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21.05.12 LIVE REVIEW: WAVVES
Our writer Miranda Freeman went along to Fowler's Live to brave minor moshpit casualites during live sets of Wavves, Sures and Bad//Dreems.
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 NASUM 20TH ANNIVERSARY FAREWELL TOUR
Legendary Swedish grindcore band Nasum will be heading to Australian shores for the first – and last – time this August as part of their world tour to celebrate their 20th anniversary and final farewell.
16.05.12 BURNING LOVE COMING TO AUSTRALIA
Toronto rock troupe Burning Love, a collaboration between members of iconic bands Cursed and Our Father, will be bringing their anticipated sophomore record Rotten Thing To Say to Australian stages this June as part of a national tour.
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.
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.
09.05.12 LANA DEL REY LEADS 2012 SPIN OFF LINE-UP
Missed out on tickets to Splendour In The Grass this year? Don't sweat it Adelaide, as Lana Del Rey, Kimbra and Band Of Skulls are just some of the headliners set to lead the inaugural Spin Off 2012 festival line-up - an event exclusive to our city that will bring some of the best acts from Splendour right into our own backyard!.
07.05.12 LAND & SEA
A gun, a bath, a telephone and an island are the four primary circulating props in Brink Productions’ latest play,Land & Sea written by Nicki Bloom.
04.05.12 KENNY ROGERS HITTING ADELAIDE
Country superstar and contemporary music icon Kenny Rogers has announced that he will be bringing his band and a truckload of hits to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre this August with special guest Beccy Cole.
04.05.12 THE SKIN I LIVE IN
Rip It Up has five copies of the DVD 'The Skin I Live In' featuring Golden Globe nominee Antonio Banderas to give away for this month's newsletter.
03.05.12 INTERVIEW: GRAVEYARD TRAIN
If Texas Chainsaw Massacre were materialised into a musical, it’d probably sound a little bit like Melbourne horror alt-country outfit Graveyard Train.
03.05.12 GEORGE MICHAEL TOUR THIS NOVEMBER
First Elton John and now Prince in just a week’s time, but what holy pop trinity could be complete without the addition of George Michael? After battling pneumonia at the end of last year, the Freedom pop superstar is back to his fighting fit self ready to bring his iconic vocals to Australia alongside a full orchestra this November.
02.05.12 2012 APRA AWARDS NOMINEES
The Australian Performing Right Association (APRA) has announced the 2012 nominees for its highly prestigious awards ceremony scheduled to take place next month.
01.05.12 SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS SIDESHOWS
Just like every other year, alongside the annually gargantuan Splendour In The Grass line-up announcement comes a run of (predominately East coast) sideshows from a majority of the performing acts.
05.12.09 A Day On The Green
A brilliant day featuring the B-52s, The Proclaimers and Mental As Anything at Peter Lehmann Wines...
20.02.10 Arcade Lane featuring Thunder Claw, No Through Road and Like Leaves
Arcade Lane featuring Thunder Claw, No Through Road and Like Leaves
08.03.10 Future Music
Featuring The Prodigy, Franz Ferdinand, Empire Of The Sun, David Guetta and heaps more!
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.
04.12.09 - 14.02.10 COLOUR COUNTRY
This exhibition features art from Roper River - the Wagga Wagga art gallery to be precise. This touring exhibition features rarely seen works produced by major Ngukurr artists from Arnhem Land, alongside new works from the community.
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 - 16.12.09 DOT. DOT. DOT.
For the very first time, 28 South Australian School Of Art, Architecture And Design Visual Arts graduates will host a stand-alone exhibition of their work in the SASA Gallery. On display will be various mediums including sculpture and installation, painting and drawing, history and theory, photography, jewellery, glass, ceramics and printmaking.
Concludes Wed Dec 16
09.12.09 - 24.12.09 TAPAS
Normally ‘tapas’ traditionally refers to snacks or appetisers served with drinks. Not at the Art Images Gallery. They’ve reinvented the meaning just a little, eluding instead to tasty morsels of art rather than food. Twenty-three artists from around the state bring a range of visual delicacies to share and cater to everyone’s palate. Choose from abstract expressionist oils on canvas courtesy of Lil Jedynak, illustrative, hand-coloured still life and landscape lino prints by Christine McCarthy or decorative and patterned flora and fauna from Eliza Piro’s paintings. Delicious!
29.01.10 Big Day Out 2010
Featuring: Muse, Powderfinger, Eskimo Joe and so many more!
SOLD OUT!
29.01.10 Catherine Traicos (Syd)
At The Wheatsheaf
05.02.10 FUNDRAISING EXHIBITION
Head along to the Adelaide Central Gallery on Fri Feb 5 to check out beautiful artworks from ACSA students, lecturers and friends. The not-to-be-missed event will run from 6pm to 8.30pm, and will cost you $100 which includes drinks, nibbles and a piece of artwork! Phone Adelaide Central Gallery on 8364 5075 with your name and postal address and payment details to reserve your ticket.
06.02.10 - 27.02.10 Summer Exhibition
Join artists Jo Kerlogue, Rossanne Pellegrino, Eleanor Zecchin, Joanna Poulson, Nico Petho, Naomi Oliver as they exhibit different mediums (photograph, video, illustration) as part of Max Down Gallery’s Summer exhibition.
19.02.10 - 14.03.10 Lauren-Jade Ryan presents Australaiana & Wild Flowers
Lauren-Jade's latest oil paintings and prints will be on display for the Fringe 2010 on the theme of Wild Flowers and Australiana.
“My works explore our beautiful Australiana native flora and fauna as well as other flowers with interesting colour, line and pattern,” she says.
"We worked in this amazing studio at the top of this tower, it was just majestic."
