Saturday, March 10

Adelaide Fringe Party '07

Although nothing happens in Adelaide for most of the year, March is absolute craziness. For the bogans there is the Clipsal 500, and for the rest of us there is the Fringe, Womadelaide and the Adelaide Film Festival. Last night I went to the opening night party for the Fringe. It was good times.
















Meet Porkchopper, this year's Fringe mascot:







My friends Alice, Julian and George. Alice and George were co-adventurers last year on our epic Blues and Roots roadtrip.










In Adelaide, we force small children to play in bands. We maintain that it's character building.



On Sunday I'm off to Womad, which is kind of like a mini Blues and Roots. Augie March and Lior are playing, among other world music luminaries. Over the next couple of weeks I'll be seeing Rod Quantock, Tripod, Akmal Saleh, Ardal O'Hanlon (Father Dougal from the TV show Father Ted), the Three Canadians, as well as some theatre and live jazz.

Squirrel-like, we in Adelaide grow fat on these cultural nuts and berries in the knowledge that winter is coming, and there'll be little to consume for 11 months.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome pics Andrew.

Adelaide, it's okay!

WA ROFF's said...

sweet andrew, see if you can arrange something like that for when i am there....

k8

grant said...

Is it just me or do Andrew's friends look disturbing... And why are they all dwarfs? Pics are great, Andrew. I hear what you're saying: what's so great about being normal?

Andrew said...

Uh.. y-... what? I thought we'd instituted a no drinking and blogging rule!

Kate, let me know when you're coming. I'll have a talk with Mike Rann and we'll organise some sort of cultural... thing.