Womadelaide 2011

Posted: November 27, 2010 in Uncategorized
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March in Adelaide is a Crazy time for events and one of these is a must attend for any serious Music fan. It’s a chance to experience a whole range of diverse Music and Cultures from Various parts of the World. The Lineup for this years festival has been out for a month or so now and is pretty impressive

Of course the highlight for some people including me is the return of Afro Celt Sound System who last played at Womad in 2001 ( Yep thats 10 years ago ). They were mind blowing back then and I’m sure they will be just as great in 2011.

Check out the full lineup at the Official Womadelaide Website

Earlybird pricing for 3 and 4 day tickets closes soon ( 1st Dec ) so hurry up if you want to save some Cash

The Provisional play times for Artists has just been added in the unlikely event that you cant attend all 4 days but hoping to catch a particular artist

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Falls Festival – Lorne and Marion Bay

Posted: November 26, 2010 in Uncategorized
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I’ve been to plenty of Festivals in my time with the main Multiday festival that I attend annually being Womadelaide. I’ve always wished that Womadelaide could be an event that you could camp at as lugging low back chairs/eskys/ Sun shelters/rugs etc back and forth each day from wherever you managed to get a park can be VERY tiring.

Once I realised that the Falls Festival in Tassie coincided with me being present in Tasmania It didn’t take much to decide attend my first camping music festival. I’m sure its going to be an awesome experience and I’m looking forward to bringing you some quality photos from the event.

There is a solid line up of performers at this years event with Interpol, The National and Joan Jett and the blackhearts as some of the headliners plus lots of other great local and international bands. I’m not going to list them all as you can easily check them all out at the Falls Festival Website .

I’m currently looking at the Bios of a handfull of performers and artists that I wasnt that knowledgable on to acquaint myself with some of their work and finding some Gems.

Tickets are still available for the Marion Bay show so what are you waiting for ?

 

EDIT: Provisional Program is now up on the Falls Festival main page

Lorne – Provisional Play times

Marion Bay – Provisional Play times

Charlatans and Pornographers

Posted: November 19, 2010 in Uncategorized
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I’m still catching up from 3 concerts in 3 days last weekend.

When a work colleague told me that The Charlatans were touring I had dug up an older CD I had of theirs ( Some Friendly – which was their Debut album ) and gave it a fresh listen. Damn these guys were good so I put my name down with a request to photograph them for Faster Louder. They were touring on the back of a New album as most bands do. I really only had a chance to listen to a small amount of their new material prior to seeing them, but it sounded quite good and true to their original unique “Manchester sound”.

The lead Singer, Tim Burgess is almost the same age as myself but his locks of hair totally eclipses what I have left.

Charlatans, Adelaide Nov 2010

Overall it was a damn good concert with so many ex pat UK punters there that I spoke to as well as Australians that had followed them for 20 years but had never got around to ever seeing them live.

The following Night I was back in the same venue this time to Photograph “The New Pornographers” an Indie Pop band from Canada  ( Note: I don’t like  labelling bands ). I’ve been a fan of theirs for only a few years after one of my friends got me hooked on their catchy Riffs and Melodies. The size of the Crowd was disappointingly small, but then it was a Sunday night and for some reason most people I know have never heard of them.

Well it’s time to educate the masses – These guys Rock and put on a great live show. They toured a few years back but without one of the female vocalists ( Neko Case ). This time they were back with the full lineup.

The New Pornographers

The New Pornographers, Adelaide Nov 2010

 

Some video snippets of the gig can be found here

 

Adelaide Annual Zombie Walk

Posted: November 8, 2010 in Uncategorized
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For the 3rd year in a row I have headed down to the city to capture some images from the Annual Adelaide Zombie Walk. The 2008 Walk was a fairly small affair with a few hundred Zombies scaring unsuspecting Diners in Rundle St as they headed down on the way to Hindley St and Light Square.

