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April 12th 2012 07:02

Fry's Planet Word - on DVD

Stephen Fry's intelligence is as obvious as the nose on his face.

The man himself is seldom actually obvious in any way shape or form, and indeed it the ways, shapes and forms of communication through words that he explores in this illuminating series produced for BBC Two, Fry's Planet Word.

It is an analysis of how we use and abuse language and asks whether we are even close to understanding the complexities of its origins and evolutions.

From the earliest days of gibberish crawling from the mire to the current world of projected science fiction fantasy complete with hyper text mark up language and the new shapes words take due to the form of texting, Fry's Planet Word draws viewers along on his journey over the planet to discover how far we've rearranged our own rules when it comes to the written and spoken word.

Thanks to ABC DVD and Roadshow Entertainment the winners of the next Poetry Unplugged reading at AC Arts will be awarded a copy of what Metro calls "A celebration of joy and diversity of speech," Fry's Planet Word on DVD.

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BLOODLAND

March 30th 2012 13:42

Sarah Tomlinson was sent off to see the collaboration between Sydney Theatre Company and the Bangarra DanceTheatre called BLOODLAND and after much thought she filed this report:

Bloodland felt like a gate I wanted to open but couldn't.

Caught behind it, I could only watch from a distance, desperately trying to work out what my place and responsibility could have been in the story.

And this position changed frequently. - Sarah Tomlinson

Bloodland felt like a gate I was desperate to open but couldn’t.

Caught behind it, I could only watch from a distance, trying desperately to work out what my place and responsibility could have been in the story.

And this position changed frequently.

Bloodland is a collaboration of the Sydney Theatre Company and the Bangarra DanceTheatre. Directed by Stephen Page and delivered so naturally by anall-indigenous cast, it tells of two families in Far East Arnhem Land; of tradition and modern influence, the social problems that plague them, and gently woventhrough, a story of love, bound by clan.

Ursula Yovich opens the program talking fast, moving disorientedly and gesturing wildly, unable to be comforted by an audience who instinctively leaned back in their seats and had trouble making eye contact as they failed to understand the language or the circumstances of her distress. The source of her despair would become known much later, but for the time being, it set the scene for an intensely private and privileged insight into a community.

Conversations of daily domestic matters, rites of passage, leadership, and traditional men and women’s business flowed steadily through the on stage community interspersed with icons of present: footballs, iPods, a plastic bag of treasured mobile phones, and a shopping trolley neatly stacked with groceries meant to be shared.

Predominantly in theYolngu language, it was easy for the audience to distance themselves through long stretches of dialogue before a sudden, recognizable phrase in Pidgin English would pierce through the dark like a sudden realization, and force the audience to be a part of the conversation.

“Donkey” offered the comic relief. Played by David Page, this mangy dog sniffed inquisitively through the action on the stage, often being chastised for being in the way. Ultimately his character became Bapi, charged with passing on the news which led to the performances’ wrenching climax.

Interrupting the main story line were a series of tableaux to make any earnest white audience member grown inwardly at our ignorance. From tongue-in-cheek David Attenborough style commentary on the perils of smoking, to a patriotic teacher with firm rules of the classroom, you can’t help feeling entirely responsible that you’re the reason you can’t understand or follow the story.

Yet the story wasn’t so exclusive that the audience wasn’t allowed to feel on side with the characters. We enjoyed the gentle mocking from the mates, felt the restriction and isolation of tradition and were granted the right to be frustrated for Runu when Gapu, the ‘Romeo and Juliet’ of the story (played by Hunter Page-Lochard and Noelene Marika), was promised to an older member of the clan.

The set was kept simple. A chain link fence with a hole on one side, and long, tall white pipes suggestive of ghost gums gentle hinted that culture, tradition and circumstance cannot be kept in, or that hurt and harsh reality cannot be kept out. Cool moonlight, warm sun to a harsh institutional-fluorescent of a school lit up the Dunstan Playhouse.

The movements, instantly recognizable as the Bangarra Dance Theatre, were fluid and stirring from every turn of a dance, to the action of smearing the body in white to mourn.Cathartic wailing of loss were turned into song.

In the end however,despite my desperation to understand and learn from the performance, Bloodland didn’t place blame on anyone. It was as much about the characters trying to make themselves understood within their own community as it was for wider Australia. It was about family,love and grieving, the value of culture and accepting what is, without explanationor solution.

Bloodland is a collaboration of the Sydney Theatre Company and the Bangarra DanceTheatre. Directed by Stephen Page and delivered so naturally by an all-indigenous cast. It tells of two families in Far East Arnhem Land; of tradition and modern influence, the social problems that plague them, and gently woven through, a story of love, bound by clan.

Sydney Theatre Company, Adelaide Festival and Allens Arthur Robinson in association with Bangarra Dance Theatre present

Bloodland

Concept by Stephen Page

Story by Kathy Balngayngu Marika, Stephen Page and Wayne Blair

Written by Wayne Blair

Stephen Page, Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre and award-winning choreographer, collaborated with writer and actor Wayne Blair on this landmark work.

From three photographs that formed the seed of an idea, Stephen and Wayne developed this original work collaborating with local storytellers in Arnhem Land.

Bloodland examines the classic theme of forbidden love, while also exploring issues of black-on-black conflict, and the challenges of observing traditional lore in a community permeated by Western culture.

Featuring an Indigenous cast of twelve including established urban actors as well as traditional Yolngu storytellers, the production fuses traditional languages and Pidgin English as well as dance and song to tell the story. Bloodland promises to be a unique work of scale and cultural significance.

Warning: Mild Violence

1 hour 40 Minutes, no interval

With Kathy Balngayngu Marika, Elaine Crombie, Rarriwuy Hicks, Rhimi Johnson Page, Banula Marika, Nolene Marika, David Page, Hunter Page Lochard, Kelton Pell, Tessa Rose, Meyne Wyatt, Ursula Yovich

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SPOKE

February 29th 2012 07:08

In 2012 SPOKE is bigger and better!

Running for five days, from March 13 -17, at Shimmering West, located at the front of AC Arts, Light Square.

SPOKE
Word Festival 2012

SPOKE 2012 offers showcases, forums and workshops from 13 - 17 February 2011.

Date Event Stream Time Location

13 March 2012 Talk to your inner Child 11am - 1.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 Aboriginal Artists 3.00 - 5.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 SPOKE $lam W'$hop 6.30 - 8.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 *makes improetry! 8.30 - 10 pm S.West

14 March 2012 WTF*! 6.00 - 7.00 pm SAWC
14 March 2012 SCALA Showcase 8 - 10:30 pm S.West

15 March 2012 Think to Ink 10,11:30am & 1pm AC Arts
15 March 2012 Love Letter W'shop 4.00 - 6.00 pm S.West
15 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm S.West
15 March 2012 Mosaic (Im)Process 6.00 - 7.00 pm DK Studio
15 March 2012 Words'n'action 8.00 - 10.30 pm AC Arts Library

16 March 2012 F'd Flash Theatre 2.00 - 5.00 pm AC Arts
16 March 2012 Mosaic Presentation 6pm - 7pm AC Arts
16 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm S.West
16 March 2012 Book Launch Party 8.00 - 9.00 pm S.West

17 March 2012 Cross Genre W/S 9.30am - 11am S.West
17 March 2012 Indigo Eli - Process 6 - 7 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Multicultural Day 11:am - 8.30 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Cross Genre Perf 8.30pm -10pm S.West

S.West = Shimmering West, 39 Light Square, Adelaide

Tuesday, March 13

13 March 2012 Talk to your inner Child 11am - 1.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 Aboriginal Artists 3.00 - 5.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 SPOKE $lam W'$hop 6.30 - 8.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 *makes improetry! 8.30 - 10 pm S.West

Talk to your Inner Child
@Shimmering West
Tuesday, March 13, from 11am - 1:00pm

Write and make a picture book in two hours! A hands-on workshop to make your dream come true! Gold coin donation to cover cost of materials. To book call Sue Fleming: (08) 8207 8615 or email: susan.fleming@tafesa.edu.au - limited to 10 places

Improetry Slam Workshop
@X Space (AC Arts 39 Light Square)
Tuesday, March 13 from 6:30 pm until 8 pm

THIS is a journey
you can't afford to miss!

