This was almost a double headliner show for me as I hadn’t heard much of Mia Dyson‘s work but had been a fan of Epicure for a couple of years. Mia draws an intelligent and more mature crowd than a lot of shows that the Unibar gets and unfortunately The Beasts of Bourbon and Hoodoo [...]

Normally band comps are an event which I try and avoid after my experiences as a participant a few years ago. In the end, music is so subjective that surely 5 well informed musically inclined judges surely cannot come up with an agreement on who the best band is. Take a look at a band [...]

Older people need their rock’n’roll and a fella named Warren Ross makes sure they get it. ‘Wazza’ is a local promoter who occasionally gets me to photograph some of the bigger shows he has going. Most of his acts are blues artists and as ostracised as i feel in the mature audience, I can’t help [...]

It’s official, Led Zeppelin are doing a one off reunion show in London. It’ll be Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham. Yes it will be a Bonham, but it’ll be John’s son Jason on the skins. I wish I lived in London or had the money to get across there because this IS a once in [...]

Soph has 2 nephews who are quite fun to hang out with. They’re her older sister’s kids and she’s very close to her family. Soph and I call them the Monkey Men because they’re both cheeky buggers and Indy has quite a few characteristics similar to Curious George. Zane is 7 and Indy just turned [...]

So I thought Evermore were a pretty average radio friendly rock band that teenage girls swooned over. I guess that’s partially collect but they’re actually quote good showmen and have good catchy songs. All in all, quite a lot better than I expected. Sparkadia were the support act and they were a band I’d been [...]

After months of hard work and planning, Fire Inside the Wire went off flawlessly. The Herd ripped it up, The Free Agent Crew had the crowd in the palm of their hand, Copal Deep and Amy Lee Wilson also impressed the punters with their work. This is the man who organised the whole event (with [...]

Ash Gruwald was a hard working musician well before his time as a DJ on TripleJ‘s Roots and All show. He has a relatively dedicated group of fans and he played to a healthy and slightly more mature crowd at this gig at the University of Wollongong. I really dug his mix of delta blues, [...]

The Uni of Wollongong Amnesty Society has organised one of the largest fundraiser concerts seen in Wollongong for years with their ‘Fire Inside The Wire’. The funds raised from this event go towards Amnesty’s work in the impoverished and war ravaged Darfur region in Sudan. ‘Fire Inside The Wire’ will see Aussie hip hop legends [...]