Archive for August, 2008

Splendour In The Grass 2008– Part 6

I saw The Vines on their first UK tour at ULU in April 2002 (for bragging rights it was a shame I didn’t go see them a month earlier at the Camden Barfly…) and watched a really boring show in amongst an mostly arms-folded, unexcited crowd who were not being convinced that they were worth […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008– Part 5

Eighteen year old teen sensation Laura Marling pulls a pretty sizeable crowd in the GW McLennan tent. Although I’d seen the name before, mainly in the UK broadsheets, I’d not heard her music. It’s quiet, acoustic, sounds a bit like Joni Mitchell and is a perfect lazy Sunday afternoon soundtrack. On stage she cuts a […]


All The News That’s Fit To Print

Thanks to the blog I wrote about Everett True vs The Australian Music Press I’ve had my blog mentioned and linked to on his Guardian and Plan B. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/08/im_front-page_news_down_under_but_for_all_the_wrong_reasons.html http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2008/08/16/news-from-brisbane-2/ Bit strange to thinking about it really.  I didn’t have any great plans for it; the lack of critical discourse in Australian music press is […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 4

The alarm goes off at 6am, although feeling pretty tired and in a world of pain, much like I did when I climbed Mount Warning earlier in the year, I don’t manage to get out of bed until 6:30am. It’s straight into editing and I manage to get the ones I’m sending off for consideration […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 3

Back over at the Supertop and it’s time for Cold War Kids. Looking at the line-up for the weekend you can’t help but get the feeling that the organisers had their ears glued to their radios on the 26 January, when Triple J does it annual Hottest 100 run down, and then rushed out on […]


Everett True vs The Australian Music Press

A quick non-photo post for a change. I was interested and slightly bemused a couple of months ago when I heard that Plan B creator/editor and ex-Melody Maker writer Everett True was relocating from Brighton to Brisbane. As weekly Melody Maker readers back in the day, we all used to hate ET with a passion, […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 2

Saturday afternoon continues with The Music, who I might have seen before at Reading a few years back, although my memory of gigs and especially festivals is getting a bit fuzzy, even more so having recently celebrated the 21st anniversary of my first gig (U2 at Cardiff Arms Park, 25 July 1987). Either way they […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 1

It’s a leisurely start to the weekend at Splendour. Have some breakfast, Adam turns up at the hotel, we check, double-check, tripled-check that we all have everything we need for the day’s photographing and Adam drives us up to the site. Then we wave my media pass at various people working on the gate and completely […]


Twitter Updates for 2008-08-04

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-03: Splendour In The Grass – Saturday Round Up: One day down, one to go.  It .. http://tinyurl.com/5543ds # Splendour In The Grass – Sunday Quick Round Up: Just got back to Brisbane.  Feeling a bit fuzzy due to lac.. http://tinyurl.com/6g4qdp # Powered by Twitter Tools.


Splendour In The Grass – Sunday Quick Round Up

Just got back to Brisbane.  Feeling a bit fuzzy due to lack of sleep.  Here are some photos from Sunday at Splendour.  A few more are on flickr.  A more comprehensive set of photos on the way with some proper blogs. The Grates The Presets Robert Forster Vampire Weekend The Vines Wolfmother Yves Klein Blue


Twitter Updates for 2008-08-03

Splendour In The Grass – Saturday Round Up: One day down, one to go.  It was a long hard day.  To bed at 1.. http://tinyurl.com/6g2crr # Ended up seeing Yves Klein Blue again. Still not overly impressed. Should have gone to Little Red instead. # OMG somebody please storm the sound desk and smash the […]


Splendour In The Grass – Saturday Quick Round Up

One day down, one to go.  It was a long hard day.  To bed at 1:20am last night, alarm at 6am to sort the photos to go to off for consideration for print and start editing and uploading a few to flickr.    The first batch of photos are here.  Plenty more to come from yesterday plus […]


Twitter Updates for 2008-08-02

Got in early with my media pass. Hanging with the sniffer dogs at the gate waiting for them to be opened and the masses to run through. … # It’s a bit hard trying to do photos of the crowd coming in when the police and sniffer dogs keep busting people in frame… # The […]


Twitter Updates for 2008-08-01

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-31: Splendour In The Grass – Thursday: All packed and all set for the weekend.. http://tinyurl.com/5r8rh6 # On the way to splendour! # In byron. Having pizza and drinks at the Great Northern. # Checked in at the Ramada in Ballina. This place is nicer than my house. Ha ha to all […]


Splendour In The Grass – Friday

 Headed down to Splendour at luncthime.  Picked up Kylie, who’s photographing for FL, on the way down and we stopped in Byron for lunch at The Great Northern and a walk around.  The fluoro is already out in force.  Then we headed down the coast a bit further to our hotel in Ballina, The Ramada.  […]