Florence and the Machine

Here’s my snaps from the Laneway Festival on the weekend. It was pretty exceptional; a fantastic line-up, a well mannered and good looking crowd, and a new more spacious venue in an ex-mental asylum.

The Very Best

Philadelphia Grand Jury

Sarah Blasko sings with Dappled Cities

Bridezilla

Mumford and Sons

Black Lips

Mumford moved some in the crowd to tears

Wild Beasts

The xx

The crowd for The Black Lips

Echo and the Bunnymen

Florence and the Machine

Eddie Current Supression Ring

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Here’s my photos from the Homebake festival on Saturday.

Lovely day out as usual, and this year marked the fifth time i’ve photographed Homebake.

It was the first festival i ever photographed with proper accreditation. Thanks Sonia for sorting out that pass all those years ago.

Powderfinger

Tumbleweed - who i used to see play all ages shows when i was in school

Bridezilla

Short Stack

Gin Wigmore and The Cardinals

Lots of photographers

They replaced the usual ferris wheel with this swing ride

Decoder Ring

Daniel Merriweather

Jet's Chris Chester snarls

Sarah Blasko was brilliant

Powderfinger

For old times sake, here’s Tumbleweed playing Hang Around on Denton circa 1995.

Read reviews of the day at Time Out Sydney and Mess and Noise.

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Our well behaved class of 09 pose for their photo

As Sydney music fans would know by now, FBi Radio is on a fundraising blitz to raise funds to keep them on air.

As well as the Ask Richard campaign they’re throwing a massive series of gigs this month with all proceeds going to FBi.

There’s some fantastic line ups, well worth parting with your hard earned dollars for.

To commemorate such a momentous co-operative event FBi thought it appropriate to document in a big group photo.

Schools out!

Almost 80 musicians from Sydney bands taking part in the festivities assembled at Carriageworks. The first set up was challenging trying to fit everyone in, but i just about managed it.

It was a bit strange, parading myself in front of everyone, barking instructions.

Holding hands for FBi

The next set up i decided to do a really long photo, inspired partly by this photo by Garry Trinh of people queuing for The Strokes tickets.

I had everyone stand in line together and hold hands with the person next to them. The hand holding was to signify unity, but mainly as a way to loosen people up. They’d be made so uncomfortable by holding a strangers hand that they’d relax a bit for the picture.

It looks best in this special page i assembled that you can scroll along.

Here’s the full line-up of shows:

MON 8 JUNE – METRO THEATRE
Spunk Presents: Another Night on Earth

Sarah Blasko
Holly Throsby
New Buffalo (solo)
Jack Ladder
Firekites
Machine Translations
Songs
Grand Salvo
Megastick Fanfare
Sherlock’s Daughter
Fergus Brown
Ghoul
Parades
Caitlin Park
The Holy Soul
Bearhug
Hosted by Henry Wagons
and more to be announced

SPECIAL LONG WEEKEND START TIME – 5PM
Tickets $30 + BF available from www.metrotheatre.com.au or 02 9550 3666

MON 8 JUNE – OXFORD ART FACTORY
OK Relax Presents:

The Scare
Philadelphia Grand Jury
Bridezilla
Bang Bang Eche
Allies
DZ

SPECIAL LONG WEEKEND START TIME – 3PM
Tickets $10 + BF available from www.moshtix.com.au

SAT 13 JUNE – THE FORUM
Do The Dance: The Save FBi Allnighter

Ajax
Lost Valentinos
Bag Raiders
Van She Tech
Canyons
The E.L.F.
Yacht DJs
The Vanish
So I’m Jo
Magic Happens

EARLY PARTY START TIME – 6PM
Tickets $25 + BF available from www.moshtix.com.au

FRI 19 JUNE – METRO THEATRE

Katy Steele from Little Birdy (Acoustic)
Old Man River
Kid Confucius
Dave McCormack & The Polariods
Andy Bull
Laura Imbruglia
Bird Automatic
Pip Branson Corporation
Cameras

8PM START
Tickets $25 + BF available from www.metrotheatre.com.au or 02 9550 3666

FRI 19 JUNE – LA CAMPANA
Baselines Bashment Jam

Nick Toth
Baselines
Dynamite Sound
Spin D Music
Ro Sham Bo
Shantan Wantan Ichiban

SAT 20 JUNE – SPECTRUM

The Dolly Rocker Movement
Matthew J Tow (The Lovetones)
Flying Foxes
Warhorse
Joysticks

8PM START
Tickets $12 + BF available from www.moshtix.com.au

MON 22 JUNE – HOPETOUN HOTEL

The Hopetoun Hotel is already donating $1 from every door sale during May and June to help save FBi, but they love the station so damn much they want to do MORE.

Protectors
Lions at Your Door
Sideways Hitchhiker
Wim

8PM START
Tickets $10 & available at the door

WED 24 JUNE – ANNANDALE HOTEL

The Seabellies
Traps
Canvas Kites
Made In Japan
The Model School
Le Kingste
Bridgemary Kiss
Strange Reactions
Where’s Jerome

7.30PM START
Tickets $12 + BF available from www.annandalehotel.com or 02 9550 1078

THUR 25 JUNE – THE GAELIC THEATRE
Ivy League presents:

The Mess Hall
Red Riders
Cloud Control
Cabins
Aidan Roberts & Liam Judson (The Maple Trail + Belles Will Ring)

