Category: Music
ONE DIRECTION
What makes this many teenage girls…
…in many, many, MANY stadiums across the world, go like this?
well, its these 5 guys ….
One Direction of course!
For those of you over 25, without children, they are the latest boy band to take the world by storm, straight from UK X-Factor to you! Simon Cowell is truly an evil genius, and he has done it again with these guys. I have never seen such teenage hysteria, it even eclipsed Bieber Fever.
Which Direction?
It was a dark and stormy night….
It was a dark and stormy night…. wait, no. HELL NO! We are talking about Brightly here, let me start again…
Melbourne duo Brightly (Charlie Gleason and Nic Lam) and I have worked together before. When I first heard their band name I immediately asked, “Can I throw fluorescent pink paint at you?”. I hadn’t even heard their music, nor had any idea of what they are like as people. And to my astonishment, Charlie replied immediately, “Oh my god YES!”. HELLO. These are people I want to work with! And so it came to pass…
…it was a blazing hot Sunday. White Shirts were beautifully pressed. They boys were neat and tidy. The paint purchased in large quantities and ready to roll, Balloons filled with glitter or powder paint, crying out to be popped. It was time to blow some shit up! Well, get messy anyways.
MAGIC
Having never really done this before, and not being given any artistic restraints (these guys are no Divas) I didn’t really know how far I could push this friendship. So I supplied some safety goggles for the lads, but I forgot to give them to the boys until after this shot…. Sorry Nic. This is one of my faves though, you kinda look likeyou are playing the invisible keys….
So, goggles donned, we proceeded. Much safer, much more scientific…
Almost a little Dr Bunsen Honey Dew and Beaker….
Then I got out the big guns. Enter Polly and Ian. They had the BEST job all day. “Please throw this paint at Brightly. Yes, aim for their heads…”
And they were both pretty good shots! Nic was cheeky enough to tell Polly she had missed him, I don’t think he really thought that through.
Oh and the paint was pretty cold.
Apocalyptic.
At this stage of the day it was time for a hose down in the alley way, another beer and a paddlepop. PHEW!
You should check out Brightly boys, they are AMAZING. And more to the point, you should buy their recently released DOUBLE A side (Thats right folks DOUBLE), “We Were in Tokyo & Then We Woke Up”. You can buy it here which is super exciting, and if you missed out on the actual CD release, fear not, the download comes with the liner notes featuring these pics. OH YEAH….
Kanye East, Kanye West
Damn! I wish I had thought of this!!!!
Kasabian
Festival Hall Melbourne 28/01/2012
The Sand Pebbles, Dark Magic Album Launch 24.9.2011
Check out The Sand Pebbles here.
Parklife Melbourne
Kimbra
Santigold
Festival Love
Crystal Fighters
Diplo
The Gossip
Duck Sauce
Brightly
Brightly are a Melbourne based indie pop band that have a really big crush on you. And its pretty safe to say I have a really big crush on them too. Soon to release their debut EP, Brightly (Charlie Gleason and Nic Lam) live up to their name in every possible way.
We trotted down to the creek to take some shots on a not-so-brightly day and I, well, I made them get in the creek. It looks pretty, but its pretty slimey on the bottom. I had borrowed some waders so I was totally ok with getting in. But they did too, quite happily. Then I said, “Why don’t you put on this scary Donnie-Darko-esque bunny mask?” and they did.
Then Charlie said, “Why don’t we put on my icelandic balnkets?”. So who was I to say no? (PS the blankets are amazing – check the rest of them out. I particularly like the baby seal pelt - not as bad as it sounds, and the Twosome blanket, kind of a slanket for two!).
The glorious Polly (a Brightly plus one, but no less shiny) came to help us out on the day and took these snaps of us in the water.
I am ALL class. Keep your eyes on the Brightly prize here.
Kylie
She may be the pint sized Princess of Pop, but she puts on a MIGHTY BIG show. Not a bell or a whistle was missing (or a feather or sequin or hot dancing boy!) at the first Melbourne show of Kylie’s Aphrodite Tour.
Thanks Kylie, I had a blast (and was chatted up by my latest gay husband – why do all the hot ones have to be gay?)
Cody Simpson 143
That’s right, I may have had Bieber fever, but it was just a passing phase because Cody Simpson 143! (for those oldies out there see what 143 means here). I was lucky enough to be in the very small studio (and up close and personal) with Cody Simpson at the recent live stream performance for The Hot Hits. There was a select audience of about 12 competition winners who were so very very excited we had to tell a few of them to breath!