Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 22.01.2012 – Quick Round Up
Sunday was my second time at the Big Day Out with a photo pass. My day of photographing 21 bands looked like this (it would have been 22 but thanks to Kanye West being 45 minutes late, I missed Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds). View 1/22/12 11:06 AM in a larger map Total distance: 14.73km [...]
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 [...]
