Category Archives: jazz

I only managed a few gigs this year at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. The festival itself is quite an overwhelming intense torrent of creativity squeezed into a week. The jazz junkies were there in full, so were those just busting their improv music cherries. Shooting jazz at festivals like this is a tricky business. Some […]

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David Goldthorpe’s production on the life and music of Chet Baker is touring. The show is emotionally intense and musically wonderful. Its no impersonation of Chet Baker, yet David’s voice has the sweetness of Baker and the band is definitely cool. Check out some shots from the production on my Jazz photo site: http://www.lakisideris.com/melbournejazzphotos/2013/07/chet-baker-like-someone-in-love-david-goldthorpe/ For touring […]

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Online is good. Print is better. I have a few spreads in the current issue of literary and art journal :etchings published by the good folk at Ilura press. The issues features articles by Peter Sculthorpe and Harry James Angus. I share the space with legendary Meg Evans of Bennetts Lane. Check it out here.

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Well apparently Lady Gaga was next door. Anyway I just happened to drop into Bar 303 on a cold Northcote night and luckily Hetty Kate was there to sing some nice songs and thus I avoided an unessasary confrontation with the said Lady. Anyway check out some happy shots of Hetty and her band doing […]

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