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Just when I thought I had seen it all, Vanessa toped all her other gigs so far by an extremely powerful performance on New Year’s Eve @ Riva St Kilda in Melbourne. There wasn’t a nano second when I regreted flying all the way to Melbourne and missing my oh so loved Sydney fireworks. Just as the clock stroke 11pm Vanessa was welcome on the stage by a screaming crowd. She was placed on a rather too high from the ground stage but not even that was going to keep this girl away from the fans; she was a regular visitor ‘downstairs’ joining the fans in celebrations. Unfortunately apart from the first two songs I cannot recall the order of the songs she performed but here they are as follows: Have A Look, The Power, Absolutely Everybody, Shine, Start It, I Thought We’d Stay Together, Fire, Perfect, Kiss Your Mama, Back In Black, Long Way To The Top, 19 Turning Point and a final song was a remix of Kiss Your Mama, Turn To Me, Perfect and Have a Look. The Remix had an incredible beat and totally toped the whole night up. Then she obviously led the countdown to midnight when the time was right. Even though she didn’t offically ‘come out’ after the show, she still didn’t mind meeting the most stubborn fans who couldn’t leave without a photo We also got to meet the whole Amorosi Squad, which exclusively included her boyfriend Mac. Yet again, a night with Vanessa brought no disappointement. Happy New Year absolutely everybody!

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Vanessa Amorosi’s official myspace page has had it’s player updated. The first track is now ‘Perfect’, but it appears to be the original version before it was mixed for the album by Chris Lord-Alge. Those with keen ears would have noticed that the instrumental included on the Perfect CD-Single sounded a bit different. The instrumental matches with this ‘pre-mixed’ version now on her myspace. Listen out for the extra echo’s in the first verse, some flange sounding bits in the chorus, and louder guitar bits. It also has that “stay” repeat intro as used in Vanessa’s live backing track. These all seem to have been removed/turned down in the mix Chris did for the version on our CDs.
They also have reuploaded ‘A Little Love’, replacing ‘I Thought We’d Stay Together’. A Little Love was suggested as being the third single to some media prior to ‘The Simple Things’ being confirmed. Could reuploading it be a sign that it is back on the cards as a single?

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Vote Vanessa Amorosi as your Oz Artist of the year for Channel [V]!
Homebake and Channel [V] have combined forces to celebrate Aussie music with Oz Artist 08. Now in its twelfth massive year, Oz Artist remains the only award where music fans get to vote for the Aussie act they love the most. The top 50 nominees have been revealed… and Vanessa is up for the award! Head to the website to get voting at www.channelv.com.au as official voting has already started - and you can also vote via SMS to 1999 85 85 (only 55 cents per message). The Top 4 will be announced on Friday 7 November at 4pm, and the winner will be crowned in a mega five-hour special on Sunday 7 December at 12noon.

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THERE’LL be plenty of action in Sydney this week, with the ARIA awards just seven days away.
London-based nominees Gabriella Cilmi and Sam Sparro are flying into town later in the week, as is international guest Pink.

Insider can also reveal a bunch of presenters for the big event at Homebush next Sunday. They include Myf Warhurst, Josh Pyke, Brian McFadden, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Chris Lilley, John Butler, Rove and Vanessa Amorosi.

The awards will be hosted by radio presenters Hamish Blake and Andy Lee, as well as Australian Idol’s James Mathison.

Sparro is tipped to stay on and play an exclusive party at MTV’s East Sydney base to launch the new BlackBerry phone.

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An interesting eBay auction exists for quite a number of recent Vanessa Amorosi promo discs. A 1 track promo disc for ‘Kiss Your Mama’. A copy of the ‘Perfect’ single but in promo form. A CD with ‘Perfect Remixes’, including the unreleased Bexta Remix. And a 2-track ‘The Simple Things’ promo including the unreleased ‘T-Funk Remix’. But what I find so interesting about this auction is where these discs are coming from, Chatswood NSW.

A company called FATS Digital has contracts with both Universal Music and Sony BMG to create and package promo discs for either radio, press, or retailers - depending on which label and the particular job. They are based in Chatswood and managed by brothers Geoff and Rob Angell.

Going back to the auction, if you look at the feedback for the user selling the discs you notice that all they ever sell are promo discs, and secondly they all appear to be for artists from the above mentioned labels. I don’t see any Veronica’s (Warner Music) stuff there? Could a member of staff at this company be selling these discs for profit? Over the past three months alone, this eBay user has managed to make over $1,500 in sales, not bad for discs that cost them absolutely nothing. They have had nearly 300 auctions in the last 12 months, many of these containing multiple discs per auction.

During the production process, about 5 extra copies are legitimately made for every 100 units ordered by the labels. These are incase any discs are damaged during the disc printing or packaging processes, or incase there is any errors in printing. The labels certainly don’t get any free extras, so they end up in either their dumpster (located at rear, go around the right past ‘The Good Guys’, for those playing along at home), or on eBay it seems.

So why do I care? I should be happy at any opportunity to get my hands on rare Vanessa stuff right? Well while kinda true, the fact that this person is selling two unreleased mixes - ‘Perfect (Bexta Radio Edit)’ and ‘The Simple Things (T-Funk Mix)’ - is upsetting. The label has chosen not to release these to us on any of the releases so far, so our only option to get them is to try and outbid each other, leading to more money for this persons side ebay business. Wouldn’t it be just great if Universal adopted some modern thinking and released the remixes for free on Vanessa’s website. This is becoming more common overseas as a means of engaging the blogging communities as part of viral marketing.

