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21.05.12 COOKING WITH DENNIS LESLIE
Winter is close by and people will really want to start cooking comfort foods.
21.05.12 PENNYWISE ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR
So-Cal punk rock icons Pennywise have announced plans to tour Australia this August.
18.05.12 HANDSOME FURS SPLIT UP
Canadian husband-and-wife synth pop duo Handsome Furs are no more, according to an announcement made on the band’s website today.
18.05.12 PATRICK WOLF ANNOUNCES ACOUSTIC TOUR
This September will see charismatic British baroque pop performer Patrick Wolf returning to Australia for a series of intimate acoustic shows.
18.05.12 INTERVIEW: LADYHAWKE
When you’ve got some of music’s biggest heavyweights like Kylie Minogue, the Scissor Sisters and Courtney Love in your corner, it’s hard to imagine why you’d call your hotly-anticipated sophomore album Anxiety.
18.05.12 ADAM HILLS TO HOST BIG QUIZ GIG
Sunday July 1 will mark the date of the fourth annual John Vincent Memorial Big Quiz Gig in Adelaide with tis year’s event set to be hosted by Spicks and Specks host and comedian Adam Hills.
18.05.12 Santigold
NME’s Queen of All Pop 2008, Santigold, recently returned with the release of her eagerly anticipated sophomore album Master of My Make Believe and thanks to Warner Music Australia we’ve got five copies up for grabs.
17.05.12 THE WIGGLES (EXCEPT THE BLUE ONE) ALL RETIRING
Shock news to pre-schoolers everywhere - three of The Wiggles, the much loved and award winning children’s musical quartet, are officially retiring.
17.05.12 SLASH ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Recent Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductee and former Guns’n’Roses guitarist Slash has announced that he will be returning to Australian this August in support of his new album Apocalyptic Love.
16.05.12 WORLD’S END PRESS SINGLE TOUR
Melbourne’s hotly-tipped foursome World’s End Press are once again heading out on a national tour to all major cities this June and July in celebration of their latest single Second Day Uptown.
15.05.12 LIVE REVIEW: JOSH PYKE
Rip It Up reviewer Sharni Honor might have a dangerous infatuation with prospective husband Josh Pyke and his finely manicured beard, but we’re sure that didn’t prevent her from offering a completely unbiased review of his Elder Hall show over the weekend (much).
11.05.12 INTERVIEW: CATCALL
Sydney's Catcall (AKA Catherine Kelleher) has just dropped her epic pop masterpiece The Warmest Place and is basking in the wave of relief that comes with finishing a project of this magnitude.
11.05.12 INTERVIEW: PRINT CULT 2012
With the annual Print Cult taking place next weekend at Tooth & Nail gallery, an event allowing Adelaide's most prominent printmakers to display a variety of work with many different techniques, Rip It Up spoke to artist and gallery curator Jake 'One' Holmes about the shifting direction of South Australian art and the return to manual methods.
11.05.12 RETURN OF THE STEEL PANTHER!
Drawing a massive midday crowd out to Soundwave this year (and apparently blowing Alter Bridge off the stage at Sidewaves interstate), LA’s nutty hair metal lads Steel Panther are getting their Balls Out during a new tour announced for October.
10.05.12 INTERVIEW: FRANK TURNER
English troubadour Frank Turner, whose four folk punk albums have won him a legion of fans, has enjoyed previous Australian solo tours so much that he’s now heading back with his band, The Sleeping Souls.
10.05.12 INTERVIEW: SPARKSPITTER
Local trio Sparkspitter don’t subscribe to normal music conventions.
10.05.12 BEASTIE BOYS’ ALBUM SALES SKYROCKET POST MCA’S DEATH
Seven Beastie Boys albums reached the Billboard Hot 200 charts this week, just days after the passing of founding member Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch.
09.05.12 TOM GABEL: I WAS A TEENAGE TRANSGENDER
Rolling Stone magazine has today revealed details of Friday’s US issue, in which Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel details his intention to live life as a woman.
13.11.09 Ladyhawke at HQ
The last time Ladyhawke ventured to Adelaide she played to a packed house at Rocket Bar, but what a difference 11 months makes - it was a near-capacity HQ that greeted the Kiwi turned Australian turned UK cool pop sensation.
03.12.09 Paul Kelly
PK put in a fine performance at HQ, playing basically a greatest hits set. Supported by Vorn Doolette.
12.12.09 Closing Night of the 2009 Shorts Film Festival
Closing Night of the 2009 Shorts Film Festival at The Queens Theatre
21.12.09 Deez Nuts
Deez Nuts, featuring JJ Peters formerly of Adelaide band I Killed The Prom Queen along with someone who looks suspiciously like a tattooed barperson at the Grace Emily, are heading back to town to play yet another of their crazy, metal-infused rap gigs. This time it will be with Gold Cost act Mourning Tide and NSW band Mark My Words as a licensed all-ages affair at Fowler’s Live on Mon Dec 21.
05.12.09 - 19.12.09 SHOTA KAWAHARA
Head along to the Max Down Gallery where Shota's colourful, abstract and unique paintings are now showing.
26.11.09 - 17.12.09 FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE
Twenty-five-year-old Shane Devries is an oil painter extraordinaire. He captures quirky characters in heart-stopping moments of rising, falling and weightless suspension within breathtaking landscapes in the exhibition, From Somewhere Else.
29.11.09 - 23.12.09 LITTLE TREASURES
An exhibition of affordable art and craft by 46 local artists. Highlights include contemporary glass bowls by Barbara Davis and fun and quirky toys by Helen Hedding. There’ll also be vintage fabric bags, handmade toys, trinkets and decorations, photography, paintings, delicate necklaces, fine pendants, bracelets, beaded earrings, pottery, textiles, ceramic animals, wood, glass and more for purchase!
05.12.09 - 24.01.10 COOK & CO: ANTIQUITIES FOR THE FUTURE
Family jewellery company Cook And Co addresses themes of beauty, decay, providence and value within the contemporary jewellery pieces.
29.01.10 - 21.02.10 In My Own Skin
Following on from her solo debut Road To India, SA visual artist Joslin Koolen presents the sequel exhibition, an exploration of contrasts, extremes, acceptance and beauty.
12.02.10 - 13.02.10 Quiet Reader
Johnnie Dady, Sandy Elverd, Louise Flaherty, Paul Hoban, Kay Lawrence, Arthur Phillips, Annalise Rees, Olga Sankey, Lara Torr and Meg Wilson present works that contain legible text and writing as well as works that more abstractly reference the structure, gesture and movement of writing and mark making.
20.02.10 - 09.05.10 EXPOSED! THE STORY OF SWIMWEAR
Movie sirens, aquatic stars, bathing beauties, models, athletes, sporting icons, swimmers and designers all played their part in the evolution of the modern swimsuit. Blurring the boundaries between underwear and outerwear, the swimsuit continues to make shockwaves.
07.05.10 - 21.05.10 SEVEN UP
Seven Up explores both film-based and digital photography. The processes and techniques on display include black and white, colour, experimental film, macro and infrared photography.
01.05.10 - 16.05.10 SOME AND NONE: JEWELLERY AS GRAPHICS
David Neale presents a collection of eye-catching contemporary wearables. Borrowing from graphics, painting, collage and line-work, Neale uses these techniques at his jeweller's bench to make signs for the body and to tell wearable stories.
"We worked in this amazing studio at the top of this tower, it was just majestic."
