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 […]
FNQ – 20,000mm Under The Sea
Although work probably takes me up to Cairns two or three times a year I rarely seem to have the time to take a few days holiday and make the most of being out of Brisbane. Although I still didn’t have the time I decided that this time I would take a couple of days […]
FNQ – Cooktown
Whilst my week in the historic Far North Queensland town of Cooktown was for work, I did get some time to have a bit of a look around. When I first got there on the Sunday I had a walk down the riverfront and around the town and my work finished up early on the Thursday […]
FNQ – Cairns to Cooktown
Work took me up to Cooktown in Far North Queensland for a week. Although it’s a short flight from Cairns to Cooktown I decided to take the more leisurely drive up there. I don’t mind flying but when work takes me away from Brisbane I prefer to drive, take in the scenery and have a […]
theredsunband + Z Rays + Sienna @ The Globe
theredsunband were one of the first batch of bands I saw when I first moved to Sydney, although I can’t remember the occasion. I know I saw them play at the album launch for their first album at @Newtwon in October 2004 with The Red Riders supporting, and think that my first time of seeing […]
Masters of Music Photography: Part 4 – Anton Corbijn
Although I wouldn’t strictly describe Anton Corbijn as a music photographer, even though it was where he started, his photography has always been a huge inspiration and has a large part to play in me wanting to do music photography. U2 were the first band I really got into and saw in concert, Cardiff Arms […]
4ZZZ Tater Stomp @ The Troubadour with Dick Desert and Texas Kate
Another last minute request to cover a show, this time the second night of the 4ZZZ Tater Stomp at The Troubadour. Like most photographers I am a very wary Troubadour photographer and it comes bottom of the list for requesting shows to cover unless it’s someone that I really, really want to see. Whilst it’s […]
Cut Copy at The Tivoli
It was a night that had it all: drinks, drugs, fighting, guys mopping up their own blood, girls mopping up their own blood, police cars and ambulances outside at the end of the night… And somewhere in the midst of all that Cut Copy played a gig to a sell out Tivoli crowd. The night […]
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 […]
Biffy and Blunt
Got one of my Biffy Clyro photos in the latest edition of Blunt magazine, the one with The Living End and Foxboro Hot Tubs on the front cover (#71). It’s always good getting a telephone call requesting a photo from a publication that you’ve not been published in before. So yay for me.
Powderfinger + Whitley at The Tivoli
May was a bit of a lean month for photographing gigs, not helped by Cosmic Psychos cancelling their tour and Rave not being able to get a reviewer for Don Letts, both of which I was down to cover. And things haven’t improved much in June, with Barry Adamson, who I was really looking forward […]
Story Of The Year + The Audition at The Tivoli
 Last Friday I had a very last minute request to photograph Story Of The Year supported by The Audition at The Tivoli. Whilst not being overly familiar with the band I know from having seen photos that they love their jumping. Having had such a good time at Soundwave photographing jumping bands I couldn’t […]
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 […]
The Lonely Coming Down Photoshoot
My friend Danica from The Holy Bible called me up again about doing a photo shoot for another band she’s in, The Lonely Coming Down. It’s the law in Brisbane that if you play in a band, you have to have to be in at least one other band… (The best example of this is […]
The Audreys at The Zoo – No Chimping Allowed
– His computer’s off. – Luke, you switched off your targeting computer. What’s wrong? – Nothing. I’m all right I recently made the point on the flickr concert photography forum that photographing concerts isn’t rocket science – most of what’s happening on stage – the lighting, where people stand, what they do – is completely […]
Time-Lapse Photography – Part 2
Although my initial investigations into time-lapse photography were done on film back in 2004, my interest has still been there in recent years, and even more so since I got my first digital camera in late 2006. Although I have been looking to do something that involves a series of continuous and rapid shots, I […]
Kate Miller-Heidke
[DISCLAIMER: My girlfriend wanted to see Kate Miller-Heidke so asked me to request to do the photos at this gig…..] Much loved by Sunrise, much loathed by a large majority of the Pig City audience, Kate Miller-Heidke was back in Brisbane for a couple of dates at The Zoo and an All Ages show at […]
Rocket Science
The first, and indeed last, time I saw Rocket Science was when I photographed the first Come Together festival at Luna Park in Sydney in April 2005. This was when it was a one day festival of smaller indie/alt Australian bands, before it became a two day metal/emo festival with Australian and International bands (although […]
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 […]
My Disco: Paradise? Not at 1/20 Second…
It’s a rare occurrence for the support bands to have much better lighting than the headline act, but somehow My Disco managed it. Although when you play in near darkness with no front lights it’s not too hard to achieve. Indeed Feathers, the first band on, had by far the best lighting of the night. […]
Time Lapse Photography – Part 1
For a long time I’ve been interested in time-lapse photography and stop motion animation with normal still cameras. Back in 2004, when I was doing my part-time two year photography course at SCOLA, I did a couple of my projects based on these topics. For one project I looked to make a music video using […]
