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Rock’s photos on exhibit: Yarra Ranges Museum

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:57:03 +0000

Ahh, so this is happening. It actually started on April 20th but it’s up until Sunday July 7th so plenty of time to check it out.

The Yarra Ranges Regional Museum is the only Victorian venue to be exhibiting the touring exhibition of ‘Rolling Stone: The Covers 1972 – 2010‘ and to accompany this stellar showing, the museum invited genius music photographer, Kane Hibberd and garden-variety me to fill their spare walls with our photography.

You can find details of the Rolling Stone covers exhibit and museum opening times here

While checking out the exhibits for myself last week, I was (rather embarrassingly) busted wearing Kane’s own t-shirt. Be a fan-girl like me and buy a Kanye Lens tee here.

Photo of Kane Hibberd & Kate Griffin photographed by Laura May Grogan

RIP Jeff Hanneman

admin — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:54:32 +0000

RIP Jeff Hanneman.

I’m glad I got to experience to complete Slayer experience when I did. Pure old school thrash. I’ve heard he was starting to play guitar again. Pretty darn impressive after such insane damage. Spiders suck.

RIP to a metal legend.

Music video collab with Ciara O’Grady

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:56:45 +0000

Last year I headed off to Europe with The Peep Tempel. I was pretty satisfied with the story the tour stills captured but the coolest tour story in the end was told by the music video collaboration I did with London-based Australian video editor, Ciara O’Grady.

We imagined a chronological cutting together of all the stills shot on tour. I didn’t photograph the tour with the video in mind but I shot some specific moments for the music vid purpose. Post tour, I ftp’d thousands of images to London and left it to O’Grady to sort out the rest.

Seeing O’Grady’s final cut of video for The Peep Tempel’s track ‘People don’t get you’ was such an awesome moment. When you create a concept in your head, it often comes out differently than you imagined. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, often the result is better but it’s a pretty special feeling when you see the final result of a project and you know that your collaborator had the exact same vision in their head too because it comes out exactly as you imagined.

P.s. Grab yourself a free download of The Peep Tempel’s new track ‘Dark beach’ here.

Cat Power at The Forum Melbourne

admin — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:18:24 +0000

I’d never seen Cat Power perform before. Do yourself a favour, put it on your bucket list.

Cat Power aka Chan Marshall played Melbourne’s Forum Theatre before playing at Golden Plains Music Festival. Her solo show in Melbourne was photographed for triple j and you can see the complete gallery here.

Cat Power photo gallery on triple j’s website

Weezer in Melbourne

admin — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:23:31 +0000

Oh my, lads. You made the 16 year wait for your return to Australia all worthwhile.

A best of set with a single Pinkerton teaser then the Blue Album in full. Sigh. Bliss.

See Weezer boys, Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell & Scott Shriner, performing at Melbourne’s at Sidney Myer Music Bowl last night.

Weezer was photographed for triple j and you can catch the entire gallery here.