Splendour In The Grass 2011 @ Woodfordia, 29.07.2011 – 31.07.2011 – Part 1
First published on Collapse Board Some thoughts and photos from last year’s Splendour In The Grass. My greatest weakness/photographer crime is showing too many photos, so it’s funny that I only selected 18 from three days for this post originally, when I’ll usually show more than that from a single show and 4 – 5 […]
Nicki Minaj @ BEC, 19.05.2012
You look at photos or videos of Nicki Minaj and you think “That’s got to be fun to photograph”. I mean it just has to be really, doesn’t it? How could it fail? It has to be worth a 75 minute each way trip all the way out to Boondall, even if it’s only for […]
All Tomorrow’s Parties – The Nightmare Before Xmas 2009 – Part 5
Into the home straight of MBV’s Nightmare Before Xmas weekend, although in reality it’s just the end of the first three days of the ATP adventure, with four days of In Between Days and the long weekend of Ten Years of ATP still to come. Again, no notes were written and it’s a long time ago to try and drag […]
All Tomorrow’s Parties – The Nightmare Before Xmas 2009 – Part 4
In the fullness of time (i.e. 30 months after the event) the Sunday afternoon of the 2009 Nightmare Before Xmas is largely a blank. I can remember thinking Gemma Hayes, as an acoustic singer-songwriter type, was a bit of a strange choice, given the rest of the weekend’s lineup. I can’t remember anything about Lilys. A […]
All Tomorrow’s Parties – The Nightmare Before Xmas 2009 – Part 3
Although there’s a heavy dose of indie rock’s heritage on show at ATP, there are a number of newer acts also playing the festival. The previous week the NME had announced that The Horrors had won their Album of the Year poll with Primary Colours. It was a surprising choice to me as it wasn’t an album […]
All Tomorrow’s Parties – The Nightmare Before Xmas 2009 – Part 2
Day 2 of 2009’s Nightmare before Xmas and you get the impression that everyone in attendance woke up with a sore head, which was eased over breakfast and Muppet Treasure Island on one of the ATP TV Channels. The two ATP TV channels broadcast cult films, music documentaries and obviously hangover-relieving programs for the mornings-after-the-nights-before, 24 hours […]
Mark Lanegan Band @ The Tivoli, 21.04.2012
The big promoters are the worst. Even if you photograph at one of the big venues (BEC or BCC) and it’s not sold out, you’ll always be escorted out after the first three songs, never offered one of the spare seats going unused. People seem to think photographers request to cover certain gigs for reasons […]
Dig It Up!: Hoodoo Gurus + The Sonics + 5, 6, 7, 8s @ The Tivoli, 20.04.2012
When it comes down to it, Australian music is a bit of a strange beast in that despite the advantages of the English language it doesn’t travel well. It always seems to be years behind musical movements in the UK and the USA, so often has little to offer. Growing up, there didn’t seem to be a whole lot […]
Future Music Festival @ Doomben Racecourse, 03.03.2012 – Part 2
Back at the Flamingo Stage, The Rapture sound, look and feel like a band that’s well past its prime and who are not really enjoying the experience either. I can’t remember ever seeing Fatboy Slim play before but he’s another of the day’s disappointments. He takes an almost student disco approach to his set, playing […]
Future Music Festival @ Doomben Racecourse, 03.03.2012 – Part 1
Future Music Festival is more than just the vileness of the masses, there’s also some live music taking place and some photos to be taken. Hanging outside the festival and watching the midday carnage of people being attended to by the medical services, isn’t my idea of fun but, as with the last time I […]
Soundwave 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 25.02.2012 – Part 3
Photographically, Slipknot are the band of the day. They’re just a photographer’s dream; the aesthetics, the on-stage dynamics of their show, great lighting and a crowd that’s going nuts on the other side of the barrier. Musically, I’m less sure but then again Slipknot are just another one of those 90s bands that just completely […]
Soundwave 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 25.02.2012 – Part 2
There’s another small window of opportunity between bands so I make my way down to check out Stage 3 for the first time, where Underoath are due to start at 3pm. By 3:15pm the band still haven’t started and so I end up going back to the main stage for Bush. The crowd has visibly shrunk from the one that […]
