Long Exposure - ben butcher's photo blog

Adalita, River Of Snakes - on set

2011-11-08T15:15:00.000-08:00

River Of Snakes have just released an EP called Bad Blood. recently Adam Harding directed a clip for them, shot by Adam Russ. Check out the clip here

I also discovered on the same roll of film, this shot from the making of Adalita's film clip Fool Around. Also shot and directed by Adam Harding. I've already put a couple of other pics from this film clip here

Little Ugly Girls play The Tote

2011-11-07T20:04:00.000-08:00

LUGs are a rock'n'roll treasure. A band that was ruling the Hobart band scene when grunge was in full flight but no touring bands would visit Hobart (maybe Bikini Kill and Fugazi made it down there).. So bands like Mouth and Little Ugly Girls just did their own thing.

I hadn't seen LUGs since they supported Magic Dirt at the long-gone Punters Club, probably in the late '90s, so I was pretty freakin happy to see them play once again.

Gig of the year.

Bean on guitar.

Mindy on bass

Sloth on drums, and fronted by Linda.

For their final song of the night, Tom Lyngcoln joined the band to play a brutal version of Vinegar.

The Nation Blue support LUGS

2011-11-07T18:02:00.000-08:00

Tom Lyngcoln from The Nation Blue organised such an awesome gig on the weekend, with Little Ugly Girls headlining. Nation Blue were main supports, and were also phenomenal! It's been a while since I've seen them, and since they've played.. and they killed it!

Hobart's own Julian Teakle joined the Nation Blue to perform a stellar version of the classic song Sonic Advisor, from Teakle's two piece band The Frustrations... giving mad props to genius taswegians such as his old bandmate Mike Harris, and many others who may not have made it across to the mainland for the show.

No Anchor @ NSC

2011-11-07T17:51:00.000-08:00

No Anchor have been kicking arses for several years now. Their double vinyl album is killer! This is them slaying at the Northcote Social Club.

Huffy - The Marriage Bike

2011-10-07T18:51:00.000-07:00

Earlier in the day I married Nell who was on roller-skates while I rode this bike through the "24 Drive-Up" Little White Chapel (story and photos here). While setting up camp at Zion National Park I saw an opportunity to take this pic, which is also a bit of a homage to William Eggleston's Tricycle photo.

Monument Valley

2011-10-06T20:25:00.000-07:00

Monument Valley in Northern Arizona is in very picturesque part of the word..

In homage to that classic road photo by Robert Frank, I took this next shot.

Adalita - Fool Around film clip shoot

2011-10-06T03:51:00.000-07:00

Adalita has a new film clip for her song Fool Around, once again shot by Adam Harding.
I snapped these while helping out with the lighting...

The clip was partially shot at JP Shilo's house. This accordion was hanging around...

Montero - instore at Polyester Records

2011-10-06T03:25:00.000-07:00

Montero is a 6 piece band, but Ben sure knows how to rock the tambourine. New wave of loungecore anybody...?

Sebadoh - Corner Hotel

2011-10-06T02:44:00.000-07:00

Sebadoh played 2 nights at the Corner Hotel the other week. I caught them on their second night in a jolly and relaxed mood, which made for an awesome set.

Adam Harding and Friends - Corner Hotel

2011-10-06T02:14:00.000-07:00

Adam Harding is kicking some sweet goals lately. Releasing a fine 10" (Nothing An Arrow Wouldn't Fix), and a string of fine 7-inch records with folks such as Lou and Murph from Dinosaur Jr, members of Magic Dirt, and more.

A couple of weeks ago I caught Adam (And Friends) supporting Sebadoh at the Corner Hotel...

Lou Barlow joined Adam's gang for a ripper version of Redrum...

Las Vegas

2011-08-21T23:56:00.000-07:00

River Of Snakes

2011-08-17T16:40:00.000-07:00

River of Snakes have a new EP out called Bad Blood. Go and see them.. pure rock and roll!

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

2011-08-17T16:23:00.000-07:00

A big congrats to King Gizzard for the announcement that they'll be playing the Meredith Music Festival this year!!