So you think you can write / rap / perform / act / speak / slam? Spoke throws down the gauntlet for ALL-comers. Step up and step OUT of your safety zone in this ninety minute workshop on poetry improvisation, "Improetry"

You'll be taken on a twisted journey through strange time zones where one minute can seem like an eternity and words such as 'cauliflower' can morph into anything your imagination fancies. Guided by two incredible forces of nature: Teri Louise Kelly, a five book author and survivor (and guest artist), of several UK Poetry Improvisation Slams; and Daniel Watson, Paroxysm Press publisher and MC of the SA Poetry Slams, you'll be taught how to think on your feet and slam out magnificent musings on random offerings from your peers, or at least to ramble on incoherently for forty seconds while your mind does backflips as the audience cries!

SPOKE 2012 Improetry Slam
@Shimmering West

Tuesday, March 13 from 8:30pm until 11:30pm

So do you think you can rap/write/perform/act/speak/s lam? SPOKE throws down the gauntlet for ALL comers. Step up and step OUT of your safety zone. What will you do when yoiu are asked to fill between forty seconds and two minutes talking about cauliflowers? Come along to the Improv Poetry Slam and put yourself to the test. No paper, no time for practice, this one is for the fast-shooters of the poetry / rap / perfporming / acting / slam scenes.

Wednesday, March 14

14 March 2012 WTF*! 6.00 - 7.00 pm SAWC
14 March 2012 SCALA Showcase 8 - 10:30 pm S.West

WTF#?: What the Font R U?

@ SA Writers' Centre, Rundle Street
Wednesday, March 14, from 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Are you a hound? A bit light? Plastic? An archer drawing your bow across the line? Go on, what type are you? What kind of character/s do you send out in to the world? Come and hear an atypeical panel 'font'le & 'textese' you on how our engagement with reading and writing is affected by the chosen font & characters of this silicon age. There's bound to be a font of knowledge on display!

Panellists: Suzie Keen - Writer, Reviewer and EDitor of the 'Views and Reviews" section for INDAILY - South Australia's independent online daily news publication.

Dr Nenagh Kemp - Lecturer in the School of Psychology at University of Tasmania. Research centres on the acquisition, development, and use of spoken and written language.

Scott Carslake - Principal and Creative Director of "Voice Designs" a South Australian company. "Voice" has received many prestigious national and international awards including the New York Type Directors' Club Certificate of Typographic Excellence. Voice's typographical history includes the development of typefaces Globale and Klogirl (distributed by Letraset) and ITC, Day project 21 hR, Griffine, Roxane and Maclennan.

Vicki Reynolds - Head of Printmaking at TAFE SAs Adelaide College of the Arts and professional practitioner.

SCALA Showcase Live @ Shimmering West

Wednesday, March 14, from 8 pm until 10:30 pm

Local singer/songwriters Emily Davis, Don Morrison and Andy & Marta will all be performing at Shimmering West as part of the SPOKE Festival's SCALA Showcase evening in March; a fabulous free concert in the park.

Come and enjoy Adelaide's SCALA - Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc. at this FREE showcase where SPOKE presents five of their home grown acts. Relax in the gloriously deported Shimmering West and enjoy a collection of performers who write their own words and music to tell their stories of love, lust and life.

SCALA (Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc.) is a non-profit, voluntary, incorporated association which officially formed on 22nd November 1987 in Adelaide, South Australia.

SCALA's objectives are to: Encourage the activity of Song writing, Composing and Lyric or Libretto writing. Provide information and support to Songwriters, Composers and Lyric or Libretto writers by way of workshops, seminars, regular meetings and other activities which eventuate as SCALA evolves.

Encourage the playing and recording of innovative and original music and the use of innovative and original music in commercial applications.

Provide a service enabling Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists or Librettists to collaborate on innovative music projects and, in particular, to enable (non lyric) Composers to collaborate with Lyricists. Encourage and assist in the employment of Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists or Libretto writers in appropriate situations within the community.

Thursday 15th March

15 March 2012 Think to Ink 10am, 11:30am & 1pm AC Arts
15 March 2012 Love Letter W'shop 4.00 - 6.00 pm S.West
15 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm S.West
15 March 2012 Mosaic (Im)Process 6.00 - 7.00 pm DK Studio
15 March 2012 Words'n'action 8.00 - 10.30 pm AC Arts Library

Think to Ink Writing Workshop

Adelaide Fringe Youth Engagement Program
Available Thursday 15th March 10am, 11:30am and 1:30pm
@ Shimmering West [Other times on this day by arrangement]

Spoke is proud to offer a valuable workshop to your students free of charge, including a comprehensive Education Pack. This is the perfect workshop with a well-seasoned writer who has worked in all aspects of the theatre industry, from intimate theatre to arena theatre, interactive contemporary theatre and classic black-box productions. David Jobling dramatist, director and dramaturge offers a free sixty minute interactive workshop with groups of up to sixteen students providing key elements into original script development, script analysis and construction; suitable for students of Drama, Theatre Studies and English seeking to write their own monologue, play script or simply seeking to find inroads into script analysis.

His extensive CV includes a stint as the Senior Writers' Tutor at the Australian Theatre for Young People, Artistic Coordinator of Griffin Theatre Company and Writing Tutor for Sydney's Darlinghurst Theatre and the Sydney Talent Company. Suitable for Years 10, 11 and 12

To book call Sue Fleming: (08) 8207 8615 or email: susan.fleming@tafesa.edu.au

SPOKE gives it up! ACTIVATE!

Mosaic Physical Theatre (Im)Process FREE from 6.00 - 7.00 pm join host David Jobling and his guest students and tutor Jen Havelberg from AC Arts' 3rd Year of the Acting course as they discuss and present a little show and tell in the DK Studio - the process of putting together a Dance/Theatre work 'MOSAIC' last year gave them an insight into a process they'll be able to use as actors out in the real world.

Thursday, March 15 champions activism.
Times 6:00pm until 8:00pm.
Shimmering West @ AC Arts , 39 Light Square, Adelaide, Australia

Description SPOKE gives it up! Welcomes wordsmiths along to present their ideas in three minutes or less, SPOKE's popular open mic session is happening over three evenings, each with their own theme. So poets and writers come along and take a turn at the microphone between 7 - 8pm let us hear your wit, wisdom or whimsy. Magnificent MC, Jeanne Hurrell, will take your registrations from 6pm on the night.

Love Letters

Available Thursday 15th March from 4 pm - 6 pm @ Shimmering West

Calling wild hearts and lovers of language and writing! Love letters don't have to be a 19th century anachronism. Right here at Shimmering West in March 2012, you can give form to your feelings for your paramour. For free!

Words'n'action Forum hosted by David Jobling

Thursday, March 15 at 8:00pm
@ AC Arts Library

A fun interactive forum for people who want to know more about activating the community: Should writers really be seen and not heard or herded by the unseen? If the personal is political does that mean everything you write is a political act? Is there any such thing as freedom of speech? Is talk still cheap? Who makes the decisions when it comes to censorship? What is the distance between what people say and what they do? Is physics activism? If the universe really is expanding, why are the minds of humans getting smaller? How many queers does it take to carry a protest banner? Why should a multinational mining company have the right to blot out a whole spicies without the species being informed? Is no news really good news (or) bad news better news than no news? Just who do you think you are anyway? So prove it! Broadcaster and social commentator David Jobling hosts a collection of very special guests as they explore current trends in activism.