Soundwave 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 25.02.2012 – Part 1
Working in an office block that overlooks the RNA showgrounds, I get to see the festival site take shape over the week leading up to Soundwave. However, come Friday afternoon, even as a veteran of far too many wet Glastonburys and Readings, looking out of the office window at the dark mid-afternoon skies and the […]
Laneway 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 28.01.2012 – Part 3
Disappointingly Feist (6:20pm start) has decreed that there will be no photographers in the photo pit during her set. I would have liked to have photographed her but in protest go and see Twin Shadow instead. I do go back to catch the last couple of Feist’s songs and snipe a few last-minute photos from out […]
Laneway 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 28.01.2012 – Part 2
The next three stage clash of the afternoon pits DZ Deathrays (3:35pm start) against Laura Marling (3:50pm start) and Girls (3:55pm start). I was always going to see DZ Deathrays and the fact that (a) I’ve photographed Laura Marling before and she was boring; and (b) Girls start five minutes later, meaning I can spend […]
Laneway 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 28.01.2012 – Part 1
This year’s Laneway Festival was another one of those occasions when I didn’t scribble down any notes afterwards. In part this was due to the always unwise reasoning that makes me think I’ll easily remember everything that happened over the day and in part because it was hard to come away from Laneway thinking much […]
Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 22.01.2012 – Part 3
If the lunchtime overlapping of Cage The Elephant, Parkway Drive, Best Coast and Dune Rats was an annoyance, the worst clash of the whole day has to be the one between Mariachi El Bronx on the Hot Produce stage and Battles on the Essential Stage, with only five minutes between the start times for the two acts. Given […]
Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 22.01.2012 – Part 2
There’s been a lot of criticism about this year’s Big Day Out lineup, in particular just how many acts have been quickly recycled from last year’s festival lineups. It does seem worse than in previous years as the number of quickly recycled overseas acts has increased but (at least to me) it’s always been a […]
Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 22.01.2012 – Part 1
Having only finally been accredited to photograph Big Day Out for the first time last year, at the seventh attempt of trying, 2012 finds me back there again with little difficulty. Maybe the heavily-criticised line-up helped dissuade photographers from applying this year to cover it. With there being no Sunset Sounds this year, after the pre-Brisbane […]
Bon Iver @ The Tivoli, 15.03.2012
I photographed Bon Iver the last time he played in Brisbane, at the same venue as he’s playing tonight, except this time around he’s playing three sold out nights at The Tivoli versus the one show back in 2009. It was a good show, a surprising show in a lot of ways as I didn’t think much […]
Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot @ The Tivoli, 28.03.2012
Having photographed Duran Duran a couple of weeks ago, requesting to cover Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot Tour was going back even further into my musical past. Considering that The Stray Cats hit in the big time in 1980 and I was 8, my musical history doesn’t go a whole lot earlier. Having put in for it, it […]
Dirty Three @ The Tivoli, 22.03.2012
Tonight’s support act, Lost Animal, are already playing when I get to The Tivoli. There’s no one in the photo pit and I don’t check to see whether it’s still in the first three songs. They continue to play for a good while afterwards so maybe I should have checked as I might have been OK to […]
Duran Duran @ BEC, 17.03.2012
Although I don’t really put in for many shows at the BEC (it’s such a long way to go to hang around waiting for a band and then get kicked out after three songs and have to come all the way back again) I just really fancied covering Duran Duran for a bit of old time nostalgia. […]
First Aid Kit + Little Scout @ The Zoo, 16.03.2012
As is becoming a habit for me, I don’t get there in time to see Big Strong Brute and as the actual times have been changed from those advertised I also manage to miss the start of Little Scout. The band say that they haven’t played for six months but I think I probably saw them […]