Nephi, Utah

2011-08-16T20:47:00.001-07:00

Lowell Observatory - Flagstaff, Arizona

2011-08-12T00:40:00.000-07:00

The Lowell Observatory is fantastic to visit, with many interesting artifacts and instruments. Percival Lowell was a fascinating 'renaissance man' who built the telescope (below), using the world's best lens-makers (at the time) and the local town's finest metalworkers.

Lowell had done a lot of the groundwork in locating/discovering Pluto, but it was Clyde Tombaugh who did the discovering on the astrograph (below).

After knocking himself out one night, Tombaugh added some padding onto the astrograph (below)

Overground - Melbourne International Jazz Festival

2011-06-23T22:18:00.001-07:00

Oren Ambarchi (guitar) and Charlemagne Palestine (USA - grand organ) started the event with epic droning awesomeness..

There were some random acts of noise.. such as Kusum Normoyle (above)

And there were some planned acts of violent sonic performance, such as Will Guthrie's teaming up with Cured Pink (above)

Indonesian duo Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryad slayed!

There were some interesting characters at the after-party also.

Betty and Keith Stephens

2011-06-09T17:22:00.000-07:00

Circus Olympia

2011-06-02T19:31:00.001-07:00

Circus Olympia was in Castlemaine the other weekend

International Noise Conference - Melbourne

2011-05-31T21:51:00.001-07:00

The International Noise Conference came to Melbourne on the 21st May at KIPL in North Melbourne. No laptops, no droning, no money, and 15 minute sets made this a very interesting day. 30 acts, with no breaks in between, this event was great. Congrats to the Sabbatical mob for running it so well.

Sadly my camera broke down on the day, but I did get to capture some of the highlights. Dead Boomers (above and below) were a powerhouse!

Furchick's set was tops

Sean Baxter showed us how to get a drum to play it's own tune
Rod Cooper played another of his homemade instruments...

Oranj Punjabi (no she's not chroming, she's bringing the noise)

Incompetent Cervix were also awesome

Harmony

2011-05-29T17:10:00.001-07:00

Harmony (featuring members of The Nation Blue, Remake Remodel, McLusky, Ukeladies) has been playing round the traps, impressing ears, over the past year or so. They have an album due real soon! yay!

Wolfy & The Bat Cubs

2011-05-14T20:49:00.000-07:00

Wolfy & The Bat Cubs are on the prowl... straight out of Central Victoria, they'll be rocking your world soon.

Ouch My Face

2011-04-13T18:49:00.000-07:00

Ouch My Face have a new 7" single coming out really soon, featuring the tracks Build a House and Eyeball to Eyeball... Exciting!
Here they are hanging out in a boat, and with some bats...

Cuba Is Japan - 7" Launch

2011-04-06T18:33:00.001-07:00

Last Friday Cuba Is Japan launched their new 7". Amazingly put together, the 7" is housed in a cute little knitted jacket, with a lovely screen printed artwork. Cuba's new album is inspired by the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1522 by Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan... and will be released sometime soon.

Golden Plains 2011 - roll 2

2011-03-21T21:29:00.000-07:00

The second night of Golden Plains this year was quite the party....

focus fail on my mate Vic Skywalker
Some pipe smokers
My mate Tonks!
Mia McDonald, resident photographer.

Golden Plains 2011 - roll 1

2011-03-20T19:09:00.000-07:00

The Golden Plains Music Festival was pretty sweet this year. Graveyard Train brought the zombies to the yard, and ruled the stage...
Justin Townes Earle also slayed...

Campsite dudes...
...and Pulled Apart By Horses brought some much needed guts.

some other bands acts that ruled include Cosmic Psychos, Joanna Newsom, Os Mutantes, The Clean, etc...

Amaya Laucirica - Sleeping In Your Shadow film clip

2011-03-08T22:12:00.000-08:00

Amaya is currently making a film clip with director Adam Harding for her song Sleeping In Your Shadow, from her album Early Summer.

