Friday, February 12, 2010

Jungle Fever - Final Final Final Show?

Jungle Fever broke up in 2008, then in December last year they played a reunion show in Melbourne, then another in Brisbane this year, and finally this gig in Sydney at the Sando. I'm not complaining, if anything I think this should be a yearly occurance. This band is almost universaly loved by hardcore fans in Australia, including me.

I lit this show with a 430ex either side of the stage, one a bit further back to create a 3/4 backlight and one in line with the front of the stage. I wasn't really happy with the light for any of the bands, I moved them around a bit between bands, but wasn't really able to get enough front light on the band members.

Phantoms feature members of Rex Banner and Jack Napier, and probably some other bands I don't know of. This was the first time I'd seen them, people say they sound bit like Madball. They're doing some shows with I Exist soon, so I'll be seeing them a lot more.

Ill Brigade. I know nothing about this band, except that Pepper likes them.

Had It are from Sydney, at least one of them was in AVO, they played Vocal Test, Pepper likes them also.

Sex Wizard feature a bunch of the Jungle Fever guys playing different instruments, they have a very different sound to Jungle Fever. This is the second time I've seen them, they've been great both times.

I think I've seen Jungle Fever anout 7 times, and I this was probably my favourite gig of their's.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Warehouse - First Show


The Warehouse is Canberra's newest all ages venue, it is as the name suggests simply a warehouse. For the last few months bands have been using the newly built jam rooms, but this is the first gig to be held there. All the bands were from Canberra. The gig started and finished during daylight, I used two flashes to light it. One of them had a coloured gel on it, for I exist it was a straw gel, for the rest of the bands it was a blue gel. I moved the lights around for each band, but basically had a side light and a back light for each setup, they are visible in many of the photos.


Atlantis Awaits are a new pop punk band, some of their songs sound like Paramore.

Reinger used to be called the payback, they just recently put out a new demo, which is really good.

Vera often seem to have fill in members playing for them, this time Sam from I Exist and Slowburn filled in on guitar.

I Exist used to be a 5 piece band with 2 guitarists, then Alex the bass player went to South America for a year, at which point Sam one of the guitarist started playing bass, and recently they've gained a second guitarist again with Josh from Pod People playing some shows with them.

Dead Kings, recently announced that their vocalist Damo was leaving, this gig was one of his last with the band, and his last all ages show in Canberra.
 Morgan shaved his beard that morning, it was a sad day.

My band Observer also played, so obviously I didn't get any photos of us, and I don't think anyone else was shooting the gig.

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