Posts Tagged ‘2012’

The Very Belated That Was The Year That Was 2012

If I recall correctly from a time management course that work sent me on last year, in order for something to become a habit, you need to do it 21 times consecutively in the appropriate time period, e.g. if it’s a daily action, you need to do it for 21 days in a row, if […]


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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


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 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 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 […]