Saturday, July 2, 2011

Memories of Lonely Planet's Last Blastoff Charity Gig July 1, 2011

Flip Video is never going to give you a rock event experience- the picture is impossibly grainy, it is hand held and shaky, and the sound is awful - with a bizarre bias to recording the laughter and clinking glasses around you over the 100dB+ of stage generated music.

It is really just to give you a glimpse of the ghost of a concert past, something to excite the synapses of your own memory and fire them off. Or to imagine the possibilities.

Photographs are much better records from this type of event - here you get the artist telling a story, seeing things that others didn't, and enabling anyone to hear those stories (in the ultimate of ironies) with their eyes and imagination, even though it is primarily a story of deafening walls of sound.

Luckily photographs can be deafening to your senses as well.

Share them round!

Update on gig: Speed Orange and Slabotomy raised over $2800 for the Peter Mac Foundation in memory of our friend and colleague Richard Samson. A record 300 people were at the charity gig, filling the John Curtin Bandroom to the brim.

The Flip video collection:

Walk this Way: http://youtu.be/0W-v2dmEYCA

Hate to Say I told you So: http://youtu.be/_3Pp-zn1vV8

Debaser: http://youtu.be/IPRxCXvGHmc

All these things that I have done: http://youtu.be/bnQmhviok38

Sweet Dreams & 7 Nations: http://youtu.be/FOP5ZWV0F_Y

The Writings on the Wall: http://youtu.be/lojAw5wFTE4

Bad Romance: http://youtu.be/jPTyOo9jSpk

Proud Mary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clbjOdFFfXk

Paranoid: http://youtu.be/HbwKONhshos

My hero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoOYXKAhQ8s

Zombie: http://youtu.be/i6LDi04lWl8


Mark Broadhead's Photographs are here on Facebook.



James Pierce's Magic Leica Photographs: