Lost City

The historic Queen's Theatre in Adelaide's CBD is the gateway to the Lost City. For one weekend only, the gateway is open and the lost city appears. From far corners of Australia, and Adelaide itself, come unique bands, producers and visual artists.

The Queen's Theatre in Gilles Arcade/Playhouse Lane is the oldest purpose-built theatre on mainland Australia. Built in late 1840, it is of national heritage significance. The only theatre in Australia that predates it is the Theatre Royal in Hobart, Tasmania. The Queen's Theatre is remarkable in that approximately half of the original above-ground structure survives and there are significant below-ground remains. The Queen's Theatre holds a special place in the historical development of Adelaide in both the 19th and 20th centuries. Built by the Solomon brothers, the Queen's Theatre opened with a performance of Shakespeare's Othello on 11 January 1841. Times were tough in South Australia and the theatre closed in a little over a year, on 28 November 1842. Used as law courts until 1847, it reopened as the Royal Victoria Theatre in 1850 to close a short year later with the exodus of families from South Australia to the Victorian gold rushes. After renovations, the Royal Victoria Theatre reopened in 1859 only to close again in 1868 after the Theatre Royal opened in Hindley Street. For 80 years the site had various owners and uses, from the City Mission and a horse bazaar and sales yards through to a factory and showrooms.

The Horse Arena Stage

This majestic room will feature an HK sound rig...

The Stables Stage

The stables may be a smaller room, but the party will end up here. Featuring a very nice Meyer sound rig, you won't be disappointed...

Timetable

STABLES	HORSE ARENA
2:30pm Guilt Free	3pm Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity
3:30pm Sparkspitter	4pm Hal Bird
4:30pm Gold Bloom	5pm Joel Stern, Cured Pink and Timothy Tate
6pm Mondo Phase Band	6:30pm Steering By Stars
7pm Oisima - 7:30pm Xango!	8pm Doe
8:30pm Ghost Gums	9:10pm Love Of Diagrams
10pm Slamagotchi - 10:30pm Sculpt and Timotea	11:10pm Prince Rama
12am Kangaroo Skull - 12:45am Elliot - 1:45am Galapagoose


SUNDAY FEB 5 (LOST CITY: THE RETURN)
An experimental extravaganza featuring Joel Stern, Cured Pink and Timothy Tate (all Brisbane, and performing their second Adelaide set after yesterday's Lost City set), Bitches of Zeus, Valleys, bits of leftover acts from the day before, improv, noise and weird. Running from 4pm until 10:30pm

Prince Rama (Brooklyn, USA)

US psych-pop act PRINCE RAMA, comprise of sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson and their friend Michael Collins, were raised on a Hare Krishna commune in Florida, educated at an art school in Boston, and now make noise in Brooklyn. Their latest album Trust Now, which was produced by Scott Colburn (Arcade Fire, Animal Collective), is an epic shrine of swirling synths, pulsing guitars and thunder drums. An ethereal chorus of voices and anthemic melodies create a reverb-washed mine of sonic artifacts drawing from southeast Asian rituals, krautrock legacies, chopped and screwed homages, hallucinatory operas and dance hall psychedelia. Prince Rama's live set, honed by ceaseless touring throughout the last three years, is a terrifying, celebratory and transcendent experience

Listen to Prince Rama Line Break

Love of Diagrams (Melbourne)

Love of Diagrams are a Melbourne based 3 piece. (Guitar, bass, drums, vox) Prior to the release of their heavily awaited 4th album, and hot on the tails of a year or so spent jamming, writing and demo-ing new material, love of diagrams have released the 7 inch 'in my dream', which contains two wonderful noisy slices of dream pop. This exciting taste of what is to come is full of energy, beautiful melodies, heavenly guitar swirl and amazing pop hooks.. classic love of diagrams. The band also recently celebrated their 10 year anniversary with critically acclaimed performances revealing the remarkable energy, song writing and musical affinity / dynamism between the three members (Antonia Sellbach, Luke Horton, Monika Fikerle) that has always defined them.

Listen to Love of Diagrams

Galapagoose (Melbourne)

Galapagoose is the audio-visual performance moniker of Melbourne-based artist Trent Gill. Through multi-modal performance, he unravels process from product; re-imagining outcomes by articulating the deconstructive technique. This will be his second time to Adelaide after impressing audiences at Cuckoo in November on tour with MatthewDavid.

Elliot (Blue Mountains, NSW)

From the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney this beats artist is a member of the hugely influential 104 collective and the Sydney Label Frequency Lab (founded by Monk Fly). Elliot explores psychedelic soundscapes, clipped narratives, glitched sonic phenomena & melodic beats with deep sub bass. His debut release "Found Sounds" has received great reviews and was some of the first music featured on Triple J's new Unearthed Radio. Finally he is currently assembly a remix release featuring his music reworked by underground beats legends Pixelord, Mr Dibiase, DZA and Fancy Mike.

