This weekend sees not one, but two gigs involving Little Ice Age. Now, this would be exciting enough under normal circumstances, but since they played their last ever show a few weeks ago it makes it even more exciting. Is it too soon to call this a reunion? I think that it was the last ever show with a full band, and these will be acoustic shows. Anyway, see them while you can!

The show on Saturday is of particular interest since they are playing as part of a big lineup of quality local bands. The occasion is the end of an era at the Prince Albert as they are changing hands. The P.A. has been a big, big supporter of local music. Not just putting on loads of gigs, but often when I’ve been in there on other nights they are playing great Adelaide music on the stereo. Should be a very big night.

Still haven’t decided whether I’ll go to Parklife on Sunday, but I’m leaning towards going just to see M.I.A who was great at the BDO last year. Hopefully Botanic Park is a bit less dusty than it was for Womad.

Also, don’t forget that you can hear me on Radio Adelaide every Tuesday between about 5:15 and 5:30. Either tune in to 101.5 FM if you’re in Adelaide, or listen to the streaming audio on their website from anywhere.

SEPTEMBER

• 20th – Little Ice Age (acoustic) at the Grace Emily with Aviator Lane and Laurence Szucs.
• 21st – 200 Motels at the Crown & Anchor with The Tony Font Show and Fraud Millionaires.
• 22nd – No Through Road, Little Ice Age, Antony of the Future, Belittle League and Home for the Def at the Prince Albert.
• 22nd – Hit The Jackpot at the Exeter with Spider Vomit.
• 22nd – She Said What at Urtext featuring Sianna Lee, Assassination Collective, Spider Vomit, Miss Golly Gosh, Dimension Flux plus DJ Red Evan and DJ Pash This. That all happens from 8:30pm, but get there during hte day for stalls, art & performance.
• 23rd – Parklife Festival at Botanic Park featuring Adam Freeland (England), Ajax, Busy P (France), DJ Craze (USA), Derrick Carter (USA), Digitalism (Germany), DJ Delicious, Freq Nasty (NZ), Goose, Greenskeepers, Justice (France), K.I.M, Lyrics Born (USA), M.I.A., MSTRKRFT (Canada), Muscles, Riot in Belgium, Scratch Perverts, Shapeshifter (New Zealand), Stereo MCs (UK), The Herd, The Sounds, Yacht, Yelle
• 30th – Holly Throsby at the Jade Monkey with Stephanie Dosen

OCTOBER

• 6th – Little Ice Age (Acoustic) at the Jade Monkey.
• 12th – Art of Fighting at Jive.
• 19th – Grinderman at Thebarton Theatre.
• 24th and 25th – Paul Kelly at the Gov.

MOVEMBER

• 10th – Bill Callahan at the Jade Monkey.
• 10th – Via Tania is supporting Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set at Fowlers.
• 25th – Ed Kuepper will be playing at an event called On the Verge: The 21st Century Guitar as part of the Adelaide International Guitar Festival.
• 30th – The Wagons with No Through Road and Skeletons at Rocket.

On the Stereo

• Benga – Crunked Up 12″ (Tempa)
• Kode9 + the Spaceape – Sine of the Dub 10″ (Hyperdub)
• Vex’d – Degenerate 2LP (Planet Mu)
• Techno Animal – Brotherhood of the Bomb 2LP (Matador)
• Various – 300% Dynamite 2LP (Soul Jazz)
• Pole – Steingarten cd (~scape)
• Steinski – Nothing to Fear (a rough mix) LP (no label)
• Susanna and the Magical Orchestra – Melody Mountain cd (Rune Grammofon)
• Tunng – Comments of the Inner Chorus cd (Static Caravan / Spunk)
• Four Tet – DJ Kicks cd (!K7)