Tag Archives: The Gov

Jan 12 2012
Leave a comment
Gig Photography

“Oh, take me to your best friend’s house.. Marmalade we’re making out.. Oh yeah! Take me to your best friend’s house.. I loved you then and I love you now”

GROUPLOVE have ruined me. For the rest of the year I am going to find it very, very hard to find another band that has rocked my socks off as much as they did last Wednesday at The Gov. They are so great that even my severely mainstream younger brother who has the likes of LMFAO on his Ipod and never goes to any gig with less than 2000 people in the audience was head banging, jumping, screaming and singing at the top of his lungs. It. Was. Awesome. I will look back fondly on this day, as a great moment of brotherly-sister bonding and a moment unlike no other. Kind-of like when I took him clubbing illegally for the first time at the tender age of 17, it was a friends 21st and we were all going out after and I wanted him to come. With his poorly styled haircut, baby face and no facial hair it was not going to be easy but one borrowed American street-cap later, club promoters & MC’s as friends and a large group of over 21′s with expired licenses and no ID’s, destiny met fate and he was in, hands in the air, to the window to the wall and booty, booty, booty, booty rocking everywhere. That was the last great memory (before last week) of being with my brother, both of us letting loose, having a great time and most importantly opening his eyes to a new exciting world. This time the world was the; seeing-a-band-before-they-hit-complete-mainstream, in a fantastic intimate setting, the smell of sweat, moshing, both the audience and the band feeding off each others energy and transcending spiritually, mentally and musically…

The Head and the Heart kicked off the night…

…GROUPLOVE came on the stage like a boxer to a ring to the sound of Kanye & Jay-Z’s ‘Monster’..

…A flurry of golden hair, fluffy cardigans, ripped blazer and inside out black flag tee, flaming hair, pearly whites, florals, crowd surfing, fairy lights, glowing drumsticks, wolf howling, screaming, singing, dancing, jumping and a mind-blowing performance. I came away even more in love with the band then before, I now know what it is like to be a cliché groupie/bandaid/fan of the 60′s and 70′s if I had the holiday time from work I would have definitely travelled round Australia going to every gig of this ‘Never Trust A Happy Song’ tour. Like I said I’m ruined now, it’s going to be very, very hard to beat for the rest of the year. =D

Tagged , , , , , , ,
Nov 25 2011
Leave a comment
Gig Photography

“Well I was born an original sinner, I was born from original sin and if I had a dollar bill… for all the things I’ve done, there’d be a mountain of money, piled up to my chin…”

Neglected much?? Well a lesser man would be in bed right now instead of Photoshop-ing 3 week old photos but man, what an awesome week. Monday I cut my hour lunch break to two half hours so I could interview Grouplove & Dave Stewart, Tuesday busy with the lover, Wednesday went to see Dave Stewart & Stevie Nicks perform courtesy of being on Dave’s guestlist with a couple of backstage passes, last night was a night out with the Sass girls and tonight I’m buggered and updating my blog.. =D

So the story behind these late pictures.. I interviewed bassist Glenn Esmond from band The Butterfly Effect and it was a really good chat. So good I offered to take him out when they came down and he offered to put me and a plus one on the guestlist to their Adelaide gig… so the time came and I went to see them perform. They were awesome.. the crowd very intense they have a really dedicated fan-base which is pretty obvious considering they were celebrating their tenth birthday together and they gave back a lot of love. Didn’t get to see much considering two giants were in front of me but on my tippy-toes I caught glimpses of the madness…

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

My photographs did not come out well at all, balance was off the giants in front where permanently waving their Iphones in front of my view… but here’s lemonade

So after the gig waited for the boys to finishing shaking hands with people and signing merch, which is totally cool that they took the time to do that. Introduced myself to Glenn and we arranged to meet up at Zhivago’s later after they had freshened up.. no this isn’t turning into a groupie tale, the lover was with me as my plus one.. Was pretty cool meeting up with some more friends and then Glenn came by himself and had a few drinks, had tequila shots together but he left pretty early.. early flight the next day he said. Nice of him to come out for a drink after the gig by himself not many musicians would do that when it was obviously just to be nice.. =P

Have to admit was a little awkward our little threesome; Glenn, the Lover and me.. the Lover said he (Glenn) probably didn’t expect me to have a boyfriend.. flattering thought, typical boyfriend comment but I’m not convinced. Next post I’ll update on Dave Stewart, my backstage dramas and the biggest let down of my life =(

Tagged , , ,
Oct 20 2011
Leave a comment
Gig Photography

“….And there’d be sand in your pockets and nothing on your mind”

Had my first gig review a couple of weeks ago and it was the pretty cool Josh Pyke with The Paper kites and Emma Louise… Here’s my happy snaps!!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Rock n Roll style; awesome boots with skinny jeans..

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Emma Louise – second support act, beautiful voice and really tried to connect with the audience telling them meanings behind her songs before she sung them even though nobody really knew who she was. A big cheer came up though when she sung ‘Jungle’.. if you’re a triple J listener like probably 4/5′s of the audience you’d of heard it..

… the only song anyone knew of hers but she’s brilliant

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This girls backup vocals and harmonies were amazing, very, very talented she had such a seventies look about her and I had to shoot her black and white with that simple black dress with arms full of bracelets and she played barefoot the whole time…

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Great accessories.. love that knotted bracelet and those bronze and metal rings

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Awesome moment when he invited the crowd to come up and sing one of his first major songs ‘middle of the hill’ and it was a great scene as you can see everybody singing along in harmony the girls and guys in the back there with their eyes closed really getting into the song. But then that guy at the front the Led Zeppelin shirt was funny trying to share the microphone, clicking his fingers with Josh Pyke and getting most of the words wrong.. absolute hilarity…

Great show… felt like a nerd there alone with my notepad, scribbling notes in the flashing lights, juggling my camera at the same time.. still do it all again!!

My Mix CD

  • Middle of the Hill – Josh Pyke
  • Featherstone – The Paper Kites
  • Bloom – The Paper Kites
  • Summer – Josh Pyke
  • Hits me like a rock – CSS
  • Awkward – San Cisco
  • Got it all (this can’t be living now) – Portugal. The Man
  • Mr Polite – The Jungle Giants
  • Girls – Deep Sea Arcade
  • Like Water – Ladi6 – you have to listen to this
Tagged , , , , , , , , ,
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 32 other followers