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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Soundwave 2011 @ RNA Showgrounds, 26.02.2011: Part 4
The evening before Soundwave I’d seen a fantastic set by Gang Of Four, who were playing a sideshow at The Hi-Fi. It was so good that I decided that I really needed to go see them play again at Soundwave. They are playing Stage 3, the stage furthest away from anything else. There should be a […]
Soundwave 2011 @ RNA Showgrounds, 26.02.2011: Part 3
The late starting Bullet For My Valentine means there’s not enough time to head over and photograph The Gaslight Anthem on Stage 3. The size of the festival is even bigger than last year and with the stages all starting within 20 minutes of each other, photographing a band and then moving on to get to another […]
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 […]
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 […]
Soundwave 2008: And the Bands Played On….
A much-changed Soundwave line-up rolled into town on Saturday to be met with the hottest day in the city in four years, with temperatures over 40 degrees in the mid-afternoon sun.  With a couple of last minute drop outs (From Autumn to Ashes and Still Remains) it meant that a total of seven bands had […]
Let’s Bitch about Concert Photography Contracts – Part 1
There is an ever growing cancer that is gnawing away at the life of a music photographer; the photography contract. The actual origins of the contact are unclear; some people say Led Zeppelin, some say Rush, some say Blondie, and so on. Just as unclear are the reasons for its birth; was it fighting in […]
