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Melbourne band Alpine at the Ivy League Spring Break party at Goodgod Smallclub a couple of weeks ago.

Sydney’s Centennial Park in the middle of the night is a pretty freaky place – unless you happen to be surrounded by the lights & bustle of a film crew. I was on set a few months back for the filming of ‘BMX’, the new music video for electro duo City Of Satellites, featuring BMX rider Michael Steingraeber and City Of Satellites’ own Thomas Diakomichalis as a cross-dimensional travelling Spaceman.

Director: Dael Oates
VFX: Digital Domain

Here’s a few behind-the-scenes pictures.

Changing Lanes, an FBi fundraiser and part of the Sydney Fringe Festival, filled up Eliza Street in Newtown last Sunday with street artists, Australian bands, DJ’s and a couple of thousand people who came to watch it all go down.

Al Grigg from Red Riders in DJ mode.

Ernest Ellis

Jinja Safari were unfortunately hampered by technical difficulties, and only managed to do a (short-but-sweet) two-song set.

Cabins

Thundamentals

Bridezilla

Tame Impala

Polaroids from my recent USA trip.
Los Angeles, Sequoia National Forest, San Francisco.

The opening night of Stealing the Setlist was a success far beyond anything I had expected – the turnout was overwhelming. A big thanks to everyone who came along and bought a print, a book or some postcards – your support for FBi 94.5FM is much appreciated.

[Photo by Ben Goddard]

An especially massive thanks to:

• Mel Nahas at MART Gallery.
• Julia Thomas, Erin Flanagan, Caroline Gates, Anna Burns and all the other stellar people at FBi 94.5FM for the amazing support and promotion.
• The sickeningly-talented Chris Deal for not only providing the slick flyer and book cover designs, helping me to hang the pictures, but also rocking the beer/merch stand all evening – outstanding!
• The lovely Lee Tran Lam for the photo blurbs and press release.
• Lena Balout & Terry Barridge at Creative Soldier for the best-looking photographic prints and beautiful glossy postcards I could ever have hoped for.
• Garry Trinh from Blurb, for getting the book printed in record time, and getting the word out to the local media in the lead-up to the launch.
• Lew Palaitis from Hardware Gallery for the immaculate framing.
• Singha Beer for getting everyone liquored up.

I’m also extremely grateful to the following people, media outlets & websites for their support:

• Alternative Media Group
• Australian INFront
• BabyJaimeFashion
• Boudist
• BRAG
• Popcorn Taxi
• The Blackmail…
• The Indie Girls’ Guide To…
• The Vine
• TimeOutSydney
• Two Thousand
• Urban Walkabout

Lastly, a big thank you to all the bands featured in the photographs – love you all.

Here’s a few photos from the night.

[Photos by Nik Thorup]

[Photos by Ashley Mar]

The Metro exploded on Saturday night, with FBi 94.5FM hosting the last in their series of fundraising Sydney Sounds Like! shows. Here’s a few of the peeps that came out to support the station.

Jinja Safari; rarely have I seen a band more unashamedly pumped to be performing live. Major crowd-pleasers.

Daniel Boud, snapping band portraits upstairs from the Lair stage.

Cabins – intense, moody, amazing tunes.

Shag, mixing it up for the troops.

The sickeningly-talented Jonathan Boulet.

As Stealing the Setlist draws closer, it’s time for a shameless cross-promotional plug!

In conjunction with the show, I’m selling a Blurb photo book that includes all the exhibited photographs, plus a whole bunch of extra ones from the gigs & shoots they came from. As with the show prints, all profits from the sale of the book are going to support FBi 94.5FM.

I have 10 copies that I’ll be selling down at the show, but you can also buy it online from Blurb. Check it out here!

Stealing the Setlist by Will Reichelt | Make Your Own Book

Chinatown, at the southern end of Sydney’s CBD, is jam-packed with amazing restaurants. A couple of months back, I spent a few fun afternoons walking around the area, photographing some of the top spots for Urban Walkabout‘s new Food Lover’s Guide to Chinatown & Haymarket.

I’m pretty chuffed to announce that I’m putting on my first ever exhibition of photographs at MART Gallery (156 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills) from Friday July 23rd – Thursday July 29th.

Stealing the Setlist features all-Australian bands – most of the photos are from the live shows that I’ve shot over the last few years, and there’s also a few other pictures I’ve taken of local musicians out and about. Artists featured include Dappled Cities, Tame Impala, Pnau, Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Copy, The Presets, Bridezilla and more.

The show is an FBi 94.5FM fundraiser – all works including prints, catalogues and postcards will be for sale, with all profits going to the station.

There’ll be opening night shenanigans on Thursday 22nd July, 530pm – 830pm.

Hope to see you there!

Last sunday, I took the antique Polaroid SX-70 that I recently picked up on eBay out for a proper test drive – here’s a few shots of Red Riders‘ frontman Alex Grigg, taken up on the 2nd floor of Mag Nation in Newtown. Using the Impossible Project‘s TZ-Artistic film, I managed to squeeze out four shots I was happy with, in between the camera jamming or spitting out blank film.

I also took a couple of shots using the PX-100 Silver Shade / First Flush film. It was fun to test, but I feel like I have a lot more to learn about exposing with this film before I get results.

When I was out of film, we headed over to Boon Chocolates in Darlinghurst, where I fell back on modern technology and took a couple of snaps with my 5DMkII using a couple of flashes and some fairy lights.

Last night I went along to the 2nd of Vampire Weekend‘s Sydney shows, this time at the Hordern Pavilion. Here are some shots of the very excellent Cloud Control, who supported them – they’re touring to promote their new album ‘Bliss Release’.

Terrific local Sydney band Songs supporting Spoon at the Forum. Mind-blowing, epic music.

THE SLEW – Kid Koala, Dynomite D and ex-Wolfmothers Chris Ross & Myles Heskett – scratching it up and rocking out hard under the red, red lights of the Metro.

Funky new dumpling bar Bamboo in Surry Hills, featuring interior design by John Williams, owner of eclectic Asian antique boutique Mao And More.

Lee Tran’s full review is up over at The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Hungry.

Head chef and co-owner Tinh To

I kicked off the long weekend by going to see Pivot play a batch of their new material at the Annandale Hotel.