[gigs] Festival of Unpopular Culture

The Festival of Unpopular Culture starts tonight, details here. It involves a number of gigs, in particular tomorrow night Like Leaves play at the Mercury for the premiere of the film Echotone and later on at Format there’s a great lineup with The Coolies, Kitchen’s Floor and Terrible Truths. Next weekend there’s Rat vs Possum and Gold Bloom, and there’s lots of other stuff as well (including a hell of a lot of Nigel Koop which can only be a good thing). Download the program and have a look, there’s lots of non-gig stuff as well (gig guide readers might be particular interested in the panel discussion which includes Dave Graney, Sarah Chadwick, Nicci Reid and Matt Banham on Sat 15th).

In other news, a couple more great overseas tours are making it to Adelaide, in November Flaming Lips are confirmed for a Harvest Festival sideshow at Thebby, and in January the excellent Deerhoof are finally making it to Adelaide for a show at Jive.

OCTOBER

  • 8th Like Leaves at the Mercury Cinema (with screening of Echotone)
  • 8th The Coolies, Kitchen’s Floor, Terrible Truths at Format.
  • 9th Kitchen’s Floor, Old Mate, God Malls at the Metro.
  • 9th Choral Grief at the Reading Room (5pm)
  • 13th – Stu Thomas at the Metro.
  • 14th – Central Deli Band, Home for the Def, Mondo Phase Band, Big Richard Insect at the Fuc Hub (Adelaide College of the Arts)
  • 14th & 15th – Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist at the Wheatsheaf.
  • 15th – Rat Vs Possum, Gold Bloom at Format.
  • 16th – Cheer Advisory Council at the Grace Emily.
  • 21-23rd – Womad Earth Station includes the Kronos Quartet, Wu Man, Toumani Diabaté and Mista Savona. More acts to be announced in August – more added – Konono No. 1, Tallest Man on Earth, Zakir Hussein.
  • 30th – DJ Wolfpanther at the Metro – Flying Nun Records set.

NOVEMBER

  • 5th Dick Diver at Format.
  • 15th The National and The Walkmen at Thebarton Theatre.
  • 16th Flaming Lips at Thebarton Theatre.
  • 17th Portishead, Mercury Rev at Thebarton Theatre.
  • 23rd Tiny Ruins at the Grace Emily.
  • 25th The Cruel Sea at the Gov.

DECEMBER

  • 4th The Clouds at the Gov.
  • 8th Grinderman at HQ.
  • 8th Guitar Wolf at Jive.

JANUARY

  • 12th Deerhoof at Jive

FEBRUARY

  • 10th Laneway Festival, first artist announcement on Oct 10

MARCH

  • 2nd Ennio Morricone at Elder Park. (Note change of date)

On the Stereo

  • The Meters – s/t LP (Josie)
  • Jack Ladder & the Dreamlanders – Hurtsville cd (Spunk)
  • Naked on the Vague – Twelve Dark Noons EP (Sacred Bones)
  • The Verlaines – You’re Just Too Obscure For Me cd (Flying Nun)
  • Sneaky Feelings – Positively George Street cd (Flying Nun)
  • The Fall – I Am Kurious, Oranj cd (Beggars Banquet)
  • Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT cd (Dead Oceans)
  • Terry Riley – In C (Sony Classical)
  • The Caretaker – Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia 6cd (V/VM Test Records)
  • The Focus Group – Sketches and Spells cd (Ghost Box)