Posts Tagged ‘2009’

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 […]


ATP – In Between Days 2009: Om + Bardo Pond + Mum + Growing, 10-12-2009

File under ‘Better Late Than Never (Maybe): Part 3’. One of the disappointing things about In Between Days was that there wasn’t a lot to do during the days whilst waiting for the bands to start in the evening.  With only 100 or so people on site most of the facilities were closed; no swimming […]


ATP – In Between Days 2009: Fuck Buttons + Dirty Three + Josh T Pearson, 09-12-2009

File under ‘Better Late Than Never (Maybe): Part 2’. Day 2 of In Between Days is easily the best day of the four, mainly because getting to see Dirty Three play close up on a tiny stage in a tiny venue (a Western theme bar to boot) with 100 other people is always going to […]


All Tomorrow’s Parties – The Nightmare Before Xmas 2009 – Part 1

Amazingly not only have more than six months passed since the December 2009 10 days of ATP bonanza but Minehead has also played host to another couple of amazing looking ATP festivals, with Matt Groening curating the first weekend and Pavement the second.  As usual, there were some amazing bands on both of bills and […]


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 […]


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 […]


Alice Cooper @ Brisbane Convention Centre

The cool kids would never contemplate it let alone accept it, but Alice Cooper > Iggy Pop and basically the classic Alice Cooper band (when it was the name of the band, not just the singer) > The Stooges. Alice Cooper was one of the first things I ever got into and I’ve got more […]


That Was The Year That Was 2009

This time last year I blogged that 2008 had been a hectic photographic year, little knowing that 2009 would be even more extreme, and end up looking as follows: Stars Black Keys All Tomorrow’s Parties – Mt Buller All Tomorrow’s Parties – Brisbane Powerhouse: Fuck Buttons, Dead Meadow & Afrirampo Bon Iver Laughing Clowns Jeff Beck […]


ATP Nightmare Before Xmas 2009 – Saturday Quick Round-Up

The Tyde  The Membranes Sun Ra Arkestra Harmony Rockets The Pastels That Petrol Emotion J Mascis & The Fog The Horrors Spectrum Sonic Youth Robin Guthrie My Bloody Valentine No Age Fucked Up


Splendour In The Grass 2009 – Sunday Quick Round-Up

Sunday doesn’t exactly go to plan, with the slow editing and general Sunday morning sluggishness meaning I manage to miss both Danananananakroyd and Jack Ladder and despite aiming to get onto site to photograph White Lies, the traffic means I miss half of their set. So the day starts at a more leisurely starting time […]


Splendour In The Grass 2009 – Belated Saturday Quick Round-Up

Technology-wise, things didn’t go quite to plan, with the house we were staying in having no mobile reception for me to use my phone as a modem and upload some photos yesterday morning.  Saturday morning’s blog post was made by parking my car on the top of the nearest big hill and uploading from the […]


Splendour In The Grass 2009 – Friday

The closing hours of Thursday bring with them rumours that Jane’s Addiction – of all the bands on the 2009 Splendour bill, the one that I most what to see and the one that I most want to photograph – have cancelled their whole Australian tour. Friday morning brings confirmation of this, with Stephen Perkins […]


Brisbane Sounds 2009 @ The Zoo

It was only when I started processing these photos that the significance struck home; as a photographer you wait years, a lifetime perhaps, for that one perfect split second moment to create an icon, construct the legend or fuel the myth.  I know that every few blog posts I end up including a link to this […]


Me vs Splendour In The Grass 2009

I’m confirmed to photograph at this year’s sold-out-in-75-minutes Splendour In The Grass festival down at Byron Bay at the end of July. The lineup so far is: Bloc Party Flaming Lips Jane’s Addiction MGMT Hilltop Hoods Grinspoon Midnight Juggernauts The Specials Augie March Sarah Blasko Friendly Fires White Lies Little Birdy Josh Pyke The Gutter […]


UnderExposed Launch

The UnderExposed exhibition that I have previously blogged about and more formally written about opened on Thursday night with the VIP/private viewing night. And it was a really fantastic night. I got there just before the official opening time and definitely had a real sense of awe at walking into the gallery and seeing all […]


ATP Mt Buller: Part 6

Despite only living in Melbourne, a reluctance to play anywhere near as north as Brisbane in a number of years makes Rowland S Howard a real personal draw-card. Having never seen him in the flesh his gaunt appearance is a bit of a shock, but he is in good humour, and with his excellent but […]


ATP Mt Buller: Part 5

If there is one major criticism that could be leveled at the ATP Australian line-up, it’s that it’s very male and very middle-aged. In that respect, Afrirampo are like a breath of fresh air. Sure, they have the whole clichéd Japanese female punk band thing, with the colorful outfits (resplendent with artistic face make up), the […]


ATP Mt Buller: Part 4

All the exertion of the previous day as taken it’s toll as I wake to a world of pain, with extremely sore knees and back.  Things are taken more leisurely than at Splendour, when the alarm was set for 6am on both days, so editing the first days photos starts at a more reasonable hour, […]


ATP Mt Buller: Part 3

As with recent shows over the last couple of years, tonight’s Silver Apples set is performed as a solo set by Simeon Coxe.  Similar to Fuck Buttons he’s got his array of vintage-looking instruments laid out on the table in front of him, but unlike Fuck Buttons on the Bourke Street Stage, the smaller and lower Amphitheatre Stage, […]


ATP Mt Buller: Part 2

After the second time of climbing the hill I’m officially over it and it’s time to consider using the ski lifts, which are now in operation. The reformed Primitive Calculators sound like a band that has only played once in almost 30 years (a warm up Melbourne show a few days earlier), with an initial sense of […]


All Tomorrow’s Parties – Mt Buller: Saturday Quick Round-Up

Saturday was probably an even better day than Friday. Here’s a quick round-up. Time to start going through all the photos in a bit more detail now and to try to remember all the things that happened over the weekend, a tall order all things considered. I probably should have taken some notes as I […]