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Def Leppard – BEC

Elleni Toumpas — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:30:07 +0000

At the moment I am playing catch up with some of the gigs and jobs I shot towards the end of last year. In probably one of only a handful of Brisbane Entertainment Centre shows for 2011, in October I shot Def Leppard for Everguide.
Heart played in the support role for the night.

Foster the People – The Tivoli

Elleni Toumpas — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:44:34 +0000

Last night I shot the 2012 Big Day Out sideshow of Foster the People at The Tivoli in Brisbane for both Rave magazine and Everguide.

Local band Last Dinosaurs supported on the night.

Alpine – The Zoo, Brisbane

Elleni Toumpas — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:23:24 +0000

Things have been quiet on the gig front for the past few months as the end of my 2011 saw me shooting a tonne of band portraits, corporate events and weddings. This hasn’t left much time for shooting live music. However my 2012 kicked off a little differently with my first shoot back for the work year covering Alpine at The Zoo. Alpine are a band I had heard small snippets from during the year, but had fallen heavily for during the summer break. Their live show was going to make or break my appreciation for the band as their sound on record works but on stage could easily fall apart with bad mixes or a lackluster ’shoe gazing’ performance. Luckily, the show was anything but lackluster with both Lou and Phoebe combining an amazing, sultry and energetic energy with almost perfect renditions of their loved and lesser known tracks.

Of course I am not a writer, so just take a look at some of the photos from the night. More photos after the jump…

Busby Marou at Old Museum

Elleni Toumpas — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:32:52 +0000

Last Friday night Busby Marou played a sold out show at the Old Museum for their Biding My Time tour. Quickly becoming a favoured venue for musicians, the beautiful Old Museum was transformed even further with a lighting treatment of bare globes and rich colour washes. A pleasure to shoot and even more of a pleasure to watch. One thing that I found peculiar though was the quite eclectic crowd that had come along tonight. I could not help make comparisons with some of the female adoring fans and the type that would frequent some of those city pubs that most music goers would tend to avoid. I am not too sure what this says about the band, but everyone seemed to enjoy their night, so I am hoping it is nothing but positives.

A full gallery of the set can be found below.

St Jerome’s Laneway Brisbane

Elleni Toumpas — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:31:39 +0000

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.

Amanda Palmer at the Zoo

Elleni Toumpas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:57:54 +0000

After photographing Amanda Palmer’s impromptu ninja gig this afternoon, I headed down to the Zoo for Amanda’s more ‘promptu’ gig (as stated by support act Mikelangelo).

Amanda was supported by Mikelangelo, a guest also who was along for the ride on her Ninja show. Mikelangelo sang an interesting early Tex Perkin’s cover with lyrics along the lines of “I like men with erections”. Entertaining.