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BugGiRL Promo Shoot

Posted date:  November 17, 2008  |  4 Comments




BugGiRL are pretty much the most rocking brother and sister rock duo going around the world. Jack and Meg White look like they’re retirees compared to the all out rock factor that BugGiRL possess. Take a mix of AC/DC, The Divinyls and just a hint of everything good about 80s metal, and you’ve got BugGirl. [...]

The LA Times

Posted date:  November 17, 2008  |  2 Comments




I appeared in a small article on the LA Times Technology blog after the now “world famous” Cookie Monster photo! Check it out! You’ll have to scroll down a bit to find me.

The Watt Riot Promo Photos

Posted date:  November 11, 2008  |  4 Comments




The Watt Riot are an awesome rock band from Wollongong and have been around for a few years. I’ve known 3 of the band members for nearly 6 or 7 years in their various bands and have been keeping an eye out on them since they became The Watt Riot a few years ago. We [...]

The Dandy Warhols

Posted date:  October 31, 2008  |  9 Comments




The Dandy Warhols played to a packed out Enmore Theatre tonight. I was kicked out of the venue after the 3 songs, but told I could come back in if I cloaked my camera gear (which there was no way I was going to do). So I ended up driving home in a little over [...]

James and Lyndsay in Bendigo

Posted date:  October 22, 2008  |  No comment




I met James about 2 years ago via the photo sharing site flickr and we’ve become pretty good mates, sharing a love for good music and live gig photography. James is a seriously awesome web designer, check out his website hooverdust.com. He in fact designed and built this site from the ground up! He married [...]

Ralph Wiggum Isn’t a Good Role Model

Posted date:  October 14, 2008  |  Comment




This is my photo5 entry for the crayon. I do actually have a crayon stuffed into my nose, but it was of the magical sinus penetrating variety so it’s gone through my skull and come out of my ear. There are some awesome entries in there this year, I’m not expecting to win, but you [...]

My First Album Cover – The Dawn Collective

Posted date:  September 25, 2008  |  5 Comments




This is the cover from my very first album cover, The Dawn Collective’s masterpiece “Save a Place for Us”. Go and buy a copy from possibly Australia’s most comprehensive indie record store, Red Eye Records. As I’ve said before, it’s a rich, masterful and mature album, the type of music that unfortunately gets ignored for [...]

Earth Mechanics Promos

Posted date:  August 12, 2008  |  3 Comments




I took some promos for a local prog rock band Earth Mechanics a couple of nights ago. I had this grand vision of taking some really desolate, badly lit photos at a local dry cleaning joint (of all the places to choose!), but alas, it didn’t happen. It was damn near freezing with strong winds [...]

Sigur Rós

Posted date:  August 6, 2008  |  2 Comments




This is one of those soppy lame posts most people will hopefully ignore, but it’s quite a lovely landmark occasion for me. I was immensely lucky to photograph one of the three bands on my “bands to photograph before dying” list. The wondrous, beautiful and exhilarating Sigur Rós. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do [...]

Angus and Julia Stone

Posted date:  July 14, 2008  |  3 Comments




I photographed these guys a couple of weeks ago and just haven’t gotten around to uploading any of the shots. It was at a beautiful old and intimate theatre in Wollongong called the Regent, which is a similar size and style to The Enmore Theatre, one of my favourite venues in Sydney.       [...]

Cog Slays Punters

Posted date:  May 29, 2008  |  2 Comments




It’s been months since I’ve photographed a gig, I believe the last one was the Laneway Festival. So it was with great excitement and nervousness I headed back to my local haunt, the Wollongong Unibar to check out one of my favourite Aussie bands Cog. Normally the lighting in there is comparable to most pubs [...]

Callum and Clara

Posted date:  March 25, 2008  |  No comment




Callum and Clara are a lovely couple from Melbourne and this was my first paid wedding. I had photographed a band Callum was in (quite poorly might I add!) but they saw enough in the shots to hire me as their wedding photographer and I was honoured. I flew down to Melbourne and while it [...]

Laneway Festival 2008

Posted date:  March 4, 2008  |  9 Comments




It was with great happiness I attended the 2008 Sydney version of this ’boutique’ festival. My dispair at thinking I had not gotten a press pass to shoot for The Dwarf had quickly abated when I arrived home on Friday afternoon to find a lovely little package in the mail (it had been directly sent [...]

Free Agent Crew Promo Shots

Posted date:  February 23, 2008  |  5 Comments




I’ve blogged about photographing Free Agent Crew a number of times already. They’re just about to head off to the UK for a couple of promotional shows and are in the process of planning more heavy touring for the east coast of Australia. We’ve been planning on taking these promo photos for about 6 months [...]

The Dawn Collective

Posted date:  January 21, 2008  |  2 Comments




I took some promo shots for some friends of mine, and awesome band, The Dawn Collective. I’ve been mates with a couple of these guys back to the days of when I played in a band, and that was at least 5 or 6 years ago. These shots were all taken in a park near [...]

Meet the Blogger

Posted date:  January 20, 2008  |  2 Comments




I was lucky enough to get a free plug from “The List” in The Sydney Morning Herald. Let’s watch the internet traffic spike!  

Homebake

Posted date:  December 10, 2007  |  6 Comments




This year’s Homebake festival had a pretty decent line up and was ‘Women in Music’ year with a number of Australia’s leading female muso’s doing the rounds. The Divinyls with the everyoung Chrissy Amplett headlined with Missy Higgins, and Sarah Blasko closely following. Other key acts included Gotye, Operator Please, Cut Copy, Pnau, Midnight Juggernauts [...]

Legs 11

Posted date:  October 31, 2007  |  2 Comments




Apologies for the 2nd post of the day containing photos, but I finally managed to upload my photos from Legs 11 last week. I spent around 3 hours on the flight over here sorting and fixing up the 60 or so pics from the night. The show was a fundraiser for breast cancer research and [...]

Angus and Julia Stone, UOW Unibar

Posted date:  October 18, 2007  |  No comment




If you’re after possibly the best looking brother and sister music combo in the world, look no further than Angus and Julia Stone. This is the first thing most people realise (and most people write about!), but they’re not just good looks and no substance (like so much ‘popular’ music). Amazingly good folk, luscious harmonies, [...]

His Royal Highness Tim Rogers

Posted date:  October 8, 2007  |  3 Comments




You know you’re in for an interesting night when you’re photographing Tim Rogers. The charismatic performer has been an icon of Aussie music as the lead singer for You Am I for years and years has just released a brand new solo album, ‘The Luxury of Hysteria’. I love getting to gigs and photographing, but [...]