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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.
28.10.11 FIRST AID KIT ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Alongside their appearance at the 2012 Womadelaide Festival and Golden Plains, Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit will be embarking on their own headline tour around the country next March.
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.
14.10.11 BURT BACHARACH ‘FAREWELL TO SYMPHONIES’ TOUR
After six decades of working within the music industry, legendary composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach will be coming to Adelaide Festival Theatre with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in early 2012 as part of his national Farewell to Symphonies tour.
27.09.11 ENNIO MORRICONE TO OPEN THE ADELAIDE FESTIVAL
In his first live Australian experience, iconic film composer Ennio Morricone has been moved forward a day and will now perform at the opening night of Adelaide Festival on Fri March 2 in 2012.
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.
10.05.11 WASABI SHORT FILM COMPETITION
To all budding young film makers, listen up! The Adelaide Festival Centre/Green Room will be hosting a short film competition for people aged 16-30 years old.
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.
13.07.10 OzAsia Festival Program Launch
The incredible sights, sounds, smells and tastes of the OzAsia Festival will be back in 2010, as the festival program was unveiled at The Adelaide Festival Theatre last night.
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.
Whoah, Adam Ant is coming to Adelaide as part of a comeback tour this March.
The former White Stripes frontman has released the first single off his new solo album.
The psychedelic locals will be performing with The Living End at this year's Clipsal 500
We've got some real talent in our local traps. Here are our picks for 2012.
