The Gin Club + Rocketsmiths + Ridgeback County @ The Troubadour
Tonight is the third of three consecutive nights The Gin Club has sold out The Troubadour, albeit with a reduced capacity of 100 (as opposed to the venue’s more traditional 200 person capacity). Whilst the band have their reasons for wanting to do this, from a commercial point of view it probably doesn’t make a […]
Chris Bailey + Ed Kuepper @ The Troubadour 13-05-2010
The prospect of Chris Bailey and Ed Kuepper playing a series of mini-residencies – a three week tour, three shows a week, one each in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne at the same venues in each city – is an interesting and intriguing one, even though, based on past experience you know what you’re going to […]
Mark Lanegan @ The Zoo 06-07-10
As much as I really like Mark Lanegan, and all the music he’s been involved with, he’s not an easy subject to photograph, preferring to perform in extreme darkness with his eyes tightly shut. The cause isn’t helped tonight by being at The Zoo, which doesn’t have a photo pit and choosing the wrong side […]
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions @ The Tivoli 24-06-2010
One thing I often wonder about the move away from music as a physical product to a digital one is whether the same emotional attachment is there as it was for the older generation. It’s just not the ritualistic nature that used to exist – buying the album, looking at the photos on the inlay […]
Tumbleweed + The Meanies + Hytest @ The Hi-Fi Brisbane 02-05-2010
Since moving to Australia, I’d heard a lot about Tumbleweed, mostly via the Time Off Message Board, all of it glowing in its praise of the band; they’ve been talked about as the main Australian band from the 1990s that missed out on becoming massive. Although I’d checked out a few songs on YouTube and […]
Seja + Otouto @ The Troubadour 22-04-2010
Somewhat strangely Seja chooses a Thursday night for the hometown launch of her debut solo album, We Have Secrets But Nobody Cares, at The Troubadour, with Adelaide and Melbourne shows having happened the previous weekend and the Sydney launch happening the day after Brisbane. It’s not quite a sell out but is fairly busy […]
Julian Casablancas @ The Tivoli 06-05-10
Generally a lot of the blame for restrictive terms and conditions when photographing concerts is laid at the door of management and promoters; an assumption that the artists leave the business side up to the people they pay to look after the business side of the industry and any bad treatment is carried out without […]
Massive Attack @ The Riverstage 23-03-2010
I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record but three songs consisting of two songs sung by 3D singing in a mixture of dark and smoke from behind his keyboards in the middle of the stage and a third song (Babel) sung by Martina Topley Bird, who at least was stood at the front of the stage, even […]
Spandau Ballet + Tears For Fears @ The BEC 27-04-10
If you’d told me 25 years ago that one day I’d be photographing Spandau Ballet and Tears For Fears I would never have believed you. (And then I probably would have gone “Spandau Ballet? Ugh!”). But that’s what I find myself doing tonight at the BEC (my first time photographing at the venue since John […]
Wilco + Liam Finn @ The Tivoli 30-04-10
I was so looking forward to FINALLY getting so Wilco and so ever so slightly gutted when security kicked me out after three songs on the orders of the band’s management that photographers couldn’t stay for the show unless they had a separate ticket. In retrospect I should have shown them the email from the […]
Henry Rollins @ The Powerhouse 20-04-10
It’s always the way; you turn up to a gig expecting to maybe get 10 minutes of photographing before you’re escorted from the premises and without warning not only do they give you a ticket to stay for the whole show but they’ve also thrown in a very unexpected +1. And with 10 minutes to […]
Kid Sam + Deep Sea Arcade @ The Troubadour 20-04-10
Although I did see a few Kid Sam songs at this year’s Laneway Festival, I will admit that choosing to request this show was largely a result of them being nominated for the Australian Music Prize, just in case they won the award at the previous week’s winner’s announcement. In the end, rightly or wrongly the […]
Butcher Birds + Sixfthick + Loomer + Dirty Bird @ The Zoo
It seems to have taken forever and a day ( a bit like this post), but finally we got there; the Butcher Birds‘ début album launch, just about 3½ years to the very day from their very first gig at The Rev on Sunday 2 April 2006. Way back then, with half the band being fairly new to […]
Texas Tea @ The Troubadour 12-03-10
Due to the amount of time I spend there – consistently a third of the gigs I go to each year – I often think of The Zoo as my second home. Coming up a close third has to be The Troubadour, and in particular Texas Tea at The Troubadour; the very first band I saw […]
BluesFest 2010 – Monday
Reaching the last day of the festival one thing is sure; 4 days (I missed the Thursday as everyone I wanted to see on the first day was playing over the weekend anyway, although I still managed to miss Dr John) is more than enough for photographing an outdoor, multi-stage festival, especially when it involves camping. […]
BluesFest 2010 – Sunday
Sunday is the main day of the festival, with it being the last day for those with the 3-day festival tickets. As such the timetable is very clash-y with lots of big names playing all at the same time. The day’s two main highlights are Crowded House and Rodriguez. Crowded House has long been a […]
BluesFest 2010 – Friday
What I Learnt From BluesFest 2010: Photography and camping don’t mix; 2010 is the year when anyone with a camera can get accreditation to the big music festivals. When they’re having to split the photographers into two groups in order to make it manageable and it’s not even the main stage headliners you’ve given out […]
Status Quo + The Screaming Jets @ BCC 11-03-10
March was very much a month of nostalgia; mainly a trip back to the early Nineties with shows by Pavement, Pixies and Massive Attack but also with a Status Quo show, which I guess for me is more like a trip back to the early/mid Eighties. I’d never seen the band so it was very […]
Pixies @ Brisbane Convention Centre 18-03-10
When the Pixies were last out here on tour, back in 2007, I saw them play at both of the V Festivals: the Sydney one as a paying punter, the Gold Coast one with a photographer’s pass. I am a huge fan of the band as anyone who knows me will testify, especially if they knew me […]
Vivian Girls + The Legend! & The Deadnotes + Nova Scotia + Feathers @ The Step Inn
Normally when I photograph a show I’ll try and write some quick notes the next morning to help me when I finally get around to writing the blog post. However, I have gone through a massive phase of not doing this, meaning trying to write posts more than five months after they happened. The most […]
HEALTH + Stature::Statue @ The Step Inn, 25-02-10
I didn’t quite know what to expect from a HEALTH show. I probably wasn’t expecting it to be the most scenester show I’ve probably been to in the time I’ve been in Brisbane, with the majority of the crowd looking like they’ve just walked out of the pages of Vice. There’s a very scenester-looking photographer […]
Dirty Three @ The Tivoli 25-01-10
Back in the good old days of film cameras, one of the harder things to keep a check on, in addition to whether any of the photos you’d taken were actually any good, was how many photos you’d taken of each band member. Many a frustrating Sunday morning was spent developing films in the darkroom […]
Laughing Clowns @ The Tivoli 25-01-10
I don’t think I’ve ever given a support band a separate post, normally just including the headliner and all the support band musings and photos all in the one post. But tonight Ed Kuepper hinted that this might be the last time that we get to see Laughing Clowns and as it’s been such a […]