Adalita - The Repairer film clip

2011-03-04T16:30:00.000-08:00

Adalita has just released her debut self-titled album. While on location shooting her new film clip for The Repairer (directed by Adam Harding) I shot these.
You can find a whole bunch of other photos here at Adalita's website.

Gang of Four - Corner Hotel

2011-03-04T15:50:00.000-08:00

Gang of Four played a cracking set at the corner hotel this week.
More photos and a review by Rene Schaefer is up at The Vine (dot com)

microwave + sawn-off baseball bat = beats

Baptism Of Uzi

2011-03-03T19:13:00.000-08:00

Baptism OF Uzi are kicking arse at the moment! Local Melbourne lads.

New War - Yah Yahs

2011-03-03T19:00:00.000-08:00

Warpaint - Northcote Social Club

2011-03-02T19:04:00.000-08:00

Boomgates at Hell Gallery

2011-01-10T06:29:00.000-08:00

Boomgates haven't been playing for very long, but they already have a swag of great tunes and a 7" out. I caught them the other night at a house party... but these photos were of a gig they played at Hell Gallery late in 2010. Lots of fun!

No Zu at house party

2011-01-10T06:19:00.000-08:00

No Zu played the same warehouse show as Axxonn... I was impressed.

fuzzy punks!

Axxonn at a house party

2011-01-10T06:12:00.000-08:00

Axxonn is a bloke called Tom Hall. Here he plays at an Abbottsford warehouse party.

Paul Kidney Experience - Matt and Troy

2010-12-07T02:56:00.001-08:00

In creating artwork for the forthcoming Paul Kidney Experience album "Radio Transmissions", I took band members Troy and Matt out to a canola crop in Balliang in the middle of a cold spring night...

Bunyip Habitats - Lake Cairn Curran

2010-12-03T19:16:00.000-08:00

East Brunswick All Girls Choir recording

2010-12-02T17:49:00.001-08:00

So, the East Brunswick All Girls Choir have a new single out... 'Essendon 1986'. It's rockin!
While the band were recording this, and the rest of their forthcoming album Sandhurst Town, I went along and took some snaps.

LCD and the Dream Machine

2010-11-28T05:31:00.000-08:00

Lowest Common Denominator played a ripper set at the Birmingham Hotel the other week...
...and as you can see, they had their Dream Machine in full effect

Newstead and Loddon River

2010-10-01T01:00:00.001-07:00

The Loddon River at Newstead has been running nicely for the first time in ages. So the other night I went down to take some photos.

Adam Harding - at Old Bar

2010-10-01T00:46:00.000-07:00

Adam Harding grew up in Geelong but has been living in LA in recent years. He's been back recently to play some shows in support of his new 7" (featuring Lou and Murph from Dinosaur Jr!). You should also definitely get his 10", called Nothing An Arrow Wouldn't Fix. It's a killer.

Midnight Woolf play a Brunswick party

2010-09-27T01:07:00.001-07:00

When Midnight Woolf come to play a couple of sets at ya party... you know you're going to be in for a good time. Ole!

Adalita - live at the Empress

2010-09-26T04:02:00.000-07:00

Adalita is putting the final touches to her debut solo album. She recently played this solo show (with some fine accompaniment by JP Shilo) to a captivated crowd at the Empress Hotel.

Internal Rot - live at bar open

2010-09-25T19:46:00.000-07:00

Internal Rot played a killer set at Bar Open the other night. This Melbourne grindcore 3 piece has members from Roskopp, Super Happy Fun Slide and Agents of Abhorrence, etc. Having not seen Max sing since the early days of Agents of Abhorrence, it was great to see owning the mic. Top band!

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam - at Bar Open

2010-09-24T04:54:00.000-07:00

Collapsed Toilet Vietnam haven't played much lately.. but they did a good job of it the other night!

Embers - live at the Tote

2010-09-24T03:44:00.000-07:00

Embers are Melbourne's free jazz supergroup. Here's them playing an awesome and rare set last month.

Bill Henson

2010-09-24T03:17:00.001-07:00

Poor Bill Henson. He's had a rough trot lately.
I've painted 2 paintings of him (one of them here...incomplete).
...and then I go and take his photo in low light with a long exposure time."Story of my life" says Bill.

