Dreams on Wheels

Dreams on Wheels is the title of a free exhibition about Danish Cycling culture. I highly recommend it for any Adelaide cycling enthusiasts. As well as a nice range of innovative bikes on display there is also some interesting information about urban planning and other issues behind getting people onto bikes in modern cities. It’s open weekdays until next Thursday at 25 Pirie St, full details from the Adelaide City Council.

Free Ed Kuepper Download

At Ed Kuepper’s Prince Melon site there is a link to a free download of some tracks from the launch of Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog. It’s a great set with an unusual lineup including cello, keyboards and brass. Includes some songs rarely heard live as well as great versions of recent ones, particularly the stunning Real to Me.

[gigs]

AUGUST

  • 27th Hoodoo Gurus with Children Collide at the Gov.
  • 31st Dave Graney and Henry Wagons at the Ed Castle.

SEPTEMBER

  • 4th Tim Steward (Screamfeeder) at Electric Light with Aquanaut.
  • 5th Tim Steward at the Jade Monkey with Lumonics and Zeta.
  • 6th Holly Throsby at Jive.
  • 6th The Herd at Fowlers.
  • 13th Shoji Hano, Kris Wanders and Yusuke Akai at the Jade Monkey.
  • 27th Parklife Festival with Diplo, Dizzee Rascal, Blackalicious and lots more.
  • 29th Black Francis at HQ.

OCTOBER

  • 10th The New Pornographers at the Gov.
  • 12th The Tallest Man on Earth at the Grace Emily.
  • 19th Grand Salvo will be supporting Sophie Koh at Fowlers.

FEBRUARY

  • 17th Chick Corea and John McLaughlin at Her Majesty’s Theatre.

Also, people in Sydney & Melbourne can look out for reunions of a couple of bands from the 80’s – The Moffs and The Wreckery.

On the Stereo

  • The Outland Brothers – The Fluid Rules cdep (no label)
  • Ed Kuepper – Ed Kuepper Live cd (Prince Melon)
  • Ed Kuepper – The Prince Melon Bootleg Series Vol. 2 cd (Prince Melon)
  • Ed Kuepper with Jeffrey Wegener – The Prince Melon Bootleg Series Vol. 3: The Euroboot Album cd (Prince Melon)
  • The Go-Betweens – Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express 2cd (EMI)
  • Robert Forster – The Evangelist cd (Capitol)
  • ii – Landlakes cd (Feral Media)
  • Charles/Grydeland/Wallumrød/Zach – Dans Les Arbres cd (ECM)
  • Sun Ra – The Magic City cd (Evidence)
  • Various – The Fire This Time 2cd (Hidden Art)

Finally! Phoenix on DVD

According to the Ezydvd site, series 1 of the early 90’s ABC police drama Phoenix will be released on dvd on October 2nd. I would assume that the second series, and hopefully the follow up series Janus will follow. This is fantastic news, this is one of the best Australian TV shows ever. Fans of one of the best recent shows from the US, The Wire, in particular are recommended to check it out as the format, with each series following one particular case.

I have previously blogged about my frustration at not being able to get this on dvd.

UPDATE – this is now on the ABC shop site as well.

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Farewell to the Outland Brothers

Just found out that tonight The Outland Brothers are bidding farewell to Adelaide with a gig at the Jade Monkey. Sad news for us, but good news for the people of Melbourne as they’ll be contributing to the reunion of The Paradise Motel.
One other thing, by my reckoning it’ll be my 500th gig ever.

Ed Kuepper in Adelaide tonight

A brief edition of the gig guide to remind everyone that Ed Kuepper & the Kowalski collective are on tonight at the Gov. Details here. There will be some new live cds for sale (on the resurrected Prince Melon label) which are only sold at shows. A word of warning: last time I was at the Gov, for the excellent Robert Forster gig, it started very early, about 8:30. There was no support and Forster and his band played two sets. There doesn’t appear to be a support advertised for tonight so it could be similar (though also the other show was on a Wednesday rather than a Friday). Anyway, I won’t take any chances and I suggest that you don’t either and get there nice & early.

Update: Here’s the setlist

1st set:

  • Electrical Storm
  • La Di Doh
  • Sleepy Head
  • Miracles
  • Messin’ Part 2
  • Laughing Clowns
  • Everything I’ve Got Belongs to You

2nd Set

  • Rainy Night
  • The Way I Made You Feel
  • Skinny Jean
  • Honey Steel’s Gold
  • Yellow Dog
  • Real to Me
  • Eternally Yours

Encore

  • When I First Came to this Town
  • Little Fiddle 

 There were three live cds for sale, one with the same lineup (Ed, Jeffrey Wegener, Peter Oxley), one with just Ed & Jeff from the recent European tour and one from 2001 with a lineup that I don’t think I ever saw live – Johnny Gauci, Alex Compton, Dave Aston.

On the Stereo

  • Ed Kuepper & the Kowalski Collective – Jean Lee + the Yellow Dog / Pretty Rough Trade 2cd (Hot)
  • Ed Kuepper – Honey Steel’s Gold cd (Hot)
  • Laughing Clowns – 3 MLP (Prince Melon)
  • Laughing Clowns – Sometimes the Fire Dance 7″ (Prince Melon)
  • Laughing Clowns – Law of Nature LP (Hot)
  • The Aints – Ascension cd (Hot)
  • The Saints – Wild About You 3cd (Raven)
  • Ed Kuepper – The Wheelie Bin Affair cd (Hot)
  • Ed Kuepper – Starstruck: Music for Films & Adverts cd (Hot)
  • Ed Kuepper – Frontierland cd (Hot)

Olympic Cycling Road Race

It’s on right now, in Australia you can watch it on SBS. Here’s the starting list. Lot’s of great riders who would be familiar to Tour de France fans. The Spanish team looks very hard to beat with 2008 Tour winner Sastre, 2007 winner Contador plus Freire, Valverde and Sanchez. There are plenty of other strong looking teams though, such as the USA, Germany, Italy, Russia and Australia. Also notable are the Luxembourg trio of the two Schleck brothers plus Kim Kirchen.

UPDATE: As expected Spain took the gold with Sanchez coming first in what was a great finish with six riders in a sprint to the finish. There was some great riding from Andy Schleck, and particularly Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara who came out of nowhere to catch up to the main group, bringing a couple of other with him (including Australia’s Michael Rogers) to boost the lead group from three riders to six. Cancellara ended up with bronze behind Italy’s Rebellin who got silver.

Lots more cycling to come with the women’s road race tomorrow, and both women’s and men’s individual time trials on Wednesday.