Soundwave 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Saturday 23 February 2013 – Part 1
If there’s one constant to take away from every Soundwave, it’s that any plans to photograph the first couple of bands of the day always go straight out of the window as the photo passes are never ready to collect from the box office in time. It’s the same story every year. Looking back at […]
Blink 182 + The Vandals + Sharks @ RNA Showgrounds, 22.02.2013
Blink 182 play a rare Brisbane festival sideshow on the Friday night before Saturday’s Soundwave. The afternoon of the show takes an interesting turn on Twitter as Soundwave promoter, AJ Maddah, and Blink drummer, Travis Barker, become embroiled in a massive online spat that spans most of the afternoon. The crux of the argument is […]
Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Friday 1 February 2013 – Part 3
Jessie Ware is a quick in/out photo opportunity, less than a song and a half to rush back to the rest of Pond’s set. I only last that long as the lighting is rubbish and I wait until the second song to see if there’s any improvement. There’s only two of us in the photo […]
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 […]
Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Friday 1 February 2013 – Part 2
The Rubens are easily the worst band of the day, a country mile out front, head and shoulders above everyone. In fact they’re the worst band I’ve seen in a long, long time. If you told me they were a high school band who had won a local competition to play at Laneway, I probably […]
Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Friday 1 February 2013 – Part 1
Laneway is usually one of the high points of the festival season (with the exception of last year’s rain affected shambles). It’s just about the only festival, if not the only festival, where you get to see some new bands and not the same-old, same-old festival fodder that all the other major festivals put on […]
Deadshits 4 – Woods + Hunx & His Punx + Black Realm vs Naked On The Vague + Kitchens Floor @ The Zoo, 25.01.2013
A very last minute arranged trip to The Zoo for the latest edition of Deadshits. Although I’d photographed Deadshits #1 and Deadshits #2, and taken a bunch of photos that I really like, I didn’t make it to #3. Looking at a line-up that included Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, Absolute Boys, Angel Eyes, Kitchen’s Floor, […]
Soundwave 2013 on Film
I can remember saying when I got my first digital camera that I saw no reason to stop using my film camera and expected to keep using both cameras side-by-side. For a while I did keep photographing gigs in film and digital but it didn’t last too long. Since that time I’ve had rolls of random […]
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 […]
VII
Another year has rolled around to the seventh anniversary of blogging. In those seven years I have written 495 with this post now being Number 496. It’s been a slow year of 45 published posts, especially when you consider that this time last year I was reporting a really productive year of 88 published posts over the […]
Soundwave 2013, RNA Showgrounds, 23.02.2013 – The Belated Quick Round-Up
This year’s Soundwave was a whole lot of hard work. Earlier in the week it looked like it was going to be a wash out, with heavy rain forecast for the week, bringing back memories of the 2011 festival and standing in a few inches of water at the second stage. Although there was some […]
Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, 01.02.2013 – The Quick Round-Up
Little went right at last year’s Laneway in Brisbane. Heavy rain in the days leading up to the festival and on the day itself resulted in the main stage being moved inside one of the tin-roofed cattlesheds, the sound was awful at every stage, even the outdoor Car Park stage, and thanks to technical issues, […]
Refused + Nuclear Summer @ Eaton Hills Hotel, 11.11.2012
After a first visit to The Crowbar the night before, tonight makes it two new venues in two nights. Although the Eaton Hills Hotel has been putting on shows for a while now, maybe a year, I was always flummoxed by what this place was and why so many larger bands were playing shows in […]
Sixfthick + Bad Vision + Tiny Migrants + Undead Apes @ Crowbar, 10.11.2012
The year looked like ending with a rare month without anything being published (only 7 in almost 7 years) but there’s just enough time for a very quick final post for 2012. I’d never been to Crowbar before. I think it’s been one of those on/off venues on Brunswick Street over the last few years […]
Texas Tea + The Gin Club + The Madisons + James X. Boyd & The Boydoids @ The Zoo, 26.10.2012
They’re far too few and far between in my book, but Texas Tea album launches are always a highlight of any year. I can’t believe it’s been four years since the last one. Where did the time go? They’re a highlight not only because they see the official release of a new set of songs […]
Blues Control + Blank Realm @ Black Bear Lodge, 10.10.2012
All work and no play. Sometimes you need to be incentivised to work late into the evening, knowing that the light at the end of the tunnel (even if it only a short-term, one single evening reward) is heading straight from the office to a show, a well earnt drink and some bands. A $10 show for […]
4ZZZ Radiothon @ Black Bear Lodge, 24.08.2012
It’s the first of two nights of 4ZZZ’s annual Radiothon, tonight at Black Bear Lodge, tomorrow at The Bridge Club in the city. The first/last time I saw Tight Slip I was fairly dismissive of them as being yet another Brisbane post punk band, influenced by the same acts as all the others and not […]
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 […]
Texas Tea @ Black Bear Lodge, 17.08.2012
Following on from a blast of 2005 courtesy of The Dangerman last time, tonight brings another step back in time to those happy days in the Brisbane music scene and the first band I ever saw after moving to Brisbane, Texas Tea. The band are playing the same room as they did then, but as […]
Chinese Burns + The Dangermen @ The Beetle Bar, 11.08.2012
My good friend and fellow photographer, Brad Marsellos, is down from Bundaberg and in town for a show with his band Chinese Burns. Although I’d seen his other band, The Hymies, play plenty of times in Brisbane down the years, I can’t recall ever seeing Chinese Burns before and was keen to go and see them […]
Tiny Spiders + Undead Apes + Golden Bats + Green Nose @ The Waiting Room, 03.08.2012
The Tiny Spiders album has been one of my favourite albums so far this year and has been on regular play, for days on end at times, since it was first came out. I got it through the band’s bandcamp page as part of a 12″ vinyl & t shirt package, with the album download available for […]
