Harvest 2012 @ The Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 18.11.2012: Part 2
Looking back over 2012’s music festivals, it was definitely the year of disappointing festivals. Whether a case of average line-ups or on-the-day issues, none really delivered as an overall package, even though there were obvious pockets of quality bands and quality sets at each festival. If I hadn’t had been photographing at Harvest last year, I definitely […]
Harvest 2012 @ The Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 18.11.2012: Part 1
Another festival where nothing was notated for future reference, largely because a few days after the festival I headed off on holiday for 2 months and had too much to do before leaving. I didn’t even get around to putting together a quick round-up of the day’s events. I did try to use my mobile to track […]
Parklife 2013 @ Brisbane Botanic Gardens, 29.09.2012: Part 2
The Presets were Parklife’s main stage headliners, a somewhat risky proposition given that when the lineup was announced and the tickets went on sale, they had yet to release their third album. They get a reasonable crowd but The Riverstage is nowhere near as busy as it had been during the afternoon for the likes […]
Parklife 2013 @ Brisbane Botanic Gardens, 29.09.2012: Part 1
When it came around to writing something about Parklife 2012, I realised that, months after the event, I had no notes and most of what had already been written in the quick round-up post applied when thinking back to that Saturday at the end of September When it came around to looking to select the […]
VII
Another year has rolled around to the seventh anniversary of blogging. In those seven years I have written 495 with this post now being Number 496. It’s been a slow year of 45 published posts, especially when you consider that this time last year I was reporting a really productive year of 88 published posts over the […]
Soundwave 2013, RNA Showgrounds, 23.02.2013 – The Belated Quick Round-Up
This year’s Soundwave was a whole lot of hard work. Earlier in the week it looked like it was going to be a wash out, with heavy rain forecast for the week, bringing back memories of the 2011 festival and standing in a few inches of water at the second stage. Although there was some […]
Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, 01.02.2013 – The Quick Round-Up
Little went right at last year’s Laneway in Brisbane. Heavy rain in the days leading up to the festival and on the day itself resulted in the main stage being moved inside one of the tin-roofed cattlesheds, the sound was awful at every stage, even the outdoor Car Park stage, and thanks to technical issues, […]
Refused + Nuclear Summer @ Eaton Hills Hotel, 11.11.2012
After a first visit to The Crowbar the night before, tonight makes it two new venues in two nights. Although the Eaton Hills Hotel has been putting on shows for a while now, maybe a year, I was always flummoxed by what this place was and why so many larger bands were playing shows in […]
Sixfthick + Bad Vision + Tiny Migrants + Undead Apes @ Crowbar, 10.11.2012
The year looked like ending with a rare month without anything being published (only 7 in almost 7 years) but there’s just enough time for a very quick final post for 2012. I’d never been to Crowbar before. I think it’s been one of those on/off venues on Brunswick Street over the last few years […]
Texas Tea + The Gin Club + The Madisons + James X. Boyd & The Boydoids @ The Zoo, 26.10.2012
They’re far too few and far between in my book, but Texas Tea album launches are always a highlight of any year. I can’t believe it’s been four years since the last one. Where did the time go? They’re a highlight not only because they see the official release of a new set of songs […]
Blues Control + Blank Realm @ Black Bear Lodge, 10.10.2012
All work and no play. Sometimes you need to be incentivised to work late into the evening, knowing that the light at the end of the tunnel (even if it only a short-term, one single evening reward) is heading straight from the office to a show, a well earnt drink and some bands. A $10 show for […]
4ZZZ Radiothon @ Black Bear Lodge, 24.08.2012
It’s the first of two nights of 4ZZZ’s annual Radiothon, tonight at Black Bear Lodge, tomorrow at The Bridge Club in the city. The first/last time I saw Tight Slip I was fairly dismissive of them as being yet another Brisbane post punk band, influenced by the same acts as all the others and not […]
