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If you’re goin’ to Rundle Street East, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair on the last Sunday of October because flower power, paisley pants and hippie highs are back in fashion with Woodstock Revisited.

The corporate charity show, which kicks off at midday on Sunday, October 30, will occupy the north west corner of Rymill Park, opposite the Stag Hotel.

As well as a stack of music, munchies and a drop or two of patchouli oil, the show will have bars available for anyone whose psychedelic supplies have passed their use-by date.

Woodstock Revisited 2011 follows the sold-out success of four previous Woodstock events held at the former Waterfall Gully home of Alan Greig and Jane Mitchell, who last year moved to the Fleurieu Peninsula to run Leonard’s Mill.

If you think the current generation of politicians is a pack of pretenders, they’ve got nothing on the crew lined up to entertain the reconstituted hippies, yippies and Adelaide Hillbillies for this afternoon of Peace, Love and “limited edition event merchandise”.

Roger Daltry will front The Who, courtesy of John “Swanee” Swan, while Joe Cocker will croak out a few tunes, thanks to the man behind this year’s Woodstock show, Mastermind Music’s Shane Witham. Janis Joplin (Jackie Yeo), Carlos Santana (Peter Lymbo) and even the guitar-biting maestro himself Jimi Hendrix (Chris Finnen) will fill out the bill.

They’ll get by with a little from their friends, a talented band including Phil Smith on piano, Steve Williams on guitar, Rob Norman on Hammond Organ, James Stewart-Rattray on bass, Livv Bafile on drums and Rowland Creighton on percussion. There’s even a horns section, Dave Brooks (tenor sax), Nick Miller (trumpet) and Michael Cousins (trombone), and a pair of “heavenly angels”, Deb Brunotte and Louise Pearson.

As well as performers including The Boomers, Bluescasters and Brother T & Band, the line-up has even slipped in Bah Na Na.

While organisers promise their show will go on, rain or shine, they probably hope for no repeat of the acres of mudfields that blossomed on Max Yasgar’s farm after rain inundated the original Woodstock.

General admission is $59.95 but if you want to go the whole hog, the all-inclusive VIP ticket will set you back $250. Line up to buy ‘em at Venuetix. For every little detail, check out www.woodstockrevisited.com.au.

 

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Alltraders CEO Ben HornerAustralian software developer Alltraders has appointed Ben Horner as its inaugural Chief Executive Officer while fellow executive director Michael O’Loughlin has become Chief Information Officer.

Mr. Horner and Mr. O’Loughlin, who launched their company as a part-time operation after buying a web-hosting business online in 2006, now employ 20 people in the $1.5 million-a-year enterprise.

Alltraders has averaged 500 per cent growth a year since it was set up five years ago. The Adelaide-based business designs and delivers online business applications as well as developing and hosting easy-to-manage Joomla! websites.

As Alltraders enters its sixth year of operation, Mr. Horner has accepted the role of CEO while Mr. O’Loughlin has become CIO. As well as implementing this corporate management structure, Alltraders has merged its software engineering and web-hosting divisions to better meet demand for software applications in the Cloud. The Cloud refers to online-hosted applications that are accessible from any Internet-connected device and often purchased as a service.

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Jeremy Ervine and David CampbellDavid Campbell and Jeremy Ervine from Adelaide advertising agency Fnuky are the only two South Australians to make it onto the Australian marketing and media industry’s prestigious “30 Under 30” list for 2011.

Announced this week by leading industry commentator B&T, 30 Under 30 is an annual list recognising the hottest young industry leaders from all marketing communication disciplines around the country.

”The standard of entries was again really high, causing many headaches for our panel of six independent judges,” said Tim Addington from B&T.

David and Jeremy’s inclusion marks the first time South Australian faces have made the list.

The duo leads Fnuky which has an uncommonly high number of young people making up the staff of the agency, with 80% of the team under the age of 30.

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EBS director Paul WoodsMelbourne-based ERP software specialist Evolution Business Systems (EBS) this month celebrated its 10th anniversary, after recording its best business year on record.

With 10 employees and both national and international customers, EBS is now reaping the rewards of a major initiative in 2008 when it began partnering with Microsoft in addition to its historically strong relationship with Arrow Software. EBS has repeatedly won the Arrow Business Partner of the Year award.

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