Posts Tagged ‘Sony a700’

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 […]


Van Dyke Parks and Kinky Friedman @ Brisbane Powerhouse, 25.06.2011

I saw Van Dyke Parks play at the Powerhouse a couple years ago, when he was here for Big Sound and played the upstairs balcony room, a lovely space that I’d never been to before (or since). It was the same day as that year’s Frankly festival and the audience included a very sweaty Peaches, […]


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 […]


Clare Bowditch @ The HiFi, 08.10.2010

I always really enjoy photographing Claire Bowditch and have written previously that it’s impossible to take a bad photo of her. Tonight I completely dispel that theory by taking as load of rubbish in those first three songs. I don’t think it’s entirely my fault; the lighting in the Hi-Fi is typically very low and […]


Gary Numan @ The Tivoli, 12.05.2011

Having last been here in March 2009, Gary Numan makes a fairly swift return  to The Tivoli as part of his tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of his third album, but the first released under his own name, The Pleasure Principle. I don’t get there until really late, so late in fact that not only […]


BluesFest 2011: Day 6 – Tuesday 26.04.2011

Having had a relaxing and leisurely long-weekend, the last day of BluesFest, Day Six, is when I go to work. Compared to the rest of the weekend, the day starts early with Osibisa in the Mojo Tent before Tim Finn over on the Crossroads stage.  Last time I saw Tim Finn was at The Troubadour, […]


BluesFest 2011: Day 5 – Monday 25.04.2011

Monday is another day spent at the beach before an evening drive up to Tyagarah for the last few acts of the night; Jethro Tull, Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello. Bob Dylan hasn’t allowed photographers in the photo pit for about 30 years so I know when I apply for accreditation that I’m not going […]


BluesFest 2011: Day 4 – Sunday 24.04.2011

Although Lowell George is long gone, I had originally wanted to photograph Little Feat.  Not really sure why to be quite honest… But ever since the first day of the festival they had been written up on the media tent’s whiteboard as not allowing photographers.  So instead I headed in a bit later for Mavis […]


BluesFest 2011: Day 3 – Saturday 23.04.2011

Originally I had planned on making the drive up from Ballina late in the day for John Legend.  Other than that there was no one I was especially interested in photographing or seeing.  Indigo Girls? No. Wolfmother? Bored of seeing them, bored of photographing them. Imogen Heap? Maybe, but not enough to make me hang […]


BluesFest 2011: Day 2 – Friday 22.04.2011

Until the evening before, I’d never heard of Fistful of Mercy. I can’t even remember taking it in when looking at the timetable and planning my long weekend down the coast. Either way it’s a terrible name. They were described to me as “Ben Harper, George Harrison’s son and some other guy”; it’s a fairly […]


BluesFest 2011: Day 1 – Thursday 21.04.2011

Last year I went to BluesFest for the first time. I’d never applied to cover it before as being away from home for five days over a public holiday long weekend seemed a bit unfair and selfish. Plus the cost of being away down in Byron for five days always put me off. But last […]


Boomgates + Super Wild Horses + Per Purpose @ Woodland, 07.05.2011

My first trip to Woodland last year (to see sixfthick) was really enjoyable and I had high hopes for the new venue.  However, in the last 6 or so months I’ve found myself disliking the place more and more.  It’s no big issue really, I mean I don’t like loads of the venues in Brisbane […]


The Go! Team + Toy Balloon @ The Zoo, 03.05.2011

I always despise those half arsed, cliche-ridden, lazy street press live reviews that end along the lines of  “…and the crowd all left with smiles on their faces”.    However, if anyone reviewing tonight’s Go! Team show ends their review with similar words, I’d be more than happy to forgive them. [update: oh, look! ] […]


Flood Bank @ The Old Museum, 03.02.2011

The evening before Laneway finds me at the Old Museum for the Flood Bank benefit night, as the name suggests a fundraiser for people affected by the 2011 floods in Queensland, with 100% of the proceeds going to the Premier’s Flood Appeal.  As well as the gig, the organisers asked a number of Brisbane music […]


Stature::Statue + Velociraptor + Dune Rats + Horse Fight + Tape/Off @ The Zoo, 28.04.2011

It’s the launch night for Stature::Statue’s debut album but also their last show.  It seems to happen a lot in Brisbane that bands either make an album and either call it a day soon after (as recently done by The Rocketsmiths) or get most of the way through recording and don’t even get around to […]


Belle & Sebastian @ The Tivoli, 07.03.2011

Seeing Belle & Sebastian at All Tomorrow’s Parties in the UK in December was exciting.  It wasn’t just that the band were curating the weekend and the main band on the Saturday night or that ATP is the more civilised way to experience a music festival but it the weekend was part of a two […]


Seekae + Ghoul @ Woodland, 15.04.2011

I see that there are time listed for three acts tonight on Woodland’s Facebook page but as I don’t bother to check each of them out I arrive at the venue nice and early for Bardeya, only to find it’s a laptop DJ for the next 45 minutes. The weird thing about tonight is that […]


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 […]


Splendour In The Grass 2010 – Day 1

From a personal point of view 2010’s Splendour In The Grass is one disaster after another, everything that could go wrong does go wrong and combines into one big mass of Splendour-related EPIC FAIL, and it all starts way in advance of the festival weekend itself Firstly the dates are announced and clash with a […]


Taasha & Tristan + Timothy Carroll @ The Troubadour 28-05-10

I knew I hadn’t edited the photos from this night but then found that I’d already drafted the post.  It’s strange reading thoughts from 11 months ago, especially when no one knew at the time that The Troubadour would be shutting in November.  With reference to the first couple of lines, The Troubadour ended up […]


Best Coast @ Woodland 10.03.2011

First published on Collapse Board, 16.03.2011. Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to be in a popular band and play on stage at a sold out show to a front row of people with their iphones held aloft, recording the moment for later playback rather than living than moment.  It always ends with […]


Joanna Newsom @ The Tivoli, 04.03.2011

 First published on Collapse Board, 13.03.2011 Ironically, after the self-inflicted debacle of photographing Roxy Music earlier in the week, I get a second chance to make amends for a previous photographic misdemeanour, in the form of Joanna Newsom, who’s playing at The Tivoli for the second time in fourteen months. The last time she played at […]


Smashing Pumpkins @ The Tivoli, 17.10.2010

Once upon a time Smashing Pumpkins were one of my favourite bands.  I first got into them when they released the 4-track Lull EP (featuring Rhinoceros, Blue, Slunk and Bye June) which was released in the UK before Gish came out. I saw them when they were touring the EP at The Riverside in Newcastle, […]