EMILIA DE PORET LAUNCH

auspOp was one of a handful of very lucky media outlets fortunate enough to get invited along to the no-expense-spared single launch for Swedish countess Emilia De Poret in Sydney last night. An intimate crowd of about 80 people gathered in a spectacular mansion on the clifftops of Coogee in Sydney’s east (picture below) to witness Emilia belt out four numbers from her upcoming debut album, due in early 2009. She looks amazing (as you can tell from our grainy camera-phone image above), she sounds amazing and she literally has some of the longest legs and most amazing boots to adorn them on planet pOp.
We were also quite taken by the extraordinary venue, a sublime residential three level modern-day castle, complete with cliff-top pool (pictured left) looking out over the Pacific Ocean – how amazing. A few things we picked up on the night; Axle Whitehead says hi – he’s about to film the clip to his latest single ‘Satellite’ on his farm in country Victoria. Nathan, host of Video Hits is a lot taller in person than we assumed he would be. Emilia’s last name is really pronounced ‘De Poor-ett’, not ‘De Poor-ay’ as we’d assumed. We also heard that a relaunch of perennial fave Aussie pOp mag ‘TV Hits’ is on the cards before the end of the year. Emilia’s single ‘Pick Me Up’ is in-stores now. Single version and two remixes are available on iTunes.

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