Involve
Multitask
Participate
Activate
Collaborate
Talk
= IMPACT

Friday, March 16

16 March 2012 F'd Flash Theatre 2.00 - 5.00 pm AC Arts
16 March 2012 Mosaic Presentation 6pm - 7pm AC Arts
16 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm S.West
16 March 2012 Book Launch Party 8.00 - 9.00 pm S.West

Flash Theatre Forward

Friday, March 16 from 2 pm until 5 pm
@ DK Dance Studio (AC Arts 39 Light Square)

SPOKE aims to create its own theatrical CERN ( or 'big bang simulator') - an underground lab to test theatrical hypotheses, cause performing particles to collide and capture the results of potentially new theatrical forms through discerning a project! Specialist practitioners in the fields of flashmobs, devised theatre, gaming & public/site installation performance will challenge and trigger teams of workshop participants to create a paradigm-shifting theatre concept to pitch to the panel of ground breakers for the chance to win $500 spark funding for their idea! Register for this workshop to create a paradigm-shifting theatre concept by emailing micsia@internode.on.net by 2 March 2012. Max 16 participants. (First come first serve basis) Panelists: Daisy Brown - devised theatre practitioner, Ryan Davidson - computer game writer/creator, Nick Morris - flashmob organiser

Register for this workshop to create a paradigm-shifting theatre concept to pitch to the panel of 'ground breakers' for $500 'spark' funding to the one judged the 'best'!

SPOKE gives it up! SPEAK!

Friday, March 16 is all about talk.
7:00pm until 8:00pm
@Shimmering West
SPOKE gives it up!

Welcomes wordsmiths along to present their ideas in three minutes or less, SPOKEs popular open mic session is happening over three evenings, each with their own theme. So poets and writers come along and take a turn at the microphone between 6pm and 7pm let us hear your wit, wisdom or whimsy. Magnificent MC, Jeanne Hurrell, will take your registrations from 5pm on the night.

16 March at Shimmering West, YOU are invited to a Book Launch Party from 8 - 9.00 pm. Come celebrate with three fine writers as they launch their books: Jenny Toune, Swamp Siren's Burlesque Bible poetry e-book

Amelia Walker, Sound and Bundy verse novel by Amelia Walker

Sound and Bundy ebook
IpozSB

Vikki Wakefield, All I ever Wanted, YA novel
Author links - Jenny Toune:
Jenny Toune

Swamp Sirens Burlesque Bible

Blog: Red Uncensored Blogspot

Goodreads.com

Twitter Jenny Toune

Saturday, March 17

17 March 2012 Cross Genre W/S 9.30am - 11am S.West
17 March 2012 Indigo Eli - Process 6 - 7 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Multicultural Day 11:am - 8.30 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Cross Genre Perf 8.30pm -10pm S.West

17th March SPOKE Multicultural Day @ Shimmering West

Multicultural Day is run by Writing Australia in conjunction with the SA Writers' Centre and the SPOKE 2012 Crew.

11am Welcome by the SAWC Chair and introduction of the first Chair for the day, Nick Xenophou

11.10 Nick welcomes attendees & asks them introduce themselves with little about their background and interest in writing. Nick speaks about multiculturalism/importance of telling stories.

11.20 Poetry Performance by Dorre Dari Cultural Foundation (Persian Poets)

11.35 Writing Groups - what do they do and what have they achieved?

Migrant Writers

Multicultural Writers' Group

Dorre Dari Cultural Foundation

Aboriginal Writers' Group

12.50pm Lunch

1.30pm Panel of writers: Where are the Opportunities & How do you Find Them?

Juan Garrido Salgado, Chile

Ranjit Ratnake, Sri Lanka

Prerna Ashok, India

Dylan Coleman, Australia

2.30 Tea Break

3pm SA Writers' Theatre: James Majur (Africa), turning a story into a play.

3.30 Michael Bollen, Wakefield Press - Cultural Books

4pm Chair SAWC: Where to from here?

4.30pm Close & drinks

SPOKE Cross Genre Workshop with Jenny Toune.
Venue: AC Arts Dance Studio, Ac Arts, 39 Light Square Adelaide
Date/Time: Sat 17th March 9.30am - 11.00am
FREE

Open a can of words, empty it into dance/acting & cook up a performance storm. For writers: exploring new ways of working with your poetry/words. For dancers, actors: becoming part of the word performance by collaboration, interpretation, expansion and experimentation. During the workshop we will partner up & explore different interpretive methods, then rehearse & polish each piece up to performance level.

To OFFICIALLY register for this event , please send a message to Red Uncensored toune.jenny@gmail.com stating whether you are registering as a writer, or as an actor or dancer. thanks!

The Amazing Side Shed
Saturday, March 17 from 2 pm - 8pm

@ Shimmering West

The most fascinating and delightful space where a mix of unusually intellectual delights will be available to all dilettantes and perceptive pro's including Poetry in a can, Tarot Poetry, and Man2Man Poetry Massage titillating and engaging you for a modest donation.

Wickedly worldly words exhumed, exposed, exhibited and exactly what you were looking for when you least expected. Poetry Massage a 'hands free' massage; the opportunity to be taken on your own personal journey by a master story-teller with instant insight and sensitivity - like having a great big positive affirmation privately and intimately applied giving you the opportunity to feel that randomly wondrous feeling when someone recognises things in you that you would never imagine or think of for yourself. More than sweet nothing (for adult men)!

Poetry Massage by appointment only Ph: 040 414 8880

SPOKE gives it up! ENTERTAIN!

Saturday, March 17 celebrates entertainment.
Times 6:00pm until 7:00pm
@ Shimmering West

SPOKE gives it up! Welcomes wordsmiths along to present their ideas in three minutes or less, SPOKEs popular open mic session is happening over three evenings, each with their own theme. So poets and writers come along and take a turn at the microphone between 6pm and 7pm let us hear your wit, wisdom or whimsy. Magnificent MC, Jeanne Hurrell, will take your registrations from 5pm on the night.

Indigo Eli - a process in development, a development in process...
Indigo is a contemporary artist gathering the threads of poetry, circus, costume, voice, and movement into new textures of performance.

Her wide-ranging work, spanning from slam poetry to plastic and sticky-tape inflatables, offers voice to the unspoken through the perception that art is the act of bringing the poetically intangible into existence.

How do you play with the language of sound and space?
Is it possible for a poem to perform without words?
Can the poetry of words claim new spaces?
What kinds of spaces could it possibly claim?

Join in on an interviewable showcase of performance poet Indigo. Visit revelations and construct a recount, upon the art that is emerging from Indigo's most recent explorations into the possibilities of poetry in performance.

Facilitated by David Jobling. Pieces of Indigo's multi-art poetic work will be on display during SPOKE.

2011 JUMP mentee, Indigo worked with established artist Margaret Cameron, in conjunction with John Howard and Helen Sharp from the Body Voice Centre in Melbourne.

She is a graduate of AC Arts, co-founding director of 'the nameless project', freelance artist and workshop facilitator.

Speak
Halitus
Interview
Forensic
Tales
Showcase
= SHIFTS

The Nameless Project

Sat 17th 8.30pm - 10.00pm Cross Genre Performance:
Venue: Shimmering West Stage, Light Square Adelaide
Date/Time: FREE

Red Uncensored will present for your drinking pleasure a cocktail of words to entertain, inspire & stimulate, starring SPOKEs workshop participants, interspersed with extra tasty mixers. These cross genre performances will be highlighting words/dance/acting, and our special guests will tickle your taste buds with music, percussion and film.

