As another decade draws to an end, I’m re-visiting the live music archive once again. These images still make me smile, particularly the older ones of the Oils, Silverchair, Magic Dirt, You am I, and a tambourine-wielding Bernard Fanning fronting Powderfinger. (That one’s from the ANU Refectory way back in October 2000, on the Odyssey Number Five tour.) It feels like a lifetime ago that I took some of these pictures, but they sure bring back some sweaty, ear-ringing memories. Roll on 2020…
I penned a feature on the art of music photography for the winter 2016 edition of Portrait magazine, the magazine of the National Portrait Gallery. The piece focuses on three of Australia's most prominent and prolific music photographers: Martin Philbey, Kane Hibberd and Daniel Boud.
I was pretty chuffed to score the 'Best Shot of 2014' in the bumper end-of year edition of BMA Magazine for my pic of Bluejuice frontman, Jake Stone, at the band's last-ever Canberra show at the ANU Bar on 18 October 2014.
Following on from last month's Bluejuice post, and with the band fast-approaching the end of their last-ever tour, I've unlocked the vault and dusted off a bundle of my favourite BJ pics. Enjoy!
These days, Kevin Mitchell is equally well known for his work as Bob Evans, an alt-country troubador with four revered albums to his name, as he is as the frontman of rocking four-piece, Jebediah. And in either guise, you'd be hard pressed to find a friendlier, more down-to-earth bloke.
Here are a few pictures from a quick session I had with Kev before his recent Bob Evans show at the Abbey in Canberra.
You Am I, god love 'em, are in the midst of an ever-expanding national tour, playing two of their cracking albums — 1995's Hi Fi Way and 1996's Hourly, Daily — together in one show. Huzzah!
They're probably the band I've photographed more than any other over the years, and now seems as good a time as any to delve into the archives and share some of my favourite pics of Rogers and Co. in full flight. I suspect this post will grow over the coming weeks and months, so drop by from time-to-time.
If you're lucky enough to make it along to one of the shows, try and snag a copy of the tour program. Printed on lush paper stock, it's filled with brilliant images by Tony Mott, Shane Bell and Dean Lewins, among others. Look closely and you may spot a couple of my pics in there, too...
This post is best enjoyed with a squealer of Young Henry's Brew Am I.
