Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: Part 1
This year’s Big Day Out line-up wasn’t the greatest, to say the very least. It was clear that the organisers spent their money on the three big bands at the top of the bill, leaving them little to flesh out the rest of the day. Although I was never much of a fan, getting to […]
Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: On Film
I normally like to keep things roughly chronological on This Is Not A Photo Opportunity, even though it usually means a massive backlog around festival time when there just isn’t the time to keep up to date. I’m going to break with convention to put up a few posts from this year’s festival season with […]
The Drones + Harmony @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane 26.09.2013
Anytime anyone and everyone photographs The Drones, they always come away with the same photos of Gareth Liddiard pressed up against his mic, his face contorted, his mouth open as he sings. Having photographed the band a number of times, once again I find myself in the situation of wanting to photograph differently and developing […]
All Tomorrow’s Parties December 2009 – 10 Years of ATP – Part 3
And so to The Drones, who get some favourable time-tabling by being the first band on the Centre Stage after proceedings have finished on the Pavilion Stage for the day. However, disappointingly the turnout for them is one of the smallest of the weekend, although this makes it easier to get to the barrier and […]
Photos in Rolling Stone Australia RS700
I’ve got a couple of photos in this month’s Rolling Stone Australia (RS700, The First Annual Awards Issue), one of the Dirty Three and one of The Drones. Both photos are from All Tomorrow’s Parties at Minehead from last December; the Dirty Three photo from the Inbetween Days festival, when they played an amazing, unrehearsed, […]
The Drones + Witch Hats + Hits @ The Hi-Fi
In an age when live music venues in all major cities around the world are closing, or being made to close, a brand new venue in Brisbane should be a cause for celebration, although it’s somewhat muted by the fact that it has coincided with The Arena closing as a live venue and being transformed […]
Gareth Liddiard @ The Troubadour
I think I’ve probably said enough about The Drones on my blog like here, here, here and here. And knowing that I’m down to cover them again in a couple weeks, when they play the launch night at the new Hi-Fi Bar in West End, I won’t say much about them now, even though a […]
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 – 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 […]
The Gin Club Album Launch
Having recently released their third album (and a double album to boot) ‘Junk’ to wide critical acclaim, Brisbane’s own Gin Club rolled back into town to wrap up the album launching 15 date tour that had started in Hobart some 22 days earlier The queue outside The Globe went around the block so At Sea […]
The Drones + Snowman
Photographed The Drones and Perth band Snowman a couple of weeks ago at The Zoo. First time seen The Drones since they played at The Columbian with Darling Downs last September (I think). Photos here. Good to see they’ve picked up a lot more fans since then. Fantastic gig, especially Dan Luscombe’s guitar playing, which […]
The Drones + Darling Downs
One of my favourite photographers is Anton Corbijn I bought his U2 and i book earlier in the year as a birthday present to myself and it’s been a great source of inspiration and envy in recent months. (Note to bands: if any of you are planning on world domination please can you let me […]