Extortion I Exist SXWZD Tour - Part 5

Gold Coast show at shed 5 with Ghost Town on the 25th of August.

Extortion I Exist SXWZD Tour - Part 4

Nambour Show at Blackbox Theatre 20th of August.

Extortion I Exist SXWZD Tour - Part 3

Out of order blog post, first show in Canberra. Friday the 13th, only 4dead bothered to dress up. This was a great start to the tour, show sold out.

Extortion I Exist SXWZD Tour - Part 2

After Newie we got a few days off in Canberra, then it was off to Byron Bay.
Show was okay, not great, not horrible. White room, brighter photos than usual, less shadows, rim lights running a little bit too hot.

Extortion I Exist SXWZD Tour - Part 1

I'm not calling this a tour blog, because the last time I did that I didn't finish putting up all the photos until three months after the tour was over. We're three shows in, Canberra and Sydney were packed, I think Sydney even sold out. There are too many vans for the amount of people of this tour and we're getting an extra hatchback in Queensland, Extortion sold out of merch after 3 shows, Murph is an acoustic guitar jukebox, Kelly is always pissed, Jake brought a new hat with him and Aaron plays the vuvuzela better than anyone.
These are photos from the Newcastle show.

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.