Today I got asked by BMA if I wanted to shoot Pnau this evening. I had never really heard their music before so I thought I would pop along.
It was also the first time shooting at the UC Refectory. Not a bad gig but the lighting was pretty bad so didn't get as many shots as I would have liked. Here are two of lead singer, Nick Littlemore. One as he was about to climb back up on stage. The other, him exhausted lying on the stage.
This was the first year of a new combined music and extreme sport festival held on Mt Panorama in Bathurst. For most of the weekend the crowds weren't too big however it picked up later in the weekend when Gyroscope and Grinspoon took the stage.
All in all it was a very fun weekend. I drove up with the band TONK. In between shooting bands on and off stage, a lot of my time was spent chatting to the various bands backstage while having a few drinks.
Jinx from the band TONK
Jinx screaming his heart out.
Phil from Grinspoon wouldn't let me take his photo. He insisted he do it instead, holding my camera and sticking his tounge out.
The crowd enjoys an impromptu acoustic set from Darren Hanlon. The crew was still busy setting up for future bands so Darren decided to do is set on the grass. A truly memorable thing to see.
The extremely talented and attractive; Kate Miller-Heidke. One of the highlights from the weekend.
Today was the first annual "Forshore Music Festival" on the banks of Lake Burleigh Griffin at Commonwealth Park. I arrived in the morning and the weather was already looking pretty dodgy. Huge black clouds loomed overhead.
Soon after the event started the clouds opened up and dumped a massive amount of water over the crowd, turning what was quite a picturesque location into a scene reminisant of the Glastonbury Festival in the UK.
It did little to deter the die hard fans, people sticking around covered in mud. It really added to the atmosphere of the day with Sneaky Sound System, Fedde Le Grand, Muscles, Switch and Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock taking to the stage throughout the day. (Amongst many others)
Canberra has always been home to great live music and the occasional festival, including the annual favourite: "Stonefest". Lately however, a new selection of festivals has been added to the calendar. Trackside and Foreshore.
Trackside on the 17th was fantastic. For a new festival, the lineup was greatIt was a new festival with some great names on the lineup:
Hilltop Hoods, The Butterfly Effect, Gotye, Clare Bowditch, The Cops, Koolism, Something With Numbers, Young & Restless, Dardanelles, Soft Tigers, Horsell Common, The Basics, Hancock Basement and more.
I got there at 11am and began shooting. I didnt stop until I left at 11pm. It was a fantastic day. Shooting at two stages. Hung around taking photos with klips which was fun. We managed to get backstage and acted like total fanboys when we met the Hilltop Hoods and Gotye. All of them really nice people. Very approachable and willing to have a chat which was great.
There was about 6,000 - 7,000 people there. (Estimates differ depending on who you talk to. - Either way it was a sellout).
Cant wait for next years one!
The current issue of BMA Magazine has a poster in the middle containing some of the photos I took that day.
Tomorrow I am shooting at Foreshore, another newbie to the summer music festivals here in the ACT. Cant wait to check it out. Looking foward to shooting Sneaky Sound System too. I have seen them live twice and always enjoy watching them perform.