Magma scheduled to play in Australia March 2016

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AngusH wrote: What a show! I've never been a huge fan of Theusz Hamtaahk, but it really worked live. MDK and Kobaia were as great as expected. Great to see so many Magma shirts, and the largely Sunn O fan base really seemed to get into it, too.

Yes, a great night! I didn't see any Magma shirts on my way into the theatre, just lots of SUNN (((0 shirts and general metal shirts so I wasn't sure what sort of welcome Magma would get. But the Magma part of the show seemed to go down well with everyone there.

I didn't stick around for SUNN (((O, so didn't get to use the earplugs they were handing out in the foyer!

Absolutely fantastic! Never in my wildest dreams, did I think that I would ever get to see Magma live- anywhere - let alone in Australia! But it actually happened & they were as every bit astonishing live as current live footage and recordings promised them to be.

Absolutely worth the price of our overnight stay in a seedy Adelaide motel and the airfares from Sydney to Adelaide and back the next morning, for my partner and myself. My God! I actually saw MDK performed live!!

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Driptray wrote: Absolutely fantastic! Never in my wildest dreams, did I think that I would ever get to see Magma live- anywhere - let alone in Australia! But it actually happened & they were as every bit astonishing live as current live footage and recordings promised them to be.

My thoughts almost exactly - "Never in my wildest dreams, did I think that I would ever get to see Magma live- anywhere - let alone in Adelaide!"

You could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw their one and only concert in Australia was going to be in my own home town...

Driptray wrote: Absolutely worth the price of our overnight stay in a seedy Adelaide motel and the airfares from Sydney to Adelaide and back the next morning, for my partner and myself. My God! I actually saw MDK performed live!!

It's a pity you had to rush back but lucky I guess the show was on a weekend too, I expect suited a lot of people travelling to Adelaide from interstate...

Oddly enough it's a long weekend here in Adelaide (the Adelaide Cup horse race is on tomorrow) and of course WOMADelaide is on too. The thought occurred to me that sound-wise Magma might have fitted in OK on the WOMADelaide bill, except that their variant of "world music" comes literally from a completely alien world...

Good doing time with you, Harry/Stratcat! Front and center, baby! Well worth the 8 plus hour drive both ways, a true prog road trip, armed with an assortment of Finch, Atomic Rooster, early Floyd, Abraxis, Oresund Space Collective, early Sabbath, early Maiden and Caravan as our soundtrack.

Good to see a bunch of several different prog fans as well, including a really nice guy called Alex who we've encountered at several of our prog/electronic shows!

There was a nice younger fella I spoke to in the front show who literally knew ALL THE WORDS and every single twist and turn their music makes to every piece they played, very impressed (if he's reading, I was the guy with the glasses and the Gong `Camembert Electrique' t-shirt you spoke about `You' to!

Amazing show, and it was nice hearing pretty much the same story from all the proper prog fans in attendance - that they'd all travelled from around Australia for this one experience.

BONUS PIC - Something we got a laugh from on our way to/from Melbourne as well!

Awesome! I'm Brazilian and had the chance to see them once (in the Netherlands, actually) and I know how you feel about having the chance to see them live - I was pretty damn sure I'd never manage to fulfill that.

Great photos guys! Thanks for sharing -

Why didn't you come Tom?

AngusH wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:  (if he's reading, I was the guy with the glasses and the Gong `Camembert Electrique' t-shirt you spoke about `You' to! Nice pics, and I was standing in front of you at one point, just before they let us in, you were immediately behind me and my wife waiting on the stairs to go inside. I thought to myself "I never imagined I'd see a Camembert Electrique t-shirt in my lifetime"... :D We left right after Magma - I tried Sunn O))) a few times on Spotify and figured I'd rather head back into town for a couple of drinks... ;) <span style="line-height: 1.4;">Was definitely impressed by some of the younger folks there who were right into it. I was sitting up in the balcony and was listening to a younger fan talk about Yes, Magma, and a few other prog rock acts before Magma came on.</span> <span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span> On another note, was really impressed by Adelaide in general... Lovely little city, glad we spent a couple of days either side of the concert. Although, spent an absolute fortune....

Ha! You can buy them quite easily from the PlanetGong webstore, I've been buying them for a while, everytime one starts to fade I order another one! I also have a few tie-dye versions as well, probably pretty lucky I didn't wear that one, would have clashed with all the black most of the kids were wearing!

Yeah, my mate Harry/Stratcat and I discovered after the Magma performance there was a nail wedged into one of my rear tyres, so we had to wait outside for the Roadside Service to show up. We heard this rumbling reverberating drone from Sunn inside the venue though!

I wish I'd had more time...I was back at work last night. I was a bit bummed out, I said to my mate that I wished we'd had the time to properly explore and just relax in all the little towns we passed through. We stopped briefly at a few of them, but it was not quite enough time to properly take in all the sights.

Well, there's only a handful of Progheads scattered about. And we're pretty much all from Melbourne !! I escaped