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Adelaide University Union's O-Live

February 9th 2012 03:35

O-LIVE 2012

On Saturday 25 February 2012, the Adelaide University Union's O-Live concert returns with their biggest and best line-up to date.

Featuring four powerhouse acts including: Stonefield, Tracer, The Medics and Tim Fitz, this not to be missed event is the perfect way to kick off the new year in style!

Priding themselves on picking the next big things O-Live has been a staple of the Adelaide University social calendar for years and 2012 is promising to be bigger and better than ever.

Headliners Stonefield have had a huge 2011! From their Unearthed winning song Foreign Lover receiving massive Triple J support, to their infectious rock stomper Through The Clover and selling huge numbers of their debut EP. Stonefield also showcased at the inaugural One Movement music and arts conference in Perth and were booked on the spot by renowned UK booker Martin Elbourne, to play the 2011 Glastonbury Festival in the UK.

The rest of the band's 2010/11 was spent playing (sold out) headline shows around Australia as well as supports with the Foo Fighters, Kaiser Chiefs, Cold Chisel, Jebediah and being introduced to major Australian festival crowds at the Gold Coast, Sydney and Melbourne Big Day Out's.

Classic Rockers - Tracer have just returned from their third European tour, which included both a solo leg and as the supporting act for Swedish rockers Royal Republic. Their critically acclaimed album Spaces in Between was released in October 2011 just in time to be named by rockchoice.com as one of the Top 20 Hard Rock And Metal Albums for 2011, putting them on par with the likes of Mastodon, Motorhead and Opeth.

The Medics debut EP This Boat We Call Love of 2010 is a slice of indie-rock magic that launched them into the spotlight - earning national airplay and kicking off a touring schedule that has seen them cross the country and turn in highlight sets at The Dreaming, Woodford, Peats Ridge, BIGSOUND Live, Groovin' the Moo and Gold Coast Big Day Out festivals.

Sydney-sider Tim Fitz is a one man looping sensation that draws you into his world with infectious melodies and a mesmerising stage show. His EP Before Time is gathering rave reviews for its originality and creativity. Tim writes, performs, records and produces every track on his EP, a testament to his undeniable talents.

Saturday 25 February at the UniBar, doors open at 7pm - tickets available through moshtix

Stonefield Band
TRACER BAND
The Medics
Tripple J Unearthed

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The 2012 Laneway Festival

January 27th 2012 00:51

You’ll find a heady mix of artists in this, the 2012 St Jerome’s Laneway Festival line-up announcement. There’s the ground-breaking, the genre-bending, your recent discoveries and your soon-to-be new favourites. But one thing unites them all: they are spine-tinglingly great live. Say that five times.

The 2012 Australian event returns to the five venues that have established Laneway as one of the most unique events in the country. The banks of Melbourne’s Maribyrong river, the historic sandstone buildings of Sydney’s College of the Arts, the tree-lined laneways just minutes from the Brisbane CBD, the lush grounds of the Perth Cultural Centre, and a new, expanded site at University of SA will provide the backdrop for 2012’s most exciting indie line-up.

Laneway continues its ongoing international expansion, returning for events in Auckland and Singapore.

The festival is proud of its continuing association with US based The Windish Agency
and UK promoter Eat Your Own Ears, both of whom return in 2012 to co-curate a stage. This year, Laneway is also thrilled to collaborate with Young Turks, the London label proving to be one of the most exciting on the planet right now. Stay tuned for more details about an extra stage in each city that will boast some of the best cutting-edge electronic acts around.

Over the years, the festival has hosted many still relatively-unknown acts at the start of their careers who have gone on to have major international success shortly after: The Temper Trap, Tame Impala, Feist, Florence The Machine, The XX and Mumford & Sons to name just a few. It’s an impressive record, one we’re determined to uphold.

So here it is: the headliner-free, A-Z, top to bottom awesome list of acts playing at the 2012 Laneway Festival:

ACTIVE CHILD - ANNA CALVI - AUSTRA - BULLION - CHAIRLIFT - CULTS - DZ DEATHRAYS - EMA - FEIST [except Adel**] - GEOFFREY O'CONNOR - GIRLS - GIVERS [Syd Melb] - GLASSER - HUSKY [Bris, Syd, Melb] - JOHN TALABOT - JONTI - LAURA MARLING - M83 - ONEMAN - PAJAMA CLUB (featuring Sharon and Neil Finn) - PORTUGAL THE MAN [Syd Melb] - SBTRKT (Live) - TRIPLE J Unearthed Winners - THE VERY WEST - THE DRUMS - THE HORRORS - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART - THE PANICS - TORO Y MOI - TOTAL CONTROL - TWIN SHADOW - WASHED OUT - WU LYF - YUCK

ACTIVE CHILD’s heaven-high vocals were honed in school choirs, which kind of makes us wish we listened to our parents. You Are All I See is the assured debut from LA resident Pat Grossi, a synth-y affair that melds danceable hip hop beats and soaring R&B melodies. And harp. There’s lots of harp. It makes for a gorgeous, diverse sound that has seen him tour with the likes of English dubstep producer James Blake and dreamy synth-poppers School of Seven Bells.

ANNA CALVI is on fire. Do a quick Google search and you’ll see adjectives like hot, incendiary, burning and smokin’ thrown round with abandon. Pretty sure it’s metaphorical but listen to her eponymous debut or watch any video of her performing and you’ll see why. The half-Italian, half-British artist’s deliciously dramatic vocals and darkly cinematic instrumentation have won countless plaudits (including a prestigious Mercury Prize nomination) and the praise of Brian Eno who calls her ‘the best thing since Patti Smith’, which is not a compliment you’d throw out of bed.

AUSTRA’s assured debut Feel It Break is a culmination of the leading lady Katie Stelmanis’ years of school choirs (Again! Sorry Mum.), operatic training and her fascination with electronic music. Stelmanis, along with fellow Canadians, drummer Maya Postepski and bassist Dorian Wolf, have crafted a darkly hypnotic album, not quite dance music but made for night-time. Some people call it electro-goth but it’s much warmer than that. triple j and alternative radio have been all over stylish singles ‘The Beat, The Pulse’ and ‘Lose It ’, as they should be. File next to Bat For Lashes, Kate Bush and The Knife.

Nathan Jenkins is BULLION. Three years ago, the West Londoner self-released a 'mash up' album combining music by the Beach Boys with production inspired by J Dilla, called Pet Sounds: In The Key Of Dee and watched it become a viral sensation on the internet within days. The latest offering from the fast-rising, fresh-faced producer is You Drive Me To Plastic, which drops courtesy of Young Turks Records, friends of the festival and the ultra-hip home of Laneway alumni The xx, Holy Fuck, El Guincho and more.

You may remember CHAIRLIFT’s insanely catchy track Bruises from their 2008 debut, Does You Inspire You . Caroline Palochek and Patrick Wimberly are Chairlift and their music pivots around a hazily romantic, fragmented, psychedelic sense of humor and love for pop music. The duo have spent the past year holed up in the spare room of an antique shop producing their forthcoming album, which will be debuted in Australia in live-band form at Laneway. If lead single 'Amanaemonesia' is anything to go by, it’s a massive winner. The clip for said track is directed by Palochek and is fairly mesmerising. Girl can move, too.

