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.

Last week I went along to The Zoo to photograph Dead Letter Cirucs for Everguide. The day before the Ekka public holiday, the show sold out earlier that day, so getting in early to get prime spot was mandatory.

Dead Letter Circus were supported by Closure in Moscow.

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.

Things have been a bit hectic over here. In the past two months I have only shot one live gig, and I am finally getting around here to blog the pictures here. Katy Perry at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on the 5th May. As it was a sound desk shoot, and being the short photographer I am, this shoot was a little difficult in timing to get shots through the hands of fans.

Pics from the Christmas party are below. Along with quite a few of trashed Santa.

Teenage Wolves

The Mercy Beat

The Winnie Coopers

Blonde on Blonde

My Fiction

A full gallery from the night can be seen below.

No Sleep Til, what can I say. The first shoot of my summer festivals and it definitely left me and my cameras a little battered and bruised. Even though this shoot was the first of the SUMMER festival season with the weather it definitely felt like a festival not dissimilar to the weather produced by the mid-year Splendour festival. A lot raining and a little bit cold, considering to throw on a scarf to shoot this festival was definitely not something that felt at home in December.

I was sitting at home while doors opened to the festival, all packed and ready to go, but thought for my and my cameras safety I should wait until the rained cleared up a bit. Alas it didn’t happen so at 2:00 I headed in the festival just in time to catch Suicidal Silence

At this time in the afternoon the crowd were definitely soaked through yet still in high spirits.

Next I headed over to the Red stage to photograph Katatonia, followed by aussie act Frenzal Rhomb. Everytime I see and hear Lyndsey I just want to smack him in the head, wholy due to his terrible, condiscending interview skills that he performs on air in his JJJ ‘day job’ gig. But photographed them I did and the crowd loved it.

Battling the rain and thoroughly soaked through at this stage I use the time after I exit the pit for Frenzal as a chance to get some shelter in the only undercover section of the festival, under the grand stands used for the Ekka. Most of the crowd had a similar idea, so all I managed to do was stand in the aisle, snap off a few pics, and reaarrange my gear in a hope to save it from getting damaged.

Back down in the pits I managed to catch August Burns Red before camera failure started occuring on my gear.

At this point my multidirectional button on my camera started to go on the fritz. The rain hadn’t let up the whole time I was there, and going from just covering my cameras with ponchos I had bought with me in between sets but shooting uncovered, was no longer working for my cameras. So at this point I made a call and went home to glad wrap, freezer bag then shopping bag my cameras. On my way out of the festival I overheard a lot of people mutter about the rain and decided after Frenzal Rhomb that they had gotten their money worth so decided to call it quits.

Back to the festival with fresh clothes, protecting layers of plastic for my cameras and a few hours left of the festival I made it just in time to catch NoFX

Next on to one of the dual headliners Megadeth and the rain still was set in. Megadeth were set to hit the Black Stage at 8:50 just as NoFX were due to finish over at the Red Stage, but I am not sure if it was due to the rain or wanting to irritate the NoFX fans over at the Red Stage (after NoFX were slandering MegaDeth and their fans just half an hour earlier) but they took to the stage ten minutes early with a very devoted but quite small fanbase taking in their set. Crowds over at the Red Stage were definitely a lot thicker, but that didn’t stop Megadeth putting on an enormous show of lights, guitar riffs and signature rock moves.

Back over at the Red Stage I shoot the final act for the night, the Decsendants, before heading home nursing a broken SLR (my main body started outputting an Err 20 during the first three songs).

Day four of Bluesfest saw me shoot Gogol Bordello with a dying camera.

This was the second chance I had to shoot Sydney’s band The Snowdroppers. They were probably the shooting highlight of my festival.

The pit for Crowded House was beyond ridiculous. But I guess that is what to expect from a Bluesfest pit.

Poor Man’s Whiskey played a roving gig around the festival grounds, which was fun to shoot.

More photos below

Bela Fleck African Project

Things have been a bit busy in the last few months, but I thought I should try and get the rest of the bluesfest photos up.

Beauna Vista Social Club

On Sunday the Brisbane Powerhouse celebrated their 10th anniversary by playing host to a day long event for the whole family. From the Bananas in Pyjamas to Vulcana Circus Women, it was a free event that brought the crowds out on this cold Autumn day.

I headed down to photograph two sets for Mess and Noise, with Last Dinosaurs billing first, before Brisbane’s much loved Regurgitator brought a packed mixed-aged crowd out to dance to some classic ‘Gurge tracks.

Before Regurgitator’s set, the Last Dinosaur took to the stage. A couple of shots from their set below.

A snapshot of their fanbase.

More shots from both sets below.

Last month my beautiful girlfriend got more work done on her sleeve. She gets her work done at True Love, with head artist Mez. I came along to take some snaps as I’ve never seen a tattoo session before.

The clouds and jelly beans were added in this session. This is when they had just been outlined.

The trip was also the first tattoo for my partner’s best mate. In their circle of friends its a bit of a tradition to get a ‘stache tattoo done. My partner has two of her very own. Apparently its the most painful of the tatts you can get done.

Here is her friend Jac putting on a brave face.

More photos below