Severed Heads Reform For Adelaide Festival
News posted Tuesday, October 30 2012 at 05:00 PM.
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Severed Heads will reform for one last show in – of all places – Adelaide.
The visionary electronic outfit – Tom Ellard and Stewart Lawler – called it quits following a Gary Numan tour in 2011, but will dust off the synths for one final show at Adelaide Festival in March. Supported by Germany’s DJ Atom, they’ll perform at Queen’s Theatre on March 13.
Formed in Sydney in 1979 by Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright (Ellard joined a year later), Severed Heads evolved from a lo-fi industrial combo into one of the most revered forward-thinking acts of their time. They’re best known for their crossover hit ‘Dead Eyes Open’, but as Andrew P Street noted in a recent retrospective the band were never defined by that track. “Given that Severed Heads began life as an experimental industrial combo working mainly with tape loops and found sounds,” he wrote, “it's remarkable that they ever had a hit for people to recognise at all.”
Other acts confirmed for Adelaide Festival include legendary composer and Beach Boys collaborator Van Dyke Parks (joined by special guests including silverchair’s Daniel Johns); a free opening night performance at Elder Park with Paul Kelly and Neil Finn; Laurie Anderson with Kronos Quartet; Glen Hansard and The Frames; a collaboration between Kronos Quartet, The National’s Bryce Dessner and JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia; and an “in conversation” with Oscar-winning filmmaker DA Pennebaker.
Severed Heads’ Tom Ellard has also created an “interactive music toy” called Hauntology House, which will run throughout the festival on the ABC arts website.
Adelaide Festival runs from March 1-17, with 53 events (29 exclusive to Adelaide) taking place all up. For ticketing and more information click here.
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Heard that on before, although the thought of seeing Manorexia in Australia is quite thrilling
Heard that one before, although the thought of seeing Manorexia in Australia is quite thrilling
Thought this was supposed to be announced at 7.30. Cheeky!
Yes, official launch is happening in about an hour.
Everyguide also got the jump
My favourite paragraph:
brain explodes
er, Everguide even
lol @ ''one last show''
Yep, those Dead Eyes keep opening. (boom tish)
But seriously, gobsmacking musical program, from the looks of it. Might have to pop on over.
Wowsers that lineup is stellar. Biosphere! OPN + Hecker! Actress! Pole! I thought it was funny that V/VM was the 'latest advanced electronic music' considering the one V/VM record I actually bought was basically Aphex Twin played through a shitty guitar amp with the distortion turned up (literally).
I must say, though — Buke & Gase fucking suck. Like, you will be covering your eyes and ears and searching for a place to vomit, but they will all be similarly deployed by other disgusted patrons.
I didn't know Andy Hazel joined Severed Heads. lololol!
Demdike Stare!
And also as well as V/VM there's a Caretaker performance as well.
I think also not mentioned yet, Deerhoof.
why does the text say ''of all places - Adelaide''?
cos adelaide sux lol
Because everyone knows only cool stuff happens in Melbourne, and to a lesser extent Sydney.
Seriously, I think I'm more excited about this than any festival before, it's like I curated it. Did I curate it? Am I David Sefton? I am Jack's Adelaide Festival.
Demdike Stare... in Adelaide! Somehow makes perfect sense.
what ocelotl said. magnificent.
Emeralds won't be the same with out Mark McGuire :(((
Sideshows planned in Melbourne are looking fantastic....
Info on sideshows if you please?
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Any more Melb sideshows? Demdike, Lustmord, maybe? Hell, any would be fine.
OPN
is it just me, or is the ticketing website for this (bass) completely shizen?
The website sucks. But I got my tickets pretty quickly.
Apparently the passes couldn't be purchased online because one of the shows had temporarily sold out. So I got them over the phone.
WHAT THE FUCK DOES
One or more of the selected concessions has an invalid number of seats
MEAN?
Any one have any decent Adelaide accom they can recommend?
Pretty good interview with Tom Ellard on Radio National The Music Show from last weekend. You can replay it on the ABC site.
Try The Metropolitan Hotel (The Metro). Never stayed there (because I live here), but could be an option.
Thanks Velodrone. That's perfect.
I can't wait for next weekend -
Friday - Tim Hecker, Actress, Hype Williams
Saturday - Dean Blunt
Sunday - OPN
Monday - Demdike Stare
''Warning: This performance will contain heavy and constant use of strobe, smoke and haze''
SERIOUSLY WHO THE FUCK DO I EVEN CALL TO BUY TICKETS???
Bass ya dil. Google Bass Adelaide.
131246
131 246
hidden halfway down the page
http://www.bass.net.au/info/buying-tickets.aspx
Wait, My Disco are playing?
:P
I'm assuming that's for Hype Williams -
http://vimeo.com/40452265
Ellard's online/downloadable game/toy Hauntology House is up and well worth a spin. I haven't got far with it in terms of ''progress'' but I'm not sure how linear this thing's meant to be.
Adelaide show @ RN
Hauntology house would be amazing IRL. But in URL I got bored pretty quickly.