Bodies

2010-08-11T00:42:00.000-07:00

Bodies formed from the ashes of The Adults. The other night Bodies launched their album. Killer band! Joel (pictured) also plays in the Assassination Collective.

Dan Kelly's Dream Band - lunchtime gig

2010-08-09T03:32:00.000-07:00

With props and bubbles, the Dan Kelly Dream Band played a Friday lunchtime set at 1000 Pound Bend the other week.

Lichens with Ian Wadley

2010-08-08T19:44:00.000-07:00

While in Australia touring with Om, Lichens did a couple of extra shows. I caught a collaboration between Lichens and Ian Wadley at Sunshine and Grease. Twas a pretty ace little gig.

The Strokes

2010-08-08T19:33:00.000-07:00

The Strokes played at Festival Hall the other night, and slammed out a set of their catchy as hell pop classics. Opening with New York City Cops, they were in top form.

The Like

2010-08-08T19:23:00.000-07:00

Before seeing The Like I'd read that they are the daughters of a bunch of music industry veterans from LA, so I was pretty sceptical. But they were pretty good. Garage-soul style rock...

Gypsy and the Cat

2010-08-08T19:15:00.000-07:00

I saw a bit of these guys supporting The Strokes the other week... They didn't do a lot for me, but I only got to hear their first 3 songs.

Breathing Shrine

2010-07-31T01:45:00.000-07:00

Breathing Shrine is Bonnie Mercer and Robert Mayson who both used to play in the Grey Daturas. It's fair to say, they bring the noise.

New War

2010-07-31T00:58:00.000-07:00

New War have recently sprung up in Melbourne, and impressing the locals. Post-new-dub-wave perhaps? Definitely worth checking out.

Kamikaze at the Exeter Hotel

2010-07-22T00:14:00.001-07:00

The other week I went to the Exeter Hotel in Adelaide and saw Kamikaze. They're awesome! Playing good old-skool type punk rock.

Rita and Peter - The Trial

2010-07-20T00:47:00.000-07:00

Rita Kalnejais and Peter Houghton are currently preparing for the opening of The Trial, soon to run at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre.
These photos were taken for the August issue of Trouble Magazine where they speak to Emilie Collyer about the play.

Golden Point Reservoir

2010-07-20T00:01:00.000-07:00

Golden Point Reservoir (near Castlemaine), as taken at night.

Regurgitator, Ouch My Face, Step Panther @ Annandale

2010-07-12T22:53:00.000-07:00

Regurgitator are back in town. Well, they played both Melbourne town and Sydney the other weekend. These shots were taken at the Sydney gig. They were in fine form.

Ouch My Face were also on fire, and won over a whole bunch of new fans...
...and newcomers Step Panther did well opening up the night.

Eagle and the Worm re-open the Tote

2010-07-01T00:47:00.000-07:00

So the Tote has re-opened! At a quiet media type launch thingo, local Melbourne band Eagle and the Worm christened the band room.

Always Moving - Catacomb Carousel

2010-07-01T00:06:00.000-07:00

In a night of interactive art (above, people were invited to smash a wall with bits of of 4x2) and performance, the opening was a bit of fun. Always Moving is an "active month of performance, sound, cinema" at the Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.

On the opening night Bum Creek and Catacomb Carousel (below)

Undue Noise - Bendigo

2010-06-24T19:40:00.000-07:00

Undue Noise puts on gigs in the old Fire Station in Bendigo once a month. The man behind Undue Noise is Jacques Soddell, who among other things has presented an experimental music radio program Possible Musics on local radio station 3CCC (now Phoenix FM), since 1983!

Pictured here are Mathew Underwood (above) and Blankface Distortion (below).

Word on the street is...

2010-06-02T05:15:00.000-07:00

Dead Farmers album launch (Melb)

2010-05-27T23:35:00.001-07:00

Dead Farmers launched their debut album Go Home at the Birmingham recently. An album who's cover photo was taken by yours truly when they played with Baseball and My Disco a year or so ago at the Espy.

