Meredith Music Festival 2016 captured by Ed Gorwell
LOOK: Meredith Music Festival 2016
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LOOK: Melbourne Music Week 2016
Photographs by Bec Capp and Tessa Mansfield-Hung
LOOK: Golden Plains 2016
Photos by Ed Gorwell and Bec Capp
LOOK: Meredith Music Festival 2015
Words by Meredith Music Festival punters, compiled by ALLEE RICHARDS
Photos by BEC CAPP
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Friday, 9AM.
“Where are you camped?”
9:30AM
“How have you been?”
“Where are you camped?”
10AM
“Hey, how are you?”
“Good, but I just saw someone I went on a Tinder date with, and I’m trying to ignore them. Where are you camped?”
10:30AM
“Hey, where are you camped?”
“It’s a good spot, and we’re next to this guy I have on Tinder. I hope he doesn’t recognise me, but still finds me hot in person.”
11AM
“Where are you camped?”
12PM
“Is it time for lunch yet?”
12:30PM
“Ah, so fresh.”
“I love oysters.”
“Smoked trout, what a delight!”
“Crostinis, cute!”
“Where’s the Prosecco?”
“I love your fur.”
“That’s not Prosseco, that’s sparkling shiraz!”
*Lol*
“Are we ready for the pork?”
“Why are we playing the second movement? It has to be Spring!”
4PM
“I’m so full I can’t stand.”
“Beer is going down very badly.”
“I don’t think a four course meal was a good idea after all.”
(more below)
LOOK: Paradise Music Festival 2015
Photographs by Nelson Armstrong and Bec Capp
If you thought the barrage of FOMO-inducing photos on of picturesque Lake Mountain was over – then shame on you. Good things take time. You should have known that we’d post our Paradise Festival photos a week later than everyone else with these film photos capturing moments of bliss, tinies and 90s latex cameos.
Film takes time to process, and so does the brain to process memories. The week after a festival, (especially one with a club) can be a rough one. Congrats to those who did attend. You made it. Thursday was a particularly shit one for me. Now that I feel good again the memories feel even better.
For those of you who did attend, maybe you will find your face in the crowd, maybe not. Either way you will look back with nostalgic warmth on the weekend that was. Maybe you are traumatised from lugging heaps of unnecessary crap up a mountain. Perhaps you only remember watching hippies making bubbles and wondering why club kids wear white at a festival.
Or maybe you don’t latch on to the negatives. I remember watching an unbelievable sunrise on Saturday morning that I wasn’t able to photograph with justice – and don’t have a big enough vocabulary to describe. Maybe it was dancing in the afternoon sun to Totally Mild and The Harpoons and thinking that everything in the world was alright. Whatever it was, this three-year-old baby of a festival is located in the most picturesque setting.
Paradise Festival is truly unique and will continue to do great things for local music. For those who missed out this year, the feeling that you could/should/would have attended will only intensify as Paradise grows older.
See you in 2016.
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Check out our previous Paradise photo essays, here and here.
See full photo set below.
LOOK: Melbourne Music Week 2015
Photography by Nicholas Wilkins and Bec Cap
The team at Melbourne Music Week are notorious for transforming spaces. Previous years have seen the refit of former printing press the Argus Building and the Queen Victoria Market transformed to host shows. This year’s MMW saw the Royal Women’s Hospital restored to host a roller disco, lunchtime gigs and some serious late night parties. The corner of Grattan and Swanston St acted as this year’s festival hub, fitting so seamlessly into its surroundings that it was almost hard to remember what the corner previously looked like.
Nick and I got along to Live Music Safari, a music tour around Melbourne with fourteen live music venues opening their doors for free parties and gigs. Northside Records honcho Chris Gill dressed up as a disco ball for the Roller Jam x Rizky’s Block Party. We witnessed impressive pre-breakfast air guitar at Morning Gloryville, and decent DJs tearing up some afternoon sets at ‘The Hub’. Melbourne Music Week’s commitment to the independent music community, along with its ability to embody and respect the cities’ spaces makes it a definite week to look forward to when it comes around. Onto the next!
View the full photo set below
BEHIND THE SCENES: Okenyo – ‘Just a Story’ video
A few days ago, Sydney neo-soul artist Okenyo dropped the video for ‘Just a Story’, the slinky and dexterous lead single from her forthcoming EP, Mirage – and we got a sneak peek at the behind-the-scenes photo shoot. As you would expect from Zindzi Okenyo (remember this tour-de-force appearance?), the results are sexy and very stylish.
Photography by Shantanu Starick
More photos after the jump
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