Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: Part 3
Arcade Fire are another band I’ve just never really understood. I’ve said it before but there’s just something about them that really reminds me of The Waterboys so I’ve always struggled to comprehend how they’ve managed to become so feted. Tonight they play a first song with additional musicians before going down an 8 or […]
Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: Part 2
After The Drones have mostly emptied the Red Stage tent, Grouplove pack it out to capacity. Within half a song it’s clear that the band’s main influence has to be the Eurovision Song Contest. There’s no way a band could come up with a song like their opening song, the sort of thing you’d tune […]
Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: Part 1
This year’s Big Day Out line-up wasn’t the greatest, to say the very least. It was clear that the organisers spent their money on the three big bands at the top of the bill, leaving them little to flesh out the rest of the day. Although I was never much of a fan, getting to […]
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 […]
Good Vibrations @ Gold Coast Parklands, 19.02.2011 – Part 2
As the day goes by, the numbers at Parklands increase to a respectable number, and there’s a decent number at each of the stages. I’ve never seen some many shirt-off bogans and chest tattoos in all my life though. Highlight of the second half of the day is Kelis, who, as with Erykah Badu, has […]
Good Vibrations @ Gold Coast Parklands, 19.02.2011 – Part 1
It’s Saturday morning and if there’s one place I don’t want to be today it’s Good Vibrations. I mean I did, once, when I said I’d head down to the Gold Coast for the day and photograph it, but that was when the two main drawcards (for me at least) – Janelle Monae and Cee […]
