St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2010
Photos from St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, held for the first time at Sydney College of the Arts in Rozelle.
[Shot for The Vine]
* The XX
* Kid Sam
Lars Von Trier
Controversial director Lars Von Trier faces some sticky questions live via Skype from the Popcorn Taxi audience about his new horror film, Antichrist.
The Pond
A few snaps I took recently inside terrific new Darlinghurst watering hole The Pond.
Constructed out of a 160-year-old sandstone heritage cottage, the pop-up bar feels like it belongs in a different time and space to the seedy Oxford Street dives nearby.
Read more over on The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry.
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Red Riders @ FBi 94.5
It’s been a pretty great weekend, musically. In contrast to the mind-bendingly loud electronica of Seekae today, on Saturday afternoon I went to see Sydney band Red Riders play a tiny, semi-acoustic supporter gig for FBi 94.5 at Troy Horse rehearsal studios in Redfern.
Thirty competition winners crammed into the squishy Acca Dacca rehearsal room for the set, which was being specially recorded for FBi’s live performance show The Live Feed.
iPhone Landscapes
A few different places I’ve snapped with my iPhone while out and about.
Baffi & Mo
Baffi & Mo is a cheeky little cafe tucked away in Redfern. We checked it out after reading about it in Time Out magazine’s guide to Sydney’s Best Breakfasts, and it’s become an instant favourite. You can read more lashings of praise over on Lee Tran Lam’s blog, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Hungry.
Jens Lekman Backyard Show
Early last week, a friend tipped me off that Jens Lekman was planning on playing a backyard show somewhere in Sydney’s inner west on the weekend – he’d announced it on his website newsletter smalltalk, and apparently there were limited tickets available on request. Following the email trail, I was lucky enough to be able to attend, and enjoy one of the most relaxed shows I’ve seen in ages.
Jens played with Geoff O’Connor of the Crayon Fields and Sly Hats to an audience of about seventy people, sprawled in the saturday afternoon sun. The event turned out to be a birthday celebration for Simon Mingo, the resident of the house, who had flown Jens and Geoff up from Melbourne especially for the occasion.
BRAG // Wayne Coyne
My photo of the Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne is featured on the cover of this week’s issue of Sydney music street press BRAG magazine.
Editor Kirsty Brown and I visited Wayne in his hotel room when he was here on tour a couple of months ago to do the interview and shoot, and I was pretty nervous as the word was that he didn’t particularly like having his photo taken. Happily, that turned out to not be the case – he couldn’t have been nicer, and we had a great time covering the room in confetti & streamers.
It took many attempts to get the timing right on all the different elements in this shot – there would be either too much or not enough confetti, or Wayne’s facial expression wasn’t quite right, or both. I ended up only getting one shot that worked perfectly, and in hindsight, I’m amazed I got anything usable at all! He was a great sport, and tried lots of different ideas to get the shot working. In the end, we abandoned the mini confetti cannons in favour of just throwing the mess over the top of him from the side, which worked a treat.
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