Music of Adelaide

Australian music portal

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia. Its musical heritage includes the well-known Adelaide Festival of Arts, Barossa Music Festival and the world music festival WOMADelaide, which is held annually in Botanic Park. Major music venues include the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds, Adelaide Entertainment Centre and the Thebarton Theatre. The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1937, with William Cade as conductor.^[1] Other music institutions in Adelaide include the Elder School of Music at the University of Adelaide.

Adelaide has also produced a number of popular musicians, such as the Testeagles, Sia Furler, Eric Bogle, I Killed the Prom Queen, The Mark of Cain and the Superjesus, while American Ben Folds also resides in the city for part of every year. Adelaide's popular contributions also include the pioneering Australian hip hop crew Hilltop Hoods, classic rock act Cold Chisel and Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian.

Local Venues

In the city of Adelaide there are many live venues for 'up and coming' bands to practice their craft at. These include local pubs and some specific music venues.^[2] (Local names in parentheses for reference)

• Adelaide Entertainment Centre
• Squatters Arms
• Adelaide UniBar
• The Crown & Anchor (The Cranker)
• Ed Castle
• Electric Light Hotel
• Enigma Bar (Nigs)
• The Exeter
• Fowlers Live
• The Governor Hindmarsh (The Gov)
• The Grace Emily
• L!ve on Light Square
• Jade Monkey
• Jive
• The Highway
• Northern Sound System (N.S.S)
• Producers Bar
• Rhino Room
• Rocket Bar
• Thebarton Theatre (Thebby)

Adelaide Bands

• 12 Straight Months Of Winter
• 13 Characters
• 200 Motels
• 919
• Aaagh! Cobras!
• A Red Dawn
• Adam Page Solo
• Abandon All Hope
• Alias & The Jams
• All Flight Crew Are Dead
• All Made of Rubies
• Almost Human
• The Amcats
• Angelik
• Another Time Around/A Distant Reality
• Antony Of The Future
• Annihilation Nation
• Aphelion
• Armed With Integrity
• Artax Mission
• As It Stands
• The Audreys
• The Authentic Replicas
• Avenues
• The Aves
• Aviator Lane
• Back$eat Romeos
• The Baker Suite
• Bakewell Street
• The Baron
• The Battery Kids
• The Beards
• Before The Aftermath
• Behind These Walls
• Belittle League
• The Belle-phonics
• Birthglow
• Black Knight
• Black Valdyr
• The Blind Herd
• Blood Red Renaissance
• Bloodsport
• Blow Up Betty
• Booster
• The Borderland
• Brillig
• The British Robots
• Broken Scarlet
• BrotherSister
• Brunatex
• Burn'Collect
• Chase Elaine(Hiatus)
• The Chins
• City Riots
• Coffee Shop Rumours
• Colour Meets Canvas
• Collarbones
• The Dairy Brothers
• Dangerous!
• DANVERS
• Daybreak
• Day on Fire
• Dead Joe
• Deafening Silence
• Death In Venice (Disbanded)
• Deception Bay
• Delamare
• Destroy Rebuild (Formerly: Stained Red)
• Diamond Sins
• Dino Jag
• The Doctors of Thrush
• Donkey Kong (Disbanded)
• Donny Don't
• Dora-Bell
• DOS
• Dunston Checks Out (Disbanded)
• Embured (Disbanded)
• Enola's Secret
• Equal Minded (Disbanded)
• The Fight of Thought
• Fighterpilot
• Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Far West Battlefront
• Final Configuration
• Fingercuffs
• Fixion (Disbanded)
• Flight Response (Disbanded)
• The Flying Squad
• Forgettable Terrace
• For Your Health
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Full Frontal Lobotomy(Hiatus)
• The Giveaways
• Give Or Take
• Global Warning
• Hair On Fire
• Heston Drop
• High Five For Butchers Knives(Hiatus)
• Hightime
• Hilltop Hoods
• Hit the Jackpot
• Hometime
• Hold On Kid(Disbanded)
• Hope Bleeds Eternal
• Hyatus
• I Killed The Prom Queen (Disbanded)
• Infiltraitor
• The Irresponsibles
• Isle of Capri
• Jack The Giant Killer
• The Johnstown Syndicate
• The Jerks
• Keen Must Die
• KcaveMen
• KidCrusher
• Kytes of Omar
• Kitten Liberation Front
• Landmonster
• Left In The Change Room
• Lenin McCarthy
• Little Brown Hat Band
• Little Two Eyes
• Lumonics
• Lyla
• Marla Singer
• Matterhorn (Classic Metal/Rock Cover band)
• Mona Lisa Overdrive
• Mr Goodnight
• Mr Wednesday
• My Catalyst
• My Darling Calvary
• My Last Breath
• The Nashville Vibe
• Nazarite Vow
• The New HUHU Band
• No Friends For Rolland Romanny
• Norwood Grimes
• O'Clock
• Octanic
• Olivers Army
• On the Day of My Disaster
• Orsino Nation
• Pimpin' Horus
• Perfect Lee Frank
• The Peds
• Peter Pan Complex
• Phat Panda
• Priority Orange
• Radio Spectacular!!!
• Raw Ether
• Releve
• Ryuk
• Deinetwegen
• Sammy And The Cunts
• Scars From A Nightmare
• Secrets In Scale
• Self Preservation Society
• Seraphs Coal
• Shotpointblank (Disbanded)
• Skeletons
• Skintilla
• Snapping Owls
• Solartricity
• Some Time Soon
• Something For The Pain
• Sonny Loveless
• Spineleash
• Stolen Youth
• STONER
• Stranger Existence
• Subsketch
• The Masters Apprentices
• The Scabs
• The Subtitles
• The Sundance Kids
• Suspicious Mustard
• The Systemaddicts
• The Swimmers
• Tabula Rasa
• Taken By Chance
• Troops of Doom (Sepultura tribute band)
• Truth Corroded
• TBA
• Till Death
• The Thieves
• Trips & Nascent
• Purple Johnson Blimp Situation
• The Underwater Adventure Series
• The Vampirates
• The Vans
• Vida Sucia
• The Viennas
• Virgin Black
• Voices She Heard
• We Grow Up
• Within the Day
• Zeal

References

1. ^ http://www.aso.com.au/history_of_aso.htm History of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
2. ^ Venues Index