By Justin Edwards
Sep 13, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane | Tags: 2011, Blank Realm, Brisbane, Frankly! It's a Pop Festival, Justin Edwards, LA Vampires, Miko, Pikelet, Powerhouse, Room 40, The Twerps, Wet Hair, Ytamo | 1 Comment »
Will BIGSOUND grow to become the Australian SxSW?
Aug 29, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane | Tags: 2011, analysis, BIGSOUND, BIGSOUND Live, Brisbane, In Numbers, Justin Edwards, music industry conference, Q Music, Queensland, showcases, statistics | 13 Comments »
We’re the Millwall of the Australian music media; no one likes us and we don’t care.
Aug 23, 2011 | Categories: Justin Edwards | Tags: Brisbane, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Collapse Board, Drowned In Sound, Everett True, Justin Edwards, Melody Maker, Music criticism, NME, Plan B Magazine, The Guardian | 10 Comments »
I enjoyed this year’s Splendour, as I always do.
Aug 21, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane | Tags: Coldplay, Dew Process, Justin Edwards, Kanye West, Kate Moss, live review, Music Photography, photos, Pulp, SITG, SITG2011, Splendour in the Grass, Splendour in the Grass review, the middle east, The Vaccines, Warpaint, Woodford, Woodfordia | 1 Comment »
It was OK. It was a bit grungey, a bit punk.
Aug 10, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane | Tags: 2011, Brisbane, Dinosaur Jr, grunge, Justin Edwards, Keep On Dancin's, live review, Martyr Privates, Music Photography, photos, Tiny Migrants, Ty Seagall, Velociraptor, Woodland | 8 Comments »
The Black Angels take to the stage and we head into the incredibly narrow photo pit.
Jul 20, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane | Tags: Alex Maas, Brian Jonestown, Brisbane, Christian Bland, criticism, Hi-Fi, Justin Edwards, Kyle Hunt, live review, Music Photography, Nate Ryan, photography, photos, Sony a700, Stephanie Bailey, The Black Angels, The Hi-Fi, The Laurels | Leave A Comment »
Maybe Brisbane acts are less careerist than their southern counterparts, playing for fun rather than playing the game and trying to move towards world domination.
Jun 03, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Columns | Tags: 2011, Aampirellas, analysis, Architecture in Helsinki, Bernard Fanning, Brisbane, british india, Butterfingers, Cut Copy, Darren Hanlon, Dew Process, feature album, Freemantle, Grinspoon, Gyroscope, Hilltop Hoods, Hungry Kids of Hungary, John Butler Trio, Justin Edwards, Kings Of Leon, Powderfinger, Regurgitator, Resin Dogs, Sarah Blasko, Spencer Tracey, The Beautiful Girls, The Butterfly Effect, the cat empire, The Grates, Triple J, Universal, Washington | 10 Comments »
Tonight, for me, is about Dune Rats.
May 11, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Live Reviews | Tags: Brisbane, Dune Rats, Horse Fight, Justin Edwards, Music Photography, Sony a700, Stature::Statue, Tape/Off, The Cairos, The Libertines, The View, The Zoo, Velociraptor, Villains Of Wilheim | 4 Comments »
The reason Splendour hasn’t sold out instantaneously, as it normally does, is that the line-up doesn’t justify the price.
May 10, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Columns | Tags: 2011, Australia, Bat For Lashes, Bluejuice, Cloud Control, Coldplay, Dew Process, Good Vibrations, Kanye West, Kele, Laneway, music festivals, Pulp, Regina Spektor, Secret Sounds, SITG2011, Spiritualized, Splendour in the Grass, The Cure, The Living End, The Vines, Vivid, Warpaint, Wild Beasts, Woodfordia | 16 Comments »
You just have to wonder how much of ‘popular’ music’s ongoing canon is being written by a very narrow range of music reviewers.
Apr 08, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Columns | Tags: 3D World, Adalita, analysis, breakdown, Brisbane, Brisbane street press, contributors, Editors, female, Festival Ladies, Joanna Newsom, Justin Edwards, Kate Nash, male, music journalism, photographers, Rave, Scene, sexism, sexism etc, Sunn O)))), The Festival Ladies, Time Off, writers | 9 Comments »
Once there was no “three songs, no flash” rule, now it’s industry standard in all but the small, local shows. Once there were no releases. Once there were no copyright-grabbing contracts.
