Posts Tagged ‘BDO’

Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: Part 3

Arcade Fire are another band I’ve just never really understood.  I’ve said it before but there’s just something about them that really reminds me of The Waterboys so I’ve always struggled to comprehend how they’ve managed to become so feted. Tonight they play a first song with additional musicians before going down an 8 or […]


Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: Part 2

After The Drones have mostly emptied the Red Stage tent, Grouplove pack it out to capacity.  Within half a song it’s clear that the band’s main influence has to be the Eurovision Song Contest.  There’s no way a band could come up with a song like their opening song, the sort of thing you’d tune […]


Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: Part 1

This year’s Big Day Out line-up wasn’t the greatest, to say the very least.  It was clear that the organisers spent their money on the three big bands at the top of the bill, leaving them little to flesh out the rest of the day.  Although I was never much of a fan, getting to […]


Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: On Film

I normally like to keep things roughly chronological on This Is Not A Photo Opportunity, even though it usually means a massive backlog around festival time when there just isn’t the time to keep up to date. I’m going to break with convention to put up a few posts from this year’s festival season with […]


Big Day Out 2013 @ Gold Coast Parklands, 20.01.2013 – Part 3

When Crystal Castles played in the Boiler Room a couple of years ago, the experience of photographing them from the stage was cool.  It was nice to have that opportunity and to have a set of photos to provide some variety from the usual “up-nose”view festival photos (even if some photographers hogged the best positions […]


Big Day Out 2013 @ Gold Coast Parklands, 20.01.2013 – Part 2

The quickest way back to the media tent after a few songs of Jagwar Ma is through the photo pit.  Grinspoon are about to start so I make the most of the walk by taking a couple of photos in the first song.  Some might say it was a good walk spoiled. Death Grips are […]


Big Day Out 2013 @ Gold Coast Parklands, 20.01.2013 – Part 1

Back when I lived on the northside of Brisbane, the train journey down to Helensvale felt like it took forever. Now that I live on the southside, it takes a whole lot less time, the only downside being by the time the train gets to me, there’s standing room only.  Everyone on a train heading […]


Big Day Out 2013 @ Gold Coast Parklands, 20.01.2013 – The Very Belated Quick Round-Up

A couple of years ago I got back from a trip to the UK and a few hours later was out photographing a festival in the Botanic Gardens.  Unfortunately I had been en route and had missed the far superior line-up of the first day of Sunset Sounds but getting out of the house to […]


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 […]


Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 23.01.2011: Part 4

Originally I had no plans to go and see Wolfmother, but as there’s a small gap in my schedule before I need to head off to Iggy & The Stooges, the band I most want to photograph today, I decide to take a detour via the Green Stage. As I’m sure I’ve written several times […]


Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 23.01.2011: Part 3

I only know about Plan B through the UK media as he seems to be huge back home. Calling himself Plan B I just assumed he was a rap act as it’s the sort of name rap acts have. It’s a real surprise when he turns out to be a white soul singer playing plastic […]


Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 23.01.2011: Part 2

I don’t know anything about Jim Jones Revue but find myself really enjoying them. Then I spoil it all by going to photograph Airbourne. Having commented on a post on Collapse Board recently about the derivative state of so much Australian music, Airbourne are another classic example, being a photocopy of AC/DC. Although I knew […]


Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 23.01.2011: Part 1

It finally happened.  At the seventh attempt I finally got put in and accredited to photograph Big Day Out.  There had been a few years in the previous six that had acts that I really wanted to photograph and which I was disappointed not to have gotten.  Most of those years I just bought a […]