Castlemaine's top 3 locals

2010-05-23T22:15:00.000-07:00

Monster Meeting Site at Golden Point

The Pennyweight Flat Children's Cemetery

Castlemaine Rock factory

Still Life with Skull

2010-05-13T01:45:00.000-07:00

Lost Animal

2010-05-11T21:13:00.000-07:00

Lost Animal is the current project of Jarrad Quarrell. Jarrad's other bands include St. Helens, and The New Season.

Penguins

2010-04-28T20:47:00.000-07:00

Penguins is Pete Bramley. Sometimes he has a band...

...and sometimes he is a solo performer.

The Last Trip

2010-04-23T07:06:00.000-07:00

For one last time, the famous Bedford, aka "The Navigator", was taken for a trip around the block before being put out to pasture.
A much loved member of the Jules and Paul Kidney family, we paid our final respects with grand fanfare.

The Twerps @ Mountain Fold Launch

2010-04-23T02:27:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday afternoon The Twerps played the Melbourne launch for Mountain Fold Music Journal's issue #4.
It was pretty nice, sunlight coming through the 6th floor windows...

Circle Pit - gallery show

2010-04-15T18:37:00.000-07:00

Angie and Jack have been playing in bands for a while now, notably in Kiosk. Since then, Circle Pit have been evolving, and are soon to release an album.

These photos were taken at an art gallery opening of collected Circle Pit related visual pieces. On this occasion they played a a 3 piece.

church wine

2010-04-08T21:24:00.000-07:00

The Dacios

2010-03-28T19:05:00.000-07:00

The Dacios have a new bass player. Pete from Deaf Wish, etc!!

Deaf Wish at The Corner Hotel

2010-03-28T17:00:00.000-07:00

Deaf Wish supporting Dinosaur Jr the other week.

Legs

2010-03-26T07:51:00.000-07:00

Recently on a photoshoot we had some film left over, so we tried out an idea.

Pavement - at the Palace, Melbourne

2010-03-17T20:52:00.000-07:00

Watching Pavement at Golden Plains was just plain awesome! A week later they played a couple of shows at the old Metro, now called The Palace. Not to be confused with the old Palace in St.Kilda which has now been knocked down..... I think.

Malkamus was on fire...
...well, perhaps his pants were...
...well, he was a little excited, walking over the drumkit half way through the set....
...it's hard to see, but thats him behind Spiral, on the floor tom...

...and how awesome is Bob!?!!

Soup

2010-03-17T04:48:00.000-07:00

The other week Nell made some awesomely hearty soup. Everyone loves soup right!?

Nature Strip Friday Rock

2010-03-15T22:16:00.000-07:00

One pleasant sunny summer Friday arvo I came across a bbq/skate ramp/gig on the nature strip near my house. It turned out to be Dick Diver and the Weekend Pharaohs.
It was ace. A full moon too!

Useless Children

2010-03-15T04:09:00.001-07:00

Useless Children have been rockin around Melbourne for a couple of years now... picking up some ace support slots recently. These photos were taken at the Corner while supporting either Magic Dirt or Dinosaur Jr just recently.

Adalita - Mixing her debut solo album

2010-03-14T20:12:00.000-07:00

Adalita (Magic Dirt) is currently mixing down her debut solo album. The tracks I heard are sounding really great. Stay tuned folks...

Dinosaur Jr at The Corner Hotel

2010-03-11T22:02:00.000-08:00

Dinosaur Jr played a great set of hits last week at the Corner... Then then went to Golden Plains and stepped it up another notch or 2 and blew everyone off the stage...
Lou rocked out hard.

J and his mass of guitar pedals!

Murph!

Pip Proud - RIP

2010-03-11T02:02:00.000-08:00

Pip Proud died last week of throat cancer. I saw him just this one time in November 2006 playing at the Old Bar. It was great.
More info about Pip's releases, and MP3s can be found here.

The Night Terrors

2010-03-09T02:48:00.000-08:00

Melbourne band The Night Terrors are planing another tour of Europe, with their thunderous bass, synth, drum and theremin action... Lookout!

