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Managed to finish going through some of the backlog of photos over Xmas, starting with the Saturday of the Butcher Birds in Melbourne back in September. Not much happened on the Saturday - a day of relaxing after having gotten up at 4:30am the day before to get the plane down, running around Melbourne all day, playing as PBS live show and the 2am slot at The Pony. So everyone went off, did their own thing before regrouping back at the hotel before heading off to The Tote for soundcheck at about tea time.
Went to some dodgy Greek restaurant for tea where they freaked us out by just bringing piles of food out to us without anyone having actually ordered anything and without them telling us how much it was costing, but it was all ok in the end.
Then it was back to The Tote and having to endure a freezing cold Melbourne beer garden at the start of September with the ten-legged cigarette smoking machine that is Butcher Birds…
Ouch My Face were the main support.
Some photos here and more on flickr.
Ouch My Face
Butcher Birds
Hope that one day will get to photograph sixfthick (a) with good lighting; (b) with a photo pit. Hope that one day will get to photograph Scul Hazzards with (a) some lighting…I did wuss out of standing against the stage (unlike last album launch….) but probably ended up in up the worst of the mosh and moved further back. Seems like ages since I last saw Sixfthick. Last time they launched an album I had seen them a lot before the launch so it was great to hear all the new stuff completely fresh for the first time. Also loving the new Gentle Ben songs and looking forward to a new album in the not too distant future. Got some nice photos during his set.
Some photos from the night here and more on flickr.
Sixfthick
Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side
Scul Hazzards
Butcher Birds
At the end of August ended up flying down to Melbourne and hanging out with the Butcher Birds for a couple days. Was much fun, even if there was nowhere near enough sleep, largely due to getting the 0615 flight down and having an action packed Friday which ended with the 2am show at The Pony.
Plenty of more photos from the Friday on flickr.
Will have to get around to finish going through Saturday’s photos at some point…
0615 flight (tour “traditional” champagne not pictured)
Room 323
Teebs modelling the new Gypsy-Bandito look
Melbz is like totez fun
Dancing Stacey
Teebs modelling the James Dean look
Yet another break for cigarettes…
O HAI
Band Love
J-Tard
PBS
The Pony 2am Show
Been doing too much photographing and not enough updating stuff recently…
The week after Pig City photographed Robert Forster who was playing a residency at The Powerhouse, doing a different album in full each night for 4 nights with the line-up that recorded each album. Originally put in for final night when he was playing Go-Betweens from 2000-2006 but they weren’t doing photos that night. The only other night that could do was the first night when he was playing ‘Danger in the Past’ with Mick Harvey and Thomas Wydler reprising their roles from the 1990 recording (and Adele Pickvance on bass). Had been looking forward to photographing him but was a frustrating as there was no photo pit, with the seats going right up to the stage. This meant that could only shoot from the aisles at the side, meaning that the photos were a lot more profile than had wanted. This was my favourite from the night and was printed in rave in the first week of August.
A couple of days after had a bit of a change of scene and photographed Young & Restless, with Butcher Birds supporting, at Exile, the new venue on Roma Street. Lighting was ok-ish for Butcher Birds but Y&R played pretty much in the dark. So cheated and used flash. A few photos below and a lot more on flickr.
Y&R
Butcher Birds
Had a great night at the MereNoise Meltdown festival at The Globe at the start of the month (2 June).
Load of photos on Rave’s website and dumped bigger versions on flickr. The flickr shots are as I intended them to be; had to reshape them for Rave after they had initially been done.
The Money
The Shrewms
The Horrortones
The Hymies
The Warm Guns
Texas Tea
Vegas Kings
The Dangermen
Butcher Birds
Some photos from the first night of LadyFest at The Powerhouse in Brisbane a few weeks back - Erase Errata, Macromantics, I Heart Hiroshima and Butcher Birds. A few more here.
Butcher Birds
I Heart Hiroshima
Macromantics
Erase Errata
The usual weekend last weekend - out drinking and seeing bands. Thought I’d better stick some up here before I go out and do it all again this weekend…
So here’s some photos of Howling Bells and Bit By Bats from the Columbian Bar on Saturday night, Wolf & Cub and Butcher Birds from The Zoo, and Mean Streaks from Ric’s on Friday night.
More are on my flickr account here.
Howling Bells
Bit By Bats
Wolf & Cub
Butcher Birds
Mean Streaks
Been a long few weeks with too much proper work and far too much overtime but decided I needed a bit of a break today so sorted out the photos of Butcher Birds at The Rev and Side Effects at Ric’s from couple of Fridays ago. The next few weeks are going to be bad with still too much work AND the World Cup. This coming Thursday night/Friday morning looks like this:
Photos of Louis XIV at The Zoo
England v Trinidad & Tobago 2:00 - 3:45am
Sleep
Alarm 6:45am
Four hour meeting with client 9am
…And then maybe The Mess Hall Friday night at The Zoo.
Side Effects
Butcher Birds
Did some photos of the Butcher Birds at their first ever gig at The Rev a couple of weeks ago
Check them out over at their myspace site: Butcher Birds
