2hollis to perform at Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow
The gig will take place on Saturday, November 22.
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The 21-year-old who hails from Chicago, first rose to fame following the release of his 2022 album, White Tiger.
Later, his 2023 song Poster Boy was included on EA Sports FC 2024's soundtrack and in 2024, when he released his third album, he went on tour to support American rapper, Ken Carson.
The upcoming Glasgow show follows the release of the singer's newest album, Star, which dropped in April.
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General sale tickets will go live at 10am on May 30.
Meanwhile, pre-sale will take place on May 28 at 10am.
To get tickets, visit www.gigsinscotland.com/artist/2-hollis
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'We'll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone.' In a series of images, the Spokane, Washington-born beauty - who is set to play boxer Christy Martin in an upcoming biopic - is seen modeling a variety of denim-based ensembles. In an accompanying video, Sydney is seen buttoning up her jeans as she muses: 'Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair colour, personality and even eye colour... my genes are blue'. A second advert sees the camera pan down Sydney's chest as she models a plunging denim jumpsuit. She muses: 'My body's composition is determined by my genes...' before exclaiming: 'Hey, eyes up here' as the camera cuts back to her face. The advert has divided fans, however, with one critic calling the clip 'one of the loudest and most obvious racialized dog whistles we've seen and heard in a while.' 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These are the gold fields of Western Australia, hundreds of miles to the north and east of the state's main city of Perth. Since the first lucky strike in 1851, gold fever has brought thousands of itinerant miners to its barren landscape in search of the mineral fortunes buried beneath its blood red soil. In the century and a half since, some have hit pay dirt, while others have lost everything, including their lives, in this high-risk, high-reward lottery. As the price of gold soars in a period of global economic uncertainty, however, a new influx of prospectors is fast gripping viewers on the Discovery Channel's popular reality series, Aussie Gold Hunters. One of the stars of the latest series is the woman with the broad-brimmed hat and even broader smile, who has come further than most, in every sense, to be reborn as a gold hunter Down Under. 'I love being up here in the red dust, in serenity. 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Sheryl believes preparation is the best defence: 'Logistics is a massive thing, because where we are there's not a shop. 'We'll get car parts from a local dump to fix up our machinery because we have to think creatively and rely on ourselves. 'Simon's learned how to weld to patch bits because if we don't do it, we don't make money.' On the flipside, there is always the chance of stumbling across the find that'll make their fortune. Simon and Sheryl aim to rake in an ounce a day of gold, mostly 'alluvial' gold dust that lies on or near the surface, worth around £2,500. Their biggest single haul was around £15,000 worth, but that is still some way short of Aussie Gold Hunter's record. In 2019, the show captured the moment two prospectors unearthed a 95oz nugget valued at more than £109,000 40 miles northwest of Melbourne, Victoria, not far from where the world's largest single nugget was pulled from just over an inch below the ground in 1869. 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Daily Record
16 hours ago
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