Tumbleweed + The Meanies + Hytest live @ The Hi-Fi, 02.05.10
Since moving to Australia, I’d heard a lot about Tumbleweed, mostly via the Time Off Message Board, all of it glowing in its praise of the band; they’ve been talked about as the main Australian band...
View ArticleHope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions live @ The Tivoli, 24.06.10
One thing I often wonder about the move away from music as a physical product to a digital one is whether the same emotional attachment is there as it was for the older generation. It’s just not the...
View ArticleI Used To Skate Once 6 live @ The Zoo, 24.06.10
With the best part of 90 minutes to kill before Hope Sandoval is due to start her set at The Tivoli, I Used To Skate Once 6 down the road at The Zoo means that I have something to do whilst I wait....
View ArticleTeenage Wolves live @ Young Bloods #1, The Legion Club, 02.07.10
I popped into Young Bloods #1 at The Legion Club on Friday night to check out the headline act, Teenage Wolves, as I’d been hearing good thing about them, even though they’ve only been around since...
View ArticleMark Lanegan live @ The Zoo, 06.07.10
As much as I really like Mark Lanegan, and all the music he’s been involved with, he’s not an easy subject to photograph, preferring to perform in extreme darkness with his eyes tightly shut. The...
View ArticleViolent Soho + Scul Hazzards + Butcher Birds + The Seizures live @ The Zoo,...
Three of Brisbane’s best bands, three bands I’ve photographed and blogged about so many times it’s hard to know what else I can say (plus opening band The Seizures, who I’d never seen before but who...
View ArticleThat Was The Year That Was 2010
Photographer Justin Edwards looks back over the Brisbane live scene in 2010. (This article was originally published on This Is Not A Photo Opportunity.) Somehow I’ve managed to make it into the second...
View ArticleStature::Statue + Velociraptor + Dune Rats + Horse Fight + Tape/Off @ The...
by Justin Edwards It’s the launch night for Stature::Statue’s debut album but also their last show. It seems to happen a lot in Brisbane that bands either make an album and either call it a day soon...
View ArticleThe Black Angels @ The Hi-Fi, 30.06.11
by Justin Edwards The Black Angels are another one of those bands that I didn’t know a whole load about but who were recommended to me by so many people when their tour was announced that I decided to...
View ArticleVan Dyke Parks + Kinky Friedman @ Brisbane Powerhouse, 25.06.11
By Justin Edwards I saw Van Dyke Parks play at the Powerhouse a couple years ago, when he was here for Big Sound and played the upstairs balcony room, a lovely space that I’d never been to before (or...
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