Grinderman headline Homebake

I almost skipped posting these, but i’ve got 6 years of photographing Homebake here, so i ought to keep up the tradition. It’s also the first music festival i ever photographed so i have a soft spot for it.

Any time you get an opportunity to see or photograph Nick Cave it’s a treat.

Shooting officially, you only get one song, not the standard three. But he gives a more visceral and compelling performance in one song than most bands do in their whole set.

A festival is largely about the crowd and atmosphere of the event, so i always try and capture that. I’m not keen on shooting hundreds of social snaps, i try for a more candid approach.

Anyway, back to the bands.

Cut Copy

Pnau

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Icehouse

Ladyhawke

Gotye

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Last Saturday saw Modular‘s Nevereverland tour kick off in Sydney at the Hordern Pavilion.

The show was a bit of a showcase for Modular acts like The Presets, Klaxons, Cut Copy, Ladyhawke, Bumblebeez and Van She. Invited international guests were geek Berliners The Whitest Boy Alive and disco queens Hercules and the Love Affair.

The day was a bit of a test for me photographically because i wasn’t using my typical Canon 5D set up. The night before the gig, the mirror fell off the shutter of the 5D and it was unusable. Cybele saved the day by lending me her Nikon D3. It’s the bees knees of low light photography, but i felt like a complete n00b with it’s back to front dials and unfamiliar set up. I managed though, and made good use of it’s high ISO capabilities.

Ladyhawke.

The Whitest Boy Alive laughing off some keyboard glitches.

Nomi Ruiz, the statuesque transgender frontwoman of Hercules and the Love Affair.

Photographers in the pit getting a height helping hand.

The Klaxons were a little more subdued, but a lot more polished than last time they were here.

Cut Copy.

Attractive festival go-ers.

Not so attractive festival go-ers.

The Presets.

A melee of punters.

Loads more photos in the Nevereverland photo gallery.

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Here’s some snaps i took a few weeks ago of Pip Brown aka Ladyhawke.

We wandered the streets round the Modular offices looking for interesting backdrops. I just had a short amount of time in her day of doing back-to-back press and radio interviews. It was a typical rush.

I wish i’d coaxed more personality out of her. She looks uncharacteristically miserable. I blame myself for that. Not that i made her miserable, but it’s my job to tease more out of my subject.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’d know her debut album is out now. Pop gems galore.

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I won the Young Heart Attack ticket last Friday because i was busting some sick moves on the dance floor at Spectrum. Ok that’s not entirely true. I was on the dance floor, moving in a semi-retarded fashion when a young lady handed me an envelope with a notice saying i’d won a ticket. Perhaps she felt sorry for me. Or maybe she saw me chatting to the fella from Franz Ferdinand earlier and mistakenly presumed i was hip.

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