The Essential Festival is a relatively young indie music festival held at 3 adjacent live music venues in Surrey Hills. I’ll spare you the details about the music on day, they can be found on numerous other blogs such as here, here and here. All I’ll say is that in my opinion it’s a misnomer [...]

Josh Pyke makes some beautiful music and I went to see his performance at the attempting-to-be-more-than-just-an-old-woolshell Yallah Roadhouse. I was impressed by the music, but what I wasn’t impressed with was the average sound and very average lighting show which made my job about a million times harder. Pyke seems to be a great songwriter, [...]

I photographed a Melbourne band called Race the Fray a little while ago. A few weeks later, the bassist Callum contacted me and asked if I would be interested in photographing his wedding as him and his fiance Clara were impressed with the photos. Not only was I shocked, I was well and truly humbled [...]

I was hunting around my “Desktop Crap” folder which seems to continue in its growth every few months and found something which I hadn’t heard in a long time. It’s my attempt at making some eletronic music a little while ago using the pretty cool software Fruity Loops. This song was the only one that [...]

The Great Escape (TGE) is a semi-alternative music festival which has been held in Sydney for a few years. It started off as the Cockatoo Island festival until the organisers probably realised how ridiculous it was having a 3 day festival on a tiny little island in the middle of Sydney Harbour. They’ve moved everything [...]

Mastodon’s Blood Mountain is one of my favourite albums of the last year and I was astounded when no one took up the opportunity to interview them for thedwarf.com.au. I somehow volunteered, having had no experience whatsoever in interviewing or writing up an interview! I was kind of pleased (as the fear level started rising) [...]