The Grace Darling Hotel 1st Birthday
The Grace Darling Hotel on Smith St, Collingwood celebrated its 1st birthday celebration on the weekend. Upstairs, the band room played host to a bevvy of local acts while downstairs, patrons enjoyed the plush surrounds by the open fire. Two of the tricks with any low-light indoor photography is toning down the orange look (setting [...]
The Anarchist Guild Social Committee – 2nd Annual AGM
The AGSC held their second annual AGM at Trades Hall last night with a stack of local and international cameos and all proceeds went to Peter Mac. Next week Bella Union presents Something Good: A Tribute to Carole King featuring the likes of Kirsty Joosten, Scott Edgar, Lior, Clare Bowditch, Andy McClelland and many more…
Mark Webber talks Formula 1
Australian racing driver Mark Webber and Red Bull Head of Car Engineering Paul Monaghan dropped into The University of Melbourne and presented a guest lecture to Mechanical Engineering students learning about Formula 1 design. He stayed around to sign autographs and gave a number of interviews regarding this weekend’s Grand Prix at Albert Park. Even [...]
Save Live Australia’s Music (S.L.A.M.) Rally
Thousands of live music supporters marched to the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne today protesting against liquor licensing laws that have impacted on the operation of many live music venues around the state. Here is my footage and stills captured on the day with the Canon 7D. Fortunately, with a recent Live Music Accord [...]
The Anarchist Guild Social Committee
The Anarchist Guild Social Committee celebrated their 1st birthday on the weekend at the Trades Hall Bar in Melbourne. Their sketch comedy show has developed a strong following over the last 12 months, having performed at the recent Adelaide and Melbourne International Comedy festivals. Concluding the show by announcing a hiatus, the group plan to [...]
Melboune Zombie Shuffle
It was a dark and gloomy October night in 2008 when hundreds of Zombies roamed the crowded streets of Melbourne looking for brains to eat… Gutsy reporter Lawrence Leung (pictured 2nd row middle) attempts to escape the clutches of the hungry dead. Check out his article in this month’s jmag.
APRA Music Awards 2007
Augie March last night picked up the Song of the Year award as voted by APRA members. They closed the ceremony with their hit single ‘One Crowded Hour’ after the night featured performances by artists including Eskimo Joe, Missy Higgins, Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody and Colin Hay.
Kodak Salon Exhibition
The Salon is one of the largest and most renowned photographic award exhibitions in the country, including artists from all around Australia. There’ll be all sorts of interesting photos (and photographers) on show including a 20×30″ print of mine I took at the V festival earlier this year… Exhibition Opening Thursday 24 May 2007, 6–8pm [...]
Triple J breakfast – Federation Square
A drizzly morning at Federation Square greeted the triple J breakfast show team of Myf, Jay and the Doctor. The early morning faithful were rewarded with toasted cheese sandwiches and appearances by Augie March, John Butler, Dan Kelly, Ross Noble and french graffiti artist Fafi. More photos on flickr.
Peace Love & Brown Rice
Sophie Howarth spoke recently at Readings in Carlton about the making of her fantastical photographical chronicle of the Big Day Out Peace, Love and Brown Rice. Tim Rogers opened with a brief set, ditching the P.A in favour of a pure acoustic performance. Those of us down the front were treated to a suburb sounding [...]
The Age EG awards
The Age EG Awards were held at the Prince Of Wales last Thursday to help celebrate the EG’s 21st birthday and to help raise money for Support Act Limited. It featured performances of classic aussie songs by Mia Dyson, Dallas Crane, Jimmy Barnes, TISM, The Moodists, Dan Kelly, Angie Hart, 67 Special’s Ash Santilla, Spiderbait’s [...]
Get Shot – Fashion Journal Party
One easy way to get party photographs – wait until everyone is so drunk that they start demanding you take their picture.