#lisa wilkinson

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BMG people posting about the Louis Tomlinson : Live album 25/4/24

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🍿🎟 BMG UK's Lisa Wilkinson with the band at the ​AOTV Premiere London, 16 March 2023 via her IG story x

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charlotteclaber I don’t feel like going home // @awayfromhomefestival this weekend was brilliant, a testament to the hard work of @louist91 and all the team #awayfromhomefestival

[Louis Tomlinson, AFHF 2023. Instagram, 20.8.2023]

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How is Lisa in marketing? She seems to make everything that is associated with Louis cheap and crude. Not only is their promo dismal but things that Louis have been associated with for years much before his solo career are made to sound like marketing gimmicks. It’s almost like she didn’t even try to get an understanding of him as a person or artist. Almost like their association with him is done and dusted and she is doing a post mortem. Everything she said makes his brand weaker. She doesn’t seem to have any vision or understanding of his fanbase.

Niall’s promo has been A class but we haven’t seen anyone from his team shouting from rooftops as to how his monthly listeners have rocketed up on Spotify. How his streaming numbers are fabulous. He is doing festivals, biggest radio events, he will be on all magazine covers. His social media is buzzing all the time. When he gets his album on top of the charts, I am sure his team wouldn’t be boasting about how they got teenage girls to buy his music like they buy his merch.

Why can’t Louis be assigned one competent person from his label instead of these Harries.

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now we wait

[faithinlouisfuture]

Always the same story, the fandom is kissing ass of everyone who breath next to him. Especially his team. They never learn. This Lisa is more interesting in receving flowers and have attention btw i ask only a professional team how many team he has to change to have one professional

I mean I understand her wanting to be nice to fans or appreciating the things fans do, but there’s a way to do it professionally too. They’re not your friends Lisa! Maintain a professional attitude and distance. And know your fucking artist, and the complications and intricacies surrounding his fucking fandom, and act accordingly. It’s not that hard.

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Bruce Lehrmann has lost his defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson, bringing to an end a sprawling legal saga which has gripped the nation.

In a live oral summary that took two and a half hours, Justice Michael Lee said the former Liberal staffer was not defamed by Wilkinson and Ten when The Project broadcast an interview with Brittany Higgins on Monday 15 February 2021 in which she alleged she was raped in Parliament House.

He found that on the balance of probabilities Lehrmann raped Higgins on the minister’s couch in Parliament House in 2019.

“In summary, I consider it more likely than not in those early hours, after a long night of conviviality and drinking and having successfully brought Ms Higgins back to a secluded place, Mr Lehrmann was hellbent on having sex with a woman he found attractive” and knew was inebriated, Lee said.

“He did not care one way or the other whether Ms Higgins understood or agreed to what was going on.”

Lee said of Lehrmann’s decision to bring the civil case against Channel Ten and Wilkinson, after his criminal trial was aborted due to juror misconduct: “Having escaped the lion’s den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of going back for his hat.”

Lehrmann denied the rape allegations and pleaded not guilty at his trial in the Australian Capital Territory supreme court which was aborted. Prosecutors did not seek a retrial due to concerns about Higgins’s mental health.

Lehrmann and Wilkinson were both in court for the decision. Lehrmann sat with his head bowed for most of the proceedings, rarely looking up to where Lee sat issuing a judgment that was at times scathing of Lehrmann and his truthfulness.

“To remark that Mr Lehrmann was a poor witness is an exercise in understatement,” Lee said in his first few minutes of the judgment.

Both Lehrmann and Wilkinson were in court for most of the five-week trial, sitting at opposite ends of the courtroom.

The full judgment has been published online.

Lee was, however, critical of the conduct of Channel Ten’s The Project team, saying “the rape allegations were intertwined with the cover-up and the Project team had strong indications of the unreliability of their main source, particularly as to how she lost material on her phone and selected material survived”.

He also criticised their approach to seeking comment from Lehrmann: “If Network Ten wanted to get in contact with Mr Lehrmann, there were ways of ensuring that contact could be achieved. He was not living the life of a hermit.”

Lee said the case functioned as a “Rorschach test” for some observers.

“For more than a few, this dispute has become a proxy for broader cultural and political conflicts.”

In The Project interview, Higgins told Wilkinson she was sexually assaulted on a couch in the office of her then boss, former defence industry minister Linda Reynolds, in the early hours of Saturday 23 March 2019.

The Project did not name Lehrmann as the Liberal staffer at the heart of the allegation but Lee found he was identifiable in the broadcast.

In February 2023, after his criminal trial was abandoned, Lehrmann began legal action against Network Ten in the federal court.

In the judgment Lee said Ten and Wilkinson had proved the imputation he raped Higgins was true on the balance of probabilities.

The applicant has always denied raping Higgins or having any sexual relations with her at all.

“Did you sexually assault Brittany Higgins in that office on that evening?” his barrister, Steven Whybrow SC, asked during the trial in December last year.

“Absolutely not,” Lehrmann replied.

In the witness box over five days Lehrmann admitted telling three different stories – including two that were lies – about the reason for his after-hours visit to Parliament House with Higgins after a night out in Canberra.

Lee was scathing of Lehrmann’s explanations that he returned to the minister’s office to retrieve his keys, detailing the complicated process involved in getting through Parliament House security: “I think it is safe to conclude that the process of getting into a flat he shared with his girlfriend would have been a significantly less elaborate exercise,” he said scornfully.

He also dismissed as “fanciful” the idea that Lehrmann, having been out drinking and “accompanied by a woman he found attractive” went to the office at nearly 2am “to note up briefs for a Question Time that was not to occur for one and a half weeks” especially when Lehrmann “hitherto had demonstrated no outward signs of being a workaholic”.

