South Australia's energy gremlins found a new target on Monday, interrupting British singer Adele's concert at Adelaide Oval.
Lights and backing music stopped working at the event, with the singer confirming the show was experiencing "technical difficulties" and calling on the gig's 70,000 attendees to tell a few jokes in the meantime.
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Adele tells jokes as power cut at Adelaide concert
A pulled power plug was behind the power outage at the mega star's concert, but that didn't stop people blaming South Australia's notorious blackouts.
She later revealed the culprit was the "revolving stage", which had pulled out electrical cables and cut power to the stage for about four minutes.
Still, the outage sparked quips galore on social media, with concertgoers pointing the finger at South Australia's notorious blackout problems.
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"This is just peak Adelaide," one fan wrote on Twitter.
"You sure it wasn't a solar panel or a wind farm?" Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis added, echoing attacks regularly levelled at the state's Labor government.
The power has gone out underneath Adele's stage. #sapower pic.twitter.com/1OF3GgBbT4
— Rebecca Morse (@RebeccaMorse10) March 13, 2017
the power really just went out under adele's stage....ADELAIDE YOUVE DONE IT AGAIN
— taylah🌯 (@adelaidebieber) March 13, 2017
The power's gone out on #Adele's stage at Adelaide Oval. She's had to stop singing and tell jokes. Claaaaaassic Adelaide.
— Madeleine Dunne (@MadeleineDunne) March 13, 2017
Fun fact: pulling out the plug will cut power anywhere in the world #Adele @TKoutsantonisMP @LyntonGrace @TheCalebBond
— Chris Picton MP (@PictonChris) March 13, 2017
You sure it wasn't a solar panel or a wind farm? @LyntonGrace @PictonChris @TheCalebBond
— Tom Koutsantonis (@TKoutsantonisMP) March 13, 2017
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has been under consistent pressure to fix the state's energy problems, ever since severe storms sparked a statewide blackout last September, leaving 1.67 million residents without power.
The debate was reignited last week after billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk pledged to solve SA's problems by delivering a giant battery system to the state within 100 days.
Weatherill and Koutsantonis are due to unveil the state's new energy strategy today.