Splendour Not So Splendid
Following on from the demise of Rave, and the loss of 80% of my photo opportunities, yesterday came the news that I was dreading; that my photo pass for Splendour In The Grass, which I was covering for Rave and which was the only confirmed gig I had left in my diary, had been revoked […]
Splendour In The Grass 2011 @ Woodfordia, 29.07.2011 – 31.07.2011 – Part 1
First published on Collapse Board Some thoughts and photos from last year’s Splendour In The Grass. My greatest weakness/photographer crime is showing too many photos, so it’s funny that I only selected 18 from three days for this post originally, when I’ll usually show more than that from a single show and 4 – 5 […]
Splendour In The Grass 2010 – Day 3
Day Three of Splendour and the battery in my mobile lasts long enough for a single tweet: Tent collapse. Slept in car. Need hat. Bad hair. Festival oversold. Florence carnage. Raisin bread and can of mother for breakfast. #sitg. It’s a good summary of Saturday night/Sunday morning. I keep seeing the reformed Pixies and they […]
Splendour In The Grass 2010 – Day 2
To my surprise my alarm wakes me up on Day 2, meaning that (1) my make-shift tent didn’t fall over; and (2) it hasn’t rained during the night. After some more extensive tent repairs (involving snapping off the broken one inch piece of tent pole and putting the tent back together properly, albeit with one pole an […]
Me vs Splendour In The Grass 2009
I’m confirmed to photograph at this year’s sold-out-in-75-minutes Splendour In The Grass festival down at Byron Bay at the end of July. The lineup so far is: Bloc Party Flaming Lips Jane’s Addiction MGMT Hilltop Hoods Grinspoon Midnight Juggernauts The Specials Augie March Sarah Blasko Friendly Fires White Lies Little Birdy Josh Pyke The Gutter […]
Splendour In The Grass 2008– Part 6
I saw The Vines on their first UK tour at ULU in April 2002 (for bragging rights it was a shame I didn’t go see them a month earlier at the Camden Barfly…) and watched a really boring show in amongst an mostly arms-folded, unexcited crowd who were not being convinced that they were worth […]
Splendour In The Grass 2008– Part 5
Eighteen year old teen sensation Laura Marling pulls a pretty sizeable crowd in the GW McLennan tent. Although I’d seen the name before, mainly in the UK broadsheets, I’d not heard her music. It’s quiet, acoustic, sounds a bit like Joni Mitchell and is a perfect lazy Sunday afternoon soundtrack. On stage she cuts a […]
Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 4
The alarm goes off at 6am, although feeling pretty tired and in a world of pain, much like I did when I climbed Mount Warning earlier in the year, I don’t manage to get out of bed until 6:30am. It’s straight into editing and I manage to get the ones I’m sending off for consideration […]
Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 3
Back over at the Supertop and it’s time for Cold War Kids. Looking at the line-up for the weekend you can’t help but get the feeling that the organisers had their ears glued to their radios on the 26 January, when Triple J does it annual Hottest 100 run down, and then rushed out on […]
Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 2
Saturday afternoon continues with The Music, who I might have seen before at Reading a few years back, although my memory of gigs and especially festivals is getting a bit fuzzy, even more so having recently celebrated the 21st anniversary of my first gig (U2 at Cardiff Arms Park, 25 July 1987). Either way they […]
Splendour In The Grass 2008 – Part 1
It’s a leisurely start to the weekend at Splendour. Have some breakfast, Adam turns up at the hotel, we check, double-check, tripled-check that we all have everything we need for the day’s photographing and Adam drives us up to the site. Then we wave my media pass at various people working on the gate and completely […]
Splendour In The Grass – Sunday Quick Round Up
Just got back to Brisbane. Feeling a bit fuzzy due to lack of sleep. Here are some photos from Sunday at Splendour. A few more are on flickr. A more comprehensive set of photos on the way with some proper blogs. The Grates The Presets Robert Forster Vampire Weekend The Vines Wolfmother Yves Klein Blue
Splendour In The Grass – Saturday Quick Round Up
One day down, one to go. It was a long hard day. To bed at 1:20am last night, alarm at 6am to sort the photos to go to off for consideration for print and start editing and uploading a few to flickr.  The first batch of photos are here. Plenty more to come from yesterday plus […]
Splendour In The Grass – Friday
 Headed down to Splendour at luncthime. Picked up Kylie, who’s photographing for FL, on the way down and we stopped in Byron for lunch at The Great Northern and a walk around. The fluoro is already out in force. Then we headed down the coast a bit further to our hotel in Ballina, The Ramada. […]
Splendour In The Grass – Thursday
All packed and all set for the weekend. At least I hope I am… Worked out my plan for the weekend earlier in the week and it looks like this. Saturday Sunday That’s the plan anyway, although not sure if it will happen; it largely depends on bands starting on time and ease of movement […]
