Festivals & Venues: November 2

COLD CHISEL TO HEADLINE MADE IN SA

Cold Chisel will headline the after-race Made In SA concert on Friday, March 2 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Adelaide 500 race. It’ll be their first appearance in Adelaide since the One Night Stand tour in 2015.

They have invited Mt Gambier-born Kasey Chambers and Bad Dreems, along with two acts to be chosen by Music SA.

“Adelaide was and will always be ground zero for us, our home turf, our training ground. For better or worse it made us who we are,” says Jimmy Barnes.

Chisel chose the two acts because of their links.

Chambers is a good friend who’s joined Barnes onstage many times, and her brother Nash produced their 2010 reunion single ’All For You’ which turned out to be their last session with late drummer Steve Prestwich.

Chisel’s longtime producer Mark Opitz also worked on two albums by Bad//Dreems said, “One of the best bands to come out of Adelaide in the last decade.”

FINAL ADDITIONS TO PORCHLAND

Thelma Plum, Ainsley Farrell and Ryan Martin John are the latest additions to Porchland (December 22), along with 30/70, Stu Larsen, Stella Donnelly and Bjear.

Now at a new location, The Range Hall, just ten minutes out of McLaren Vale, it’ll also feature South Australian food, wine and wares and the sundown screening of State of Surf’s Belong Nowhere of surfers hitting the South Australian coast.

MOGWAI JOINS GOLDEN PLAINS

As tickets for Golden Plains XII in Victoria went on sale yesterday, organisers added to the bill.

They announced, “Glasgow’s lords of sonic alchemy will play The Sup’ for the first time since The Third One back in 2009 – the correct amount of recovery time required.”

LIVE MUSIC PART OF INAUGURAL AIR + STYLE IN SYDNEY

The inaugural Air + Style Sydney IS taking over The Domain in the CBD for three days of snowboarding, skiing, music, culture and tech from Friday, August 3 to Sunday 5.

A partnership between two-time Olympic gold medal snowboarder Shaun White and Australian promoter Moore Sports International, the live music component will be announced to join 60 of the world’s best male and female snowboarders and skiers.

Previously held in Innsbruck, Beijing and Los Angeles, Air + Style stages have in the past played host to the likes of Major Lazer, Flume, TV On The Radio, Portugal The Man, J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar.

WOMADELAIIDE ADDS THIEVERY CORPORATION

WOMADelaide (March 9—12, Adelaide’s Botanic Park) added US duo Thievery Corporation and their band to its bill.

It will see Eric Hilton and Rob Garza, who bonded 21 years ago over a shared passion for bossa nova, catch up with sitarist Anoushka Shankar, with whom they collaborated on the track ‘Mandala’ on the album Radio Retaliation and also on ‘Beloved’ for their Versions album.

WOMADelaide 2018’s full lineup, including around 40 more international and Australian groups, DJs and site artists, will be released on November 21.

MELBOURNE TOWN HALL HOSTS SAM SMITH

The Melbourne Town Hall will host Sam Smith Live in Melbourne powered by Optus, KIIS and iHeartRadio on January 19. It will be hosted by new breakfast team Jase & PJ aka Jason ‘Jase’ Hawkins and Polly ‘PJ’ Harding

It comes as Smith’s sophomore album, The Thrill of It All hits the market tomorrow via EMI Music following up his debut which sold 12 million globally.

V FESTIVAL REBRANDS

Live Nation’s UK’s V Festival, which was staged briefly in Australia years back, is about to announce a name change. This comes after main sponsor Virgin pulled out after 22 years.

The pop and dance event will continue to be held in August at its Chelmsford and Staffordshire sites but will expand from two days to three at both. The festival had a combined crowd of 170,000 in 2015.

Virgin boss Richard Branson said he had other plans in the live music space, including an investment in the global Sofar Sounds collective which stages events in Australia.

THE ZOO CELEBRATES SILVER ANNIVERSARY WITH EPIC LINEUP

Brisbane’s The Zoo music venue will celebrate its silver (25th) anniversary with a huge lineup on December 15.

