Rob Eagle

@rob-eagle.bsky.social

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Artist & academic: cultural industries, immersive media and documentary, visual anthropology. Research Fellow in Centre for Cultural Value @valuingculture.bsky.social‬. Co-director Bradford Digital Arts Lab | 🦄 | https://robeagle.art

THOUSANDS of people gathered in Scarborough to see Will Smith deliver a sell-out show. He brought the curtain down on a summer season at Scarborough Open Air Theatre. The Grammy Award and Oscar winner brought his Based on a True Story European tour to the UKs biggest open-air concert arena to the delight of 8,000 fans. The show - which charts his life from his days as chart-topping rapper the Fresh Prince, through his acclaimed movie career - delighted fans new and old. He played a hit-laden set which included such classics as Gettin Jiggy Wit It, Miami, Summertime, Wild Wild West, Bulletproof and Men In Black for which he was backed by 30 members of Scarborough Rugby Club-all dressed as the interstellar secret agents from Smith's hit sci-fi movie. "This has been a beautiful night and I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart," he said before bringing out his Best Actor Academy Award to deafening ap plause adding it had been "particularly joyful".
Marching band in red uniforms move down Market Street in Bradford
A person in a green coat sits listening with earphones on, looking at a wall of shoeboxes
Video approaching the Ford Escort with Qawwali music playing inside
A long portrait photo, emphasising a long colourful rug on the floor with objects suspended above, including the name VERA in a funeral wreath
Photo of 4 people on a stage in a cinema - 3 people sat and one person standing as BSL interpreter