Short Stack @ UC
Tonight I was asked to photograph a band called "Short Stack". I had heard of them before, but never listened to their music so had no idea what to expect. When I rocked up at the venue I was greeted by a huge line of mid to late teens, some with parents in tow.
I can't say I was a huge fan of their music but they were fantastic to photograph and very keen on playing up for the cameras.
Massive Attack - Royal Theatre
Corinbank 2010 - The Music
Tim Rogers - Frontman of "You Am I"
Corinbank 2010 - "The Cashews"
The highlight of this years Corinbank for me (and I think many others), was a "Floating Guerrilla Gig" by the Canberra band; "The Cashews." Last year, "The Cashews" performed their last concert at Corinbank 2009 and then put the band on hiatus.
Luckily for us, the lure of the festival was too strong and they dedcided to return and perform a tiny acoustic gig. Floating on a makeshift raft in the middle of a small pond, it was a truly magical thing to see and great to just sit on the bank of the pond and listen to some fantastic acoustic melodies.
Corinbank 2010
Well, Another Corinbank Festival has come and gone and what a fantastic weekend it was.
Heaps of bands and many other things to keep everybody occupied.
It's so hard to describe what a Corinbank Festival is like, so I will let some photos tell the story of life, "Off the Stages".
Moving House
A quick game of Twister.
Catching up on some Maths study while listening to "The Ellis Collective"
IVOJ NOB
Rob Thomas
Big Day Out 2010
The past couple of days have been fantastic, hot and busy. I went to see my first ever Big Day Out on Friday in Sydney. What a day it was. Plenty of fantastic bands and things to see and do. To top off an already great weekend, I had the amazing chance to photograph the 2nd Sydney show on Saturday, which also happened to be the 100th Big Day Out.
Getting to share a photography pit at one of Australia's best loved music festivals, with some of Australia's top music photographers - was an experience I will never forget.
When I started photographing bands back in 2007, I never even imagined that I would get a chance to photograph at the Big Day Out. Hopefully this years was just the start of many.
Karnivool
Mastodon
Lily Allen
The Decemberists
Eskimo Joe
Powderfinger
Peaches
MUSE
Some more photos from the weekend can be found here.
"The Beez" - Touring Australia in Jan/Feb & March
I was first introduced to "The Beez" at last years Corinbank Festival, purely by accident. Myself and a few other photographers decided to venture further up into the bush, towards the smaller "Gibraltar Grove" stage. It was about 10pm and this crazy band from Germany were playing songs that sounded rather familiar. The band was "The Beez" - a cover band the likes of which I have never heard before.
The only way to describe them is by quoting their website:
"The Beez have furnished their house with musical bric-a-brac from around the world – a potpourri of moving, silly, deep and sometimes meaningless pop and rock songs. These songs are, however, anything but common or garden variety.
The four tonal interior decorators from the Beez rearrange and craft a song until a certain stylistically unmistakable Beez Feng Shui emerges.The Beez are at home on any stage and travel light-four voices, two acoustic guitars, an acoustic bass and an accordion and, it has to be said, more than a few costumes…The Beez are renowned as excellent hosts, serving lavish lashings of humour and musicality guaranteed to charm every audience." - (http://www.thebeez.de/)
They are currently touring Australia again and will be peforming in locations around the country. More information can be found here.
Definately check them out if they are playing near you!
In light of this tour, I thought I would post a couple of the photos of them that I took at Corinbank 2009.
