Nine
Another year has zipped by and today’s the ninth anniversary of the site. The backlog has increased and I’ve recently found myself over a year behind, despite photographing less and less. I think that’s half the problem; when I was photographing much more it helped make sure I kept on top of things. I would […]
Eight
I managed to be disorganised enough to miss the eighth anniversary of keeping a blog yesterday. In those eight years I have written 544 with this post now being Number 545. It’s been another slow year of 50 published posts. I guess it’s a slight increase on last year’s 45 but a long way down […]
VII
Another year has rolled around to the seventh anniversary of blogging. In those seven years I have written 495 with this post now being Number 496. It’s been a slow year of 45 published posts, especially when you consider that this time last year I was reporting a really productive year of 88 published posts over the […]
SIX
Amazingly another year has rolled by and it’s the sixth anniversary of the first blog post I ever wrote. In those six years I have written 449 blog posts, with this post now being the big 450. This time last year I was up to 362 published posts so it’s been a really productive year of writing, […]
Neon Indian @ The Zoo, 01.03.2012
Having accepted a last minute request to photograph Jessie J over the other side of town at The Riverstage, I miss both of tonight’s support bands – Argentina (given Sean Penn’s, Roger Walter’s and now Morrissey’s comments, I wonder what their view of the Falkland Islands is?) and YesYou. I get to The Zoo just as Neon Indian […]
Future Music Festival @ Doomben Racecourse, 03.03.2012 – Quick Round Up
It isn’t just the onset of wrinkles, grey hair and middle-age spread that marks a movement into old age, there’s a whole, non-physical, psychological aspect that goes with it, the grumpiness and especially the increasing lack of patience and tolerance for idiots. This reaches its natural end point, some would say nadir, when you start […]
That Was The Year That Was 2011
As it’s already heading towards March, here’s the list of what I photographed during 2011 and sometimes even manged to find the time to blog about… Sunset Sounds – Day 2 @ The Riverstage, 6 January 2011 HEALTH @ Woodland, 15 January 2011 Big Day Out @ Gold Coast Parklands, 23 January 2011 Owen Pallett […]
Soundwave 2010 @ RNA Showgrounds, 20.02.2010 – Part 1
Soundwave might be rolling around again this coming weekend but a long-standing gap in my list of blog posts to complete has been the 2010 festival that was headlined by the reformed Faith No More. After two years the details of the day are very sketchy to say the least. Instead of anything meaningful (if […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Black Angels @ The Hi-Fi, 30.06.2011
The Black Angels are another one of those bands that I didn’t know a whole load about but who were recommended to me by so many people when their tour was announced that I decided to put in for it. The gig was advertised as them headlining with Joel Gion from Brian Jonestown supporting as […]
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 […]
Caribou + Four Tet @ The Zoo, 15.02.2011
In the cold light of the morning after the night before, I’m annoyed with myself for taking home a such a bad set of photos from the Caribou/Four Tet double-header. Firstly, there’s Four Tet. There’s only one thing worse than taking photos of keyboard players and that’s taking photos of laptop musicians. At the very […]
Paul Weller @ The Tivoli, 19-10-10
First published on Collapse Board (22/10/10). I’ve never really gotten Weller. Although I can remember ‘Town Called Malice’ on Top Of The Pops, The Jam were largely before my time. But that’s no excuse; I like plenty of bands who split up and singers who died before I started buying records. People have said they were […]
ATP – In Between Days 2009: Fuck Buttons + Dirty Three + Josh T Pearson, 09-12-2009
File under ‘Better Late Than Never (Maybe): Part 2’. Day 2 of In Between Days is easily the best day of the four, mainly because getting to see Dirty Three play close up on a tiny stage in a tiny venue (a Western theme bar to boot) with 100 other people is always going to […]