Young NYC-by-way-of-San Diego pop duo CULTS burst onto the scene early last year with the irresistible 'Go Outside', a short, sharp burst of hazy bedroom pop steeped in classic girl-group harmonies and Spector-esque production. Little was known about the twosome of Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin, whose almost ungoogleable name and refusal to give interviews befitted their creepy moniker. A couple of months ago, the band decisively stepped out of the shadows, silencing the doubters with their great self-titled LP , a winsome and succinct half-hour set shot through with darker undercurrents that amply delivers on the band’s early promise.

There’s only one word for DZ DEATHRAYS and it’s ‘fucking-awesome’. Fuzzy, scuzzy, wall-of-sound punk of the highest order. The Brisbane duo have been gaining praise from all over the place (a spot in NME’s Top 50 Bands of 2011, Q Mag, Mark Ronson) for their two EPs but it hardly matters when your face is being melted at one of the band’s electrifying live shows.

‘Holy fucking fuck!’ is how NYC’s Village Voice responded to EMA’s former band, the cult outfit Gowns, but it applies equally to her debut Past Life Martyred Saints. South Dakota songwriter Erica M. Anderson’s devastating, poetic, deeply emotional album is nothing short of gut-wrenching. It’s sparse and full of reverb and like all our favourite Nineties girls’ albums rolled into one.

Can’t believe it’s been four years since FEIST ruled Laneway. Time is a fast train, people. Having gone underground for the past few years, Leslie Feist emerges with her new album, Metals, a typically gorgeous, acutely observational collection of tracks ranging from low rumbling and moody ambiences to those more brutal and intense. It’s a worthy follow-up to her already classic, award-winning and much loved albums Let It Die and The Reminder.

In lieu of a festival appearance in Adelaide, Feist will be performing an exclusive, intimate theatre show at the Thebarton Theatre, presented by the Laneway Festival. Fans purchasing tickets to the festival will be able to bundle a Feist side show and Laneway Festival ticket for a special discounted price of $159. That's a $40 saving, so we're basically giving you money! This is a strictly limited offer. The discount is only valid upon purchase of the bundle ticket. Festival and bundled tickets go onsale Wednesday 19 October through lanewayfestival.com.au . Single side show tickets go on sale Friday 21 October through VenueTix.

GEOFFREY O’CONNOR has more or less been releasing one accomplished album a year since the debut of his former, much-adored outfit Crayon Fields in 2006. Not sure what inspired him to lose his Sly Hats moniker for his solo material but his brand new album Vanity is Forever is brimming with sexy swagger that shifts seamlessly between seductive dance hits, suave funk joyrides and modern synthetic power balladry. Proof. Also, his new live show is the bomb, demonstrating a new found confidence that has come with the new throne.

GIRLS (who are not actually girls) have upped the ante with their stunner of an album, Father Son, Holy Ghost, a release marked by classic song-writing and classy production. Critics everywhere have praised the San Fran natives’ follow-up to their 2009 breakout debut: Pitchfork stamping it with a 9.3 and Clash mag proclaiming it a ‘quiet, understated triumph’. Taking cues from the likes of Alex Chilton and Elliott Smith, frontman Christopher Owen’s loverlorn lyrics are perfectly complemented by deft instrumentation and a refusal to get anywhere via just one musical avenue. The album is a slow-burner and, dare we say it, a masterpiece. Spend some time with it and you will be rewarded many times over.

Lafayette quintet GIVERS bring their joyful pop to the Sydney and Melbourne events and take the party vibe Up, Up, Up. Their debut ‘In Light’ is as sunny as its title, with requisite handclaps, tropical beats and electronic samples. Sound familiar? It is but Givers’ are possessed of a restless spirit that helps set them apart from the plethora of Vampire Weekend/Animal Collective 2.0 imitators. It’s fun, but not simple. Mad dancing prediction. Get into it.

‘Easy to like’ says Pitchfork of GLASSER, the one-woman orchestra of Cameron Mesirow; ‘easy to love’ say we. On Ring, the L.A. native’s universally praised debut lp, ethereal vocals swirl above an intoxicating mix of tribal percussion, lush electronics and orchestral flourishes. It’s mystical, yes, but without any of the put-on eccentricity or pretension those words sometimes imply. Glasser’s music, like her beguiling, beautifully restrained live shows, is the real deal: generous, direct and free of any gimmickry, all of it built around Mesirow’s formidable pipes.

East London via Southend-On-Sea band THE HORRORS have come a long way since 2005, when they graced the cover of the NME with eye-linered eyes, big hair, an eff-you attitude and barely a single (the spiky ‘Sheena Is A Parasite’) to their name. Their live shows were a riot – often literally – but did what rock n roll is supposed to do: energise, excite, divide and polarise. Three records on, they’re all grown up and the hype has evolved into almost universal respect. Skying is a wide-ranging, shapeshifting album with an overarching pop sensibility (see: unlikely hit single ‘Still Life’). They headlined the Laneway-curated stage at London’s Field Day in July and we guarantee that they’re as thrilling as ever.

Ten bucks says that local newcomers HUSKY grew up listening to Paul Simon, The Doors, Leonard Cohen and The Beach Boys. The Melbourne four-piece make classic pop, and their influences are as undeniable as their talent for rich harmonies, and artful songwriting. The band have had people talking since winning a Triple J Unearthed competition earlier in the year. They’re obviously hard workers, having supported Devandra Banhart, Noah & the Whale and Gotye and recorded their forthcoming debut Forever So (out 21 October).

You may not be familiar with Barcelonian producer JOHN TALABOT, but you should be. He makes pop-inflected house music, fusing driving club-friendly beats and gorgeous soaring melodies. Check out his Young Turks debut, the Families EP, which features Laneway cohort Glasser on the title track. Hypnotic, adventurous and infinitely interesting.

Over the past few years JONTI has been quietly making a name for himself as one of Australia’s most interesting musical exports. Under various guises, the multi-instrumentalist, arranger, producer and vocalist has already worked with Mark Ronson, Santigold, Sean Lennon and the Dap-Kings and producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth). Pretty impressive for someone who is yet to release his debut album. ‘Twirligig’ is out next week via US indie label Stones Throw and it is all summery fun: a breezy, cacophonous album that belies its sophisticated arrangements.

It’s as though LAURA MARLING was born in the wrong decade. Wrong century even. Preternaturally wise beyond her 21 years, Marling inhabits an analogue world where she makes literate, timeless folk music. Previous albums Alas, I Cannot Swim and I Speak Because I Can were both nominated for the Mercury Prize (the latter earning her a 2011 Brit Award and NME Award for Best Solo Artist) but her new album, A Creature I Don’t Know, is perhaps her best yet.

We’re calling it. M83’s new LP Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is the Album of The Year. It’s an ambitious, sprawling, epic 22-track double album and it’s outstanding. We were massive fans of French electronic dream-pop artist Anthony Gonzales’ last album, Saturdays = Youth, (as was, um, everyone) but this is next level. Buy it, put it on, turn it up. Can’t wait until M83 close out the main stage in February.

We are very privileged to be streaming it exclusively this week. Head over here for a listen.

Wanna dance? Same. Luckily, that’s the modus operandi of ONEMAN. Revered for his incredible mixing skills, this London Dubstep king is among the scene's most important. His RINSE FM shows are some of the stations most popuar and throw in his legendary London Boiler Room sets and we can be assured that ONEMAN will get the party started.

Neil Finn is an international treasure (did you see him at Meredith last year? Bloody hell) and thus, we are thrilled to present PAJAMA CLUB, the new project by Finn and his wife Sharon. Borne out of a post-dinner jam to fill their empty nest, the coolest parents in the history of the world joined forces with friend and neighbour Sean Donnelly to create a mesmerising self-titled album that embraces electronica, krautrock, soul and is positively brimming with chemistry.

