No Anchor + Happy New Year + Keep On Dancin’s @ The Waiting Room, 21.10.2011
Every year work takes me down to Melbourne and rural Victoria for a three to four week in late August/early September. Every time I head down I check out the local street press (Inpress and The Beat) to see what shows are on and and try and get to see some of the Brisbane acts […]
New York Dolls + Hits + Velociraptor @ The Hi-Fi, 13.10.2011
I got to see the New York Dolls a couple of time back in 2007 when I went to both the Sydney and Gold Coast V Festivals. When you get to see a band a couple times in quick succession, you realise just how planned and rehearsed everything is, from the same set lists in […]
Parklife 2011 @ The Riverstage, 01.10.2011
Originally I wasn’t sure if I was going to put into photograph Parklife again this year. It always coincides with a really busy time at work every year when I find myself flying between Brisbane and Melbourne for work all around Victoria. I guess what helped me decide was that the original call out from […]
Laneway 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 28.01.2012 – The Quick Round Up
Having been to the last two Laneways in Brisbane, both of them since the move from something that resembled an actual lane to some cattle sheds and a covered outside car park, my third experience of the festival was by far and away the most disappointing. The weather definitely put a dampener on the day but the […]
Frankly! It’s A Pop Festival @ Brisbane Powerhouse, 04.09.2010
A long time ago, all the way back at the start of September 2010, more than 16 months ago, I went and took some photos at Frankly! It’s Not A Pop Festival at The Powerhouse. Given that I love going to Frankly I really wish I had something to say about it, but, having not […]
Explosions In The Sky + Harmony @ The Hi-Fi, 13.12.2011
My last gig for 2011. Having made a first New Year’s resolution to stop photographing at Woodland at the Kurt Vile show last week, after tonight I decide that it’s time for a second resolution come January – to stop going to see instrumental post rock bands. I usually go and see these acts based on […]
Kurt Vile & The Violators + Blank Realm + Kellie Lloyd @ Woodland, 08.12.2011
The afternoon doesn’t get off to the best of starts when the set times are tweeted: Kellie Lloyd at 9:15pm, Blank Realm at 10:15pm and Kurt Vile at 11:15pm. It brings a quick tweeted response of my darkened mood. It’s a Thursday night, I have work to go to tomorrow and I do not want […]
Future Of The Left + Turnpike + Tape/Off @ The Zoo, 06.12.2011
Tonight is the night I finally get to see Future Of The Left for the first time. Although they have played Brisbane a few times they also seem to plan their Australian tours to coincide with the New Year and I’ve always been out of town when they’ve been here before. In addition to the […]
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, […]
Flavours Of Scuzz @ Woodland, 09.07.2011
The Bands: A+ On paper it was an unbelievably good looking line-up but if there’s one thing that always elevates gigs and festivals it’s coming away having seen/heard/experienced some bands that you’ve never seen before but which you really want to see again and hope that they come back to Brisbane soon. There might have only […]
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 […]
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 […]
