Rumours are swirling of an Eminem stadium tour of Australia to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the rap star’s iconic album and movie.

Putting the squeeze on Victoria’s movers, shakers and headline makers.

Is the real Slim Shady set to stand up for an Australian stadium tour at the end of the year?

With the Foo Fighters, Def Leppard and Motley Crue locked in for November, book-ended by Pink in March, speculation about other summertime stadium shows is heating up.

Rumours of a 2023 Eminem tour came, from all places, an anonymous call to Triple M in Adelaide.

“I heard a big name is coming to town at the end of the year and it’s Eminem … a friend of a friend let it slip from Ticketek,” the SA snitch claimed.

“They (Ticketek) are currently working with Adelaide Oval to sort out a venue.”

Eminem has no official tour plans yet, but his website is spruiking 20th anniversary wares for his album, The Eminem Show, and movie 8 Mile.

With 50 Cent heading this way for a 20th birthday bash for his album Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, an Eminem anniversary run would not be out of the question.

Reps for Em’s Australian promoter, Paul Dainty, said the info is “just a rumour.”

Eminem’s 2019 Melbourne gig broke the MCG’s live concert attendance record with 80,708 fans at the gig. That crowd record was broken by Ed Sheeran in March.

Top end of town ramps up the Euro-spam

Oh dear, it’s that time of the year again.

Not winter, but the dreaded season of Euro-spam and Insta-boasts from Melbourne’s top-end-of-town players schmoozing and smiling in the northern hemisphere sunshine.

First to annoy everyone on the IG feed: AFL big wig Travis Auld and former Essendon CEO Xavier Campbell have had a rendezvous in ritzy St Tropez.

Auld and his wife Megan have taken a European sojourn and Campbell has spent the past four months in France with his family.

Auld, who missed out on the top job at the AFL, is rumoured to be a frontrunner for the Grand Prix chief executive role.

Campbell left the Bombers at the end of last season following the sacking of coach Ben Rutten and a falling out with new president David Barham.

In February his family hit the road and took off to live their best lives.

Campbell was seen last October enjoying a day on a boat in Bali with a few mates, including Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin and the king of Bali, Rick Olarenshaw.

Travis Auld and Xavier Campbell living it up abroad. Picture: Supplied

‘Rival music pioneer slams Gudinski biopic

Melbourne showbiz pioneer Garry Spry has turned his annoyance levels up to 11 over the impending Michael Gudinski biopic.

“A forthcoming documentary film on Michael Gudinski claiming he started the music industry in Melbourne … is completely fabricated and utter bullshit,” Spry fumed on his Facebook page.

Spry then flexed his credentials, saying he and many local figures founded dances and events including Opus, 431, Swinger, Q Club, Powerhouse and Black & Blue at 126 venues throughout the 1960s.

He also opened the “first ever rock, pop (and) disco club) Pinocchio’s in 1964, followed by other venues like The Lido, The Venue, Slivers and Distillery.

Spry also listed entertainment and talent booking agencies he was involved in during the 1960s.

An upcoming biopic on Michael Gudinski has been branded “completely fabricated”.
“This Melbourne scene had all taken place well before Michael Gudinski got into the music and entertainment industry. Let’s see the Michael Gudinski documentary film biopic from the Mushroom Group tell you we had no music scene in Melbourne until he came along,” Spry said.

“I’m still laughing in anticipation.”

In fairness to Gudinski, the biopic titled Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story, doesn’t claim that the late Mushroom Group boss started the Australian music industry.

The film, directed by Paul Goldman, is centred around Mushroom’s 50th anniversary, which will be celebrated this year, with insights about Gudinski’s rise to prominence and influence as a record company boss and concert promoter.

Sadly, Gudinski died suddenly in 2021. He was 68.

The doco features tributes from Gudinski’s superstar friends Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Ed Sheeran, Sting, Kylie Minogue and Jimmy Barnes.

The film will have its world premiere in Melbourne on August 10.

The Mushroom Group had no comment on Spry’s remarks.

Will Dan bow to Bec after home invasion?

Crimefighter and occasional fashionista, Rebecca Judd, of the Brighton branch, has been relatively quiet on social media in recent days.

Yet it seems that her crack sleuthing — despite the rather impertinent dismissals of fellow influencer Dan Andrews, of head office in Spring St — has been vindicated.

After yet another Brighton home invasion on Tuesday, police announced that 200-odd youths have been arrested for aggravated burglary-related crimes across Melbourne under a new specialist operation.

Daniel Andrews was so miffed by Bec Judd’s observations he forgot her name. Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui
Keen observers would recall that Judd claimed to have broken the case last year, when she said that she was “sick of the rapes, bashings and home invasions at the hands of gangs in the last few weeks”.

Her observations miffed the Premier so much that he forgot her name, or at least pretended to, at a press conference where it seems he had not forgotten Judd’s earlier criticisms of his Covid lockdown approach.

Andrews countered that crime statistics did not bear out her suspicions, until subsequent statistics did in fact bear out her suspicions.

The police on Tuesday recognised this “significant issue” and “concern that this type of offending would pose”.

No one needs a premier or a premier socialite to imagine the fear of waking to two balaclava-clad men with machetes in your loungeroom.

To borrow from the latest home invasion victim, Brighton’s Annabel Thomson: “Horrendous”.