Parklife 2012 @ The Botanic Gardens, 29.09.2012 – Quick Round Up
It’s been a quiet few months post-Rave. Truth be told, I have been away from Brisbane for a large proportion of the last two months, with work taking me down to Canberra and Sydney before a four week stint in Victoria. I did go to a few gigs while in Melbourne but one was Patrick […]
Texas Tea @ Black Bear Lodge, 17.08.2012
Following on from a blast of 2005 courtesy of The Dangerman last time, tonight brings another step back in time to those happy days in the Brisbane music scene and the first band I ever saw after moving to Brisbane, Texas Tea. The band are playing the same room as they did then, but as […]
Chinese Burns + The Dangermen @ The Beetle Bar, 11.08.2012
My good friend and fellow photographer, Brad Marsellos, is down from Bundaberg and in town for a show with his band Chinese Burns. Although I’d seen his other band, The Hymies, play plenty of times in Brisbane down the years, I can’t recall ever seeing Chinese Burns before and was keen to go and see them […]
Tiny Spiders + Undead Apes + Golden Bats + Green Nose @ The Waiting Room, 03.08.2012
The Tiny Spiders album has been one of my favourite albums so far this year and has been on regular play, for days on end at times, since it was first came out. I got it through the band’s bandcamp page as part of a 12″ vinyl & t shirt package, with the album download available for […]
Splendour In The Grass @ Belongil Fields, Friday 27 July 2012
First it was on, then it was off, then it was maybe, then it was most definitely off again. For a while it looked like I might be heading down to Sydney for a one night sideshow, but with the flights getting more expensive by the day, eventually that plan priced itself out of reckoning, leaving the […]
No Anchor + The Rational Academy + Anonymeye vs Ambrose Chapel @ The Waiting Room, 14.07.2012
It’s a post-Rave world and my first show since the final show I covered for Rave, School Of Seven Bells. It’s also the first show since the only confirmed ray of sunshine left remaining in my social diary and one final hurrah in Rave’s memory, Splendour In The Grass, had been struck-out and my previously assigned […]
Splendour Not So Splendid
Following on from the demise of Rave, and the loss of 80% of my photo opportunities, yesterday came the news that I was dreading; that my photo pass for Splendour In The Grass, which I was covering for Rave and which was the only confirmed gig I had left in my diary, had been revoked […]
School Of Seven Bells @ The Hi-Fi, 23.06.2012
The last time I saw School of Seven Bells was when they were still playing as a three piece and played on the Centre Stage straight after My Bloody Valentine at the MBV-curated Nightmare Before Xmas. How I wish it could have been the same order of proceedings at The Hi-Fi tonight. With no information made available regarding set […]
Kirin J Callinan + Nite Fields + DCM @ Black Bear Lodge, 21.06.2012
Recent months have seen an apparent dearth of gigs in Brisbane. It’s not that I’ve lost interest in photographing but just that I am becoming more picky about the acts I want to give up a night for. Looking through the recent listings of gigs in recent weeks (and for upcoming weeks) there’s very little […]
I Used To Skate Once 8 @ The Zoo, 21.06.2012
Another year, another I Used To Skate Once night at The Zoo. The years just fly by. Despite the recent quiet times and lack of gigs that I’ve been interested in photographing in recent weeks/months, I’m photographing Kirin J Callinan at Black Bear Lodge tonight so end up flitting between the two venues to catch […]
RIP Rave, 1991 – 2012
Yesterday started off like any other Tuesday. I got to work, booted up my laptop, opened my email, downloaded this week’s edition of Rave and had a quick read. On Tuesday mornings work can wait. My day was brightened by one of my photos from Saturday night’s School Of Seven Bells photos being printed in amongst the […]
Book Of Ships @ The Builder’s Arms, Melbourne, 27.08.2010
I was sure that I’d drafted this post a long time ago, absolutely positive. I looked everywhere to try and find the words, on every drive on every computer I own and on every flash drive I could find. Nothing. Obviously trying to recall the fine details of an evening in Melbourne 21 months ago […]
