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DFA Records Art Exhibition

Daniel Boud — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:53:53 +0000

Last night i took some photos of the launch of DFA records art exhibition at Tom Dunne Gallery in Darlinghurst for EMI.

Titled “That’s Cool But Can You Make It More Sh*t?”, the show was a large collection of record sleeves, posters, doodles and polaroids from LCD Soundsystem and other DFA projects.

DFA art director Michael Vadino was behind most of the work

As it’s Splendour season the calibre of international guests was pretty high with LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Alison Goldfrapp and Nick Valensi of The Strokes in attendance.

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy with The Strokes Nick Valensi

Lisa Gunning and Alison Goldfrapp

3 Hot Chips

Local talent was well represented too with various members of Dappled Cities, Faker, Red Riders, Papa vs Pretty, Lost Valentinos and even a Masterchef contestant.

Natalie Miller and Aaron Harvie

Sometimes these things can be pretty wanky but i encountered no jerks and everyone was quite lovely.

The show continues till August 2nd.

You can find more of my snaps at Pedestrian or Oyster or below.

Empire of the Sun photos

Daniel Boud — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:04:31 +0000

During the filming of Empire of the Sun‘s video for Without You i took a few snaps of (Emperor) Luke Steele.

In the tradition of their previous publicity shots, they went through the Debaser illustration process to come out in this fantasy fashion.

One of the shots also made the single artwork cover.

Here’s the video, directed by Josh Logue from Mathematics.

Paul Dempsey recording Everything is True

Daniel Boud — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:04:55 +0000

Something for Kate frontman Paul Dempsey releases his first solo record today Everything is True, so i thought i’d post some snaps of a visit i made to his studio during the recording.

In January, on assignment from EMI, i ventured down to MacMasters Beach where Paul and producer Wayne Connolly had set up a studio from scratch in a beach house.

I was told on the way down that the home was owned by someone from ‘the music industry’ but i wasn’t given a name. As i was sticky beaking around the place i noticed a shelf of ARIA and MTV Awards and at that point the game was up. It was Chris Joannou from Silverchair’s place.

Unlike most studios that are dark and claustrophobic this place was bright and serene, opening out onto a lush green garden.

While being known as a bit of a guitar nut, Paul is a virtuoso musician and played all the parts on the album, drums, keys, bass, melodica…

You can buy the album now and see Paul perform on tour throughout Australia.

Operator Please photos

Daniel Boud — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:05:07 +0000

Some pictures from December 2007 of Operator Please that i neglected to post at the time.

These were press photos, to refresh the previous photos i did.

This time they wanted something a little more sophisticated, less young and ‘cute’.

Some shots were done in the studio, with props i hired from Mitchell Road Auction Centre. The others were taken at the auction centre, in the goods lift and auction floor.

Jet on the Yarra

Daniel Boud — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:32:49 +0000

Here’s a few more Jet photos before i forget to post them (here’s the first lot).

Unfortunately i missed the gig when it was played on ABC TV last Saturday.

Looking back through my archives i found this photo i took of Jet in July 2003 and this blog post from May 2004 when i saw Jet at the Castle Hill Tavern.

That was long before i owned an SLR and i was shooting with my little ixus for fun. Everyone’s gotta start somewhere.

Let that be a hopeful lesson to budding photographers. Today you could be a punter photographing a band from the crowd with your crappy point-and-click camera. In the not too distant future you could be paid by their label to photograph them access all areas at their hotel, boating down a river and live on stage.

I’d never have believed it if it didn’t happen to me.

You Am I launch Convicts

Daniel Boud — Sat, 27 May 2006 02:37:49 +0000

I took some photographs at the Sydney launch of You Am I‘s new album Convicts last week. A stage was constructed in the courtyard of The Mint (next to Hyde Park Barracks) where You Am I played a classic set of tunes, mainly from the new album, but with some classics like Berlin Chair and Cathy’s Clown thrown in. The gig was being recorded to air on ABC TV later in the year.

The new album’s been getting good reviews with the Sydney Morning Herald writing,

"Album No.7 from the best and certainly most important Australian rock band of the past 15 years is pumping with more foot to the floor, garage rock than they’ve shown since the now classic mid-’90s pair of Hi Fi Way and Hourly Daily."

Tex Perkins played MC of sorts, dressing up in convict theme as the NSW governer.

See a whole lot more photos in the You Am I launch Convicts gallery.

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