Daedelus

2010-03-03T00:09:00.000-08:00

Daedelus performed at this years Campus A Low Hum, winning over many a new fan.
He dresses mighty sharp also.

I've been drawn and blogged! at XTOTL

2010-03-02T16:47:00.000-08:00

Here's a version/vision of me, at the Tote with camera and flash in hand as remembered by Toby Morris, who has included me in his XTOTL blog series 200 People I Used To Know.
Thanks Toby!

Toby has relocated to Amsterdam after initially moving to Melbourne from NZ with his band at the time, Batrider.

SLAM Rally

2010-03-02T00:38:00.000-08:00

The SLAM Rally occurred last week with a massive show of numbers. As well as a few famous heads. Even Slash (G'N'f'n'Rs) caught wind of the troubles we've had down here in Melbourne and send in an email of support.

Simon Grounds (above) even brought out of the studio his trusted microphone stand friend because the situation was looking so dire.

walking up Bourke St

Paul Kelly gets interviewed...
Did I mention there were a lot of people?

Friends came too!

And even the Liberal Party turned up, with dubious intent, and cigarettes in mouth...

Ron Mueck at the NGV

2010-02-25T23:09:00.000-08:00

So Australian born Ron Mueck currently has a show on at the NGV. It features larger than life as well as smaller than life sculptures. Here's some photos I took while trialing some DIY tilt-shift lens action.

Campus A Low Hum 2010 - Deluxe Edition

2010-02-07T00:21:00.000-08:00

This year I took my Mamiya C220 to camp and shot the following photos. The one above was taken of the pool stage at the end of the final night, after The Show Is The Rainbow had made party.

Darren (TSITRainbow), Dave Toecutter and friend.

The taking of class photos

Witch Hats

Dan Deacon moments after his hair cut

Kiwi photographer Petra Jane uses her old medium format to snap Polka Dot Dot Dot

Polka Dot Dot Dot

East Brunswick All Girls Choir

The water tower through out some useful light late at night...

tank

Taupo and Mt Ruapehu - New Zealand

2010-02-05T22:29:00.000-08:00

Motutaiko Island sits in Lake Taupo in the middle of New Zealand's North Island. Lake Taupo was formed after a massive volcanic eruption.

While NZ's highest mountain, Mt Ruapehu has errupted in much more recent times, most recently in 1995-96. It was too cloudy to see it's peak when we were there.

The Show Is The Rainbow

2010-02-03T05:57:00.000-08:00

The Show Is The Rainbow's Darren Keen

The Killers of Bulls - New Zealand

2010-02-01T04:47:00.000-08:00

Ann Shelton's photography

2010-02-01T03:24:00.000-08:00

This photo above is not an Ann Shelton image, however she is known for her mirrored and/or folded type presentation of her photos. My photo reproducing her technique was taken at a small lake at Huntly in New Zealand's North Island. We were actually in Huntly to track down the Topp Twins, but they were too elusive for us.

At Campus A Low Hum this year Ann Shelton exhibited some images from her villa series taken at the abandoned Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in Wanganui.

Ann uses a large format camera which allows for such high detail in her prints.

Inspired by her style, I took a photo of the empty pool stage at the festival site and mirrored the image.

Campus A Low Hum 2010

2010-01-31T03:41:00.001-08:00

It's not Camp A Low Hum any more, it's Campus A Low Hum. And this year it was at an abandoned agricultural college near the NZ northern island town of Bulls.

I already have a bunch of photos on display at Mess+Noise here.
There's also the Andy Hazel's review with some of my pics at M+N here.

While getting the our class photos, some people were uncontrollable with enthusiasm.
Probably because there were so many great venues on campus to watch the bands...

Here Polka Dot Dot Dot are on the Assembly stage, with the Shed stage to the left in the background

This is a view of the pool stage... empty of water but often full of punters as the bands played down the deep end...

And the Renegade Room.. where some of the more unhinged and barely planned acts did their stuff...

Golden Axe synthin up a storm! Such a great classic Low Hum rockin band... just look at the faces of those in the audience!
Gaywyre! Metal at it's most glorious. I think my favorite song title of theirs was "Operation Market Garden". They owned the Assembly stage that night.

