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25.05.12 LIVE REVIEW: BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
Our writer Rob Lyon went to the sold-out show of Brian Jonestown Massacre supported by The Raveonettes at The Gov.
25.05.12 LIVE REVIEW: NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK & BACKSTREET BOYS
Do they have the right stuff? Do they still want it ‘that’ way? Rip It Up braves the hordes of excited women making their way to the Entertainment Centre for NKOTBSB, the boy band showdown of the century….
24.05.12 INTERVIEW: MARINA & THE DIAMONDS
In a world where pop stars such as Rihanna and Lady Gaga appear to live in airbrushed fantasy realms beyond regular social anxieties, Marina Diamandis is an anomaly.
21.05.12 XAVIER RUDD ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM AND TOUR
Hot on the heels of his highest-selling single to date Follow The Sun, multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd has announced for this August and September plans to finally put forward his highly anticipated new record Spirit Bird alongside a national tour.
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.
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.
10.05.12 LIVE: GOSSLING
Sharni Honor went along on a rain-freckled evening to the cosy Wheatsheaf Hotel to check out Gossling in her headline performance, supported on the night by local Cookie Baker.
04.05.12 LISTEN TO GLISK'S DEBUT ALBUM 'HERMAION'
A few months after being nominated asmost electronically capable of Rip It Up's 2012 Hot Six, local electro whiz Glisk has finally unveiled his debut album Hermaion.
03.05.12 INTERVIEW: WAVVES
Frontman of Californian surf punk/noise rock outfit Wavves, Nathan Williams, has never been one to deny a penchant for illicit substances.
02.05.12 A Q&A WITH: KIMBRA
It's been nearly a year since we last chatted with Kimbra and since then she's had a meteoric flood of attention.
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 LIZ MARTIN TO TOUR ‘A LITTLE'
Normally major reconstructive surgery can leave you a little downcast, but in Australian songstress Liz Martin’s case, the recovery period bloomed into her light-hearted and candid third studio album, Dance A Little, Live A Little.
27.04.12 INTERVIEW: THE VOICE
Only a few months ago an exhausted Megan Washington sent an email to her fans to let them know she was taking a breather.
24.04.12 THE AUDREYS COLLECTING THEMSELVES
In celebration of the release of their most recent album Collected, this June and July alt-roots act The Audreys will embark on an intimate duo tour to theatres all across Australia for the first time in nearly a year.
23.04.12 THE SHINS ANNNOUNCE SPLENDOUR SIDESHOWS
It’s been a while since we saw our old friends The Shins, who when last here even devoted a song to us.
23.04.12 MISSY HIGGINS RETURNING TO RAZZLE DAZZLE
After nearly five years of absence, Rip It Up is excited to announce that our much-loved Australian songstress Missy Higgins will be returning to the musical fore this June and July with a brand new single Unashamed Desire and her first national tour since 2007, The Ol Razzle Dazzle.
23.04.12 HILLTOP HOODS: FRI JUL 27, ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE.
Supporting the recent release of their number one platinum album, Drinking From The Sun, the Hilltop Hoods are embarking on one of the year’s most highly anticipated tours this June through to August.
18.04.12 ASH GRUNWALD ANNOUNCES TOUR
Next month Australia’s favourite roots troubadour Ash Grunwald will put forward his new dubstep-tainted record, Trouble’s Door.
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.
21.10.09 Poison The Well and The Vampirates
Poison The Well's first headline tour, supported by The Vampirates...
28.11.09 Jeff Martin and The Armada
Always an awesome live show, The Armada were supported by the wonderful Mick Hart... Stay tuned, they should be coming back to our shores soon!
03.12.09 Paul Kelly
PK put in a fine performance at HQ, playing basically a greatest hits set. Supported by Vorn Doolette.
15.09.10 Clearly Talented Band Comp at The Avoca Hotel
Clearly Talented Band Comp at The Avoca Hotel
19.03.11 Multicultural Youth South Australia Incorporated presents My Music and Culture Festival
Multicultural Youth South Australia Incorporated presents My Music and Culture Festival
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!
20.02.10 - 31.03.10 MERGE BY LEAH SMITH AND HAYWOOD BY LAURA SMITH
The mother and daughter pair - with over 30 years of artistic experience between them - are exhibiting a number of painted works on canvas in a variety of media as well as some sculpture by Laura Smith.
04.03.10 - 08.03.10 MYTHOLOGIES
Marlaina Read, Laura Willis and Laura Haig (AUS), and Yuula Benivolski (CAN) present works in photomedia, sculpture, and installation. Curated by Marlaina Read, Mythologies explores strange topologies, speculative spaces and reinterpretations of known places through ritual, imagination, as well as personal and historical inspired storytelling.
18.03.10 - 11.04.10 TRAFFIC
With a fascination for advertising material, a heap of artistic flair and a healthy interest in affichistes (torn poster art), Ian McFarland presents new mixed media reflecting the ebb and flow of traffic in the big smoke. Think ripped patterns, sun faded colours, residual brush strokes of application and the imprinted pattern of brick and corrugated iron.
13.05.10 - 29.05.10 VERY REMOTE
Visual artist Peter Drew is throwing together his third solo exhibition - and you’re invited. The paintings, based on his travels through remote Aboriginal communities in the Tiwi Islands, comprise of pixelated images.
“For me the pixelated images convey the possibility of communication between different cultures despite the fact that details are often lost in translation,” he tells Rip It Up.
24.05.10 - 06.07.10 AUSTRALIA DAY
Adelaide artist Stefan Bruneder presents colourful paintings dedicated to celebration, due tributes, flag waving and piss taking.
01.06.10 - 25.07.10 ARANCIO
CIBO Espresso is showing its support of talented local artists with CIBO Galleria - a series of four seasonal art exhibitions to be held across 2010. Following the huge success of Giallo, the second exhibition in the series - Arancio - kicks off at 10 CIBO Espresso bars across Adelaide, featuring the works of 24 local artists.
02.06.10 - 28.06.10 FRÄULEINS ORCHARD
A concept born from nurturing talented young female creatives in Adelaide, Urban Cow Studio presents a harvest of works from these eight nature-loving artists and designers. Working in the heirloom varieties of painting, illustration and jewellery, this collective continues to nurture one another’s ideas, cultivating a creativity that promises to blossom into a rare display of colour and beauty.
