If the Adelaide Fringe seems to have come around pretty quick this time that’s because it used to be every two years, but now they’ve changed it to an annual event. The program is out and I have to say that after a quick skim I’m a little underwhelmed. Now partly this can be put down to my narrow interests – I really didn’t look much beyond the music listings, but even there while there was plenty that sounded OK there was nothing that really grabbed me. There is one notable exception which I found hiding in the Writing section, Erosophy, billed as free jazz and spoken word. It’s on Sunday March 18 at 4pm at Club 199 on Nth Terrace, tickets are $15/$10.

I should also throw in a plug for the guys from Unstoppable Huxtable who are putting on a show called [Interrobang]. I didn’t see their last production, but have thoroughly enjoyed their fundraising quiz nights (especially the time we won loads of ice tea).
Also I see that Neo, a nice bunch of chaps from Darwin who I’ve crossed paths with a few times before, are heading back to town (trivia: I used to play in a band with someone who used to play with them. Hint – he’s in the blogroll). They are Fringe regulars with their “Funk’n’roots” as it is descibed in the guide. They play at the Crown & Sceptre, the Festival Centre Piano Bar and the Wheatsheaf on March 23 (9pm), 25 (9pm) and 27 (3:30pm) respectively.

I’d provide links to those events but they seem to have forgotten to put the Fringe Guide on the website. At least they do have info on the opening night party which is usually a great event, though it doesn’t seem to have a parade as usual, and it is on a Thursday rather than Friday in another break with tradition.

Apart from that I’d like to throw it open – tell me what I missed, from the music section or elsewhere. What’s worth going to at the fringe? Recommendations in comments please.

(Note You may have noticed an edit here. I may some flippant comments about a show based on the ad in the guide. One of the artists has stopped by on another thread and very generously offered free tickets to the show so I can reconsider my opinion after actually seeing it. I’m not able to take up that offer (you may have noticed that I haven’t had time to write about anything lately), so I thought that if I’m not going to give an informed opinion it’s only fair to edit out the comments, especially since it turns out that this page was appearing very prominently in google searches for the show – I certainly didn’t intend for off the cuff comments on something rather outside the scope of this blog to end up as a defacto review.)
Update: I’ve a had a tip on something from the Visual Arts section:
Intent INTENT is an exciting exhibition extravaganza. Tents and interior spaces creating hybrid works and new collaborations with light, projections, photography, painting, sculpture, writing and sound installations.
The featured arists are Brigid Noone, Annika Evans, Mary-Jean Richardson, Mark Niehus, Lachlan Pierce, Zoe Marr, Kahl Hopper, Debra Vranek, Dirk Vroemen and Henry. The opening is on March 16 5pm-9pm, and then it is open until March 31 with opening times 1pm-5pm on March 17-18 and 24-5, and 3pm-7pm the other days. It’s free and is at the Queens Theatre, Playhouse Lane (cnr Gilles Arcade)