He told Lee he must have been “mistaken” when he told the Australian federal police he did not have any alcohol in his office. Under cross-examination he conceded he had multiple bottles of whisky and gin at the time.

When the defence presented its case, the court heard Higgins weighed 60kg at the time of the alleged rape and an expert testified that a woman of her size would have likely had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.23% at the time of the alleged rape.

Higgins was in the witness box for four days during which she became emotional as she recounted in graphic detail her alleged rape, as well as the deterioration of her relationship with her employer after she reported the alleged incident.

“As I was being raped, it wasn’t my primary concern where my dress was … I was deeply more concerned about the penis in my vagina that I didn’t want than I was about my dress,” Higgins said through tears.

Lehrmann maintains his innocence. In the criminal trial in 2022 he pleaded not guilty to one charge of sexual intercourse without consent, denying that any sexual activity occurred.

In December of that year prosecutors dropped charges against him for the alleged rape of Higgins, saying a retrial would pose an “unacceptable risk” to her health.

Lee noted that if Lehrmann had won he would have been entitled to damages of $20,000.

The parties have until 22 April to file submissions for costs.

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[madlovenovelist]

#bookquotes

Thinking critically about your life and it’s possibilities can open doors that you never knew existed. I like posing ‘what if‘ questions all the time to see if there is a different direction I could take aspects of life that would bring me greater happiness. Don’t be afraid to jump into a thought experiment of turning you life upside down – the results can illuminate some delightful surprises.

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Rape allegations over high end takeaway. Nice

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[elceeu2morrow]

charlotteclaber: I don't feel like going home //@awayfromhomefestival this weekend was brilliant, a testament to the hard work of @louist91 and all the team #awayfromhomefestival [she works in marketing at BMG]

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BEHIND THE CAMPAIGN: LOUIS TOMLINSON

MUSICALLY | 19 APRIL 2023

Former One Direction star Louis Tomlinson released his debut album in 2020 through Sony but moved to BMG for his second album, Faith In The Future, in November 2022. Lisa Wilkinson, director of UK marketing (new recordings) at BMG, explains how they looked to reposition him in the market, what learnings were coming from his live success as well as his own festival, why his merchandise strategy directly informed his multi-formatted record release strategy, how they were able to build him without mass radio support, where a wider male audience was targeted this time round, why Twitter remains his most powerful social media platform and how a highly vocal and engaged fanbase was nurtured further and directly involved in the campaign.

Lisa Wilkinson, director of UK marketing (new recordings) at BMG, explains how they looked to reposition him in the market, what learnings were coming from his live success as well as his own festival, and more.

[The article will be broken into sections, linked below.]

1. Coming to BMG for his second solo album

2. The centrality of merchandise

3. The radio conundrum

4. Targeting a male audience

5. Building his songwriting profile

6. Targeting the press

7. Boosting the digital strategy

8. QR code and interactive community map at his Away From Home festival

9. Twitter as his main platform and setting him up on TikTok

10. Chart battle with Bruce Springsteen and the power of in-stores

11. Stationhead and Tim’s Twitter Listening Party

12. Fan-made Spotify Canvases

13. Documentary and the next steps

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1. COMING TO BMG FOR HIS SECOND SOLO ALBUM

This is his first album with BMG. His debut album, Walls in 2020, was with Syco Music [via Sony]. That was off the back of X Factor with Simon Cowell.

He had done a couple of more commercial singles – one with Steve Aoki [‘Just Hold On’] and one with Bebe Rexha and Digital Farm Animals [‘Back To You’]. They were really successful streaming singles, but that’s not who Louis is. For the boys in One Direction, the ones that have been successful and the songs that have been successful are the ones that have stayed super pop and commercial. Louis did that but it’s just not who he is.

I think he felt, in that structure, that he just wasn’t getting the support to be who he wanted to be. That’s exactly why people come to us. It’s an artist services deal and we’re there to support you and advise you.

You can see from his live business and his merchandise business – and every other thing that Louis does – that there is an incredible fanbase there for him.

When they [Syco] released Walls, they achieved 14,000 units in week one and got to number 4 in Q1 in January 2020. We thought that just didn’t feel reflective of what was happening [around him].

We went and saw him at various venues on his world tour. We went to New York and saw those two shows and we went to Italy and watched his Milan stadium show in front of 30,000 people.

You’re looking and you’re thinking, “Those numbers don’t make any sense. How on Earth did you fumble that?” We were confident that we could do better than that.

He had a signing dinner in October 2021 and then his world tour started in February 2000, which was the delayed tour [due to the pandemic]. It went all the way through to September, pretty much nonstop.

They sold half a million tickets that year. All the while he’s on tour, he’s still making the album.

‘Out Of My System’ was released as a DSP-focused track before the album. It’s the rockiest and heaviest track on the album. He came straight off stage, went into a vocal booth off the side of the stage [to record it]. Because of the energy, he was so fired up. It was a difficult process because it was creating an album on the road.

He wanted to make an album for live. It was a totally different experience for him. Covid hit just a few months after Walls dropped so the tour was out of the question.

Before we started working on the album campaign, he did a show at Crystal Palace Bowl, which was the first incarnation of his Away From Home festival that he’s created and curated, which is for up-and-coming indie bands.

He gave away 8,000 tickets in August 2021 when we could start doing outdoor things again. I was there and was thinking, “There’s something big going on here.” The fans were so committed and dedicated.

Considering this is someone who hasn’t had real radio support or is seen in celebrity magazines or on social posts, this is a huge phenomenon.

That continued into the tour.

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