Duran Duran @ BEC, 17.03.2012
Although I don’t really put in for many shows at the BEC (it’s such a long way to go to hang around waiting for a band and then get kicked out after three songs and have to come all the way back again) I just really fancied covering Duran Duran for a bit of old time nostalgia. [...]
Kylie Minogue + Gypsy & The Cat @ BEC, 03.06.2011
I never expected to get assigned to this in a million years. When the concert calendar for the fortnight was emailed out it included a whole list of shows that had already been assigned, including tonight’s show, and a note not to ask to cover these shows. The first email was followed up slightly later [...]
Spandau Ballet + Tears For Fears @ The BEC 27-04-10
If you’d told me 25 years ago that one day I’d be photographing Spandau Ballet and Tears For Fears I would never have believed you. (And then I probably would have gone “Spandau Ballet? Ugh!”). But that’s what I find myself doing tonight at the BEC (my first time photographing at the venue since John [...]
John Mellencamp + Sheryl Crow @ BEC
I’ve previously blogged that photographing big name acts at big venues just isn’t all that… and the artist formally know as John Cougar Mellencamp, i.e. John Mellencamp, supported by Sheryl Crow at the Brisbane Exhibition Centre was another one of those nights. I think I first heard John Mellencamp back in the mid-1980s on Entertainment USA [...]
Def Leppard @ BEC
Love is like a bomb, baby, c’mon get it on Livin’ like a lover with a radar phone Lookin’ like a tramp, like a video vamp Demolition woman, can I be your man? Razzle ‘n’ a dazzle ‘n’ a flash a little light Television lover, baby, go all night Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet Little [...]
Heaven & Hell
Heaven and Hell played at the BEC back in mid-August. Had the usual palaver getting to the BEC on the train with the building work at Brunswick Street so made sure I got there really early. Went for a walk around and a drink when I got there to kill time and managed to miss [...]
The Cure
Photographing big name acts at big venues just isn’t all that… BEC is out of town so via the train and thanks to the redevelopment work at Brunswick Street Station it takes me about an hour to get there door-to-door. You’re given a time to be there which is always ages from when they take [...]
60 seconds with Beyonce
Originally we were told we would get 2 songs from the mixing desk. On the train out to the BEC got a phone call from the Sony rep to say this had now become 60 seconds from the mixing desk – as in the roughly 60 seconds it took Beyonce to walk to the centre [...]
