I’ve posted before about Go Betweens co-founder turned music critic Robert Forster so it’s was a pleasant surprise to get a call from The Monthly asking for some of my pics to go with an article Forster penned on the Tassie music scene (specifically the “Community” compilation recently released by Rough Skies Records)
Sadly the article is not available online yet, but see the tearsheets here: page 1, page 2
They published two photos:

In related news, it was also cool to see my pic of Paint Your Golden Face used to promote their new album.

This pic is also the cover of the album. Woot






It’s been a busy two weeks! Closing night is tomorrow featuring Dirty Three, John Cale and Bridezilla
Just finished working through my images from the first two days of MONA FOMA. Here’s a preview:







Still two weeks to go!
I finally got round to buying a 5D MkII and inevitably had to test out the video capabilities that caused so much hype when this camera was released a while back.
Check out Ivy St recording some new songs.
The Go Betweens are one of my favourite bands, so I was pretty excited to hear that Robert Forster was coming to town to launch his new book and sing a few acoustic songs.
Luckily I got a couple of minutes with him for a quick portrait shoot.

I snapped a few variations of this but I think it’s my favourite for now.
His visit coincided with the launch party for the cool new book club xyz.