Fasterlouder Live 

Rocket Science @ Prince of Wales
Children Collide @ Prince of Wales
Shooting At Unarmed Men @ Prince of Wales
Children Collide @ Prince of Wales
Jarvis @ Prince of Wales
Part of Fasterlouder’s Live initiative is to stage free live gigs around the country. I helped out and shot the Melbourne one last night with a decent line-up including Rocket Science, Children Collide, Shooting At Unarmed Men and Jarvis. Crowds were good, bands were rockin’ and everyone seemed to have a lot of fun. More photos over at flickr (and Fasterlouder shortly)

 
 
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Friday, July 27 2007
 
Music General
 

Fasterlouder Xmas Party 

Fasterlouder Xmas Party
Dukes of Windsor
Dukes of Windsor
The Melbourne Fasterlouder christmas party was last night at Ding Dong. JJJ favourites The Dukes of Windsor were on the bill amongst others. Didn’t see that many other FL photographers there but I did meet the Melbourne editor Justine who was very cool. I couldn’t help myself to remind her of all the BDO sideshows I want to cover too :D

 
 
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Friday, December 15 2006
 
Music General, Photography
 

3 Songs & a Little Flash 

The Fumes @ The Corner
Last night I went over to the Corner to shoot Dallas Crane for Fasterlouder. I didn’t expect a photo pit for the gig but there was one. The usual rule applied – first 3 songs only although they didn’t specify holding off with the flash. I never use the flash for live band photography anyway since I think it’s disrespectful to the band performing. But a couple of the photographers there flashed away without question.
Dallas Crane @ The Corner
It’s always interesting shooting in the photo pit. Since I’m only armed with the Canon 350D and a cheapo (but still decent) 50mm lense, you get a lot of strange looks from other photographers. Most had $4000+ equipment around their necks. I even saw one photographer shooting with a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II and an uber expensive Canon L lense. All up that setup would’ve cost around $15000!!! Gone are the days when everyone and anyone can enter this field. One of the photographers I spoke to was a uni student and she had a $2000 lense and a $2000 camera with her! Fuck man – since when did all these uni students have so much cash? And there’s a bit of ego too. Since most of the photographers there had WAY more experience than me, a couple of them scoffed at my measly setup and whom I was shooting for. I actually thought that was pretty funny because you don’t need really expensive gear to shoot live gigs. It’s more about capturing a moment than anything.

Anyway, twas a decent gig and I had fun. Sydney band The Fumes warmed up the crowd nicely too.

 
 
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Friday, August 18 2006
 
Photography