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Puff 'n' Stuff.
Kudos to locals Hit The Jackpot who are heading west shortly to support Sonic Youth in Perth (and word has it the noisy duo were hand picked by Thurston Moore himself - how cred is that?). Sure, it would have been nicer if the Youth had decided to celebrate the radness of HTJ by, say, scheduling an Adelaide show, of course...
Blink-182 are returning to Australia in August
to make up for the shows cancelled when drummer Travis Barker
broke his foot (astute dB Magazine readers might remember that
Adelaide was their last show before pulling the pin). Unfortunately
the new dates are east coast only, meaning that we miss out
on Sparta, who are supporting the Blinkers along with Gyroscope.
Dammit.
Diplomat don't play so often these days, what with drummer Ben Matson being inconveniently located in Queensland, so it's always nice to see them in rock form: and that's the form you'll be getting on Thurs 3 June at the Crown & Anchor Hotel (along with Tommygun) and at Jive on Fri 4 June (along with Tusk, Sweeper and The Trafalgars - who are playing their last local show for a while before they head off on tour for their 'Thank You Captain' CD-EP).
They're an ambitious lot, those folks at
Radio Adelaide's Student Radio. Not content with their Local
Noise program, which brings live sets from Adelaide bands to
the airwaves every Tuesday night, they started up Student TV
on Channel 31 to give a visual aspect to proceedings. Now they've
enlisted the support of the Dan O'Connell to be the Local Noise
pub, meaning that the band that you listen to on Tuesday night
is the band you can go and see the following night - which is
then, in turn, screened on Student TV on the following Sunday
night at 10pm. Got that? So: tonight (Wed 2 June) is Kaleidoscope
at the Dan O'Connell, with Muscle Car on Wed 9 June and the
likes of Paper Tiger, The Unspoken Things, Mirrorline and Of
The Human Condition in the coming weeks.
Wanna go to Splendour In The Grass at Byron Bay in July and enjoy PJ Harvey's only Australian show, not to mention Ash, Franz Ferdinand, Electric Six, Snow Patrol, the Jurassic 5 and so forth? You would? Well, tough: it's completely and utterly sold out. No more tickets to be had. At all.
Melbourne singer/songwriter/fisherman Sime
Nugent (him out of The Forefathers) is popping over to Adelaide
to play with The Yearlings and The Vandas (the much-tipped new
project of former Drowners frontman Chris Altmann) on Sat 12
June.
Speaking of The Yearlings, they're playing every Wednesday night as Fad Lounge Bar Gallery's resident band for June.
Something else for those who pick their copy
of dB Magazine up on the day it comes out: Wed 2 June will see
New York comic Eddie Ifft headline the Rhino Room's regular
Monkey Business comedy night.
Picked up your tickets for The Offspring as yet? You might want to get in nice and early, if you want to see those punk stalwarts tear the roof off the Jubilee Pavillion at Wayville Showgrounds, along with Something Corporate and Bodyjar (with Frenzal Rhomb's Gordy filling in for recently departed drummer Ross Hetherington, as first reported by Puff last issue).
Yet another one to add to the no-Adelaide-date-on-Australian-tour
list: Blonde Redhead are hitting the east coast in August, but
giving us a wide berth. So is Marshall Crenshaw, incidentally.
Bastards.
On the other hand, the rock machine that is Three Point Tilt is coming to Adelaide for a show at the Crown & Anchor on Sat 5 June, along with Fear In Dakota. Rock!
The Governor Hindmarsh is hosting a concert
for World Refugee Day, billed as 'A Place To Call Home' and
featuring the sweet sounds of Liam Gerner & The Lost Dogs, Bangladeshi
musos Akhter Jahan, Behnoosh Aryanpad and band, Sudanese and
Liberian rhythms from The Nile Band, and Dido Durmanovic & Damir
Romanik representing the sounds of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia
and Dalmatia. It all kicks off at 2pm on Sun 20 June and all
proceeds go to the Australian Refugee Association.
Now, that's a whole mess of perfectly adequate reasons for you, dear reader, to grab a nice warm coat, find your least scratchy scarf and...
Get Out Of The House!
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