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27.03.12 RIP IT UP TV: DEPARTURE
Rip It Up TV recently ambled along to the return of Departure at the Art Gallery of South Australia to sip some wine, eat some food and peruse the current contemporary art exhibition on offer, the 12th Biennial of Adelaide Artwork's Parallel Collisions.
22.03.12 LIVE: ST VINCENT
The Adelaide Festival's Barrio schedule offered a mouth-watering line-up of talent from across the world in a mesmerising outdoors locale.
18.03.12 LIVE: ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI
In an interview with Rip It Up last month, frontman Ariel Rosenberg of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti said that he drinks champagne and eats a steak before every live show.
24.02.12 INTERVIEW: ST VINCENT
When geeky actor Michael Cera confirmed last month the cast of Arrested Development would reconvene in 2012 to film a new series of the cult program, the announcement left one aficionado gasping with joy.
23.02.12 SET SAIL TO PERFORM AT BARRIO OPENING NIGHT
Following a month-long tussle involving visa mix ups and a deportation from the country back to the US, Sydney's Set Sail have finally reclaimed their American-born lead singer just in time for their forthcoming Australian tour.
24.01.12 BARRIO ANNOUNCES LATE NIGHT MUSIC LINE-UP
With March not far away it's time to get excited for Barrio, the new late night festival club opening at Hajek Plaza as part of the Adelaide Festival.
12.01.12 LIVE: SONS & DAUGHTERS
The latest gig in the extraordinary Adelaide Festival Centre Sessions series saw Glasgow's Sons & Daughters make their debut South Australian appearance.
23.12.11 JD SAMSON & MEN COMING TO BARRIO
Next March Le Tigre’s gender bending JD Samson will bring her newest musical project MEN, a DIY experimental outfit hailing from the feminist punk scene in Brooklyn, to Australia to tour their debut album Talk About Body.
20.10.11 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL GETS HIP FOR 2012
With 68 events, 37 world premieres and a feast of music, theatre, visual art and a new night time playground called 'Barrio' with six bars, the 2012 Adelaide Festival has something for every lover of the arts and music including a contemporary music program featuring Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (pictured above), The Black Lips, Charles Bradley and Kraftwerk and Neu!’s Michael Rother.
17.07.11 JANET JACKSON COMING TO ADELAIDE
While we’re still trying to gather the funds to see names like Dolly Parton and Foo Fighters this year, we’re guessing we’re about to get a whole lot poorer following the announcement of a national tour from the sister of the posthumous King Of Pop herself – pop star and All 4 U singer Janet Jackson.
28.06.11 WOMAD EARTH STATION BEGINS THIS OCTOBER
The new companion event to WOMADelaide Festival, EARTH STATION, will be officially held this Spring at Long Gully, Belair National Park from 21-23 October.
20.06.11 LIVE: ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL PT. 1
Rip It Up writer Catherine Blanch recently attended the opening weekend of Adelaide Cabaret Festival at Adelaide Festival Centre and was magnetised by UK act The Magnets, dragged into Drag! and got greased-up for Olivia Newton-John.
17.12.10 Live: No Sleep Til Adelaide (Punk)
Entertainment Centre - Wed Dec 15 New festivals can be hard to get off the ground.
17.12.10 Live: No Sleep Til Adelaide (Metal)
Entertainment Centre - Wed Dec 15 New festivals can be hard to get off the ground.
30.11.10 No Sleep Til Adelaide Set Times
The timetable for the inaugural No Sleep Til Adelaide Festival has been released, with the two stage set-up meaning there'll be a minimum of clashes.
23.11.10 Mason Rack's Life Lessons
Drugs and alcohol have been synonymous with rock 'n' roll for as long as there have been drugs and alcohol and rock 'n' roll.
16.11.10 WOMADelaide 2011 festival program
Launch the official 2011 WOMADelaide program flipbookDownload the 2011 WOMADelaide program as a PDF (13MB) The full WOMADelaide 2011 festival guide is here, exclusive to Rip It Up! After announcing some pretty gob-smacking headliners, the festival organisers have not disappointed with a line-up of brilliant musicians from all over the globe, as well as a unique program of visual art, workshops and street theatre.
09.11.10 Joanna Newsom confirmed for WOMAD
The highly-rumoured debut Adelaide appearance of Joanna Newsom has been confirmed.
13.09.10 Bangarra Dance Co: Of Earth and Sky
Rip It Up’s arts editor Robert Dunstan recently ventures along to Adelaide Festival Centre’s Dunstan Playhouse – no it’s not named after him but former state premier Don Dunstan - to see world renowned Bangarra Dance Company stage of earth and sky, their first series of new dance work since celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2009 with a retrospective.
30.07.10 REVIEW: LETTER'S END
Rip It Up arts editor Robert Dunstan recently ventured along to see Letter’s End at Adelaide Festival Centre and discovered that the show, which is full of magic, illusion and much humour, was an absolute delight.
04.11.10 Blake Prize Exhibition Opening at Adelaide Festival Centre's Space Theatre Foyer
Blake Prize Exhibition Opening at Adelaide Festival Centre's Space Theatre Foyer
07.01.12 Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro at Adelaide Festival Centre
Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro at Adelaide Festival Centre
27.02.10 - 02.05.10 BEFORE AND AFTER SCIENCE
Before And After Science lands at the Art Gallery as part of the Adelaide Festival Of Arts and with it brings 22 of Australia’s most innovative and exciting contemporary artists. Here, they present installation and sculpture using traditional and non-traditional materials which feature strongly alongside collage, film and painting; most wrapped around the concepts of alchemy and transformation.
"We worked in this amazing studio at the top of this tower, it was just majestic."