8PM START
Tickets $18 + BF available from www.moshtix.com.au

FRI 26 JUNE – MANNING BAR
Stolen Records Gala Ball

Urthboy
Def Wish Cast
Hau (Koolism)
Hermitude
Last Kinection
Spit Syndicate
Killa Queenz
Horrorshow
That’s Them
Nikkita
DJs: Stolen Records Skrillionaires

8PM START
Tickets $30 + BF available from www.moshtix.com.au

FRI 26 JUNE – MUM, SYDNEY

Jordy Lane
Parades
We Say Bamboulee
Waysiders
Fait Accompli
Zeahorse
Shakin Howls
Megastick Fanfare
Sherlock’s Daughter
Richard In Your Mind
One Glove
The Laurels
and more special guests to be announced

8PM til late
Tickets $15 on sale at the door

SAT 27 JUNE – BIG TOP, LUNA PARK

SPECIAL SECRET HEADLINERS TBA
MUSCLES
Dappled Cities
Decoder Ring
Grafton Primary
AIH DJs
Pivot DJs
Cassette Kids
The Jezabels
Palace Of Fire
Catcall
Ernest Ellis
P.A.S.H
HOOPS
Dangerous Dan
Jack Shit
Kato
P*A*S*H
Purple Sneakers
Ro Sham Bo
Wax Motif
and more special guests to be announced

KICKS OFF 2PM
ALL AGES EVENT

Tickets $59.40 + BF available from www.bigtopsydney.com or Big Top Box Office 02 9033 7600

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Here’s some photos from Homebake 2007. The day was headlined by the Divinyls on the main stage and Pnau on the Dome stage. Both acts put on fantastic sets, which was a surprising since they’ve both been off the performing circuit for a while. Chrissie Amphlett still has all the moves as a frontwoman and was a joy to watch.

Elton John’s new favourite act Pnau still has it too, revving the crowd up with a pretty spectacular live show.

Some of the other acts on the all Aussie (and the odd Kiwi) lineup included Cut Copy, Belles Will Ring, Sarah Blasko, Angus and Julia Stone, Missy Higgins, Paul Dempsey, Missy Higgins and Scribe.

See more in the Homebake 2007 gallery.

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I’ve just uploaded a gallery of photos of the Legs 11 concert, held at the Domain on the 27th October. The show featured Sarah Blasko, Little Birdy, Clare Bowditch, Bob Evans plus Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers accompanied by the Sydney Youth Orchestra. It’s the concert i took that Sarah Blasko and Katy Steele cover photo for.

It was a lovely evening; warm weather, clear skies, great music. It was a bit of an ‘adult contemporary’ vibe with people mainly sitting down on their picnic blankets sipping wine. Much more civilised than your regular outdoor concert.

I had AAA access which was pretty cool, it meant i could go backstage and also on the side of stage.

Tex and Tim accompanied by the Sydney Youth Orchestra

Tim Rogers

Tex Perkins

Little Birdy

Clare Bowditch (best female artist winner at the ARIAs)

Bob Evans (best adult contemporary album winner at the ARIAs)

More photos in the gallery.

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I’m going to be on FBI Radio tonight, during a show called The Bridge from 8pm. I’ll be playing some tunes from Sydney bands – mainly ones i’ve photographed lately such as Belles Will Ring, Dappled Cities Fly, Sarah Blasko and more. I’ll also be talking about taking photos, even though radio isn’t really the best medium for that. I’ve never been on radio before so i hope i don’t make an idiot of myself.

Tomorrow Matt Booy and I head to Newcastle to talk about music photography as part of Newcastle Music Week. At 1.30pm we’ll be in Newcastle City Hall yacking away about photography and showing some pictures. If you’re in the area please come along and ask us questions.

There’s a number of other good speakers tomorrow including Sarah Norris, editor of Drum Media talking about music journalism and Paula Jones, who’s the publicist for events like Homebake talking about generating publicity. See the full lineup.

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I’ve been keeping mum about this shoot, but i’m excited to post these shots i took of Katy Steele (of Little Birdy) and Sarah Blasko. They were taken to promote the Legs 11 festival and it’s going on the cover of The Brag next week.

The opportunity to photograph these queens of the Australian music scene was rather thrilling. The shoot couldn’t have been easier, Sarah and Katy were both lovely. While Katy was a lot more comfortable in front of the camera i think i got some shots where they both look happy and relaxed. I’m surprised how stress free it all went considering there was about 10 people hanging about scrutinising things. Plus the fact i was nervous as hell.

The photos were taken in Tony Mott’s backyard of all places. I’ve yet to properly meet the man himself, but i have done a photoshoot in his backyard.

Legs 11 is happening next Friday night at The Domain in the Royal Botanical Gardens. It’s a sit down with a blanket type affair, hence the picnic set up in the photo. Sarah Blasko and Little Birdy have new albums out this week, so they ought to be playing a range of new material. Another highlight of the night will be Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers playing with the Sydney Youth Orchestra.

As usual, many thanks to Cybele for her help with the shoot. It’ll be a fun week for us next week in terms of street press exposure, i have The Brag cover and Cybele will have a photo she took for the ARIA awards on the cover of Drum Media.

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More Big Day Out photos in the form of Kings of Leon, The Go! Team, Henry Rollins and Sarah Blasko.

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After Sarah Blasko it was off to Kings Cross to be an extra on a music video shoot for Little Birdy. A dozen or so of us had to stand about outside this club looking casual while Katy the lead singer pranced around us in a glam little evening dress. If i’m lucky my back or the side of my face just might feature. No doubt the first step on my road to superstardom. The song’s called Tonight’s The Night, i guess it’ll be out in a month or two, so i’ll be keeping my eye on Rage.

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