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A new official refreshed version of ‘The Simple Things’ has emerged, making the song much more upbeat and radio friendly. This new version, labelled ‘FP Remix’, has a new replaced beat and some additional synth reminiscent of the Paolo mix. It is also slightly faster than the original version. ‘The Simple Things’ now has three known official remixes, all unreleased.

Check out this new version below:

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LIVE FROM ROD LAVER ARENA
AT THE SPECIAL TIME OF 8.30PM THURSDAY
Featuring Kim Wilde, The Living End and Vanessa Amorosi

The Footy Show Grand Final Edition will explode live at 8.30pm tomorrow night on Nine with a feast of entertainment for footy fans.

Join Garry Lyon, James Brayshaw, Sam Newman and Trevor Marmalade for the Grand Final edition of The Footy Show – featuring a cavalcade of footy superstars, an international singing sensation, the highly anticipated player revue and the best moments of 2008.

The biggest names in football join Garry, James, Sam and Trevor to preview the 2008 AFL Grand Final, including the King of Geelong, Billy Brownless, Brisbane skipper Jonathan Brown, Carlton spearhead Brendan Fevola, Tiger star Nathan Brown, Collingwood young gun Dale Thomas and the always controversial Bulldog, Jason Akermanis.

Eighties pop queen Kim Wilde performs two of her classic hits including Kids in America. Australia’s best LIVE act, The Living End, will be rocking the sellout crowd of 13,000 and Vanessa Amorosi will perform her smash hit single, Perfect.

Grand Final coaches Mark Thompson and Alastair Clarkson join us to preview the biggest day on the footy calendar and talk about their all-important team selections.

Hawthorn’s 300-game veteran Shane Crawford joins us live as a special guest before he lines up for the Hawks in Saturday’s Grand Final.

Fev takes charge of the highly anticipated edition of Street Talk from the Brownlow Medal, giving us a glimpse of everything that went on … after the medal was presented.

The players take centre stage for the biggest event outside the Grand Final, strutting their stuff in the annual players’ revue.

One lucky audience member gets the chance to walk away with a brand new Dodge or up to $20,000 cash by spinning Billy’s Wheel.

Plus the best of Street Talk, the year’s best Footy Legends, all your favourite moments from The Footy Show in 2008, and a whole lot more.

The Grand Final Footy Show – LIVE from Rod Laver Arena at the special time of 8.30pm tomorrow night on Nine.

THE FOOTY SHOW GRAND FINAL EDITION
Thursday, September 25 at 8.30pm
Live on Nine

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Channel 7 have began running promo’s for their new series ‘Find My Family’, and are using ‘The Simple Things (Something Emotional)’ as the music for the promo. The show is all about putting families back together who are separated as a result of adoption, hosted by a man who himself was adopted actor Jack Thompson.

Airing Tuesdays at 8pm, the show has so far been performing very well since it began 3 weeks ago.

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Despite being a serious contender for ‘Best Female Artist’, ‘Best Pop Release’, and ‘Single of the Year’, Vanessa has been overlooked for nomination for this years ARIA Awards.

The nominees in these categories are:
Best Female Artist
Clare Bowditch / The Moon Looked On
Gabriella Cilmi / Lessons To Be Learned
Holly Throsby / A Loud Call
Kylie Minogue / X
Missy Higgins / Peachy
Best Pop Release
Gabriella Cilmi / Lessons To Be Learned
Kylie Minogue / X
Operator Please / Yes Yes Vindictive
Sam Sparro / Black and Gold
The Veronicas / Hook Me Up
Single of the Year
Faker / This Heart Attack
Gabriella Cilmi / Sweet About Me
Sam Sparro / Black and Gold
The Living End / White Noise
The Presets / My People


Vanessa was famously ’snubbed’ back in 2000, where despite being nominated 6 times, she did not win in any category. This lead to Vicki Gordon, Director of Marketing & A&R at Vanessa’s label at the time, to publically show her disgruntlement and refused to support ARIA in the future - causing quite a stir. Vicki oddly went on to become an ARIA board member. Australian Idol judge Ian Dickson has also publically criticised ARIA for their perceived intolerance of Idol contestants.

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[Update: See below for the audio of the interview]

Vanessa is currently talking to Stuart Bocking on Sydney AM radio station 2UE to promote ‘The Simple Things’. She confirmed she was in Sydney for the week, and had only recently returned from LA again.

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The following bulletin was posted on Vanessa’s myspace today:

Hi Guys,If you saw The Age on Wednesday you may have seen the front page article claimed Vanessa is performing at a fundraising event in Melbourne on September 17th.

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The T-Funk Mix (now being named Mr.T) of ‘The Simple Things’ has been added to Vanessa’s official Myspace page.

You can check it out following the link below, or we have it just below to stream in even better quality.

We previously posted a remix by Paul Cecchinelli from Vanessa’s band, and he has just uploaded his remix to his Myspace page. However the mix he has uploaded differs quite a bit from what was sent out to radio last month. This new version contains a longer introduction, longer outro, and the removal of a couple of effects throughout.

You can check it out on his Myspace below. Or again, we have it just below for you in even better quality

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This year’s Variety Cup Eve Ball will be an extra special event with a live performance from ARIA Award winning singer Vanessa Amorosi.

The Palladium will be transformed into a palace fit for all the glitz and glamour of Australia’s most prestigious horse race, the Melbourne Cup.

Celebrities, racing VIP’s and guests will be treated to a night of fashion, fine food and entertainment, to raise funds for Australia’s sick, disadvantaged and special needs kids.

Join in the festivities and reserve your ticket now for the Variety Cup Eve Ball with Vanessa Amorosi, on November 3.

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