Soundwave 2011 @ RNA Showgrounds, 26.02.2011: Part 3
The late starting Bullet For My Valentine means there’s not enough time to head over and photograph The Gaslight Anthem on Stage 3. The size of the festival is even bigger than last year and with the stages all starting within 20 minutes of each other, photographing a band and then moving on to get to another […]
Soundwave 2011 @ RNA Showgrounds, 26.02.2011: Part 2
Although the day had ended triumphantly with Iron Maiden’s headline set, the beginning of the day gets off to a much more inauspicious start. I get to the front of the queue at the Guest Tickets booth to pick up my photo pass only to find it’s just a green paper wristband with “Photo” written […]
Throughout The Universe, In Perpetuity: Why I Don’t Sign Copyright Grabbing Photo Contracts
I was recently interviewed by Andrew McMillen for a story that was published on The Vine about the photo release forms that photographers have to sign, mainly at the festivals and the larger stadium/arena gigs but increasingly at much smaller shows: “I didn’t sign either contract,” says Brisbane-based photographer Justin Edwards, who was covering the festival […]
This Is Not A Photo Opportunity Has Wood
Seems like only yesterday…. Yep, we made it through another year and scarily have made it all the way to five years of blogging, our Wooden Anniversary. When you start out you never think about the future or that in five years time you might still be writing about poor lighting at Brisbane venues, shows that […]
Brisbane Laneway 2011 @ Alexandria Street, 04.02.2011 – Part 1: Les Savy Fav
They might not have been the headliners or even playing on either of the festivals two main stages, but whoever tweeted “Les Savy Fav played. Some other bands were also present” perfectly summed up this year’s Laneway. The original plan was to photograph the first three songs and then go and photograph Deerhunter but seconds […]
Powderfinger + Jet + You Am I @ The Riverstage, 13.11.2010
In a way I’ve already summarised Powderfinger’s last ever show in the post about the Vegas Kings’ last show, which took place later that same night. On one side of Brisbane, down by the river, Powderfinger are playing the final show of their illustrious 20 year career. Surprisingly, given the demand, that is the fourth show […]
Gang Of Four @ The Hi-Fi, 25.02.2011
Incredible, just incredible. I didn’t know what to expect from tonight but even more than two weeks after the show I’m still completely blown away by just how good it was. Having spent a couple of days before the gig re-familiarising myself with Entertainment! and Solid Gold I’ve hardly listened to anything else since. When bands […]
That Was The Year That Was 2010
Somehow I’ve managed to make it into the second half of February without the traditional round-up of the previous year. Every year I get to this post and start off by saying the year was even more hectic than the one before and 2010 was no different. Year-on-year the number of gigs I’m photographing (and […]
Deadshits #2 @ Woodland, 28.01.2011
A mixed evening of highs and lows: The Highs Boomgates Assassins88 Superstar Per Purpose Bands playing on the floor The hard lighting from those cheap external working/security lights (usually painted yellow, with grille over the front) The Lows Circle Pit Holy Balm, mainly because of the huge gap between Assassins88 and Holy Balm playing, despite […]
Deadshits #1 @ Woodland, 05.11.2010
I didn’t write down any notes from this night, which is a shame as the specifics of the night, as experienced by me at least, have been lost to the ages. It was a good night all around though, and I do remember Blank Realm being fairly outstanding; they’re definitely one of Brisbane’s best bands […]
Sufjan Stevens @ The Tivoli, 30.01.2011
I think out of all the new artists I heard in the last decade, Sufjan Stevens has turned out to be my favourite. Ever since I first bought Seven Swans, completely old school, purely on the basis on a couple of reviews and without having heard a note of his music (something I still regularly […]
Sunset Sounds 2011 @ The Riverstage: Day 2, 06.01.2011
First published on Collapse Board (13.01.2011). It’s traditional for street press reviewers to miss opening acts and then use their limited word count to tell the world that there were ‘public transport issues’.This precedent has obviously rubbed off on me, but with Sunset Sounds I managed to take it to a new level and due […]
Swervedriver + Giants Of Science + Loomer @ The Zoo, 16.01.2011
The last time I saw Swervedriver was at the ATP MBV-curated Nightmare Before Xmas weekend back in December 2009, in a still-yet-to-be-written blog post. It was supremely loud (not as loud as MBV, but then nothing comes close to that) and frustratingly the band played in the dark, making photographing them the usual, frustrating low […]
UnderExposed Launch
The UnderExposed exhibition that I have previously blogged about and more formally written about opened on Thursday night with the VIP/private viewing night. And it was a really fantastic night. I got there just before the official opening time and definitely had a real sense of awe at walking into the gallery and seeing all […]
Rave’s UnderExposed Edition
This week’s edition of Rave has the UnderExposed exhibition on the front cover. The montage includes one of my Afrirampo photos (just underneath the ‘-VE” of RAVE). The lead feature is a story I wrote about music photography to promote the exhibition, based on an interview with Time Off photographer Stephen Booth, one of the […]
That Was The Year That Was 2008
2008 was another hectic year, which in photographic terms looked something like this: Girl Talk Buck 65 The National Enter Shikari The Police Battles Scul Hazards Brisbane Sounds Died Pretty Soundwave Broken Social Scene Toto Coco Rosie The Brisbane Sound Buffalo Tom The Bellrays Sinead O’Connor Whitesnake QOTSA Jesus & Mary Chain Spectrum Wolfmother Gin […]
No Love From Triple J
A few months ago Triple J put out the following call for submissions: Are you obsessed with finding the latest music online? Do you know about every good Australian band worth anything at the moment? Have you got your own music blog? Do you annoy your friends with constant music facts and the latest bands […]
Masters of Music Photography: Part 1 – Steve Gullick
I have been recently drafting a blog for future publication about some of my favourite music photographers. However, I saw that one of the biggest influences on my photography, Steve Gullick, has got an exhibition on at the moment in the Rough Trade East shop in London. As such, there are quite a few recent […]
Queens Of The Stone Age: The True Meaning of Era Vulgaris
Wikipedia tells us that the latest Queens Of The Stone Age album, Era Vulgaris refers to the Latin term for Common Era. The entry continues by saying that the title was chosen by Josh Homme because he thought “it sounds like ‘the Vulgar Era’, which I like, because that sounds like something that I would […]
