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Greg Fleet Review

📍: Rhino Room, Frome Street.⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5 One of the saddest parts of growing up is realising that you might not share your parents’ sense of humour anymore. It’s not anyone’s fault in particular — they find Paul Hogan funny, you find Eric Andre funny. In a similar vein, I can appreciate that Greg Fleet is a funny […]

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Concert Review: Adele

Hello from the other side. Who: Adele World Tour, AdelaideWhen: 13 MarchWhere: River Torrens Cost: $0 Rating: 👑👑👑/5 slay queens The big shiny lights of the world-class Adelaide Oval played host to Grammy winner and UK vocal powerhouse, Adele.  While there was a record turn out of 70,000, those of us who had not secured tickets and didn’t want […]

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Interview: Electric Fields

Performing Womadelaide on Sunday! With the release of the debut EP, Imna, under their belt, Electric Fields are geared up for another big year. On Dit spoke to Michael and Zaachariaha in the lead up to their performance at the world festival . Electric Fields had a huge 2016, what’s the outlook for 2017? Michael: it started […]

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Review : Altar Girl

by Elana Bartholomeusz 📍: Adina Treasury Tunnels, King William Street.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5 Adaptations of Shakespeare are no stranger to any theatre-goer. But what if you immersed your audience in an underground party, with bare concrete floors and trashed red cups? For any looming tragedy, this would be its hellish home. Melbourne’s Rotten Honey present Altar Girl. […]

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Review: La Gaia Scienza, Adelaide Festival

by Kyriaco Nikias So modest is the fame of the Italian trio La Gaia Scienza that even more remarkable is the polite revolution they incite in musical performance. Its three musicians have for three decades sought to restore life to some of the greatest early music. Last night, their mission was to dust off the layers […]

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the Festival State turns it up a notch with the Adelaide Festival opening weekend

don’t tell us nothing ever happens in Adelaide! We’re about halfway though the festival fever that sweeps our city and things are only getting bigger and better! This weekend, the Adelaide Festival starts up with a diverse program line up to suit all ages. Students ❤ cheap things, ❤ free things even more. You might […]

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‘Democracy Doesn’t Work’ works pretty well for Pat McCaffrie

On Dit went to see an Adelaide Alumni at the Fringe and we bloody loved it 📍: Producers Bar on Grenfell.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5 It seems like these days that everyone has a take on political issues. You, your neighbour, and even your local student magazine like to rag on endlessly as to why Trump is dangerous, why […]

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Soweto Gospel Choir

reviewed by Jenny Nguyen. 📍: Panama Tent at Royal Croquet Club.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 / 5 source: Soweto Gospel Choir, http://www.sowetogospelchoir.com The Johannesburg based choir group had us all in high spirits with the matinee performance. Walking into the Royal Croquet Club’s Panama tent, the room was pitch dark with only the stage and a basic light, making the […]

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Weird, bitter man still very angry with the world puts on a Fringe show

On Dit magazine speaks to the enemy, former founding editor of (the shortly lived) Spur Magazine. James McCann is an angry man. He’s also a comedian and a graduate of the University of Adelaide. Spending a lot of his time rabble-rousing, music making and freelance writing, McCann has worked at Pedestrian tv, Rip It Up, […]

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Opinion: Our Sunday penalty rates are worth protecting.

Words by Olivia Savvas What does the penalty rates decision really mean for uni students? Anyone with a lefty friend on Facebook or those, like me, intently scouring InDaily for anything #auspol, would know that the Fair Work Commission has handed down the highly anticipated penalty rates decision. The real question for most of us, however, […]