Archive for August, 2007

Muscles

Talk about a guy coming out of nowhere to storm the Aussie dance music scene! I heard Muscles’ ‘Ice Cream is Gonna Save the Day’ on TripleJ a while ago and thought it was oddly cool, probably due to the fact ice cream is my favourite food. Soon after, he was asked to support Soulwax [...]

The Free Agent Crew

I’ve taken pretty much 90% of the promo and live photos these guys use and unsurprisingly was asked if I’d photograph the launch of their debut EP, ‘Ipods Killed Cover Art’. In recent times, the hard working duo of Simon Grant and Sean Sheap recruited an all new band and man, can they all play! [...]

Jose Gonzalez

It might just be one man, a classical guitar and a microphone but Jose Gonzalez is a musician who can keep absolutely everyone’s attention. His songs are simple in structure and most go for no longer than 3 minutes but for those 3 minutes, there is dead silence. I’ll leave the reviews upto other people [...]

The Maldives

The Maldives are possibly one of the most beautiful places in the world. A small archapelego of islands about an hour’s flight south of Sri Lanka. After 10 quite hectic and busy days in Sri Lanka, it was nice to do nothing but laze in the sun and sand for a few days. We stayed [...]

Besides my immediate family and an aunt and her family who live in the UK, most of my extended family lives in Sri Lanka. I grew up there for about 6 years when I was a kid and was looked after quite a lot by my mum’s brother and sister (as well as my grandparents [...]

Well it’s not really important, just a little note to say I had my first ever print publication of one of my photos in Rolling Stone Magazine (the pinnacle of rock journalism!). Check it out in the Sept 07 edition with Dave Grohl on the cover. The original was taken at a show were Bridezilla [...]

Our third and final trip was to the ancient capital city of Anuradhapura in the cenral-north districts. Even though the security situation in Sri Lanka is unstable to say the least, life goes on as normal for most people and we were able to travel into these northern areas. However, about 50km north of Anuradhapura [...]

Sri Lanka is a relatively small country, about the same size as Tasmania. However, getting around there is kinda like that old car racing game where cars pass you from all around and motor bike riders weave in and out of your path, except it’s made harder, with private bus operators cutting you off and [...]

Sri Lankan weddings are quite an unusual ceremony. They’re often quite elaborate, very expensive and steeped in much ceremony. My friend Dulsha’s was no different. To top it off, she married the son of a guy that owns one of the major TV stations in Sri Lanka which made the wedding feel more like a [...]