Frankly Festival @ The Powerhouse 12-09-09
Still in photo and blog catch-up mode, this is the most overdue of the lot; last September’s boutique Frankly Festival at the Powerhouse, organised by Room40‘s Lawrence English. It was a very eclectic line-up, with differing musical styles on show as well as the different geographical backgrounds of the acts on show. An early highlight […]
This Is Not A Photo Opportunity – Blogging since 2006
Amazingly, this week was is the fourth anniversary of me starting to do a regular photo blog, first on Myspace and now on This Is Not A Photo Opportunity. The actual anniversary was on Wednesday but although I’d drafted up 90% of this post it’s been a hectic week and I forgot to finish it […]
Hunz @ Ric’s, 13-03-10
I recently blogged (in a backlog blog from last year) that one of the highlight’s of the Big Sound Conference gigs was Hunz’s show at X & Y Bar. It seems to be a bit of a fallow time for bands in Brisbane at the moment so it’s always really good to discover something ‘new’ […]
Tiny Vipers @ The Troubadour 03-10-09
If there’s a lesson to be learnt from tonight it’s not to cover two gigs (with eight bands in total) at two different venues, even if they are only afew hundred metres apart. In a perfect world there wouldn’t have been a problem as the times at the two venues complemented each other almost perfectly, with the set-up […]
The Cribs @ The Zoo 16-02-10
Any chance to be in the same room as one of my musical heroes since forever is not something to be passed up on and why I find myself at The Cribs‘ gig at The Zoo tonight. I photographed Johnny Marr when he played at Falls Festival with Modest Mouse back at the very end […]
Van Dyke Parks @ The Powerhouse 12-0-09
Tonight is one of those shows that you feel very privileged to be at; getting to spend in evening with one of modern music’s greats in intimate surrounding with only 100 other people (somewhat bizarrely including Peaches, who had been DJ-ing downstairs as part of the Frankly Festival). Having been to The Powerhouse plenty of times […]
Velociraptor @ Browning Street Studios, 06-02-10
I think tonight is supposed to be an all ages show but it seems more like the old school BYO shows that you used to get at 610 as dressed-up scenesters teenagers show their real class by drinking wine straight from the bottle. Playing as a 9-piece tonight, Velociraptor take up more than half the […]
Grant Hart @ The Troubadour 10-02-10
Husker Du probably never got their fair dues and although they seem to be one of the few bands that haven’t jumped on the reunion bandwagon in recent times (other than for two songs as part of a benefit for Soul Asylum bassist Karl Mueller back in 2004), Bob Mould and Grant Hart seem to have […]
Scul Hazzards @ The Step Inn, 05-02-10
Before heading off to the UK a couple of years ago, Scul Hazzards were one of my favourite bands to go and see in Brisbane. Two years later some things have changed; Tif has gone blonde and Leigh has a massive beard. And somethings never change; the band remain as tight as ever and the terrible […]
Spiral Stairs @ The Workers Club, Melbourne 19-09-09
If there’s a good time to release a new album that’s been over five years in the making and play a gig launching the album, it’s probably not in the same week as your old band has announced a series of reunion gigs, more than ten years after you last played. But this is where Spiral […]
DZ @ The Birmingham Hotel, Melbourne 17-09-09
Went and caught a couple of shows when I was working down in Melbourne in September, including DZ‘s Thursday night gig at the Birmingham Hotel on Johnston Street. It’s always interesting to see how well Brisbane bands do when they go out of town. For a while it looked like it might be a really […]
Marianne Faithfull @ The Tivoli 30-01-10
For a while tonight’s Marianne Faithfull show, the first of two at The Tivoli, didn’t look like it was going to happen as a reviewer interested in covering the show couldn’t be found, meaning that it’s a fairly last minute addition to my diary. Looking around the venue, it’s a very mixed crowd; there’s obviously a […]
I Heart Hiroshima @ The Powerhouse
Today’s gig is billed as a farewell show, I Heart Hiroshima‘s last before drummer Susie heads to Berlin, with the band playing both of their albums in full over two separate sets. It’s a Sunday afternoon all-ages show at The Powerhouse, and unlike the venue’s more typical Sunday shows, this time you’ve got to pay to […]
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart @ The Zoo 20-02-10
Apparently this was a really good gig; it just completely passed me by as I was still in Soundwave euphoria and having already photographed 23 bands that day, by Number 24 I was very much in autopilot mode. It sounded nice enough; very old school 1980’s twee British indie but I was too busy rehydrating […]
Camera Obscura @ The Zoo
It isn’t often that you get a “three songs, no flash” instruction at The Zoo, the only ones I can remember were for Amanda Palmer and We Are Scientists. It didn’t really make much difference for WAS but was very annoying for Amanda Palmer, considering all the amazing theatrics throughout the show. I think I […]
Big Sound 2009 – Friday
Friday was the last day of the conference. No live music and just a half day (luckily the afternoon session) photographing the Master Classes, seminars and Keynote Interviews. Was busy editing the photos first thing so unfortunately missed Glenn Wheatley‘s Keynote Address, which by all accounts was excellent. The easy highlight of the day was […]
Big Sound 2009 – Thursday
Thursday morning was another morning off from photographing the conference, when I again got to sit in and listen to the talks, with my stint starting in the afternoon session. Again, the Keynote Interviews were the highlight, particularly Everett True‘s interview with Danny Goldberg. Photographing the sessions was generally quite straightforward; a combination of wide-angle […]
Soundwave 2010 – Quick Round Up – Part 3
Soundwave 2010 Quick Round Up Part 3. A gallery of my photos from the day is on The Vine. Meshuggah Anvil Isis Enter Shikari The Aquabats Gallows Rolo Tomassi
Soundwave 2010 – Quick Round Up – Part 2
Soundwave 2010 Quick Round Up Part 2. A gallery of my photos from the day is on The Vine. Eagles Of Death Metal Taking Back Sunday HIM Escape The Fate Reel Big Fish Set Your Goals Anthrax
Soundwave 2010 – Quick Round Up – Part 1
I photographed Soundwave in Brisbane last weekend. It was very much a last minute thing and at the start of the week I wasn’t expecting to be photographing, as much as I wanted to do it. I will probably get around to blogging in a bit more detail sometime but it was a bit of […]
Big Sound 2009 – Wednesday
For a few days back in September I got to play at being a proper bona fide photographer for a few days when I was commissioned by the organisers to be part of a three-person team of photographers covering the Big Sound conference in Brisbane. The work involved covering the panel discussions and also all […]
Photos in Rolling Stone Australia RS700
I’ve got a couple of photos in this month’s Rolling Stone Australia (RS700, The First Annual Awards Issue), one of the Dirty Three and one of The Drones. Both photos are from All Tomorrow’s Parties at Minehead from last December; the Dirty Three photo from the Inbetween Days festival, when they played an amazing, unrehearsed, […]
Brisbane Sounds 2010 Media Launch @ The Zoo
One gig that has always been scribbled in my diary for the last couple of years has been the annual Brisbane Sounds gig at The Zoo. The night is a showcase of local bands used as a fundraiser to raise money for a promotional CD sampler of Brisbane bands. You can read more about it […]
