Big news this week is that Pimmon is coming back to town. He played a couple of my favourite shows of the year back in 2008. This time he’s playing a show at the Electronic Music Unit at Adelaide Uni which should be a really excellent venue for him. The details are

“Pimmon
“A performance like a slow-motion white water torrent. In space.”
with Christian Haines
Saturday 20 February
9.00pm sharp
THE EMU SPACE, Electronic Music Unit
5th Floor, Schulz Building, University of Adelaide
http://emu.adelaide.edu.au/contact/
$5 entry
(enter via the Scott Theatre lifts behind the Schulz building, Kintore Avenue, Gate 15)”

This is an excellent chance to see a unique Australian artist who does not perform live very often, in a superb performance space. I can’t recommend it highly enough. At this time of year lots of Adelaide people go out to all sort of shows that they wouldn’t normally go to, associated with the festival or the fringe, but stuff like this often slips through the cracks because it doesn’t get such high profile advertising. Paying $5 is not much of a risk to take to experience something different though. Here is a great review of his latest album if you want to know more.

On the topic of the Fringe Festival, one thing that really stands out is the Shimmering West Music Festival taking place on light square. It involves some local favourites like Satan’s Cheerleaders and God God Dammit Dammit, but even better it brings the long awaited return of the brilliant Curse Ov Dialect. Unfortunately much of it clashes with Womadelaide, it’ll depend on the full Womad schedule but I’ll do my best to get up to Light Square for Curse of Dialect on Friday 5th of March.

Last week the Laneway Festival was great, highlights were The XX, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Kid Sam, Hockey and Echo & the Bunnymen. Some good news is that Kid Sam will be back in town for a show at the Metro in April.

Some tours that are missing Adelaide are NZ legends The Bats (April) and The Chills (May). Also a bit of a disappointment is that Kid Koala is missing Adelaide on an upcoming tour, he’s always played here to good crowds on his previous tours. Also, soon to be announced is a tour by Tortoise, but they’ve never been here before so an Adelaide date is quite unlikely.

Tasmanians (or at least that’s where they started) The Paradise Motel are back after a 10 year absence, only a Melbourne show at this point though. A couple of the members (one original and one new) used to play in Adelaide band The Outland Brothers.

No details yet but Zulya will be visiting Adelaide again around April-May on a tour supporting the release of her new album.

A rumour that has been around is that The Wedding Present might tour Australia. They’re upcoming world tour is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their classic album Bizarro so that would be brilliant if they did make it here.

Finally, one more reminder that this Friday I’ll be doing a DJ set at the Metro. You can expect to hear some great post punk from the likes of PIL, Gang of Four, Wire, The Fall, Pere Ubu, Laughing Clowns, The Birthday Party, Joy Division and lots more.

FEBRUARY

• 11th RZA at Fowler’s Live.
• 12th Le Rayon Vert DJ Set at the Metro.
• 13th Avant Gardeners at the Metro.
• 13th Satan’s Cheerleaders at Higher Ground.
• 19th Yo La Tengo at Fowler’s Live.
• 20th Pimmon with Christian Haines at the EMU, Adelaide Uni.
• 20th Steering By Stars, Sincerely Grizzly at the Jade Monkey.
• 23rd Brian Jonestown Massacre at Fowlers.
• 25th Like Leaves and Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle.
• 25th Satan’s Cheerleaders at Light Square.
• 26th Satan’s Cheerleaders at the Crown & Anchor.
• 26th Hit the Jackpot at Supermild.
• 27th London Sinfonietta: Pacific Currents at the Adelaide Town Hall.
• 28th London Sinfonietta: Wind & Glass at the Adelaide Town Hall.

MARCH

• 5-8th WOMADelaide at Botanic Park with the Skatalites, Calexico, Ravi Shankar, Dean & Britta, Ethiopiques and lots more.
• 5th Clue to Kalo & Shame Spiral at the Metro.
• 5th Curse ov Dialect at Light Square.
• 6th Wayne Shorter Quartet at the Festival Theatre.
• 7th The Necks at the Spiegeltent.
• 7th Pavement at Thebby
• 7th God God Dammit Dammit at Light Square.
• 12th Robert Forster is the guest at Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone in the Spiegeltent.
• 13th Dinosaur Jr at Fowlers Live.
• 13th Hit the Jackpot with Naked on the Vague at the Metro.
• 18th Raekwon at HQ.
• 21st Massive Attack at the Entertainment Centre.
• 24th The Pixies at Thebby (playing Doolittle)
• 28th Jandek with the Primitive Calculators at the Gov ? (TBC)

APRIL

• 9th Kid Sam at the Metro.
• 16th Mountain Goats at Fowler’s Live.
• 24th No Through Road and We All Want To at the Metro.

On the Stereo

• Monade – Monstre Cosmic cd (Too Pure)
• Luke Vibert – Chicago, Detroit, Redruth cd (Planet Mu)
• DJ Youngsta – Dubstep Allstars Vol.2 cd (Tempa)
• Monolake – Hongkong Remastered cd (Monolake)
• The Field – From Here We Go Sublime cd (Kompakt)
• Autechre – Quaristice (Versions) cd (Warp)
• Various – Loose Cannon: Sounds from the Australian Experimental Underground 2cd (no label)
• Skalpel – s/t cd (Ninja Tune)
• DJ Kentaro – Enter cd (Ninja Tune)
• Aesop Rock – Labor Days cd (Def Jux)