The lunch time performance by Valley Tapes Showcase in the Octagon concluded with the arrest of a band member.
Sefton Holmes was arrested at 1.15pm and charged with breaching the liquor ban.
Holmes had been drinking out of a bottle concealed in a brown paper bag during the performance and appeared to be intoxicated.
At the end of the concert, he attacked the band instruments and threw his drumsticks into the crowd.
He then initially resisted Constable Charlie Thannheiser before being hauled off to a police car with the help of off-duty Sergeant Matt Scoles.
His band mate, Jason Barrett, was also spoken to by police.
I was standing with festival director Paul Smith when the incident unfolded in front of us.
"It is pretty disappointing," Smith said with a sigh.
I caught the thought-provoking 3rd Horse in the King Edward Court car park last night.
A sellout crowd saw the work about the imbalance of power in a world of doom and gloom.
"3rd Horse is a story about civilisation. It looks at power and wealth imbalance, ecological exploitation and collapse, and the deep sadness and alienation that connect to those issues," director Katrina Thomson told me.
"They're a series of vignettes, or tableaux, rather than narratives."
For a play with apocalyptic overtones - the third horse of the Apocalypse is famine - the performance was unexpectedly beautiful and touching and the setting in the King Edward Court car park was perfect.
Christchurch artist Sarah Forgan launches her Wish - About Spaces exhibition at the Blue Oyster Gallery at 2pm today before moving to the council chambers to throw parachutes from the mayoral balcony.
Dance exponent Sopa Enari will demonstrate "popping" in the Octagon at 2.30pm today.
Popping is a funk dance and street dance style based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body.
Enari's Who's Poppin? show won the Pick of the Fringe at the Wellington Fringe Festival last month.
The Artist Lab festival workshops at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery fire up again today, with Free Theatre's physical theatre training at 10.30am, Highly Flammable circus workshops at 1pm and 2pm and Kristelle Plimmer's "Where poetry and art collide" at 3.30pm.
Tomorrow is "Dancing the Infinite Curve" with Bipeds Productions at 10.30am, Highly Flammable returns with another circus workshop at 1pm and "Improvisation for fun" with Clare Adams follows at 2.30pm.
The Footnote Dance Company will hold a forum at DPAG at 3pm today, where the dancers and choreographers will discuss the 2009 Made in New Zealand dance works.
"It's a good a way to give people the opportunity to have a dialogue with us about what we're doing," Footnote director Deirdre Tarrant told me yesterday.
The Huirapa Marae at Karitane will be welcoming all comers tomorrow for Te Ngaru Hou - The Next Wave.
The exhibition will showcase design, fashion, digital imagery, painting, music and jewellery by artists Adam Parata, Kim Clifton, Amber Bridgman, Malcolm Murchie, Fiona Clements and Sefton Holmes.
"It's a celebration of the fact these guys are taking the next step into small business," Artist Development Agency business coach Antony Deaker said yesterday.
"I'm from the marae at Karitane, so it's a really cool crossover to set up. It's like a coming-out party for the next wave of Maori artists in Dunedin," he said.
"The Karitane marae is the premier Maori arts venue in this area."
Te Ngaru Hou - The Next Wave is on from 2pm to 6pm tomorrow at Huirapa Marae at Karitane.
The 2009 Dunedin Fringe Festival concludes with the Glam Awards Night at 7pm tomorrow at XII Below.
What's on
• TODAY
Daily: Outside Art (random locations).
Daily: Digital Shadows (random locations).
10am-5pm: Fringe Inventions: an exhibition of Chindogu (DPAG).
10am-5pm: The Artist Lab Open Workshops Programme (DPAG).
10am till late: Signs & Wonders (Alibi bar and restaurant).
10am till late: Festival in the Valley (Mannequin cafe and bar).
11.30am-1.30pm: A Recipe for Mock Turtle Soup (Botanic Garden).
Noon: Poptilly (Octagon).
Noon: Slim Pickens (Octagon or streets of Dunedin).
2pm: Slim Pickens (Octagon or streets of Dunedin).
2pm: Wish: About Spaces (Blue Oyster Gallery).
2.30pm: Poptilly (Octagon).
6pm: Chris Brain is In a Better Place (XII Below lounge bar).
6pm: Drowning Bird, Plummeting Fish (Globe Theatre).
6.30pm: The Therapeutic Hour (Seminar Room, School of Art).
7pm: Pillow Talk (Crash Box, Fryatt St).
7pm: Lily (Fortune Theatre).
7pm: 2009 Made in New Zealand (Allen Hall Theatre).
7.30pm: Steve Wrigley Of Mates and Mischief (XII Below lounge bar).
8.30pm: The Ministers Son (Fortune Theatre Studio).
8.30pm: Ella and Susn (Globe Theatre).
9pm: Simon McKinney A Bit of a Yarn (XII Below lounge bar).
9pm: The Blueness (None Gallery).
9pm: Valley Tapes Showcase (Chicks Hotel).
9pm: Bigups Yourself (Sammys).
10.30pm: Festival Club (XII Below lounge bar).
• TOMORROW
Daily: Outside Art (random locations).
Daily: Digital Shadows (random locations).
10am-5pm: Fringe Inventions: an exhibition of Chindogu (DPAG).
10am-5pm: The Artist Lab Open Workshops Programme (DPAG).
10am till late: Signs & Wonders (Alibi bar and restaurant).
10am till late: Festival in the Valley (Mannequin cafe and bar).
11.30am-1.30pm: A Recipe for Mock Turtle Soup (Botanic Garden).
Noon: Slim Pickens (Octagon or streets of Dunedin).
2pm: Slim Pickens (Octagon or streets of Dunedin).
2pm-6pm: Te Ngaru Hou - The Next Wave (Huirapa Marae, Karitane).
4pm: Lily (Fortune Theatre).
7pm: Glam Awards Night (XII Below lounge bar).
