Craftypics's Blog

With only 3 weeks to go its time to plan your must see artists at Womadelaide. Some Acts will only play a single performance so if there is one you really have to see prioritise it and make sure you leave enough time to travel to that stage. Full Schedule up HERE

For those new to Womadelaide the travel time from the furthest stages can be 15-20 minutes at a brisk walk.  Stage 3 is the furthest stage to the East near Hackney Road. The longest walk is from there to the Novatech stage near Frome road.

Keep an eye out for the APPs out soon for Android and Apple. These apps are great to schedule who to see but I’d suggest grabbing a hard copy from the event in case your phone battery gets too flat.

Sunday at 6pm on Stage 3 sees our local SA based talent TK Maidza play her style of Rapping. I caught her a few years back at Laneway Festival in 2015.

Having Photographed at Womadelaide for over 10 years now I have captured a LOT of images, but I still speak to people in my home town of Adelaide that don’t really know what Womadelaide festival really is so I’ve scoured my archives and selected a batch of images representing World, Music, Art and of course Adelaide over the last 10 years. For those who are regulars to Womadelaide it will be a trip down memory lane, For those that have never been they can see what they have been missing out on.

Ive recently been digitising my Parents collection of Super 8 footage since it’s rarely been seen in the last 20-30 years due to lack of equipment to play it. Most of it has now been captured and now the process to edit out bits that may be relevant that other people may want to see. A few technical things also need to be carried out which are time consuming. Slowing down the frame rate to make it match reality, Denoising the footage and changing Aspect ratios so that it doesn’t look stretched when watching on a HD screen.

There is lots of different footage but will include

• Penang, Malaysia 1966 – 1969
• Sydney and Regional Australia circa 1970
• Adelaide and in particular Blackwood/Hawthorndene in the early to mid 70s
• Europe 1974/1975
• USA 1977

and a lot more including some footage from The Birdman Rally on the River Torrens in the mid 70s

Subscribe to my youtube channel to be informed of New Super8 scans as they are uploaded.

Roger Waters ( Pink Floyd ) was back in town playing Entertainment Centre Adelaide February 16th 2018. Of course he wanted to showcase some of his stuff off the new album, but most of us there were there to hear the Pink floyd classics and we weren’t disappointed.  They have such a huge number of hits to draw from, but they played quite a few tracks from Animals, The Wall and Dark side of the moon accompanied by a couple of Female back up singers and a great band. Didn’t take much in the way of Video as I wanted to watch the show and get immersed, but I did capture a few small bits and pieces which you can see below. Dont forget to subscribe to my youtube channel to get notified of new content.

Here’s some footage shot last time they played Womadelaide in 2010. Was a cracker of a set and had the whole crowd pumped. Keep an eye out for them this year playing Friday Night 9:30 stage 3 and again on Saturday 5:45 Foundation stage