Well fast forward to 2010 with an Active Facebook page and the numbers have swelled significantly and the Police have to get involved to close off whole city intersections whilst the Zombie meander from one side of the city to the other. This years walk travelled down Grenfell St rather than the mall, but there were still quite a few unsuspecting citizens out on a Saturday night wondering what was going on.

Of course none of this is possible without the organisers in pulling everything together and of course the public, some of who go to extremes to have the best make up/ costumes they can and to whom the photos would just end up looking like tomato sauce splotched faces.

Wedding Photography Workshop

Posted: July 7, 2010 in Uncategorized
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One of the forums I frequent OCAU ( http://www.overclockers.com.au ) has a very active photography forum and some of the members who post in that forum are proffessional Photographers and very talented. One of those is Hien from Lumens Photography who earlier in the year indicated he would be running a Wedding Photography workshop in the middle of the year.

I signed up as one of the few interstate members and attended the workshop on the weekend just gone. It was a full day of hands on Photography of a Mock couple complete with Wedding Dress/ Suit etc.

Sarah and Aaron are getting married early next year. The Full set of Photographs from the workshop can be found here

Clipsal 500

Posted: April 6, 2010 in Uncategorized
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The Clipsal 500 is a motor race that is part of the V8 Supercars series in Adelaide that runs on a Street circuit with only a small section of the track dedicated to the event itself. I was fortunate enough this year to go on two days – Friday and Sunday thanks to a generous invitation from a few of the companies I work with.

One of the major highlights of the weekend was getting Pit access into the Vodafone pit to see the mechanics doing preperation on the cars. It’s quite a busy area with crew looking at various performance stats and MOTEC data, other cars lap times as well as some not so obvious screens shoing BOM Radar maps for potential rainfall. Then of course the Pit crew themselves carrying out work, repairs and modifications on the cars. Unfortunately for Lowndes and Whincup Team Vodafone didnt finish where they wanted but thats another story !

You can see all the photos from the Clipsal that I took on Friday and Sunday HERE

Of course one of the other highlights of any Clipsal event is the After Race concerts. Friday was an All Aussie affair of primarily Hip Hop with performances by Lowrider, The Funkoars, Midnight Juggernaughts and Adelaides own Hilltop Hoods. All bands put in Solid performances although some of the crowd were fairly hostile towards Midnight Juggernaughts so maybe the organisers should have stayed all HipHop ?

You can see other photos from the Hilltop Hoods performance HERE

Sundays after race finale featured soem more mature bands – Mental as Anything, Ian Moss, Noiseworks and finally Status Quo. It wasn’t till halfway through Status Quos set that I started recognising their “hits” which they just pumped out one after another

You can see all the Status Quo photos HERE

Fringe and Northern Lights

Posted: March 16, 2010 in Uncategorized
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Until the 5th April if you are in Adelaide you REALLY REALLY should check out the Northern Lights

In 2010, Northern Lights will stretch westward along the stunning North Terrace boulevard, illuminating our historical buildings including the State Library, SA Museum, Art Gallery of SA, Elder Hall, Mitchell Building and Bonython Hall  and will extend around into King William Street to light up the rear wall of Parliament House, which faces the iconic Adelaide Festival Centre.

It is an amazing feat to use Giant Projectors to completely change the look of some of Adelaides buildings on North Terrace. The Image changes every few minutes so it worth hanging around at each Landmark building to see the cycle ( some cycles seemed to be only 4 whilst others were more )

The Adelaide Fringe has Just Finished up also after nearly a Month of performances and exhibitions. Being away Overseas meant I missed the opening parade and the performances that were in the first few weeks. I did manage to catch a few shows near the tail end of the fringe though. Photography access to performances didnt get very far with either negative or no responses being received.

Some of the Roaming performers were excellent though and whilst waiting in the line for Amoroco tickets we were entertained by the Giant Scotman and his “dog” – who pissed water on a few kids.  The reaction of one girl was hilarious and she was quite indignant at what the dog had done.

and Of course Amoroco itself which was quite an experience. To get the tickets and line up was a 2hr+ wait which was very frustrating but the giant illuminarium was prety amazing

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