Two Of The World’s Festivals Heavy Weights Are Collaborating

Two of the worlds festival heavy weights, from the opposite sides of the world are set to collaborate. I am of course talking about South Australia’s Fringe festival and Edinburgh International festival. How exciting for both this beautiful cities, I have been privileged to attend Adelaide’s Fringe Festival many, many  years ago (2002 ish) and it was my first arts festival and it was such a great experience back then, so I could only imagine how awesome it has become come and whats more how,  awesome it will be in the future with the collaboration.

The representatives from the Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Fringe and Festivals Adelaide each have signed official agreements with their Edinburgh counterparts to set joint goals for artistic, business and community collaboration over the next three years. Rachel Healy, Co-Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival, said the agreement between the Adelaide Festival and the Edinburgh International Festival watershed for both organisations.

“It is thrilling to contemplate a shared future which involves creative collaborations, commissions, and artistic exchange; opportunities to share market insights and new audience and business initiatives; and celebrating the commitment of audiences in both cities to a rich and diverse cultural life,” Healy said.

Adelaide will see an immediate result of the agreement as the United Kingdom’s largest ticketing company, Red61 will be opening in Adelaide.

According to South Australian Arts Minister Jack Snelling, the new $350,000 digital platform will be South Australian owned and will put Adelaide Fringe at the forefront of digital technology in the international festivals industry by streamlining and integrating the way all groups connect with the Fringe, Snelling added that,

“This platform will also provide a sophisticated matchmaking for interstate and international buyers looking to purchase new work and improve media and PR interaction with the artists and events and increase access to the Fringe by educators and students of all ages”.

The industry alliance that represents the top 10 arts festivals in South Australia, Festival Adelaide announced that Adelaide will host a meeting of the International Festival Cities Network in March 2017, where representatives from Edinburgh, Barcelona, Krakow, Montreal and Berlin will gather in Adelaide to share their knowledge, Ideas and experience.

Big things are set for Adelaide and Edinburgh in the near future, so watch this space!!

 

links:

Adelaide Fringe Festival

Edinburgh International Festival

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Adelaide Fringe Facebook Page

Adelaide Fringe Twitter

Edinburgh Festival Facebook Page

Edinburgh Festival Twitter

 

On This Day 21st July In Music History

Welcome back to this weeks edition of On This Day, where we delve into the past to find out what happened OTD in music history. This week we kick off in 1961 with the Everly Brothers.

1961

🎙The Everly Brothers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Temptation.’ The American duo’s fourth and last UK No.1.

1966

🎙Georgie Fame was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Getaway.’ the song started life as a TV jingle for a petrol advert.

1967

🎙The Jimi Hendrix Experience played the first three nights at the Cafe-a-go-go in New York City. The club featured many well-known acts including: Grateful Dead, Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane, and Cream who all appeared at the club.

1969

🎙The Beatles started work on the John Lennon song ‘Come Together‘ at Abbey Road studios in London. The track became the opening song on The Beatles Abbey Road album and was later released as a double A-sided single with ‘Something‘, their twenty-first single in the UK and twenty-sixth in the US where it reached the top of the charts

1973

🎙Jim Croce started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.’ Croce was killed in a plane crash three months later.

🎙Canned Heat, Nazareth, Edgar Broughton Band, Groundhogs, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Medicine Head, all appeared at Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, England. Hell’s Angels arrived in force and proceeded to drink the site dry. Initially they paid for the booze, but when the money ran out a deputation was sent into the audience to collect donations of 10p per person. About 20 minutes into his set Chuck Berry was showing one of the Angels how to do his duck-walk properly. He did one from one end of the stage to the other and disappeared into the wings. The band played on, the Angels bopped, and Chuck legged it to his car and drove off at high-speed, never to return.

1977

🎙Despite protests, The Sex Pistols made their first appearance on the UK music show Top Of The Pops, where they lip-synched to their third single, ‘Pretty Vacant.’ The performance helped push the song up the charts to No.7.

