Adelaide City Is Getting An Epic Mural Dedicated To Live Music

Adelaide’s celebrating its vibrant live music culture with the addition of a huge mural in the city, set to be unveiled this month.

The artwork by local talent Dave Court is reportedly the “largest to ever appear in Adelaide’s CBD” and will be located on the West-facing wall of 126 Hindley Street (owned by Trinity Church and GU Filmhouse), right near live music venue Lion Arts Factory.

“I feel very honoured and privileged to have been given the opportunity to lead this project, painting my biggest wall to date and the largest wall in the Adelaide CBD,” Court said.

“In my approach to the design and brief I wanted to portray the feeling and experience that comes with great music, as well as representing the depth and diversity of the Adelaide music world.

“I’ve spent the past few months researching and talking to people involved with music in Adelaide across different aspects of the industry, different genres and eras to build up an image of the music scene over time.

“The imagery comes from aspects of music, posters, flyers and album covers from different genres over time and pulling, appropriating and abstracting elements to remix and combine them into a new arrangement.”

The Music SA initiative will be unveiled next Wednesday, May 29, a day before the Umbrella Program Launch – fitting timing given its creation is being documented by Adelaide filmmaker Lewis Brideson and will be screened at Mercury Cinema on July 18 during Umbrella Winter City Sounds festival.

"The City Of Music mural and documentary is the largest ever public statement about the richness of South Australian contemporary music,” Music SA CEO Lisa Bishop said. 

“It’s a glorious celebration and acknowledgement of the countless hours, sweat and dedication of contemporary musicians to their art and their art’s connection to Adelaide as a cultural centre."