Adelaide Festival ends
My friend R and I have been swapping text messages today. It started off with me asking how her scrabble stall went at Barrio. I didn’t even brave the hour long queues this year. Last year I went twice, first by queuing for an hour without a winter jacket, second time when I saw the Michael Rother performance. When I saw that this year’s electronic music events were at the Queens Theatre instead, I snubbed them (thinking about the performers I missed at the festival: severed heads, television,van dyke parks, laurie anderson... ouch). Pete viewed the you tube footage links on the festival website, initially thought the program looked amateurish, changed his mind, went on the very last night of the Festival to attend, massive regrets about all the awesome gigs he’d missed out on. I tried to console him by pointing out he’s the father of a young kid, doesn’t get out much anymore, all he does is sound engineer everyone else's music or occasionally perform at midnight.... An...