Combustible Brooklyn-via-Florida outfit THE DRUMS have packed a lot into their two years: two excellent, mostly self-recorded albums and an EP, line-up changes, internal strife, a couple of world tours. Now a five-piece, The Drums deftly sidestepped the sophomore slump this year with Portamento, an intimate and largely autobiographical LP full of the band’s trademark mix of giddy hooks and singer Jonathon Pierce’s musings on heartbreak, redemption, loss and love. Lest it all get too glum, The Drums keep their arrangements spry and wiry, drawing on the dynamics of 80s British post-punk to turn some decidedly heavy feelings into seriously compelling pop.

It’s not hard to get your head around the appeal of THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART. Belong is their second album and it’s classic indie pop: jangly guitars, sun-soaked melodies, themes of heartbreak, redemption and so on. It’s like they sat down and wrote an album specifically for the Australian summer. Produced by genii Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Flood (PJ Harvey, Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode), Belong is an album that both revels in and transcends its palpable Nineties influences. Also, they have a song called ‘Anne with an E’, which is appealing if you are an Anne of Green Gables fan.

THE PANICS have found a wider audience since their breakout track ‘Don’t Fight It’ from their 2007 J Award-winning album Cruel Guards, and rightly so. The Melbourne-via-Perth band have long been a world-class act and their latest long player, Rain On The Humming Wire, is an accomplished, beautifully evocative work, full of incisive lyrics and expansive soundscapes. One for the canon.

PORTUGAL. THE MAN is not a man. It is a four-piece hailing from the fabled Alaska and settled in Portland, Oregon, though their rock n roll mantra of record, tour, repeat as necessary means that they’re not home all that much. 800 shows and six albums in (In The Mountain In The Cloud is their accomplished latest) Portugal. The Man are on the cusp of breakthrough success, though you suspect they don’t care about that much. They’re a jam band, capable of texturally rich, sprawling opuses and europhic singalongs. Current single ‘Got It All (This Can't Be Living Now)’, for example, wouldn’t be out of place on the Almost Famous bus. Makes for a rollicking good time.
(MEL and SYD)

Don’t let SBTRKT's aversion to vowels put you off. The anonymous producer’s self-titled debut album (released via Young Turks) pulls off a series of impressive feats: it's bursting with fresh ideas, and yet it sounds immediately familiar; it’s warm yet gritty, playful yet seriously powerful. SBTRKT’s nuanced, purposeful production is augmented by the silky smooth guest vocals of Sampha (accompanying SBTRKT at the festival), Roses Gabor, Jessie Ware and Little Dragon. It’s a record that marks SBTRKT as a standout of the pervasive dubstep scene and an artist worthy of a mainstream audience.

This year’s line-up is crowded with over-achieving youngsters and Chaz Bundick, a.k.a TORO Y MOI, is one of them. Hailing from South Carolina, the multi-talented 24 year old musician, designer and photographer this year released the follow-up to his acclaimed 2010 debut Causers of This, which had him in the company of blogger favourites and chillwave proponents Washed Out, Neon Indian and Memory Tapes. A lyrically rich, stylistically diverse album, Underneath The Pine has firmly established Toro as an exciting and ambitious talent, one confident enough to move on from the scene that made him. His recent live shows, meanwhile, have been described as akin to ‘a flashy, sex-fueled 80s rooftop fiesta’, which is to say they require your attendance.

The supremely-titled TOTAL CONTROL epitomise everything great about punk: a restless musical spirit and a deep disdain for social networking. Composed of members from various Melbourne indie outfits (UV Race, Eddy Current Suppression Ring et al), the band’s primitive synth-punk singles and already-legendary live show will see them tour around the US and UK (including an appearance at All Tomorrow’s Parties at the invitation of Les Savy Fav) before returning to tear apart Laneway.

George Lewis Jnr aka TWIN SHADOW’s debut album is as intriguing as his upbringing. The troubled son of a hairdresser and a teacher ‘who lived many lives’ (semi-pro footballer, massage therapist, film maker and other things we’ll tell you about when you’re older), Lewis Jnr was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in Florida. Forget is the sepia-tinged homage to his childhood, recalling moments from his youth in moods alternately sweet and sinister, but always compelling. Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear) produced the album and he does a fine job of making Forget’’s 80s-tinged electro-pop sound altogether new. Grab a partner and pretend it’s your school formal: Twin Shadow’s slinky tunes and deep, velvety voice are made for this.

If ever there was an evocative title for an artist, it’s WASHED OUT. Ernest Greene’s dreamy, melancholic pop denoted the arrival of a new scene when his first couple of EPs surfaced a few years back. The poster boy for chillwave proves he’s not just a flash in the pan with his highly-anticipated/lauded first full-length (and Sub-Pop debut), Within and Without. Live, it’s less ‘chill’ and more ‘party’ as Greene and his full live band nimbly manoeuvre his multi-layered pop out of the bedroom and onto the stage.

Being ‘fiercely independent’ means nothing if your band is rubbish. Thankfully publicity-shy, record label-averse Mancunian four-piece WU LYF (World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation) are anything but. The self-described proponents of ‘heavy pop’ released their startling first record Go Forth To The Mountain to far-flung adoration in the middle of the year and it is indeed a corker: the explosive mix of organs, echoed percussion, chiming guitar and one of the most distinctive vocalists of recent years combining to utterly euphoric effect. Believe it.

Multi-national London four-piece (and occasional five-piece) YUCK take us straight back to the golden era of Nineties indie rock, a time where Pavement, Dinosaur Jr, Teenage Fanclub and Yo La Tengo ruled supreme. That the band were infants when this era’s defining records came out is very much to their advantage: instead of reliving lost youth, Yuck instead reinvigorate the fuzzily charming sound of a now bygone era with an energy and verve all their own. Their self-produced, self-titled LP, released early this year, is, as Pitchfork put it, ‘a deeply melodic, casually thrilling coming-of-age album’ for a generation who weren’t around for Slanted and Enchanted and Nevermind. If you can imagine that.

BRISBANE – SATURDAY 28th JANUARY 2012
Alexandria Street, Bowen Hills QLD 4006

Laneway returns to a Saturday! That’s right, no more slinking off early on a Friday afternoon mumbling something about a headache to your boss. The festival returns to weekend frivolity and to its adopted home at the RNA Showground. Just a few minutes walk away from the Fortitude Valley precinct and public transport hub the festival awaits. Due to Brisvegas' January heat we have included more undercover areas and shade to ensure you will have a prime Laneway experience. Get up early as doors are opening at 11.30am.

AUCKLAND - MONDAY 30th JANUARY 2012
Silo Park, Beaumont Street. Auckland

For 2012 Laneway New Zealand takes another step towards the ultimate Auckland experience. The remodelled, revamped, refreshed waterfront site of Silo Park will play host to Laneway with three stages, all those showcase boutique amenities and a truly exciting landscape. Silo Park provides Laneway NZ with its first waters edge location, spectacular views to the Harbour Bridge and the towering restored silos to pinpoint this landmark location.

Silo Park was recently completed as part of the upmarket restoration of the Wynyard Quarter. Laneway is proud to be one of the first ticketed outdoor events to grace this new cosmopolitan heart of Auckland City.

MELBOURNE – SATURDAY 4th FEBRUARY 2012
Footscray Community Arts Centre – 45 Moreland Street, Footscray VIC 3011 (Subject to Council approval)

There couldn’t be a better location for the Melbourne event than the banks of the Maribyrong River. The generous assistance of our friends at the Footscray Community Arts Centre and Maribyrong City Council (and the Boon Wurrung and Wurrundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation on whose grounds the event takes place) enables punters to catch their favourite bands in a spacious, tranquil and idyllic ... but still suitably Laneway-esque, urban site (cue stages on roads, views of a gorgeous city skyline and sweet industrial vistas). The spaces that you loved will all be there but we've given you a little bit more too - there's a brand new stage in leafy Grimes Reserve and the Car Park stage is moving to an even better location further down the all new 'River Promenade'.

