Mudhoney + Precious Jules @ The Zoo, 05.12.2011
Back in the day I never got into Mudhoney. I don’t know why but they never really did anything for me. I had friends and housemates that loved them, so got to hear bits and pieces from their earlier albums but the songs just never grabbed me. I’d seen the band a few times down […]
The Audreys @ The Powerhouse, 31.10.2010
When Taasha and Tristian from The Audreys played a show in due mode at The Troubadour in May 2010, they let slip that their forthcoming third album would be called “Sometimes She Stars” and that they would be launching it at The Powerhouse in October. Come Halloween, not exactly a night you would associated with […]
UnConvention 2011 @ The Edge, 12.06.2011
About this time last year I was asked if I wanted to put together a panel for one of the sessions at the 2011 UnConvention conference. The initial idea presented to me was for a panel on music photography, which would have been straightforward; I know the people I would have had on the panel, […]
Unconvention @ The Edge, 12 & 13 June 2010
I really wish I’d written some notes about the first UnConvention back in June 2010. Normally I try to add a few notes to use as a basis for a post when I set it up in WordPress or alternatively copy and paste relevent tweets into the draft post to act as an aide memoire […]
Sounds Like Brisbane @ Brisbane CBD, 18.06.2010
A nice way to spend an evening in the city, although I’m not sure if there was any lasting benefit by getting more people in Brisbane interested in the bands in their city. Up until tonight I never realised there was that little laneway behind where Skinny’s used to be, down a little lane off […]
Valley Fiesta 2010, Brunswick Street Mall, 11.09.2010
Valley Fiesta passed through Brisbane for another year only a few weeks back [or at least it did when I wrote this post]. As I was working at the office over the weekend, I popped across after I was done there, first to see the Ben Salter/Kate Jacobson duo, Gonesville, at Black Bear Lodge, before […]
Parklife 2010 @ The Riverstage, 25.09.2010
First published on Collapse Board Parklife is one of life’s musical guilty pleasures, perhaps the guiltiest. It’s like a one day adventure into another world, somewhere I’d never normally go and I always enjoy it, a lot more than most photographers who complain about it year-on-year, and yet still put their hand up to cover […]
Inland Sea @ Woodland, 30.10.2010
I didn’t put in to cover this but instead went along as a paying punter and took my camera to get a few quick shots during the few couple of songs as it was the bands CD launch. The first time I saw Inland Sea I was totally blown away but disappointingly I don’t think […]
Parklife 2010 @ The Riverstage, 25.09.2010 – The Punters
First published on Collapse Board In thinking of a few words to write for this post, and reminiscing back to Saturday, it struck me that despite everything, i.e. a dance music festival and an obscene amount of really obvious drug use, there wasn’t an awful lot of dancing actually going on. With perfect timing, the […]
Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 23.01.2011: Part 4
Originally I had no plans to go and see Wolfmother, but as there’s a small gap in my schedule before I need to head off to Iggy & The Stooges, the band I most want to photograph today, I decide to take a detour via the Green Stage. As I’m sure I’ve written several times […]
Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 23.01.2011: Part 3
I only know about Plan B through the UK media as he seems to be huge back home. Calling himself Plan B I just assumed he was a rap act as it’s the sort of name rap acts have. It’s a real surprise when he turns out to be a white soul singer playing plastic […]
Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 23.01.2011: Part 2
I don’t know anything about Jim Jones Revue but find myself really enjoying them. Then I spoil it all by going to photograph Airbourne. Having commented on a post on Collapse Board recently about the derivative state of so much Australian music, Airbourne are another classic example, being a photocopy of AC/DC. Although I knew […]
Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 23.01.2011: Part 1
It finally happened. At the seventh attempt I finally got put in and accredited to photograph Big Day Out. There had been a few years in the previous six that had acts that I really wanted to photograph and which I was disappointed not to have gotten. Most of those years I just bought a […]
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead + Nikko + To The North @ The Hi-Fi, 09.09.2011
It will come to a surprise to no one that I keep an annual spreadsheet for all the gigs I go to and all the bands I photograph; who, where, when, support acts, number of bands photographed, that sort of thing. Having updated the spreadsheet this week with a few gigs I hadn’t yet added, […]
Richmond Fontaine + Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side @ The Troubadour, 29.05.2010
There’s an abundance of bands playing in the Valley tonight – with Texas Tea and Keep On Dancin’s at Ric’s and the R.I.P. Society Records Label Party in the Brunswick Street Mall with Dead Farmers, Royal Headache, Kitchen’s Floor and Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys – but I’m at The Troubadour again, the second of two […]
Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air @ The Riverstage, 23.07.2011
I enjoy the evenings that the Queensland Music Festival (QMF) puts on each year at the Riverstage as the festival’s main event. They always provide something different, the sort of show you’re unlikely to see in Brisbane unless it’s a special one-off, as with tonight’s pairing of Paul Kelly and Paul Grabowsky. They’re always well […]
Jesus Jones + The Wonder Stuff + Clouds @ The Tivoli, 18.08.2011
The third proper gig I ever went to was The Wonder Stuff. The Great Hall at Exeter University. 20 November 1989. The Wonder Stuff headling, Eat supporting, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin opening. £6. From a music perspective, growing up in near Exeter was far from ideal. Few bands made the 80 miles each-way detour west of […]
Sarah Blasko + Seja @ QPAC, 21.10.2010
Despite living in Brisbane for more than five years (at the time) I’d never even been to a gig at QPAC’s main auditorium, let alone photographed anything there. Having done it once (and not since almost a year later) it’s not somewhere I would be too excited about going back to in either capacity. Based […]
Ty Segall + Tiny Migrants @ Woodland, 07.07.2011
Another Thursday night gig, another Thursday night at Woodland and another gig where I only know the headline act by reputation and recommendation rather than a real familiarity with the songs. The times have been put up on Facebook but based on previous form I’m not too worried to be running more than twenty minutes […]
I Used To Skate Once 7 @ The Zoo, 23.06.2011
It feels like it was only yesterday that I popped into I Used To Skate Once 6 on the way to and on the way back from the gorgeous Hope Sandoval gig at The Tivoli. This year I had originally put in to cover Helmet at The Hi-Fi but decided that this would be more […]
OFWGKTA @ The Hi-Fi, 05.06.2011
From Kylie on Friday night to OFWGKTA on Sunday night. Odd Future have been one of the more interesting phenomenons in 2011. They’ve gone from me having never heard of them, first seeing their name on the Vivid Live bill, and suddenly being everywhere. And despite all that I wouldn’t be able to hum you […]
Kylie Minogue + Gypsy & The Cat @ BEC, 03.06.2011
I never expected to get assigned to this in a million years. When the concert calendar for the fortnight was emailed out it included a whole list of shows that had already been assigned, including tonight’s show, and a note not to ask to cover these shows. The first email was followed up slightly later […]
The Pajama Club + Glass Towers @ The Zoo, 12.06.2011
Straight from Unconvention to the Joynt for a few post conference drinks and straight from the Joynt to The Zoo for The Pajama Club’s, Neil Finn’s new band, second ever gig, having played in Byron on the Saturday night. I’ve been a huge Neil Finn for a long while. Although I don’t think it was […]
Van Dyke Parks and Kinky Friedman @ Brisbane Powerhouse, 25.06.2011
I saw Van Dyke Parks play at the Powerhouse a couple years ago, when he was here for Big Sound and played the upstairs balcony room, a lovely space that I’d never been to before (or since). It was the same day as that year’s Frankly festival and the audience included a very sweaty Peaches, […]