Apr 05, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Justin Edwards | Tags: Amanda Palmer, Andrew McMillen, Brisbane, Carol King, Cheap Trick, Coldplay, copyright, First Three No Flash rule, Foo Fighters, KISS, live photography, Muse, Music Photography, Not A Photo Opportunity, Peter Hook, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rammstein, Stevie Wonder, Stone Temple Pilots, The Cult, The Hold Steady, The New Pornographers, The Vine, The Zoo, Tony Mott, Tool | 25 Comments »
When it comes to flicking through the shelves of CDs at my place to decide what to put on the stereo, more often than not the conversation starts with the following opening: Girlfriend – “Every time I think there can’t be any more Bruce Springsteen albums, I manage to find another one”.
Mar 18, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Live Reviews | Tags: Australia, Bobby Drake, Brisbane, Bruce Springsteen, Craig Finn, Galen Polivka, Justin Edwards, Louis XIV, Music Photography, Steve Selvidge, Tad Kubler, The Hold Steady, The Killers, The Zoo | Leave A Comment »
Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to be in a popular band and play on stage at a sold out show to a front row of people with their iphones held aloft, recording the moment for later playback rather than living than moment.
Mar 16, 2011 | Categories: Live Reviews | Tags: Ali Koehler, Best Coast, Bethany Cosentino, Bobb Bruno, Brisbane, gig review, Justin Edwards, live, March 2011, Music Photography, Woodland | 1 Comment »
It’s pretty good, although it’s the much smoother, slicker sound of later Roxy rather than the art school early years, although at times they sound like a more jazz Pink Floyd.
Mar 11, 2011 | Categories: Live Reviews | Tags: Andy Mackay, Brisbane, Bryan Ferry, For Your Pleasure, Justin Edwards, March 2011, Paul Thompson, Phil Manzanera, Pink Floyd, Riverstage, Roxy Music | Leave A Comment »
Photographer Justin Edwards looks back over the Brisbane live scene in 2010. (This article was originally published on This Is Not A Photo Opportunity.)
Feb 26, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Justin Edwards | Tags: 2010, Australia, Brisbane, Collapse Board, concerts, gigs, Justin Edwards, live, Music Photography, Review, Sony a700, The Troubadour, The Zoo | Leave A Comment »
If a contributor was called something like Darren, Steve or Tim, I assumed they were male.
Feb 10, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Columns | Tags: 3D World, analysis, breakdown, Brisbane street press, contributors, Editors, female, Justin Edwards, male, Mary J Blige, music journalism, Paramore, photographers, Rave, Scene, sexism, sexism etc, Sia, The Like, Time Off, writers | 14 Comments »
Deadshits returned to Woodland on Friday night, with sets from Circle Pit, Boomgates, Holy Balm, Assassins 88, Superstar and Per Purpose.
Jan 31, 2011 | Categories: Live Reviews | Tags: Assassins 88, Boomgates, Brisbane, circle pit, Deadshits #2, Holy Balm, Justin Edwards, Per Purpose, photos, Superstar, Woodland | Leave A Comment »
Why does Australia need a tax-funded radio station that plays the same songs and bands as a commercial radio station?
Jan 30, 2011 | Categories: Justin Edwards | Tags: Adrian Lux, Angus and Julia Stone, Art Vs. Science, Birds of Toyko, Boy & Bear, Cee Lo Green, Little Red, Mark Ronson & The Business Intl, Nova, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, The Wombats, Triple J | 11 Comments »
Why are female drummers always so happy whereas guy drummers always look in serious pain?
Jan 26, 2011 | Categories: Live Reviews | Tags: Airbourne, Andrew WK, BDO, BDO2011, Big Day Out, Bleeding Knees Club, Blonde On Blonde, Crystal Castles, CSS, Dead Letter Circus, Deftones, Die Antwoord, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Gold Coast, Grinderman, Iggy & The Stooges, Jim Jones Revue, Justin Edwards, LCD Soundsystem, Matt & Kim, Parklands, photos, Plan B, Primal Scream, The Founds, The Naked & Famous, Wolfmother | Leave A Comment »
the place was an absolute mud bath
Jan 13, 2011 | Categories: Live Reviews | Tags: 2011, Brisbane, Children Collide, Joan Jett, Justin Edwards, Klaxons, paul kelly, Peaches, photos, Sunset Sounds, The Living End, The Riverstage, The Soft Pack, Washington | Leave A Comment »
A few weeks ago the list of the 100 Best Australia Albums, as determined by music journalists Toby Creswell and Craig Mathieson, together with music industry executive and ex-journalist John O’Donnell, was published, a precursor to the mandatory book and CD set. I’m surprised no one else has posted something more comprehensive on Collapse Board [...]
Nov 19, 2010 | Categories: Justin Edwards | Tags: 100 Best Australian Albums, AC/DC, Bee Gees, Crowded House, Justin Edwards, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Sarah Blasko, Split Enz, The Saints, Time Off, Westlife | 3 Comments »
