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V Festival Sydney 2008

Daniel Boud — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:00:49 +0000

Here’s my photos from the V Festival in Sydney last weekend.

It’s quite a civilised festival as far as these things go. Not overcrowded, just three stages, not too many timetable clashes, great setting, good bands and a mix of young and old punters.

I was a Smashing Pumpkins fan back in the day, first seeing them at the Hordern Pavilion circa 1996. So it was a nostalgic rush to hear them open their set with the chiming guitar intro to Today.

It’s a pity anything Pumpkins post ’96 doesn’t interest me at all. Even if they will throw an attractive new bassist.

Róisín Murphy was notable for her mid set costume changes and attractive backup singers.

Robyn and her crazed dancing were fun to shoot.

Modest Mouse were playing but all eyes and lenses seemed to be trained on their ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.

Glass Candy were a wild card for me and were quite fun. A languid lead singer and a baseball cap toting synth player.

I’m sure The Jesus and Mary Chain pleased their fans, i’m embarrasingly ignorant of the cult band.

This was the crowd for Cut Copy – who deserved to be in high spirits after news filtered through their new album debuted at number one on the charts.

CSS were lots of fun – but the sound mix was shocking and had the crowd chanting “turn it up!”.

Read the Time Out Sydney review here – and check out a full gallery of my V Festival photos here.

Midnight Juggernauts photos

Daniel Boud — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:38:41 +0000

Here’s some of the finished photos from that shoot with Midnight Juggernauts in Centennial Park.

The band are riding high at the moment with a hectic touring schedule. As well as the North American tour they’re on now with Justice, they’re about to head to Europe and tour with Digitalism across the UK. They also appear to be playing all the Australian summer festivals. Dates on their website.

In the woods with Midnight Juggernauts

Daniel Boud — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:37:03 +0000

I did a photo shoot with Midnight Juggernauts on Thursday night. These are a couple of offcuts, i’ll post the proper shots later once they’re approved.

The elements were stacked against us.

We were shooting at night in the pitch black of Centennial Park without a permit.

The band were only available for a short window of time between their soundcheck and when they were due on stage.

To top it off, it started pouring with rain while we were outdoors in the park with expensive lights.

Not ideal conditions, but the band are such gentleman and remained in jovial spirits which kept us going.

In the end none of the gear was damaged, the band made their show on time and the shots worked out fine.

All’s well that ends well.

V Festival Sydney

Daniel Boud — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:58:52 +0000

While i’m posting old stuff, here’s some photos from V Festival in Sydney.

The lineup was pretty stellar – The Pixies, Jarvis Cocker, Beck, Pet Shop Boys, Groove Armada, Gnarls Barkley and lots more.

I shot it the same day i arrived from a 16 hour plane trip, so it was all a bit of a daze.

Bobby reviewed it for Drum Media.

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