Names for The Zoo 25 includes Ian Haug (Powderfinger/The Church, Adele Pickvance (Go-Betweens), Regurgitator’s Ben Ely, ISIS, Marcello Milani (Toothfaeries) & Tenzin Choegyal and Tim Steward & Kellie Lloyd (Screamfeeder) with more names announced this month.

First launched by Joc Curran and C Smith, the venue’s current owner is Pixie Weyand.

SECOND LINEUP DROPS FOR NYE ON THE HILL

NYE On The Hill (December 30— January 1, The Farm, regional Victoria) has added Dean Lewis, Jordan Rakei, Lanks, Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebirds, The Stiffys, Al Parkinson, Haiku Hands Samsaruh, Mitch King, The Nights, magician Ray Of Magic and DJ Safety.

The event, capped to 2500 and 90 minutes out of Melbourne, earlier announced a batch of acts including Ball Park Music, Regurgitator, Gold Class, West Thebarton, Pow Negro and Japanese Wallpaper.

PNAU LATEST ADD TO BEYOND THE VALLEY

Pnau is the latest adds to Beyond The Valley (December 18—January 1, Lardner Park, Victoria) along with Brisbane’s Mallrat, Sydney’s Set Mo, Dena Amy and Moonbase and Melbourne’s London Topaz.

FARNHAM USES C WORD

John Farnham is headlining By The C (February 10, Hervey Bay, Queensland) alongside James Reyne, The Black Sorrows and Ross Wilson.

The festival makes its Queensland debut after Zaccaria Concerts and Touring introduced it last year at Cottesloe Beach, WA.

MORE AGGRO AT U.S. CONCERTS

A month after the Las Vegas country music festival shooting, two more shootings have taken place at music events.

A 22-year old Mississippi man faces aggravated assault charges after a shooting following a Jason Aldean concert in Tupelo which had already beefed up its security.

An argument started among a group of men in the parking lot after the show, and the man allegedly fired up to six shots, with one man being hit in the chest.

In Las Vegas, a 45-year old man was arrested after threatening to “blow up” the city’s Brooklyn Bowl venue.

He got aggressive after being told he’d brought the wrong ticket voucher.

OUTPUT MOVED

Sydney’s inaugural EDM billed Output (November 25) has been moved to Goat Island on Darling Harbour after the original “and fragile” location, the historic Middle Head Fort, was deemed unsafe for patrons.

THE CORNER UNVEILS SHORTLIST

Melbourne live music venue The Corner Hotel in Richmond yesterday unveiled the industry-voted shortlist for its second Corner Awards. It’s set up to give a boost to acts that have played there, with $2000 cash, rehearsal time, gig

slots, mastering and artwork and media exposure.

The list was: Cable Ties, Emily Wurramara, Habits, Jade Imagine, Redwing, Manu Crooksand Wallace.

GROW YOUR OWN FILMING MUSIC ACTS AT FARMS

In the name of innovation and sustainability, The Hopeless Utopian, promoter of Grow Your Own (December 22, Forster-Tuncurry on NSW’s Mid North Coast) has taken to creating videos of musicians on the bill visiting local farms and factories to highlight the process where food comes from.

In the first video, released yesterday, Heidi Lenffer of Cloud Control visited buffalo cheese farmers Andrei and Elena Swegen at Burraduc Farm in Bungwahl, near Forster-Tuncurry.

Last year Cloud Control recorded their third album Zone in Charlotte Bay near the farm. Whilst recording Heidi met Elena and was inspired by the sustainable food movement in the country.

Festival Director and musician (Jack River) Holly Rankin said upcoming mini-films would feature The Ruiins visiting a dairy farm and Los Scallywaggs visiting a soda factory.

The festival will feature a ‘Grower’s Area’ where festival-goers can eat and drink locally-sourced organic produce from the Great Lakes and Manning.

Other acts on the bill include Skegss, The Belligerents, Ruby Fields and Alex the Astronaut.

WORK BEGINS ON WA SOUNDSHELL

Work has begun on the new WA entertainment venue Sandra Donovan Sound Shell at the Manjimup Timber Park, to be completed in the first half of 2018.

The sound shell is named after the local music identity and performer who died in 2011 aged 45.