After 6 weeks of Guitar Hero 2-induced RSI I finally got around to buying the real thing. Been on my list of things to buy for ages. First time picked up a guitar in about 10 years. And was almost tempted to buy another yesterday when popped into a Cash Converters in the ‘burbs… still tempted… maybe next week…

Thing is, I can find a few bits of info on Martinez acoustic guitars on google, but absolutely nothing on Martinez electrics. If anyone knows anything about them could they let me know?

It looks nice though, and that’s the important thing…

Went to see The Gin Club play an afternoon show last Sunday at The Powerhouse. They were filming for a DVD and didn’t want to get in the way so took some long-range and wider-than-I’d-normally-do-angle shots. Have wanted to try to get a proper group shot of the band but with the amount of people and gear on stage it’s near impossible. Good thing about The Powerhouse is the different levels so was able to take photos from a much higher level than the band. The building itself is an impressive structure so did a couple of shots trying to incorporate the structure into the photo.

Last Saturday night was Zombie Ghost Train and The Wrath at The Globe. Was a toss up between that and Vasco Era at The Zoo. Seen TVE a couple times before (supporting Gomez, Falls Festival) and although really impressive live and good to photograph, was a bit disappointed with the album, plus not seen ZGT before. Good night. Took ’til about Tuesday to feel better…. Love photographing bands like The Wrath. Loads of fun, they give you loads to work with. It’s why I like photographing Overcranked so much. ZGT were cool to photograph too, although shooting from the middle of the mosh pit can be a bit problematic. Looking forward to seeing them again, hopefully somewhere with a proper photo pit…

Dumped a load of photos on flickr.

The Wrath

Zombie Ghost Train

W/e before last was Pauhaus. No quick way in so had to queue up for 35 minutes so whilst got to see second half of Violent Soho’s set missed my 3 songs to photograph them in. Considering how good the lighting rigs are on all three stages at The Powerhouse the lighting wasn’t as good as hoped it would have been. The main stage had a massive wall of backlighting that just seemed to be in your face all the time and the smoke machine behind the drum kit meant drummer photos were difficult. Then the smoke just seemed to drift at head height across the stage to cover the rest of the band….

Also was feeling tired and uninspired so worst photos taken in a long, long time. That’s just how it is sometimes….

Ed Kuepper was the highlight of the day. Had never seen him before. Really, really want a photo pass for Pig City now…. [Edit: And even more so having seen The Apartments last night]. So if anyone knows of anyone wanting some photos done of the day point them in my direction….

Some photos here and some photos here

Some of the (possibly) better photos…

Yves Klein Blue

Operator Please

Whons Phreely

Macromantics

Dave McCormack

The Panics

Ed Kuepper

The Grates

Had a great night at the MereNoise Meltdown festival at The Globe at the start of the month (2 June).

Load of photos on Rave’s website and dumped bigger versions on flickr. The flickr shots are as I intended them to be; had to reshape them for Rave after they had initially been done.

The Money

The Shrewms

The Horrortones

The Hymies

The Warm Guns

Texas Tea

Vegas Kings

The Dangermen

Butcher Birds

Photographed Sloan on Thurs night, with The Pictures supporting.

When the Rave Concert Calendar was emailed around it was a blast from the past to see their name on it. A housemate from years ago had some of their stuff, so put in for it despite a Thursday night embarrassment of photo ops (Underoath, Tim Rogers, and Dallas Crane/67 Special all playing Brisbane the same night). Also Intercooler were initially the opening band and I’ve never photographed them, but they pulled out due to going on their own tour with Mary Trembles. But I’m sure that there will be another time for them…

Was a fantastic set of awesome indie power pop but was really tired after a long week at work so had to call it a day at 12:15am, with the band still going, which was a real shame. And, because of the public holiday, Rave’s deadline was midday Friday so had to sort out a few photos when got back and email them off. This meant that I was up until almost 1:30am, followed far too swiftly by the joys of the 6:30am alarm…

Anyway, some photos… and more on flickr.

The Pictures

Sloan