Soundwave 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 25.02.2012 – Part 1
Working in an office block that overlooks the RNA showgrounds, I get to see the festival site take shape over the week leading up to Soundwave. However, come Friday afternoon, even as a veteran of far too many wet Glastonburys and Readings, looking out of the office window at the dark mid-afternoon skies and the […]
Laneway 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 28.01.2012 – Part 3
Disappointingly Feist (6:20pm start) has decreed that there will be no photographers in the photo pit during her set. I would have liked to have photographed her but in protest go and see Twin Shadow instead. I do go back to catch the last couple of Feist’s songs and snipe a few last-minute photos from out […]
Laneway 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 28.01.2012 – Part 2
The next three stage clash of the afternoon pits DZ Deathrays (3:35pm start) against Laura Marling (3:50pm start) and Girls (3:55pm start). I was always going to see DZ Deathrays and the fact that (a) I’ve photographed Laura Marling before and she was boring; and (b) Girls start five minutes later, meaning I can spend […]
Laneway 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 28.01.2012 – Part 1
This year’s Laneway Festival was another one of those occasions when I didn’t scribble down any notes afterwards. In part this was due to the always unwise reasoning that makes me think I’ll easily remember everything that happened over the day and in part because it was hard to come away from Laneway thinking much […]
Soundwave 2012 @ RNA Showgrounds, 25.02.2012 – Quick Round-Up
Soundwave over for another year and I can’t quite believe how much it hurts. Even during the festival I started to notice it, with my back getting sore from carrying a camera bag weighing more than 10kg and my arms feeling increasingly tired from holding a camera pointed at events happening on stages across the festival site throughout […]
Soundwave 2010 @ RNA Showgrounds, 20.02.2010 – Part 3
Soundwave 2010 – The Final Push Jane’s played Up The Beach, Mountain Song and Ain’t No right. All the togs have stayed for song 4. Three days. See you in 11. 6:40 PM Feb 20th via mobile web Whores, Been Caught Stealing, …And She Did. Woah. Great setlist. #soundwave 6:55 PM Feb 20th via […]
Soundwave 2010 @ RNA Showgrounds, 20.02.2010 – Part 2
Late afternoon – early evening Paramore so crazy, so bad. Sounds like Avril Lavigne. V depressing that this is what girls aspire to. 3:56 PM Feb 20th via mobile web Thanks to the fucker in the Reel Big Fish crowd who just spat a huge greeny on me. 4:13 PM Feb 20th via mobile web Think […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Soundwave 2011 @ RNA Showgrounds, 26.02.2011: Part 1
I’m now at a point where I’ve photographed hundreds of gigs and think I must be closing fast on having photographed 1,000 bands. But out of all those hundreds of gigs and bands, I don’t think any of those times has been as thrilling as being in the pit for Iron Maiden tonight. When it […]
Brisbane Laneway 2011 @ Alexandria Street, 04.02.2011 – Part 2
“Les Savy Fav played. Some other bands were also present” This is where I try and remember anything about any of the other bands that played… I guess the writing was on the wall for Laneway’s status as a boutique festival this time last year, when some canny booking meant a bill that boasted Florence […]
Soundwave 2010 – Quick Round Up – Part 3
Soundwave 2010 Quick Round Up Part 3. A gallery of my photos from the day is on The Vine. Meshuggah Anvil Isis Enter Shikari The Aquabats Gallows Rolo Tomassi
Soundwave 2010 – Quick Round Up – Part 2
Soundwave 2010 Quick Round Up Part 2. A gallery of my photos from the day is on The Vine. Eagles Of Death Metal Taking Back Sunday HIM Escape The Fate Reel Big Fish Set Your Goals Anthrax
Soundwave 2010 – Quick Round Up – Part 1
I photographed Soundwave in Brisbane last weekend. It was very much a last minute thing and at the start of the week I wasn’t expecting to be photographing, as much as I wanted to do it. I will probably get around to blogging in a bit more detail sometime but it was a bit of […]
Overcranked 2007
Had a great time at Overcranked this year. Enjoyed the day much more than last year. Possible due to less emo bands this year, possibly due to drinking far too much… Was great to see Helmet after all these years. Mammal were awesome, the find of the day and one that a fair few other […]
4ZZZ Market Day 2006
Some photos from last Saturday’s 4ZZZ Market Day shindig at the RNA Showgrounds. A few below and the rest of them (193 photos of 18 or so of the 72 bands that played) are here. Violent Soho I Heart Hiroshima Sekiden The Gin Club SixFtHick The Meanies Jump 2 Light Speed CurseOvDialect
Overcranked 2006
Photographed the Overcranked Festival in Brisbane last weekend. My photos can been seen in full over at FasterLouder But here’s a few for you that I like… Wish For Wings Behind Crimson Eyes I Killed The Prom Queen Clutch