In another very important development for 2012, the Laneway Festival in Melbourne is especially honoured to be naming a stage after one of our local music heroes, Dean Turner and proud to be supporting the Yiriman Project in his name. More details can be found here but we ask that you select the donation option when you purchase your ticket to Laneway this year.

We've upped the local content and, along with the always brilliant performance of a winning Very West band, we'll be bringing you more of Footscray's wonderful arts, markets and cuisines as well all your favourites from Laneway last year.

The public transport will still be free and we're currently working on a bike valet for all of you cyclists out there, so getting to and from Laneway in Melbourne this year will be as easy as the line up is good.

SYDNEY – SUNDAY 5th FEBRUARY 2012
Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) – Balmain Road, Rozelle NSW 2039 (Subject to Council approval)

There will be many and varied developments to the Sydney event in 2012, the most notable being the move of the main stage to the gorgeous Callan Park Ampitheatre and the addition of another stage tucked away in the trees behind the Sydney College of the Arts. Don’t worry - the historic sandstone buildings of the Sydney College of the Arts will still be fully utilised, hosting stages, markets and fine cuisine. Following feedback from punters, we are making significant improvements to the transport options to and, especially, from the event with more frequent bus services running to the city centre. Stay tuned for more news on this closer to the event.

ADELAIDE – FRIDAY 10th FEBRUARY 2012
Fowler's Live and UniSA West Courtyards – 68-70 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000

Adelaide can look forward to major upgrades to the site following extensive consultation with Laneway fans. The bottleneck issue from the last event will be avoided by the addition of two brand new stages and a one way flow system into and out of the Fowler’s Courtyard: The Young Turks stage, in the recently renovated Law Building Courtyard; and a new main stage on Register St, off Hindley St. A big video screen with vision of the Main Stage, additional food and vintage clothes stalls and a bigger main bar will ensure a premium boutique festival experience.

Click here to see festival director, Danny Rogers, walk you through the changes.

PERTH – SATURDAY 11th FEBRUARY 2012
Perth Cultural Centre – Beaufort Street, Perth WA 6000

In 2012, Laneway will again take place in the urban beauty of the Perth Cultural Centre, with a couple of changes to the layout from last year. The magical Museum Stage area under the trees has been expanded while the Francis Street stage will move to the State Library end of the street and the patron entry will move to the Beaufort St end. The market stalls move across to the Urban Orchard. Look out for all the new upgrades around the Cultural Centre precinct, including a neat little kiddies playground outside the Museum. Our fine selection of foods stalls, located around the Urban Orchard and Art Gallery, ensures there’ll be plenty of fine food for you to enjoy.

SINGAPORE - SUNDAY 12th FEBRUARY 2012
Fort Canning, Canning Rise, Singapore

After the legendary inaugural event in 2011, Laneway returns to Fort Canning in 2012. Demonstrating our commitment to building this show into the premiere music festival event in South East Asia, Singaporeans and their regional neighbours can expect some exciting developments, including the addition of a second stage. Fourteen bands (eight up from last year) from around the world will descend on Fort Canning in February, transforming the event into a bona fide festival experience. The confirmed lineup for Laneway Singapore is now to be announced on October 21. Some final amendments are being done to ensure that the lineup for Singapore is unsurpassed.

**FEIST SIDESHOW TICKET OFFER - ADELAIDE

In lieu of a festival appearance in Adelaide, Feist will be performing an exclusive, intimate theatre show at the Thebarton Theatre, presented by the Laneway Festival. Fans purchasing tickets to the festival will be able to bundle a Feist sideshow and Laneway Festival ticket for a special discounted price of $159. That's a $40 saving, so we're basically giving you money! This is a strictly limited offer. The discount is only valid upon purchase of the bundle ticket. Festival and bundled tickets go on sale Wednesday 19 October through lanewayfestival.com.au . Single sideshow tickets go on sale Friday 21 October through Venue Tix.

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BED PERCUSSION

January 24th 2012 00:14

BED PERCUSSION @ The Garden of Unearthly Delights - Idolize Spiegeltent

There were three in the BED and the little one said...Bang! Crash! Thud! Don't expect to snooze lightly in the Garden of Unearthly Delights on Sun 19th Feb at 5.30pm - an explosion of rousing metal, plastic and wood sounds will deregulate your sleep cycle with repertoire ranging from Tchaikovsky to Beyonce.

The Idolize Spiegeltent will play host to a unique slumber party where you will be immersed in a state of undulating serenity then awoken with nightmarish exhilaration.

Based in Melbourne, the award-winning trio BED Percussion combines the creative ambitions of Belinda Hogarth, Erica Rasmussen and David George.

Since their formation in 2005, they have performed at a number of venues around Australia, including Iwaki Auditorium where they were featured as part of the ABC Classic Sunday Live Concert Series. BED Percussion enjoy performing music rarely seen or heard and write and arrange much of their own music.

Leave your pyjamas at home, you've never heard a lullaby like this before.

SUN 19th FEB
The Garden of Unearthly Delights - Idolize Spiegeltent
Rundle Park / Kadlitpinna Cnr East Tce & Rundle Rd Adelaide 5000 SA
5.30pm
All Tickets: $20
Ticket Sales: 1300 FRINGE (374643)

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SUPER on DVD

January 16th 2012 13:46

On DVD now, I'm not sure it made it onto the screen here in Adelaide but I suspect it did some business in the eastern states.

Super is a film by James Gunn starring Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page along with Liv Tyler and Kevin Bacon. It's a very good cast to start with, and the subject is fascinating and quite amusing.

An average guy (Rainn Wilson) creates the superhero alter ego of The Crimson Bolt because he has been touched by the finger of God. His drug addict wife (Liv Tyler) has run away with a charming drug dealer (Kevin Bacon) who uses her as a bit of a tester for his drugs and as a commodity when it suits him. Without actual super powers, he becomes a street level thug basically swinging a wrench to make his points and leaving some pretty damaged folks in his wake.

The Crimson Bolt develops his character somewhat and takes on a sidekick after being badgered to do so by the childishly immature girl who works in a comic book shop (Page), she turns out to be the most psychopathic youngster he could have bumped into. Her super hero character Boltie takes great delight in destruction, and aids The Crimson Bolt as he tries to take down the drug dealer that destroyed his marriage. There are some very graphic scenes of violence almost comletely unexpected. Sure I expect The Crimson Bolt to get his face bashed in here and there because he is just approaching bad people and attacking them, so why wouldn't they fight back; but some of the violence once things escalate is astonishing. Yet the film remains amusing and sort of feel good in a strange sort of way.

If you send an email with your name and address in the Adelaide area I've some copies I can send out as give-aways, just tell me in up to 50 words who your super hero alter ego would be and what whould you be calling yourself?

Most creative gets a DVD of Super.

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20 GOLDEN GREATS! Bob Downe

January 11th 2012 01:50

20 GOLDEN GREATS!

Bob Downe

Australia's clown prince of polyester is back and funnier than ever in his brand new solo (just the way you like him!) show entitled 20 GOLDEN GREATS!

Yes, BOB DOWNE, who has been making the world laugh more than 25 years is coming back to for the 2012 Adelaide Fringe to sing and swing his way through this new show.

