Posts Tagged ‘The Tivoli’

Marianne Faithfull @ The Tivoli 30-01-10

For a while tonight’s Marianne Faithfull show, the first of two at The Tivoli, didn’t look like it was going to happen as a reviewer interested in covering the show couldn’t be found, meaning that it’s a fairly last minute addition to my diary. Looking around the venue, it’s a very mixed crowd; there’s obviously a […]


Joanna Newsom @ The Tivoli

I think my favourite description of Joanna Newsom (maybe from Mess+Noise, maybe from Drowned In Sound, maybe somewhere else, I can’t exactly remember) described her as “singing like a recently smacked child”.  It’s a description that always brings a wry smile as I’ve always thought there is an element of truth in the description and it’s been […]


The Stranglers + Wind & Brackets @ The Tivoli

The Tivoli is surprisingly full for tonight’s Stranglers show; there wasn’t much in the way of advertising for either the original date (in December, but cancelled with the GFC being blamed) or tonight’s show, and at $90 a ticket it’s a fairly pricey mid-week night out It’s been a long time I last saw Wind […]


Gary Numan @ The Tivoli

One of my very early musical memories was this on Top Of The Pops.  So when Gary Numan rolls into town to play at the Tivoli, how can I refuse. The trouble is that I only really know the very early stuff, and whilst these songs (‘Cars’, ‘Down In The Park‘, ‘We Are So Fragile‘, […]


Bon Iver + Mckisko @ The Tivoli

The whole Alt Country/Alt Folk scene has been flirting with the mainstream for a number of years, near enough since the start of this decade, but with Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver battling for supremacy in most of the music media’s end of year polls, 2008 definitely seems to be The Year That Folk Broke. From one […]


MGMT @ The Tivoli

One of the most obvious signs of the onset of old age in your average music fan appears to be the annual comparison of albums bought versus album included in the music media’s end of year polls.  Whereas through your late-teens and throughout your twenties a ‘score’ of ten, twelve or maybe even a fifteen from a typical top […]


Steve Earle @ The Tivoli

  Last week saw Steve Earle roll into town to play at The Tivoli, the last night of his Australian tour in support of his ‘Washington Square Serenade’ album.  For most of the set it was just him and his guitar.  However, later on in the set he was backed by a DJ, playing beats […]


Cut Copy at The Tivoli

It was a night that had it all: drinks, drugs, fighting, guys mopping up their own blood, girls mopping up their own blood, police cars and ambulances outside at the end of the night… And somewhere in the midst of all that Cut Copy played a gig to a sell out Tivoli crowd. The night […]


Powderfinger + Whitley at The Tivoli

May was a bit of a lean month for photographing gigs, not helped by Cosmic Psychos cancelling their tour and Rave not being able to get a reviewer for Don Letts, both of which I was down to cover. And things haven’t improved much in June, with Barry Adamson, who I was really looking forward […]


Story Of The Year + The Audition at The Tivoli

  Last Friday I had a very last minute request to photograph Story Of The Year supported by The Audition at The Tivoli.  Whilst not being overly familiar with the band I know from having seen photos that they love their jumping.  Having had such a good time at Soundwave photographing jumping bands I couldn’t […]


Whitesnake: 1987 And All That

If you’re male, a long-time music fan and somewhere between your mid-30s and early 40s you’ll probably have a large and varied record collection.  But I can almost guarantee that somewhere in that collection, possibly hidden towards the back, is a copy of ‘1987’ by Whitesnake.   I can remember back to my first year at university in 1990 […]


Toto @ The Tivoli

Ever since I have started going to gigs one of my main thoughts as I walk up to the venue concerns just how popular the band playing is and how many people will be there; my ultimate nightmare is that they’ll be playing to near empty room of the proverbial three men and a dog […]


Don’t Look Back: Died Pretty + Ed Kuepper

The Don’t Look Back series of concerts finally made it across to Australia this month, although in typical and familiar fashion Brisbane got the rough end of the deal with only one concert – the double bill of Died Pretty playing ‘Doughboy Hollow’ and Ed Kuepper playing ‘Honey Steel’s Gold’ – missing out on the […]


The Darkside of Ryan Adams

First two songs, no flash from the back of the room, which turned out to be the lighting desk at the front of the balcony. Still a long way from the stage. The kindly lighting guy warned us it was gonna be dark, and gave a little laugh… He wasn’t wrong… Although what was possibly […]


Dinosaur Jr

Photographed Dinosaur Jr at The Tivoli last Friday night. Surprisingly had never seen them before, and there aren’t many other bands of that ilk and from that time that I can say that about. If I could have been bothered to go with my ex-housemate to the Rollercoaster tour in 1992 (i think) at Whitely […]


Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher was in town last Tuesday as part of his whirlwind semi-acoustic tour.  The deal was supposed to be three songs and escorted out the venue (although by the time we were escorted to the pit he was already half way through the first song…). I was packing up afterwards and watching him play […]


Gomez + The Vasco Era

After over a year of living in Brisbane I finally made it to The Tivoli.  Really nice venue, lights that came in colours other than red; the only thing missing was a photo pit…  Much fun was had trying to get away from the front when I decided that I was photographically spent and could […]