Listen to Elliot

Kangaroo Skull (Melbourne)

KANGAROO SKULL is the latest and most enigmatic project of MY DISCO members Ben Andrews and Rohan Rebeiro. With the lascerating noise scapes familiar to fans of My Disco wrapped around the bones of pulsing late-night disco and cloaked in smoke, it has all the energy that's missing from so much modern dance music. They recently amazed crowds at the Forum, supporting Black Dice. *please note, this Kangaroo Skull set will be performed by Rohan only, as Ben is unfortunately unable to attend.

Listen to Kangaroo Skull Line Break

Doe

This five-piece have consistently been traversing shifting ground since their inception in early 2010. Often finding equilibrium with complex repetitive grooves of universal harmony whilst inevitably hurtling towards twinkling supernova chaos. Doe are honoured to be part of this unique line-up and to have their lively performance resonate through the hallowed chambers of the Lost City.

Ghost Gums (Melbourne)

Ghost Gums is a new group formed by Ian Wadley (Bird Blobs, Jandek, Mick Turner) on guitar, Samaan Fieck (Where Were You At Lunch, Mad Nanna, Wife) also on guitar, and Kishore Ryan (Where Were You At Lunch, Otouto, Kid Sam) on drums. The trio produce a howling mess reminiscent of cats making love and surf music on bad mushrooms.

Listen to Ghost Gums

Joel Stern (Brisbane)

JOEL STERN is an artist, curator and researcher primarily working with experimental music & sound. His interest is in manipulating and shaping ‘noise’ and other abstract materials into new forms that generate uncanny emotional and physiological resonances for the spectator. Joel’s work incorporates DIY electronics, homemade instruments, text cut-ups, field recordings and muliti-speaker experiments. In Adelaide he will be working with flashing LED lights and light-sensitive synthesizers. Joel's key projects include Abject Leader (with filmmaker Sally Golding) a duo widely recognised as Australia's premier exponents of contemporary expanded cinema, and Sky Needle (with Sarah Byrne, Alex Cuffe and Ross Manning) a primitive music ensemble using handmade and recycled instruments. Joel co-founded the collectives OtherFilm, Audiopollen and Disembraining Machine, projects that helped shape the perception of Brisbane as an epicentre of Australian avant-nonsense.

Cured Pink (Brisbane)

Andrew McLellan is Brisbane's Cured Pink. A solo and collaborative noise project, Cured Pink interjects self-designed kinetic instruments into psychical performance situations, creating situation-adaptive, spontaneously antagonistic performances. This work has been presented at the Melbourne International Jazz and Next Wave festivals, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, the Wired Lab, Serial Space, and the Jogja National Museum in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.

Timothy Tate (Brisbane)

Timothy Tate is a Brisbane based composer, conductor and performer. He holds a Bachelor of Music with Honours in Composition and his works have been performed regularly throughout Australia and abroad. Whilst actively composing, Timothy presents performances incorporating a hybrid of viola, ¼ inch magnetic tape and electronics. Such works have been presented at the 2010 2high festival, 2011 under_scored festival, ribbons of rust (presented by ensemble fabrique in 2011) and Metro Arts’ 2011 ‘cross stitch’ series as well as frequent collaborations with Cured Pink (Andrew McLellan) in a variety of experimental mediums including those presented at other film’s 2009 Wireless Imagination, TEN10 Brisbane and the Brisbane Festival. Timothy is also a co-founder and co-artistic director of ensemble fabrique which is dedicated to the performance of a hybrid of 21st and 20th century chamber/solo music and repertoire from a wide range of classical periods and styles.

Xango!

Local Brazillian collective XANGO! play music to shake and get up and down to with their intoxicating Baile Funk, Cumbia, Samba and Reggaeton sounds. Favela raps and beats that take a leaf out of Rio de Janeiro's baile funk parties, transporting you to the city of carnivals and beaches loaded with brown-skinned sex machines? Rebola!

Gold Bloom

In six short months Adelaide post-rock harem Gold Bloom have carved a niche as one of the city's most exciting new acts. Marrying backgrounds in folk, prog, jazz voice and dream pop their blend of knotty garage rock and gorgeous female harmonies has enchanted local audiences, provoked howls of glee from Triple J Unearthed and seen the four-piece play an enviable run of shows with Cloud Control, Howling Bells and Leader Cheetah.
Juliet Hunter (guitar), Freya Adele (guitar) and Naomi Keyte (bass, organ) mount a three-way vocal attack, weaving in and out of dizzying close harmony, trading line for line and hook for hook over a maze of pirouetting guitar figures, buzz saw riffs and jazz-inflected basslines, propelled by drummer Zoe Behan's body-moving grooves and split second time shifts.

Oisima

Oisima is a local Adelaide based beatsmith who delves deep into ambient atmospheric sample heavy electronic music. Recently signed to Berlin based experimental electronic label Herbede Records, his debut EP is due for release mid February this year.

Sculpt/Timotea

A new collaboration between Sculpt and Timotea brought together by Adelaide's underground outdoor scene. Their shared addiction of analogue and digital hardware experimentation allows for their new joint-expression of beats and grooves within psychedelic soudscapes.

Other acts include Steering By Stars, Slamagotchi, Sparkspitter, Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity, Hal Bird, Guilt Free, Bitches of Zeus and Mondo Phase Band (bio notes for these artists available soon)