One of my favourite pit memories is photographing The Rolling Stones a few years ago.
The band was fantastic live and so professional.
Their tour manager actually thanked photographers, on behalf of herself and the band, for helping to document the show. Rare respect.
This has only ever happened at one other show ~ AC/DC.
Usually band/tour managers leave the publicists in charge of the photographers and don’t come anywhere near us – unless it’s to warn us to be careful as there will be fireworks on stage (EMINEM) and drumkits on springs that just might bounce off stage (Slipknot).
Anyway, today I leave you with perfect Tuesday lyrics …
“Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I’m gonna miss you…
There’s no time to lose, I heard her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away…”
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CHERRYROCK014 MELBOURNE
The final line-up and playing times for (please don’t let it be) the final CherryRock in AC/DC Lane…
BE THERE! You know you want to …
AC/DC Lane Stage Cherry Stage
Meat Puppets (USA): 8.05pm – 9.20pm (75 mins)
Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk: 7.20pm – 8.05pm (45 mins)
Brant Bjork (USA): 6.20pm – 7.20pm (60 mins)
Child: 5.40pm – 6.20pm (40 mins)
King of the North: 4.55pm – 5.40pm (45 mins)
Drunk Mums: 4.15pm – 4.55pm (40 mins)
Redcoats: 3.35pm – 4.15pm (40 mins)
High Tension: 3pm – 3.35pm (35 mins)
Beastwars (NZ): 2.20pm – 3pm (40 mins)
Don Fernando: 1.40pm – 2.20pm (30 mins)
Bitter Sweet Kicks: 1.10pm – 1.40pm (30 mins)
Powerline Sneakers: 12.40pm – 1.10pm (30 mins)
The Harlots: 12.10pm – 12.40pm (30 mins)
In the Cherry Bar …
DJ Mermaid: 9.30pm – 3am
CherryRock014 – Melbourne
Sunday 25 May. 12noon – 9.30pm, 2 stages, no clashes
After 8 magnificent beer-drenched years, this will be the last CherryRock Festival of its kind in AC/DC Lane. Not to be missed!
Tix $74 from http://www.cherrybar.com.au
SxSW: The people you attend with. The people you meet. The people you catch up with. The people who love music as much as you do.
Here are some of the more “publishable” pics from SxSW 2013:
Damn! That was a fun few days … and then it was … over. At that stage, I actually thought I may move to Austin but then, well, … life happens!
Maybe next year. Rock on this LONG weekend 🙂 xo
Some of the SxSW band shots can be found here: rocklust.com
There is something quite calming about remaining anonymous whilst observing people critique your work.
White Night was bursting with so much choice that Ros O’Gorman and I hadn’t intended to go the Music, Melbourne + Me exhibition – we had already wondered through a few times over its three month run – after all we had our photos up on the walls of Room 4: The Venue Room – Sticky Carpets.
However, as we left Amanda Palmer’s Ninja Gig, a friend sent a text congratulating me on the “killer exhibition” and my “awesome photos of sweaty rock stars” and saying they even had to “queue to get in the gallery”. Another friend sent a text saying he “gave up queuing after half an hour”. Queues?! We were intrigued.
Our brief for this exhibition was heartfelt. The Exhibition Consultant asked for photos that illustrated the connection between the venue, the performer and the audience. Basically, the soul of a gig.
Both Ros and I loved the final choices made by the Curator of the exhibition. It was encouraging to have this corroborated on White Night.
Though always encouraging (please don’t stop) hearing praise from a partner/friend/colleague/acquaintance, it is somewhat more reassuring hearing it from strangers who were unaware of our presence – or maybe we were lucky to have witnessed the courteous 1am crowd 🙂
Whatever the case, I was content being a voyeur this White Night.
Soon we’ll be calling her “our” Amanda. Amanda Palmer wants to move to Melbourne.
Her Instagram last night said it all:
amandapalmer 18 hours ago
if you were ever wondering why i want to move to melbourne.
this is happening at 4:05 am in the national art museum.
@whitenightmelb http://instagram.com/p/kud368wW7B/
Amanda Palmer loves Melbourne. And Melbourne loves Amanda Palmer.
Personally what I love about Amanda Palmer is that she makes me smile, she laughs on stage, her enthusiasm for life is contagious, she appreciates and loves her fans, she inspires, she is photogenic (sorry about the shallow beauty reason but I am a photographer after all), she’s intelligent (makes up for my previous reason right?) and she bloody well rocks!
Last night was no exception. Amanda Palmer smiled, laughed, rocked. Ninja style. Her now famous impromptu “ninja gigs” are like Melbourne’s summer storms, forecasts may be flawed … unless Amanda announces them on social media. Yes, that’s right, a secret gig, announced usually a day before, on Twitter. Yep, a “secret” gig 🙂
So… Amanda Palmer walks in to a bar, jumps up on to the bar counter, and starts signing “Map of Tasmania” to approximately 400 of her closest friends.
Here are some pics from last night:
As we were leaving, a guy asks: “Oh do you know Dresden Dolls? Is that an Amanda Palmer impersonator?” He was rapt when I told him he had in fact stumbled upon a gig by the REAL Amanda Palmer.
Don’t rely on “stumbling upon”. Make sure you follow @AmandaPalmer -if you don’t already! You never know: it might rain again soon …