Posts Tagged ‘2008’

MereNoise Xmas Party

When you’ve got a new camera to test out for the first time, there has to be no better place to take it into battle than the original scene of the crime, every Brisbane photographer’s favourite venue, the black hole that sucks all the light out of the universe, The Troubadour, where MereNoise were holding […]


That Was The Year That Was 2008

2008 was another hectic year, which in photographic terms looked something like this: Girl Talk Buck 65 The National Enter Shikari The Police Battles Scul Hazards Brisbane Sounds Died Pretty Soundwave Broken Social Scene Toto Coco Rosie The Brisbane Sound Buffalo Tom The Bellrays Sinead O’Connor Whitesnake QOTSA Jesus & Mary Chain Spectrum Wolfmother Gin […]


Global Gathering 2008 @ Doomben Racecourse

Whilst the line-up for Global Gathering 2009 doesn’t have the same weight of performers as Parklife back in October, there is just enough on the bill to make requesting to cover it worthwhile, although in fairness if it isn’t for Kraftwerk playing I wouldn’t have been interested. The days preceding the festival had an ominous […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008– Part 6

I saw The Vines on their first UK tour at ULU in April 2002 (for bragging rights it was a shame I didn’t go see them a month earlier at the Camden Barfly…) and watched a really boring show in amongst an mostly arms-folded, unexcited crowd who were not being convinced that they were worth […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008– Part 5

Eighteen year old teen sensation Laura Marling pulls a pretty sizeable crowd in the GW McLennan tent. Although I’d seen the name before, mainly in the UK broadsheets, I’d not heard her music. It’s quiet, acoustic, sounds a bit like Joni Mitchell and is a perfect lazy Sunday afternoon soundtrack. On stage she cuts a […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 4

The alarm goes off at 6am, although feeling pretty tired and in a world of pain, much like I did when I climbed Mount Warning earlier in the year, I don’t manage to get out of bed until 6:30am. It’s straight into editing and I manage to get the ones I’m sending off for consideration […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 3

Back over at the Supertop and it’s time for Cold War Kids. Looking at the line-up for the weekend you can’t help but get the feeling that the organisers had their ears glued to their radios on the 26 January, when Triple J does it annual Hottest 100 run down, and then rushed out on […]


Everett True vs The Australian Music Press

A quick non-photo post for a change. I was interested and slightly bemused a couple of months ago when I heard that Plan B creator/editor and ex-Melody Maker writer Everett True was relocating from Brighton to Brisbane. As weekly Melody Maker readers back in the day, we all used to hate ET with a passion, […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 2

Saturday afternoon continues with The Music, who I might have seen before at Reading a few years back, although my memory of gigs and especially festivals is getting a bit fuzzy, even more so having recently celebrated the 21st anniversary of my first gig (U2 at Cardiff Arms Park, 25 July 1987). Either way they […]


Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 1

It’s a leisurely start to the weekend at Splendour. Have some breakfast, Adam turns up at the hotel, we check, double-check, tripled-check that we all have everything we need for the day’s photographing and Adam drives us up to the site. Then we wave my media pass at various people working on the gate and completely […]


Splendour In The Grass – Sunday Quick Round Up

Just got back to Brisbane.  Feeling a bit fuzzy due to lack of sleep.  Here are some photos from Sunday at Splendour.  A few more are on flickr.  A more comprehensive set of photos on the way with some proper blogs. The Grates The Presets Robert Forster Vampire Weekend The Vines Wolfmother Yves Klein Blue


Splendour In The Grass – Saturday Quick Round Up

One day down, one to go.  It was a long hard day.  To bed at 1:20am last night, alarm at 6am to sort the photos to go to off for consideration for print and start editing and uploading a few to flickr.    The first batch of photos are here.  Plenty more to come from yesterday plus […]


Splendour In The Grass – Friday

 Headed down to Splendour at luncthime.  Picked up Kylie, who’s photographing for FL, on the way down and we stopped in Byron for lunch at The Great Northern and a walk around.  The fluoro is already out in force.  Then we headed down the coast a bit further to our hotel in Ballina, The Ramada.  […]


Splendour In The Grass – Thursday

All packed and all set for the weekend. At least I hope I am… Worked out my plan for the weekend earlier in the week and it looks like this. Saturday Sunday That’s the plan anyway, although not sure if it will happen; it largely depends on bands starting on time and ease of movement […]


Me vs Splendour In The Grass Part 2

The final additions to the 2008 Splendour In The Grass festival were announced recently, to go with the already announced list that I blogged about here, with the final 21 bands being as follows: The Polyphonic Spree The Drones Bluejuice Lyrics Born New Young Pony Club Yves Klein Blue Tokyo Police Club Little Red Clare […]


www.notaphoto.com now with added Twitter

I have set up a Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jxe520 To be honest I still don’t really get Twitter or consider it that useful in most situations. Whilst I can see some benefits for very established bloggers or very famous people whose exciting lives could probably cope with 140 character regular updates, I think, as with […]


Me vs Splendour In The Grass

I’m confirmed to photograph at this year’s Splendour In The Grass festival down at Byron Bay at the start of August. The lineup so far is: Devo Wolfmother Sigur Ros The Living End The Presets Tricky Vampire Weekend Ben Lee Cold War Kids The Fratellis The Wombats PNAU Laura Marling The Vines The Grates Operator […]


Soundwave 2008: And the Bands Played On….

A much-changed Soundwave line-up rolled into town on Saturday to be met with the hottest day in the city in four years, with temperatures over 40 degrees in the mid-afternoon sun.   With a couple of last minute drop outs (From Autumn to Ashes and Still Remains) it meant that a total of seven bands had […]