On Friday I was asked to help Sydney based photographer Dan Boud in covering the Brisbane leg of the St Jerome’s Laneway festival. My job was to second shoot, basically trying to catch many of the same artists that Dan was shooting but from a different angle. And also to cover bands that clashed in the timetable.

The day started off incredibly hot, which left most photographers quite drained. Highlights from the day photograhically were !!! (pictured above), Les Savy Fav (who’s reputation for his dynamic and crazy live performances has quickly spread around the country) and personal favourites Holy F*@k and the Jezabels (who I made a point of staying and watching the whole set of).

!!! from man Nic Offer headlined the Inner Sanctum stage and contended the title for the best stagemanship of the festival.

Pipped at the post by crowd favourite Tim Harrington from Les Savy Fav. From the moment the band took to the stage and even before playing a note, Harrington brought the crowd a grotesque yet entertaining show (wrapping a monk style fabric around his genitals like a diaper wit gaffer tape, which he then proceeded to accessories with props from a box on stage, and also during songs disrobed from items of clothing that had ripped during crowd surfing and his general crazy antics on and off stage).

Cloud Control play the Big Sound/ The Zoo stage, the only midly laneway-esque stage in the whole festival.

Holy F@*k bring their experimental electro dance complete with film strip.

Complete with technical difficulties, Gotye plays a difficult set to a mixed crowd.

My current obsession, The Jezabels, headline the Big Sound/ Zoo stage with a laneway full of mesmerised punters.

Confusing most over at the Carpark Stage, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti played a drug induced/ shambolic psyhcodelic lo fi pop set to a bemused crowd.

On the New Alexandria stage, Two Door Cinema Club were deemed by most to be the stages most enjoyable act. Crowd instantly began to surge, dancing and pumping fists during their set.

More photos below.

First up was support band Leader Cheeter, with a rather photogenic guitarist.

Then Cloud Control took to the stage in a rather sweltering and packed out Troubador. I was able to shoot for only the first half of the set as after that the crowd became too raucous, dancing around with the floor of the Troubadour bouncing too much to shoot at my 1/50 sec.

More photos after the jump