Thousand In Twenty – Rave Magazine’s 1,000th Edition Party @ The Zoo, 15.07.2011
I’ve been photographing for Rave since 2006, 15 September 2006 to be exact, when I covered that year’s three night Valley Fiesta for them. I started photographing for Rave through a combination of good luck, being recommended by one of the magazines writers and being available and willing to cover an event that none of […]
Laneway 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 28.01.2012 – The Quick Round Up
Having been to the last two Laneways in Brisbane, both of them since the move from something that resembled an actual lane to some cattle sheds and a covered outside car park, my third experience of the festival was by far and away the most disappointing. The weather definitely put a dampener on the day but the […]
Frankly! It’s A Pop Festival @ Brisbane Powerhouse, 04.09.2011
Another year, another Frankly! and, like last year, another Frankly where I didn’t keep any notes or write any tweets of what happened during the day. Looking through my list of posts yet to be written, a sizeable chunk of them are festivals, and this is normally true at any time. Photographing festivals is hard […]
Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 22.01.2012 – Quick Round Up
Sunday was my second time at the Big Day Out with a photo pass. My day of photographing 21 bands looked like this (it would have been 22 but thanks to Kanye West being 45 minutes late, I missed Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds). View 1/22/12 11:06 AM in a larger map Total distance: 14.73km […]
Frankly! It’s A Pop Festival @ Brisbane Powerhouse, 04.09.2010
A long time ago, all the way back at the start of September 2010, more than 16 months ago, I went and took some photos at Frankly! It’s Not A Pop Festival at The Powerhouse. Given that I love going to Frankly I really wish I had something to say about it, but, having not […]
Explosions In The Sky + Harmony @ The Hi-Fi, 13.12.2011
My last gig for 2011. Having made a first New Year’s resolution to stop photographing at Woodland at the Kurt Vile show last week, after tonight I decide that it’s time for a second resolution come January – to stop going to see instrumental post rock bands. I usually go and see these acts based on […]
Kurt Vile & The Violators + Blank Realm + Kellie Lloyd @ Woodland, 08.12.2011
The afternoon doesn’t get off to the best of starts when the set times are tweeted: Kellie Lloyd at 9:15pm, Blank Realm at 10:15pm and Kurt Vile at 11:15pm. It brings a quick tweeted response of my darkened mood. It’s a Thursday night, I have work to go to tomorrow and I do not want […]
Future Of The Left + Turnpike + Tape/Off @ The Zoo, 06.12.2011
Tonight is the night I finally get to see Future Of The Left for the first time. Although they have played Brisbane a few times they also seem to plan their Australian tours to coincide with the New Year and I’ve always been out of town when they’ve been here before. In addition to the […]
Mudhoney + Precious Jules @ The Zoo, 05.12.2011
Back in the day I never got into Mudhoney. I don’t know why but they never really did anything for me. I had friends and housemates that loved them, so got to hear bits and pieces from their earlier albums but the songs just never grabbed me. I’d seen the band a few times down […]
Naboo DJ Set + Los Huevos @ The Zoo 16.05.2010
A depressing evening all ’round. Tonight is the second show of two shows to be announced but the first to take place, the Sunday before the original show next Saturday. This show is taking place because the first show sold out so quickly. Tonight isn’t a sell out but The Zoo has a reasonably sized […]
The Audreys @ The Powerhouse, 31.10.2010
When Taasha and Tristian from The Audreys played a show in due mode at The Troubadour in May 2010, they let slip that their forthcoming third album would be called “Sometimes She Stars” and that they would be launching it at The Powerhouse in October. Come Halloween, not exactly a night you would associated with […]
UnConvention 2011 @ The Edge, 12.06.2011
About this time last year I was asked if I wanted to put together a panel for one of the sessions at the 2011 UnConvention conference. The initial idea presented to me was for a panel on music photography, which would have been straightforward; I know the people I would have had on the panel, […]
Unconvention @ The Edge, 12 & 13 June 2010
I really wish I’d written some notes about the first UnConvention back in June 2010. Normally I try to add a few notes to use as a basis for a post when I set it up in WordPress or alternatively copy and paste relevent tweets into the draft post to act as an aide memoire […]
Flavours Of Scuzz @ Woodland, 09.07.2011
The Bands: A+ On paper it was an unbelievably good looking line-up but if there’s one thing that always elevates gigs and festivals it’s coming away having seen/heard/experienced some bands that you’ve never seen before but which you really want to see again and hope that they come back to Brisbane soon. There might have only […]
Sounds Like Brisbane @ Brisbane CBD, 18.06.2010
A nice way to spend an evening in the city, although I’m not sure if there was any lasting benefit by getting more people in Brisbane interested in the bands in their city. Up until tonight I never realised there was that little laneway behind where Skinny’s used to be, down a little lane off […]
