Violent Soho + Ceres + Black Deity @ Mansfield Tavern, 07.11.2014
Driving the 15 minutes across Brisbane’s southern bible belt, from Salisbury where there are probably as many churches as shops, past Hillsong’s base in Mt Gravatt to Mansfield, Brisbane’s infamous religious heartland and the home of Violent Soho, it strikes that in over 10 years in Australia, I don’t think I’ve ever been to a […]
Cibo Matto + Richard In Your Mind + Ben Ely @ The Zoo, 29.10.2014
I have the photos to prove that I was there, but struggle to recall many memories from the night. There are some nights when you become so pre-occupied with photographing that the night quickly passes you without making much of an impression. It happens on ‘bad’ nights when you’re not happy with the photographs you’re […]
Bedroom Suck Records’ 5th Birthday Party @ Black Bear Lodge, 19.10.2014
Time may be getting faster every year but it’s crazy to look at how much Bedroom Sucks Records have achieved in the last five years, their first five years. As the man said, they’ve put out some of the best music in Australia in that time and keep going from strength to strength. By comparison, […]
Courtney Barnett + D.D. Dumbo + Mosman Alder @ The Zoo, 11.10.2014
There was life before Kate Bush and there is life after Kate Bush. The live shows I’ve been to in the last couple of months just haven’t done it for me and it’s all La Bush’s fault for putting on the greatest show ever. Admittedly, I haven’t set my aim that high since getting back […]
Pop Will Eat Itself + Dog Machine + Monster Zoku Onsomb @ The Zoo, 05.09.2014
Last Wednesday I was in London seeing Kate Bush, this Wednesday I was in Perth seeing No Bunny. At one point during the show a bottle of whisky was passed from the stage into the audience, some ‘mates’ forced it down their mate’s throat and within seconds he is vomiting all over the floor. Last […]
Kate Bush @ Hammersmith Apollo, 27.08.2014 & 29.08.2014
I don’t think I dream like other people do. My dreams are rarely about events or occurrences in my life, past or present, and seldom about the people in it, be they friends, family or loved ones. My mostly commonly recurring dreams centre on gigs and live music, and especially photographing them. The usual synopsis […]
Sonic Masala Festival @ Greenslopes Bowls Club, 21.06.2014
Even though it’s less than six months outside the Australian summer music festival season, today shows just how out of practice I am, at least from a physical sense of coping with an all day event, as those comfy couches dotted around Greenslopes Bowls Club provide a safe haven for most of the day when […]
DZ Deathrays + Palms + Foam @ The Zoo, 09.05.2014
At a guess I’d say that the members of Foam have a few albums between them, at least two of which are by Nirvana. It’s the second time I’ve seen Palms recently and they get a generous 45 minute for a supporting band. Tonight’s show is a few days after my 10th anniversary of living […]
Cults + The Furrs @ The Zoo, 06.05.2014
First published on Collapse Board Back in Collapse Board’s glory days of 2011 we ran 10 reviews of Cult’s debut album. It didn’t go down very well with a number of people and I can remember one nameless Brisbane-based street press music writer (nameless more because I can’t actually remember who actually said, rather than […]
Velociraptor + The Good Sports + The Maryettas @ Black Bear Lodge, 24.04.2014
First published on Collapse Board The first rule of writing about Velociraptor is that you have reference how many people play in Velociraptor. The second rule of writing about Velocirpator is that when it comes to live reviews you have to mention what ‘mode’ Velociraptor are playing in for that particular show (i.e. how many […]
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 26.02.2014
If not for a 10 day sojourn to the UK in August, this would have been the Gig Of The Year. I also saw the last Springsteen show at the BEC in March 2013, less than 12 months ago, and as good as that was, this was another level. For the 2013 tour I didn’t […]
Nine
Another year has zipped by and today’s the ninth anniversary of the site. The backlog has increased and I’ve recently found myself over a year behind, despite photographing less and less. I think that’s half the problem; when I was photographing much more it helped make sure I kept on top of things. I would […]
Soundwave 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 22.02.2014: Part 2
Although I wrote a few notes at the time for Part 1, I didn’t write anything down for the rest of day, Relying on my memory a year later is going to make the remainder of these posts fairly brief. I’m late getting to Stage 6 for Trash Talk and as I turn my attention […]
Soundwave 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 22.02.2014: Part 1
Soundwave 2015 is less than a month away [at least it was when I first starting drafting this post, showing just how slack I’ve become in recent times] but as no one has asked me I’m guessing that I won’t be photographing it this year. I’ve photographed the last five festivals – 2010, 2011, 2012, […]
(Not) Eminem + Kendrick Lamar + J.Cole + Action Bronson + 360 @ Suncorp Stadium, 20.02.2014
The day after the Wire show at the Zoo and it’s a last minute opportunity to photograph the show at Suncorp. It makes me regret turning down the opportunity to photograph Dolly Parton at the BEC on the Friday night because I could have had a four-in-a-row run of Wire, this show, Dolly Parton and […]
Wire + Per Purpose + Multiple Man @ The Zoo, 19.02.2014
One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2014 was to do more interviews. It wasn’t really because I really wanted to do them and re-invent myself as an interviewer as much as it was that we kept being offered them and no one was ever interested. So potential interviews with the likes of Mudhoney, Future […]
The Steady As She Goes + Occults @ Black Bear Lodge, 13.02.2014
I have the (not very good) photos to prove I was at this show but forgot to log it in my all-singing, all-dancing spreadsheet of gigs I have attended/photographed or write any notes about it. It was only when I was doing some backing up and syncing of my hard drives that I stumbled across the photos […]
Laneway 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 31.01.2014: Part 3
Savages were always a good idea on paper. I liked the image, the manifesto, the album cover photo, I just didn’t think much of the music the couple of times I tried listening to the album. Everyone told me that I needed to see them live so I quit Haim after a couple of songs […]
Laneway 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 31.01.2014: Part 2
Originally I had no intention of being anywhere near the Alexandria Road stage for Vance Joy but in the end decide that as there’s not much else on, I might as well fill in some time. He starts off with some song that talks about someone wearing the same old socks to bed and you […]
Laneway 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 31.01.2014: Part 1
In an ever-diminishing festival season, Laneway is once again the best looking festival. Once again they’ve managed to put together the most interesting and exciting line-up and mostly managed to avoid booking the same old, same old that the competition book year in, year out. In fact, the way that the other festivals have been […]
Soundwave 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 22.02.2014: On Film
The last festival of the summer season. Future Music happened the following week but it’s a different beast to what it’s been in the last few years, with next to no live acts and a lot more DJs and laptop acts, so I wasn’t interested in looking to photograph it. As with Big Day Out […]
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 26.02.2014: On Film
In retrospect, taking a roll of film during one of my three song allocation for Bruce Springsteen wasn’t the best use of my time. Given this was a sound desk shoot, or at least the equivalent as we were right out at the side of the floor space, positioned on the steps up to the next […]
Mudhoney + feedtime + Gravel Samwidge @ The Zoo, 18-01-2014
Once again it’s very slim pickings for music festival sideshows in Brisbane in 2014. I think the Mudhoney show at The Zoo, the night before the festival starts its Australian dates at its new Gold Coast location, might be the only Big Day Out sideshow in town this year. Knowing that there’s a long day […]
Future Of The Left + Turnpike + Damn Terran @ The Zoo, 05.01.2014
I was a bit of a later adopter to crowd funded albums. I guess I’m a late adopter to most things, everything from CD players (I bought my first dedicated, non-computer one in 2007) to iPods (I was given my first one as a birthday present in 2010). I mean I still go to the […]
