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Culture & Media

Fred Again builds emotional aftercare into live shows

British musician and producer Fred Again is rethinking post-concert care. In a recent Instagram post, the musician reflected on the abrupt ending of live shows, when ‘the lights go up and the music stops and the magic like evaporates more quickly than my emotions have time to realign or to process’.

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Travel & Hospitality

Stat: Amex report reveals young travellers prioritise concerts and festivals…

American Express has released a report, revealing that younger people are prioritising travel, dining and entertainment experiences this summer.

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Marketing & Branding

Coachella Fatigue

Market saturation, solo tours and an audience craving community over selfies have turned the hottest music festival lukewarm, says cultural insights writer Ozge Sargin

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Marketing & Branding

Ballroom’s Renaissance

Once an anti-capitalist LGBTQ+ space, ballroom culture has thrived commercially – but, says The Future Laboratory’s deputy foresight editor Dan Hastings-Narayanin, beware of cultural appropriation and pinkwashing traps.

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Culture & Media

Global Citizen and Kendrick Lamar bring major concerts to Africa

A new initiative is aiming to establish an international touring circuit across Africa. Move Afrika: A Global Citizen Experience will launch with a concert in Rwanda on 6 December 2023, headlined by rapper Kendrick Lamar.

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Culture & Media

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour film aims for record-breaking box office debut

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie is set to make history as the top-grossing concert film in American box office history.

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Culture & Media

Solstice Sounds will flip the script on concert formats

Forming part of Sydney’s first city-wide cultural programme since Covid-19, Solstice Sounds is a new concert format hosted by media publications GQ and Vogue Australia.

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Technology

Listen carefully

New York – Acoustic engineers at Doppler Labs have created a piece of hearable technology, headphones that enable wearers to filter the world around them.

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North America

In concert: Music event paints New York black

New York – Production company Matte Projects has created Painted Black, an immersive concert experience staged over two months in three acts that bring together music and fashion in three nights of reverie.