Archive for July 2007
It’s kinda ironic that a few hours after getting an email from the Editor at Rolling Stone to ask me to send him some photos for next month’s magazine I got the email from VRaw saying that I was unsuccessful with my application for the RS freelance photographer job….
Oh well, it wasn’t exactly much of a surprise…
Last Saturday was the Pig City Festival at University of Queensland. When I moved to Brisbane a couple years ago someone recommended the book to me and not knowing anything about the city it was a bit of an eye-opener to find out what a mess the place was in until fairly recently. It was a really fun day, with nary an asymmetrical haircut in sight, and really great to see all the bands that are included in the book and finally find out what half of them sounded like (although have since found out most of them have myspace pages…).
Highlights were Ups and Downs, Regurgitator and The Apartments (who I also saw play a fantastic gig recently at The Troubadour with Texas Tea supporting). The reformed Saints were good but I think that the Mess and Noise review was a fair reflection on their set. Thought Ed Kuepper’s playing was great though.
Some photos below and lots, lots more here.
The Apartments
Screamfeeder
Ups and Downs
Kev Carmody
The Pineapples From The Dawn Of Time
Unkle Fats & The Parameters
David McCormack
The Riptides
Regurgitator
Go-Betweens Homage: Kate Miller-Heidke
The Saints
Some photos from the Magic Dirt gig at The Zoo a couple weeks back. Magic Dirt gone a lot more rock and noise since the last (and first) time I saw them at The Annandale about 2 1/2 years ago. Been told they were more like this back in the day. Violent Soho, still being one of the best bands in Brisbane, were the main support. And Gyanism… either they were the best opening band ever or they were the worst opening band ever… I just can’t decide which one…
A few more photos on flickr.
Gyanism
Violent Soho
Magic Dirt
Photographed Dinosaur Jr at The Tivoli last Friday night. Surprisingly had never seen them before, and there aren’t many other bands of that ilk and from that time that I can say that about. If I could have been bothered to go with my ex-housemate to the Rollercoaster tour in 1992 (i think) at Whitely Bay Ice Rink to see JAMC, MBV, Dinosaur Jr and Blur I think I would have picked up most of the bands that have missed out on. Hate to think how many days my ears would have rung for after that lot…
More photos here.
Del Toro
Mary Trembles
Dinosaur Jr