The Polka Dot Dot Dots won over so many new fans who'd never heard of them before. Beautiful afternoon folky-times!

...getting everyone's love

Daedelus rocked the pool and the leavers formal with his box of light buttons and madly cut samples and loops. With his 3 piece suit and mutton chops he oozes with a classic style that make you wonder how Mozart might have performed if he had today's technology....

When Dan Deacon rocked the pool, everyone was there to testify.

Another band who worked the Pool Stage (stage? perhaps pit is a better term... Pit perhaps?) were Bum Creek. Who knows where the music ends and the silliness begins, but Bum Creek pulled off 2 thoroughly entertaining sets on Campus.

Drumheller made some beautiful ambient soundscapes both at the Renegade Room and late on the last night in the Shed. A perfect closure to the festival this year.

Bang Bang Eche were the last band scheduled at the Renegade Room on the Monday night, and they rocked it big time... as you can see...

So, most folks at the festival camped on tents, including the singer from The DHDFDs.. although one night he was unable to use his tent because it was being used by some other folks to... ummm... show fond affection for one another... ummm...

So! The next day Ouch My Face totally ruled the Assembly Stage, and pretty much sold more t-shirts than any other band.

Ummmm... these guys...

Here's Blink at the front of the huge archway tunnel formed by Dan Deacon via his lunchtime fitness session

F in Math vocoded the pool...

Dent May! Such wonderful uke and harmonies. Yet another highlight of the fest this year.

Did I mention that there were a Leavers Formal Ball? So yeah, here's the hot couple, Jess and Dan dancing away like its 1999.

Sometimes jams broke out in the Renegade Room that didn't have a name. This one below was awesome, but was eventually shut down by Blink. Probably because it was 5am or something...

The Renegade Room was full of great and unexpected stuff. Here's a photo of a thing called Smell The Cheese, which was a gang made up of folks from Bum Creek, Witch Hats, East Brunswick All Girls Choir, and others including me. Fun times!

Mixer and suspected Russian, James Tulczyn not only kept things in order and sounding good in the Barn stage, but I he also took the photo above of Smell The Cheese with my camera.
Thanks Jimmy!

DZ from Brisbane were rockin!

Thugquota worked the pool to full effect

Orchestra of Spheres were a hit also...

This man likes both types of music

God Bows To Math know how to rock. This bass player totalled himself the previous night while playing the the BMX Rapists (who apparently ruled hard), and then resurfaced to plat a 1pm set on day 2. What a trooper!

GeordieMcCullum

Shaggs and Toecutter watching a great set by the Witch Hats.

Witch Hats on the Assembly stage

Die Die Die at Campus a Low Hum

2010-01-30T17:44:00.000-08:00

Die Die Die had one of the most enthusiastic crowds on the Assembly Stage at camp this year. It was kinda nuts...

Nomex at Campus A Low Hum

2010-01-30T00:32:00.001-08:00

Nomex brought the noise to Campus this year in a big way. If he's playing a gig near you, get on down.

The Butchers of Bendigo

2010-01-30T00:16:00.000-08:00

Batrider at Campus A Low Hum 2010

2010-01-29T23:33:00.000-08:00

Creepy Pool Light

2010-01-29T23:30:00.000-08:00

The DHDFDs at Campus A Low Hum

2010-01-29T22:51:00.001-08:00

The DHDFDs were a band that really impressed my at last years Camp A Low Hum. I was stoked to hear that they were back again this year. This time round they played just the one set, and it was a corker. Playing in the pool and using the crowd and a 44 gallon drum, the singer and his band put on one of the best sets of the festival.

Caroline Johnston's Penis

2010-01-29T22:15:00.000-08:00

Kiwi artist Caroline Johnston created this piece Avatar for an art exhibition held concurrently with the Campus A Low Hum festival last weekend near the New Zealand town of Bulls.

The exhibition space was a disused agricultural college, and so Caroline thought she'd draw a dick on the blackboard.

as the earth turns the stars seem to move

2010-01-29T22:06:00.000-08:00