrival sure that their lifestyle is official website reported. He When Wet in 1958. in January. healthy and they have to go was 80. He was Oscar nominated “Getting a surrogate and through psychological testing, Brown was born in San for the 1971 motorcycle racing finding someone that you re- and it was maybe a year before Francisco and grew up on Long film On Any Sunday, on which ally trust really is so much we finalised our current situ- Beach, California before briefly Steve McQueen was a pro- more for difficult of a situation ation.” Kim Kardashian West Picture: GETTY moving to Hawaii where he ducer. Director Bruce Brown NTNE01Z01MA - V1.