1979

🎙Tubeway Army scored their first UK No.1 album with ‘Replicas.’ The band led by lead singer Gary Numan were the first band of the post-punk era to have a synthesizer-based hit, with their first single ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?‘

1987

🎙Guns ‘N’ Roses released their debut album on Geffen Records: Appetite For Destruction featured the singles ‘Welcome to the Jungle‘, ‘Sweet Child o’Mine‘, and ‘Paradise City.’ The album now has worldwide sales in excess of 28 million, 18 million of which are in the US, making it the best-selling debut album of all time there.

1990

🎙Roger Waters’ The Wall took place at the Berlin Wall in Potzdamer Platz, Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall eight months earlier. Over 350,000 people attended and the event was broadcast live through the world, Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, The Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Sinead O’Connor and many others took part.

 

1994

🎙Oasis played their first ever American show as part of the New Music Seminar at Wetlands in New York City.

1995

🎙A judge in Los Angeles threw out a lawsuit against Michael Jackson by five of his former security guards. The guards had claimed they were fired for knowing too much about night-time visits by young boys to Jackson’s estate. The singer denied any improprieties.

1996

🎙Alanis Morissette started a second run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Jagged Little Pill which stayed at the top for eight weeks. Overall, the album has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the most successful albums in music history.

2001

🎙Madonna kicked off the North American leg of her 47-date Drowned World Tour at the First Union Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the singers first world tour in eight years, following The Girlie Show in 1993. Over 730,000 people attended the shows throughout North America and Europe, tour grossed over $75 millions.

2002

🎙Producer Gus Dudgeon, who worked with artists including Elton John, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Kiki Dee, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Strawbs, XTC, and Joan Armatrading, was killed aged 59 in a car accident near Reading, together with his wife Sheila. They had been driving along the M4 motorway on their way home from a party when Gus fell asleep at the wheel of the Jaguar XK8 convertible, crashing down an embankment at speed and ending up in a ditch.

2003

🎙Coldplay singer Chris Martin was charged with malicious damage in Australia after he allegedly attacked a photographer’s car after he had taken pictures of him surfing at Seven Mile Beach. Martin admitted he had lost his temper due to the constant harassment by that journalist, and consequently smashed his windscreen and let the air out of his tyres.

2004

🎙Composer Jerry Goldsmith died after a long battle with cancer aged 75. Goldsmith created the music for scores of classic movies and television shows such as: ‘Star Trek‘, ‘Planet of the Apes‘, ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.‘ and ‘Dr. Kildare.’

2005

🎙UK singer Long John Baldry died of a chest infection. he was one of the founding fathers of British Rock ‘n’ Roll in the 1960s, performing with Blues Incorporated and Cyril Davies’ R&B All Stars. He later fronted the Hoochie Coochie Men, with Rod Stewart and then Steam Packet with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll. Also a member of Bluesology with Elton John. He also narrated on Winnie The Phooh recordings for Disney and was the voice for Robotnik on the Sonic The Hedgehog computer game.

 

2007

🎙Sharon Osbourne’s music mogul father Don Arden died in a Los Angeles nursing home at the age of 81. Arden was dubbed the Al Capone of Pop for his uncompromising business practices, he steered Small Faces, Black Sabbath and ELO to stardom.

2008

🎙Amy Winehouse’s husband was jailed for 27 months for attacking a pub landlord and perverting the course of justice. Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, of Camden, North London, admitted assaulting James King, 36, at the Macbeths pub in Hoxton, East London, in June 2006. He also admitted at Snaresbrook Crowns Court trying to make Mr King withdraw his complaint using £200,000 bribe.

🎙The Police played the first of two nights at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado during the final leg of their 152-date world Reunion Tour. The tour became the third highest grossing tour of all time, with revenues reaching over $340 million.

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That’s it for another week don’t forget to check back next Thursday for the next edition of OTD. Below is this weeks OTD Spotify Playlist, hope you enjoy it and see you next week!

https://open.spotify.com/user/1289837564/playlist/3Cz2qD7zndzYQW1SbiMXTC