Splendour In The Grass 2010 – Day 2
To my surprise my alarm wakes me up on Day 2, meaning that (1) my make-shift tent didn’t fall over; and (2) it hasn’t rained during the night. After some more extensive tent repairs (involving snapping off the broken one inch piece of tent pole and putting the tent back together properly, albeit with one pole an […]
Splendour In The Grass 2010 – Day 1
From a personal point of view 2010’s Splendour In The Grass is one disaster after another, everything that could go wrong does go wrong and combines into one big mass of Splendour-related EPIC FAIL, and it all starts way in advance of the festival weekend itself Firstly the dates are announced and clash with a […]
Taasha & Tristan + Timothy Carroll @ The Troubadour 28-05-10
I knew I hadn’t edited the photos from this night but then found that I’d already drafted the post. It’s strange reading thoughts from 11 months ago, especially when no one knew at the time that The Troubadour would be shutting in November. With reference to the first couple of lines, The Troubadour ended up […]
Best Coast @ Woodland 10.03.2011
First published on Collapse Board, 16.03.2011. Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to be in a popular band and play on stage at a sold out show to a front row of people with their iphones held aloft, recording the moment for later playback rather than living than moment. It always ends with […]
Joanna Newsom @ The Tivoli, 04.03.2011
First published on Collapse Board, 13.03.2011 Ironically, after the self-inflicted debacle of photographing Roxy Music earlier in the week, I get a second chance to make amends for a previous photographic misdemeanour, in the form of Joanna Newsom, who’s playing at The Tivoli for the second time in fourteen months. The last time she played at […]
Smashing Pumpkins @ The Tivoli, 17.10.2010
Once upon a time Smashing Pumpkins were one of my favourite bands. I first got into them when they released the 4-track Lull EP (featuring Rhinoceros, Blue, Slunk and Bye June) which was released in the UK before Gish came out. I saw them when they were touring the EP at The Riverside in Newcastle, […]
Robert Forster @ Brisbane Powerhouse, 18.09.2010
I really like Robert Forster and have enjoyed all the times I’ve seen him play live but there was something disappointing about tonight. It was billed as ’15 Songs About Brisbane’ so I expected 15 songs about Brisbane. I didn’t doubt that there would be a fair number of Go Betweens’ songs, the early songs […]
Soundwave 2011 @ RNA Showgrounds, 26.02.2011: Part 4
The evening before Soundwave I’d seen a fantastic set by Gang Of Four, who were playing a sideshow at The Hi-Fi. It was so good that I decided that I really needed to go see them play again at Soundwave. They are playing Stage 3, the stage furthest away from anything else. There should be a […]
Soundwave 2011 @ RNA Showgrounds, 26.02.2011: Part 3
The late starting Bullet For My Valentine means there’s not enough time to head over and photograph The Gaslight Anthem on Stage 3. The size of the festival is even bigger than last year and with the stages all starting within 20 minutes of each other, photographing a band and then moving on to get to another […]
Soundwave 2011 @ RNA Showgrounds, 26.02.2011: Part 2
Although the day had ended triumphantly with Iron Maiden’s headline set, the beginning of the day gets off to a much more inauspicious start. I get to the front of the queue at the Guest Tickets booth to pick up my photo pass only to find it’s just a green paper wristband with “Photo” written […]
Soundwave 2011 @ RNA Showgrounds, 26.02.2011: Part 1
I’m now at a point where I’ve photographed hundreds of gigs and think I must be closing fast on having photographed 1,000 bands. But out of all those hundreds of gigs and bands, I don’t think any of those times has been as thrilling as being in the pit for Iron Maiden tonight. When it […]
Throughout The Universe, In Perpetuity: Why I Don’t Sign Copyright Grabbing Photo Contracts
I was recently interviewed by Andrew McMillen for a story that was published on The Vine about the photo release forms that photographers have to sign, mainly at the festivals and the larger stadium/arena gigs but increasingly at much smaller shows: “I didn’t sign either contract,” says Brisbane-based photographer Justin Edwards, who was covering the festival […]