Direct from his triumphant 15th Edinburgh Fringe, BOB says '20 GOLDEN GREATS! is the show where you'll come IN humming the classic pop, disco and rock hits. I give you my solemn promise. There won't be a single song you haven't heard …there’ll be prizes too … AND some surprises!’

The show which will featuring the classic pop, disco and rock hits will play from Thursday 8 Mar – Sat 17th March at 7.00pm Arts Theatre 53 Angas Street Adelaide:

Presented by MARY TOBIN PRESENTS...

‘This is exactly what it'll be like when Jesus comes back. Well, let's hope so anyway. …his repartee is as pin-sharp as his trouser creases ... while belting out his Golden Greats with enough genuine showbiz pizzaz to get practically the whole place singing along’

British Comedy Guide

‘A great Fringe icon has returned... admirably slick... Fun show.’ The Scotsman

‘Like the rest of the audience the Whingers found themselves quite carried away with Mr Downe and his infectious enthusiasm.’ West End Whingers

BOB DOWNE is one of Australia's most loved and enduring comedy characters, the creation of journalist, comedian, actor and broadcaster MARK TREVORROW.

Mark was born in Melbourne in 1959, trained as a journalist at the Herald Sun, and moved to Sydney in 1982 with the huge success of his cabaret group, THE GLOBOS. He created BOB DOWNE in 1984 and has toured the world as the Prince of Polyester ever since. Bob's last production stage show, WORLD WAR BOB, premiered to acclaim at the 2009 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, with a return season at Her Majesty's last April. Bob's most recent TV appearance was hosting the 2010 SYDNEY GAY & LESBIAN MARDI GRAS PARADE broadcast for Foxtel/Arena.

Since 2002, Mark Trevorrow has established a parallel career singing, acting and broadcasting as himself. He is heard regularly on ABC Local Radio and his 2004 nostalgic talkumentary series THE WAY WE WERE was a ratings winner on the national broadcaster. He has also featured regularly on KATH & KIM, as 'Darryl' the menswear salesman, and will appear in the forthcoming KATH & KIM movie.

20 GOLDEN GREATS!
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ARTS THEATRE 53 ANGAS ST , ADELAIDE 5000

DATES
8 – 17 March 2012

DAYS TIME TICKETS
8-9 Mar at 7pm EB$27.00 $28.00 $30.00 $28.00 $28.00
10-11, 14-17 Mar at 7pm EB$32.00 $35.00 $32.00 $32.00 $32.00
13 Mar at 7pm EB$27.00 ChpTues$30.00

RUNNING TIME
60 Minutes

BOOKINGS
Fringetix
or at the door 30 minutes before a performance

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Dresden Dolls TOUR

December 7th 2011 04:31

The Dresden Dolls
RETURN TO AUSTRALIA!

Followers of theatrical punk cabaret stars THE DRESDEN DOLLS can rejoice as news breaks of their upcoming reunion tour. The dynamic pair, comprised of Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione, reached infamy through their brand of art house rock, steadily climbing out of the artistic trenches from which they were born.

The Dresden Dolls beguiling breed of stylised Brechtian punk cabaret erupts with theatrics, spontaneity and genuine frivolity. Fans and critics cannot wait to get in on the action once again after their previous tours proved to be such a treat:

“On stage they interact intuitively and naturally, their rapport is palpable. The
best songs are manic, like ants at fairy bread…The songs are visual, they come to life, and seem made out of pieces of goddesses and monsters, troy horses and walking sticks.” – Brag

“From the second Palmer touches the keys and opens her mouth, a scene is
set. It is century old European cabaret and it’s wonderful…Now that’s what I call a show.” – Drum Media

“It’s difficult to imagine anyone else pulling this off so convincingly.” – Rolling
Stone

Whilst Amanda is certainly no stranger to our shores, it has been six years since she and Brian performed here as The Dresden Dolls and in the minds and hearts of their devoted fans, that is truly six years too many.

Amanda and Brian’s live shows have enchanted and enthralled audiences the world over since their formation over a decade ago and their return will no doubt be much celebrated. Be sure to catch them as they grace the nation’s finest theatres this coming January!

JANUARY 2012

Frontier Members pre-sale via www.frontiertouring.com12noon AEDT Thu 17 Nov to 12noon AEDT Fri 18 Nov
General public on sale from 9am local time, Mon 21 Nov

Thu 5 Jan The Tivoli, Brisbane, QLD GA 18plus
Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au

Sat 7 Jan Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW GA & Seating All Ages
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Sun 8 Jan Forum Theatre, Melbourne, VIC GA 18plus
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Wed 11 Jan The Gov, Adelaide, SA GA All Ages
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Thu 12 Jan Astor Theatre, Perth, WA GA All Ages
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Posted By: David Jobling - Category: Welcome Release, Live, Sydney Scene, Adelaide Scene, Melbourne Scene, Brisbane Scene, Perth Scene, Australia National , CD/DVD

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DUO 2CELLOS

November 25th 2011 21:58

CROATIAN DUO 2CELLOS

CONFIRMED TO PERFORM WITH ELTON JOHN

They are amazing! Their ages combined are younger than anyone in the band. - Elton John

Having spent the European summer touring with Elton John, it’s now Australia’s turn to welcome 2 Cellos to its shores. The handsome Croatian-born duo will be performing live alongside the Rocket Man at each and every date across the country starting this weekend.

CLICK HERE FOR 2 CELLOS TAKE ON SMOOTH CRIMINAL AT You Tube.

Gifted cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser arrived this week to continue to tour world-wide with ELTON JOHN and promote their self-titled debut album which is out now through Sony Music Entertainment Australia.

These two young, good looking Croatians are certainly living the dream! Based in a small town in Croatia, the 24-year-old music students posted a self-made music video of them performing Michael Jackson's “Smooth Criminal” on their cellos and posted online. The long-time friends received more attention than they ever expected - within days, the video became a viral sensation and received millions of views. It got the attention of SONY MASTERWORKS who signed them to a record deal.

Concurrently, they received a phone call from legend Elton John who invited them to join him on his European tour this summer. “I feel so blessed that all of this is happening – a record deal with SONY and a tour with Elton John – who would have imagined?!” relays Stjepan Hauser.

Their debut album features Sulic & Hauser’s unique spin on hits by Guns N’ Roses, U2, Coldplay and Kings of Leon among others. “We grew up with Michael Jackson, U2 and Nirvana. The melody and structure of their songs really inspired us to arrange them for 2 cellos. Bands like Coldplay, Kings of Leon and Muse also write songs with those similar melodic qualities – so we had a great time digging in and making them part of this album too,” says Luka Sulic.

Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser have been playing the cello since childhood. Both recently completed their studies – Luka at the acclaimed Royal Academy of Music in London, Stjepan at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Luka has performed throughout the world at renowned venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus. He has won a series of international prizes including first prize at the 2009 VII Lutoslawski International Cello Competition in Warsaw. Stjepan has performed in numerous European countries, South Africa, New Zealand, Asia and the U.S., with debuts in London’s Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, South Bank Centre and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. He was the last pupil of Mstislav Rostropovich. In his short career, Stjepan's accolades include winning twenty-one first prizes in national and international competitions and performing twice for Prince Charles in Buckingham and St. James's Palace.

2CELLOS will no doubt win a legion of Australian fans when they see them on stage with Elton John.

Saturday 26 November

Sunday 27 November

Lyric Theatre, The Star, Sydney

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Wednesday 30th November

Entertainment Centre, Brisbane

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Saturday 3rd December

Sunday 4th December

Hope Estate, Hunter Valley

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Tuesday 6th December

Wednesday 7th December

Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

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Friday 9th December

A Night At Coopers Amphitheatre

Coopers Brewery, Adelaide

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Sunday 11th December

Burswood Dome, Perth

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