Posts Tagged ‘RNA Showgrounds’

Laneway 2015 @ RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, 31.01.2015 – Part 3

It’s the evening of the Asian Cup Final and the VIP bar is a lot more full then it should be as Laneway reaches the pointy end of the day and the festival’s big names start to make their appearances. What’s interesting is that I can spot a number of reviewers preferring to watch the […]


Laneway 2015 @ RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, 31.01.2015 – Part 2

As ever, there is a GPS tracker for the day, for as long as my phone battery runs for. As I have my laptop with me, I’m able to sneakily charge it up between bands from the comfortable confines of the VIP bar area with its luxurious and much appreciated air con. At least I […]


Laneway 2015 @ RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, 31.01.2015 – Part 1

In recent years I’ve generally concluded that Laneway is the best of the major Australian festivals, the depressing thing that in 2015 it’s almost gains that complement by default through being the only festival left. Depressingly for me it means that my festival season is over and done with by the end of January. I […]


Soundwave 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 22.02.2014: Part 3

By the time the mid to late metal scene was around, I’d long moved on. Although I wasn’t really interested, It was only the fact that I’d never seen Korn that made me go along to photograph them. Just another one for the list and another band photographed for the day. Musically I still don’t […]


Soundwave 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 22.02.2014: Part 2

Although I wrote a few notes at the time for Part 1, I didn’t write anything down for the rest of day, Relying on my memory a year later is going to make the remainder of these posts fairly brief. I’m late getting to Stage 6 for Trash Talk and as I turn my attention […]


Soundwave 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 22.02.2014: Part 1

Soundwave 2015 is less than a month away [at least it was when I first starting drafting this post, showing just how slack I’ve become in recent times] but as no one has asked me I’m guessing that I won’t be photographing it this year. I’ve photographed the last five festivals – 2010, 2011, 2012, […]


Laneway 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 31.01.2014: Part 3

Savages were always a good idea on paper. I liked the image, the manifesto, the album cover photo, I just didn’t think much of the music the couple of times I tried listening to the album.  Everyone told me that I needed to see them live so I quit Haim after a couple of songs […]


Laneway 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 31.01.2014: Part 2

Originally I had no intention of being anywhere near the Alexandria Road stage for Vance Joy but in the end decide that as there’s not much else on, I might as well fill in some time.  He starts off with some song that talks about someone wearing the same old socks to bed and you […]


Laneway 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 31.01.2014: Part 1

In an ever-diminishing festival season, Laneway is once again the best looking festival.  Once again they’ve managed to put together the most interesting and exciting line-up and mostly managed to avoid booking the same old, same old that the competition book year in, year out.  In fact, the way that the other festivals have been […]


Soundwave 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 22.02.2014: On Film

The last festival of the summer season. Future Music happened the following week but it’s a different beast to what it’s been in the last few years, with next to no live acts and a lot more DJs and laptop acts, so I wasn’t interested in looking to photograph it. As with Big Day Out […]


Laneway 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 31.01.2014: On Film

Laneway was shot on film in the same fashion as Big Day Out: Kodak Tri-X pushed to ISO 800, and then developed in ID-11. In developing these ones I was surprised to see how many acts I photographed on film given how busy the day was Nine out of 22 acts were given the honour; […]


Soundwave 2014 @ RNA Showgrounds, 22.02.2014: The Quick Round-Up

Although Soundwave was the third festival of the year, it’s the first one this year that I’ve managed to write a quick post for. Although time is always short to get something written and posted up quickly, phone problems have meant that I didn’t have any GPS data to write about for Big Day Out […]


Soundwave 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Saturday 23 February 2013 – Part 3

Cancer Bats are yet another one of those Stage 4 bands that, a few weeks on, I have no clear recollection of. All the Stage 4 band have just all blended into one. Danko Jones fill some time between bands, although I don’t know anything about them. Band fatigue has well and truly set in […]


Soundwave 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Saturday 23 February 2013 – Part 2

Kyuss were another one of those bands that completely passed me by and I didn’t know much about them until I moved to Australia and found that they were really big in Newtown and their videos were always on the jukebox in the Sandringham. When the band come out, I’m trying to figure out if […]


Soundwave 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Saturday 23 February 2013 – Part 1

If there’s one constant to take away from every Soundwave, it’s that any plans to photograph the first couple of bands of the day always go straight out of the window as the photo passes are never ready to collect from the box office in time. It’s the same story every year. Looking back at […]


Blink 182 + The Vandals + Sharks @ RNA Showgrounds, 22.02.2013

Blink 182 play a rare Brisbane festival sideshow on the Friday night before Saturday’s Soundwave. The afternoon of the show takes an interesting turn on Twitter as Soundwave promoter, AJ Maddah, and Blink drummer, Travis Barker, become embroiled in a massive online spat that spans most of the afternoon. The crux of the argument is […]


Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Friday 1 February 2013 – Part 3

Jessie Ware is a quick in/out photo opportunity, less than a song and a half to rush back to the rest of Pond’s set. I only last that long as the lighting is rubbish and I wait until the second song to see if there’s any improvement. There’s only two of us in the photo […]


Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Friday 1 February 2013 – Part 2

The Rubens are easily the worst band of the day, a country mile out front, head and shoulders above everyone.  In fact they’re the worst band I’ve seen in a long, long time.  If you told me they were a high school band who had won a local competition to play at Laneway, I probably […]


Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Friday 1 February 2013 – Part 1

Laneway is usually one of the high points of the festival season (with the exception of last year’s rain affected shambles). It’s just about the only festival, if not the only festival, where you get to see some new bands and not the same-old, same-old festival fodder that all the other major festivals put on […]


Soundwave 2013 on Film

I can remember saying when I got my first digital camera that I saw no reason to stop using my film camera and expected to keep using both cameras side-by-side.  For a while I did keep photographing gigs in film and digital but it didn’t last too long.  Since that time I’ve had rolls of random […]


Soundwave 2013, RNA Showgrounds, 23.02.2013 – The Belated Quick Round-Up

This year’s Soundwave was a whole lot of hard work. Earlier in the week it looked like it was going to be a wash out, with heavy rain forecast for the week, bringing back memories of the 2011 festival and standing in a few inches of water at the second stage. Although there was some […]


Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, 01.02.2013 – The Quick Round-Up

Little went right at last year’s Laneway in Brisbane. Heavy rain in the days leading up to the festival and on the day itself resulted in the main stage being moved inside one of the tin-roofed cattlesheds, the sound was awful at every stage, even the outdoor Car Park stage, and thanks to technical issues, […]


Soundwave 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 25.02.2012 – Part 3

Photographically, Slipknot are the band of the day. They’re just a photographer’s dream; the aesthetics, the on-stage dynamics of their show, great lighting and a crowd that’s going nuts on the other side of the barrier. Musically, I’m less sure but then again Slipknot are just another one of those 90s bands that just completely […]


Soundwave 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 25.02.2012 – Part 2

There’s another small window of opportunity between bands so I make my way down to check out Stage 3 for the first time, where Underoath are due to start at 3pm. By 3:15pm the band still haven’t started and so I end up going back to the main stage for Bush. The crowd has visibly shrunk from the one that […]