Just in case you were too busy on the town over the weekend, here’s five news headlines which might tickle your fancy:
A BANKSY EXHIBITION IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA
Stretching from October 7 to January 22, an exhibition displaying works from infamous street artist Banksy will be heading to Australia, collecting 80 of his iconic works. The lucky city in question? Why it’s Melbourne, of course. Everybody in Melbourne loves #art, after all. It’s going down at Federation Square along with food, music and alcohol to help you appreciate the creativity on show. “This exhibition is a one off – never will you be able to see this amount of work in one place again. Once the show is over, the artwork will dissipate back to the other 40 collectors around the world, and the likelihood of them being brought together again in the future is very slim,” says Banksy’s former manager Steve Lazarides. You heard the man, the chances are slim! Grab your tickets here.
WATCH BEYONCE STOP MID-WAY THROUGH ‘SINGLE LADIES’ FOR HER DANCER’S MARRIAGE PROPOSAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ebORHCixQ
Timing is everything. Never has that been more evident than in the case of John Silver, a Beyonce back-up dancer who popped the question to fellow crew member Ashley Everett onstage during the R&B star’s show. The show was taking place in Silver’s hometown of St. Louis, Missouri and Beyonce stopped the track ‘Single Ladies’ for the ever-important question. If you liked it then you should’ve put a ring on it? This guy just did, and made every other marriage proposal in the history of the universe look kinda lame.
SHANE WARNE GETS HIS OWN EMOJIS
Kim Kardashian, Fetty Wap and Amber Rose are just some of the celebrities who have expanded their empires by making their own custom emojis – and now Australian cricket legend and all-round fuckin’ solid bloke Shane Warne is joining the movement with the announcement of #WarneMojis. He promises that they’ll be launching in the next few weeks, announcing the venture with an extremely weird Instagram video where he says that they’ll be both naughty and nice. Dear god. We are only communicating via #WarneMojis from now on.
TRAVIS SCOTT GRABS HIS FIRST NUMBER. 1 ALBUM, AUSTRALIAN TOUR KICKING OFF THIS MONTH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0faJsKCuTkI
After numberous delays, Travis Scott finally dropped his album Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, and it seems like it was worth the wait. The much-hyped rapper has just earned his first Number. 1 record, and we’re not surprised given the irresistible single ‘Pick Up The Phone’ with Young Thug and Quavo leading the charge. Elsewhere, Scott recruited everybody from Andre 3000 to Cassie to Kendrick Lamar – generating enough interest for the album to be streamed over 5 million times in its first week. Of course, all of this is building even more anticipation for Scott’s headline tour and appearances at Listen Out later this month.
THE BRAINS BEHIND ‘THE SIMPSONS’, MATT GROENING IS HEADING DOWN UNDER
Thank your lucky red hats, people! The brains behind The Simpsons, Matt Groening is coming to Australia for the first time for GRAPHICS festival at the Sydney Opera House. Taking place over November 4-5, the festival has been trying to grab Greoning for six years, and 2016 is the year when it all comes into fruition. If you want to learn more about the pivotal show that gave us Poochie, Hans Moleman and cursed froghurt, then we suggest heading here to see God himself address the crowd. “The most intense Simpsons fanatics I’ve met are from Australia, so I’m coming to Sydney to check out all you lunatics… I’m going to share stories of the making of The Simpsons and show embarrassing home movies and rarely-seen animation, including oddball outtakes and uncensored Itchy & Scratchy cartoons,” Groening says. Sign us up!
