Splendour In The Grass 2008– Part 5
Eighteen year old teen sensation Laura Marling pulls a pretty sizeable crowd in the GW McLennan tent. Although I’d seen the name before, mainly in the UK broadsheets, I’d not heard her music. It’s quiet, acoustic, sounds a bit like Joni Mitchell and is a perfect lazy Sunday afternoon soundtrack. On stage she cuts a […]
Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 4
The alarm goes off at 6am, although feeling pretty tired and in a world of pain, much like I did when I climbed Mount Warning earlier in the year, I don’t manage to get out of bed until 6:30am. It’s straight into editing and I manage to get the ones I’m sending off for consideration […]
Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 3
Back over at the Supertop and it’s time for Cold War Kids. Looking at the line-up for the weekend you can’t help but get the feeling that the organisers had their ears glued to their radios on the 26 January, when Triple J does it annual Hottest 100 run down, and then rushed out on […]
Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 2
Saturday afternoon continues with The Music, who I might have seen before at Reading a few years back, although my memory of gigs and especially festivals is getting a bit fuzzy, even more so having recently celebrated the 21st anniversary of my first gig (U2 at Cardiff Arms Park, 25 July 1987). Either way they […]
Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 1
It’s a leisurely start to the weekend at Splendour. Have some breakfast, Adam turns up at the hotel, we check, double-check, tripled-check that we all have everything we need for the day’s photographing and Adam drives us up to the site. Then we wave my media pass at various people working on the gate and completely […]
Splendour In The Grass – Sunday Quick Round Up
Just got back to Brisbane. Feeling a bit fuzzy due to lack of sleep. Here are some photos from Sunday at Splendour. A few more are on flickr. A more comprehensive set of photos on the way with some proper blogs. The Grates The Presets Robert Forster Vampire Weekend The Vines Wolfmother Yves Klein Blue
Splendour In The Grass – Friday
 Headed down to Splendour at luncthime. Picked up Kylie, who’s photographing for FL, on the way down and we stopped in Byron for lunch at The Great Northern and a walk around. The fluoro is already out in force. Then we headed down the coast a bit further to our hotel in Ballina, The Ramada. […]
Splendour In The Grass – Thursday
All packed and all set for the weekend. At least I hope I am… Worked out my plan for the weekend earlier in the week and it looks like this. Saturday Sunday That’s the plan anyway, although not sure if it will happen; it largely depends on bands starting on time and ease of movement […]
Me vs Splendour In The Grass Part 2
The final additions to the 2008 Splendour In The Grass festival were announced recently, to go with the already announced list that I blogged about here, with the final 21 bands being as follows: The Polyphonic Spree The Drones Bluejuice Lyrics Born New Young Pony Club Yves Klein Blue Tokyo Police Club Little Red Clare […]
www.notaphoto.com now with added Twitter
I have set up a Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jxe520 To be honest I still don’t really get Twitter or consider it that useful in most situations. Whilst I can see some benefits for very established bloggers or very famous people whose exciting lives could probably cope with 140 character regular updates, I think, as with […]
Me vs Splendour In The Grass
I’m confirmed to photograph at this year’s Splendour In The Grass festival down at Byron Bay at the start of August. The lineup so far is: Devo Wolfmother Sigur Ros The Living End The Presets Tricky Vampire Weekend Ben Lee Cold War Kids The Fratellis The Wombats PNAU Laura Marling The Vines The Grates Operator […]
Day One: The Means Streaks Do Byron
Hit the road last Thursday for a mini tour with The Mean Streaks as part of shooting 17 bands in 5 days. As much as you can do a tour when you only spend one night away from home… First stop: Byron for the gig at the Great Northern with Faker, Van She and The […]
