Fringe Opening Parade

Anyone going?

I'll be wandering around with a bunch of hobbyist photographers so if you see a guy wearing a blue Kraftwerk Autobahn T-shirt with a camera say "Hi".

One night. One massive street party. One fabulously-edgy Fringe opens with a bang.

The streets in the East End of Adelaide will closed to traffic and awash with Fringe artists, roving
performers and risky outdoor theatre, all before the main stage kicks in with live music from local,
interstate and international acts.

Your night of nights in balmy Adelaide.

Friday 22 February. 6pm – 2.30am, main stage kicking off at 8.30pm.
Rymill Park (Mullawirraburka), Rundle Park, East Tce & Rundle Street


More info here...

then come to hq

Why? Not really that keen to be honest.

i'll be there! outside Pj's hopefully at a decent table, come say hey Oli! I forgot my camera, DAMMIT!

won't be there. have a dinner date first.

will definitely be at the presets and dapple cities fly. missed dapple cities fly last time because i was sick. wasted our tickets really. free even's it all out though.

Was a nice night for it 

It was alright. The bogans really disturb me though. I had almost forgotten how bad the city is on a Friday night during an event like Clipsal.


I took some photos here...

haha, we were all staked out at PJs but then the parade never came past that way! devo! but yeah, crazy weather, wayy too many bogans, but we had fun at the garden and watching teenagers have fights in the street. least it made for awesome cannon fodder used by the comedians at late nite comedy, the bogan/poofy fringies jokes were plenty!

Disturb you? shit I thought they were classic, dumb mother fuckers walking around aimlessly. Bopping their head to music that sounded nothing like AC/DC and abusing each other for god knows what. All in all I think it was one of the best value shows I'm likely to see for a while! Dappled Citys were pretty good, havent heard alot of their stuff but liked it alot. Presets were good but still lacked a bit though. Killer stage and lighting.

I find it disturbing because it makes me realise how uncivilised Adelaide really is.

whatever oli, its just a small percentage of the people, half the 'bogans' probably wear suits on a weekday! and they are harmless, not everyone can be as high brow as us!

If you think it's "just a small percentage" of the people then I find it hard to believe you were in town last night...

yeah, shit man, i saw just as many drunk fringe people as bogan clipsal people!!!

fuck, lighten up a lil, its all part of the fun n games of the clipsal weekend!

OK. Each to their own I guess. My idea of 'fun n games' for a festival doesn't involve so many idiots though.

The types of people Fringe attracts are far more tolerable when drunk than the types Clipsal attracts, that's all...

Anyway I don't really care that much.

after this weekend the bogans will be back in their burbs. and the fringe will be free for all the 'cultured' types think of it this way, it does really increase the amount of events u can have in one weekend, with some extra funding when events are combined!

Hazarding a guess at 50% of people at Clipsal are from wider SA. All I kept on hearing from those types was "Were are you? Me? I don't know where I am!" and "I'm fucking lost!" etc etc.

Replace Adelaide with SA and my comment still conveys what I was trying to say.

like any other state is any different! hello! 

I suspect most of the others are less bad than SA to be honest.

whatever, replace clipsal with bathurst, or with truck worship, or summer nats. or cowboys!

or rugby union!
every state has bogans!

dude, wisen up yeah!

Fluke, note that I said "less bad". Considering SA being one of the poorer states it's probably not that unfair to assume we have more bogans overall. Anyway, enough of that topic from me.

To get back on topic here are some photos I took. Comments welcome...

Strange music performance in a tent:
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Random bloke with flag:  
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Performer/comedian:
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Costumed women on stilts:
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Best place to watch everything from = your parents head:
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Not sure if this guy was taking part or if this was just his normal outfit:
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Sumo guy:
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Lady at the misINFORMATION tent:
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Roller Derby ladies:
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Seedy: ?  
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Random artist:
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Man with dog and beer.  
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I can't remember this guys name but he's surely one of the CBD's most famous characters:
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Making my way into the Garden of Unearthly Delights:
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Ferris Wheel:
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Kid performing on the silent disco floor:
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And later when it got busier:
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Cargo Shed:
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Dodgem cars:
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anyways, so was the parade good? i thought we;d be able to see it outside pj's (something about botanic rd n east terrace) but NO all we got were fights n random kurko sightings

PS that dude with the flag, thats the cartoon photo of comedian liam!

PPS the random adelaide dude is Johnny

Nice garden pics

Love the photos, Liam!

u mean, oli?! 

 

Yes... erm, that is what I mean.

Glad you like them, Danielle!

 

Of course I meant Lexy! 

What the fuck! When do I ever take photos? I don't even own a camera! And I've never even posted in this thread!

 

you tripper!