This is where you want to be this Fringe season – the beat racing through your body within a crowd of gyrating bodies dancing like nobody’s watching to the very best of house music while serenaded by Soweto Gospel Choir and DJ Groove Terminator.

After five incredible years bringing enthused audiences to their feet in house music-bliss at Gluttony’s The Fantail, History of House is coming to an end at Adelaide Fringe with 2026 being their final season here.

There’s honestly not a lot more that can be said about History of House and its undeniable popularity during Adelaide’s festival season – it’s rare to come across someone that hasn’t witnessed it and a reviewer that hasn’t raved about their experience. But for this reviewer, the show had remained an elusive mystery, until now.

Everything that had been heard or read about the show was true; the infectious energy, the unbelievable vocals from Soweto Gospel Choir, the nostalgic house anthems pumping through you as Adelaide’s (proudly) very own DJ Groove Terminator takes you on a musical journey through the years of the EDM genre.

Groove Terminator, like a glasses-wearing beat-loving shepherd, leads the show, herding his audience through the majesty of house music with hit after hit. These range throughout the years, including Donna Summer’s remixed I feel Love, Eurythmics 80’s new wave bop Sweet Dreams, and Avicii’s progressive house track Levels, famously built around a sample of Etta James’s soul song Something’s Got a Hold on Me. The formidable and multi-award winning Gospel choir punch out the vocals, both as leads, backup choir and even melodic vocalisers – paired with plenty of synchronised dance moves and booty shaking that further amp up the audience’s energy.

Informative snippets of the history behind house music are provided by Groove Terminator, such as its beginnings with African-American DJ Frankie Knuckles at the Warehouse in Chicago and its intrinsic link with black culture, are enjoyable bursts of knowledge that provide even more power to the music being performed. I, for one, would have enjoyed some more historical explanations throughout the night, but as the show is at the end of its Adelaide Fringe run, critique isn’t too necessary.

If you are one of the few that hasn’t experienced History of House, don’t let this Fringe season pass you by without stepping into The Fantail and enjoying the warm embrace of this highly-lauded show – it’s your last chance to move your feet to this historic house beat.