Masters of Music Photography: Part 4 – Anton Corbijn
Although I wouldn’t strictly describe Anton Corbijn as a music photographer, even though it was where he started, his photography has always been a huge inspiration and has a large part to play in me wanting to do music photography. U2 were the first band I really got into and saw in concert, Cardiff Arms […]
4ZZZ Tater Stomp @ The Troubadour with Dick Desert and Texas Kate
Another last minute request to cover a show, this time the second night of the 4ZZZ Tater Stomp at The Troubadour. Like most photographers I am a very wary Troubadour photographer and it comes bottom of the list for requesting shows to cover unless it’s someone that I really, really want to see. Whilst it’s […]
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 […]
Me vs Splendour In The Grass Part 2
The final additions to the 2008 Splendour In The Grass festival were announced recently, to go with the already announced list that I blogged about here, with the final 21 bands being as follows: The Polyphonic Spree The Drones Bluejuice Lyrics Born New Young Pony Club Yves Klein Blue Tokyo Police Club Little Red Clare […]
Biffy and Blunt
Got one of my Biffy Clyro photos in the latest edition of Blunt magazine, the one with The Living End and Foxboro Hot Tubs on the front cover (#71). It’s always good getting a telephone call requesting a photo from a publication that you’ve not been published in before. So yay for me.
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 […]
www.notaphoto.com now with added Twitter
I have set up a Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jxe520 To be honest I still don’t really get Twitter or consider it that useful in most situations. Whilst I can see some benefits for very established bloggers or very famous people whose exciting lives could probably cope with 140 character regular updates, I think, as with […]
The Lonely Coming Down Photoshoot
My friend Danica from The Holy Bible called me up again about doing a photo shoot for another band she’s in, The Lonely Coming Down. It’s the law in Brisbane that if you play in a band, you have to have to be in at least one other band… (The best example of this is […]
The Audreys at The Zoo – No Chimping Allowed
– His computer’s off. – Luke, you switched off your targeting computer. What’s wrong? – Nothing. I’m all right I recently made the point on the flickr concert photography forum that photographing concerts isn’t rocket science – most of what’s happening on stage – the lighting, where people stand, what they do – is completely […]
Time-Lapse Photography – Part 2
Although my initial investigations into time-lapse photography were done on film back in 2004, my interest has still been there in recent years, and even more so since I got my first digital camera in late 2006. Although I have been looking to do something that involves a series of continuous and rapid shots, I […]
Kate Miller-Heidke
[DISCLAIMER: My girlfriend wanted to see Kate Miller-Heidke so asked me to request to do the photos at this gig…..] Much loved by Sunrise, much loathed by a large majority of the Pig City audience, Kate Miller-Heidke was back in Brisbane for a couple of dates at The Zoo and an All Ages show at […]
Rocket Science
The first, and indeed last, time I saw Rocket Science was when I photographed the first Come Together festival at Luna Park in Sydney in April 2005. This was when it was a one day festival of smaller indie/alt Australian bands, before it became a two day metal/emo festival with Australian and International bands (although […]
Me vs Splendour In The Grass
I’m confirmed to photograph at this year’s Splendour In The Grass festival down at Byron Bay at the start of August. The lineup so far is: Devo Wolfmother Sigur Ros The Living End The Presets Tricky Vampire Weekend Ben Lee Cold War Kids The Fratellis The Wombats PNAU Laura Marling The Vines The Grates Operator […]
My Disco: Paradise? Not at 1/20 Second…
It’s a rare occurrence for the support bands to have much better lighting than the headline act, but somehow My Disco managed it. Although when you play in near darkness with no front lights it’s not too hard to achieve. Indeed Feathers, the first band on, had by far the best lighting of the night. […]
Holy Bible Photoshoot
Danica and Andrea from new Brisbane band The Holy Bible came around for a Sunday afternoon photo-shoot for some promo shots. This was the first time that I had used the new lighting set-up in anger so was a pretty exciting time. I had planned on being really prepared and having everything ready for when […]
Spectrum: Somewhere Between Too Much and Not Enough
Quickly following on from last week’s JAMC show, there was another blast of seminal 1980s proper indie noise this week courtesy of ex-Spaceman 3 co-frontman Sonic Boom in his Spectrum guise. Until I moved to Brisbane my most seen live band was Spiritualized (8 times) – the band formed and fronted by Sonic’s ex-Spaceman 3 […]
Death and Taxes – The Occasional Upside
Benjamin Franklin once remarked that “in this world nothing is certain but death and taxesâ€. Whilst there is not much of an upside to death (depending on whether you believe all that mumbo-jumbo about the utopian afterlife…), the unfortunate certainty of paying taxes does provide an occasional upside; the income tax refund. Sure, not paying […]
The Jesus & Mary Chain: Head On
The Jesus and Mary Chain were a band that I never quite got at the time. I got ‘Psychocandy’ and it was OK but didn’t blow me away. I picked up ‘Automatic’ cheaply in Woolworths (I think I might have paid £1.99 for it) and again it was quite good but not enough to make […]
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 […]
Sinead O’Connor: It’s been 7 hours and 18 years…
No rest for the wicked and straight onto Blog No. 105; Sinead O’Connor, with Damien Demspey supporting. Sinead played at the first Glastonbury I went to back in 1990; she was second on the bill on the Saturday night, playing before The Cure, riding high at that time with ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. It was […]
Blog is Two
Today is the second anniversary of me starting to do a regular photo blog. Everything that was on my old Myspace blog has now been transferred over to this site and all the links and images that weren’t working (due to websites I have photographed for in the past changing their site layouts and page […]
