Written by JRPosted in Gigs,PhotographyTags: 2009, Adam Zadel, AJ Cavalier, Australia, Concert, December, Dope, Gig, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Melbourne, Nu Metal, Performance, Richmond, SOiL, The Corner Hotel, Tim King, Tom Schofield, Victoria, www.dopearmy.com, www.soil-music.comDecember 18, 2009
Corner Hotel Nu Metal
Even though I had secured to shoot this gig several months ago, I very nearly didn’t go to the show tonight as I was bordering on exhaustion. With a long week at work coupled with some late nights shooting and editing photographs – had all but taken its toll on me.
Never let anyone tell you otherwise, this is hard work. Granted, it is fun and always an eye-opening experience… but when one works a normal job during the day and then does rock photography purely for love, by night – the day’s do tend to get long, tiring and fatigue inducing.
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Written by JRPosted in Gigs,PhotographyTags: 2009, Australia, Bradley Clifford, Bradley Grace, Chris A. Hornbrook, Florida, Gig, Hardcore, Jeffrey Moreira, Live, Live Music, Melbourne, Metalcore, October, Photos By John Raptis, Poison The Well, PTW, Ryan Primack, The Corner Hotel, Victoria, Visceral IndustryOctober 23, 2009
Core Meltdown
I’m not usually a fan of the Metalcore genre. For the most part, it’s raucous nature and somewhat pretentious technical stylings leaves me scratching my head. It sounds like each individual band member is playing a different song.
But I wanted to photograph such a gig and in the end, I was pleasantly surprised with Poison The Well’s set which was injected with melody throughout. I will definitely be checking out some of their discography as frankly, I really liked what I heard tonight.
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