Last year I joined a band, we're called Observer. In Novemer/December we recorded our demo. Our mate Jake from I Exist recorded all but the drums. These are some photos from the guitar and bass recordings done at my house. Jake also brought his xbox. I used various lighting setups, with two 430ex flashes. Usually the key light was in a shoot through umbrella, and the back light was bare with a snoot, and sometimes with a blue or straw gel.

Cantpit had a go at recording, but managed to record Shane's guitars while also erasing his own bass tracks in the process.

We made 100 CDs, they're all gone now, I doubt we will make any more because I don't really like the songs, and we've recorded some better stuff which we have yet to put out. At least the packaging looked good. The artwork was done by Dase Beard and the logo by Patrick Galvin.

Front Cover

Back Cover

50 Black and 50 White

And 10 that looked like this.

Discs looked like this

The Warehouse is Canberra's newest all ages venue, it is as the name suggests simply a warehouse. For the last few months bands have been using the newly built jam rooms, but this is the first gig to be held there. All the bands were from Canberra. The gig started and finished during daylight, I used two flashes to light it. One of them had a coloured gel on it, for I exist it was a straw gel, for the rest of the bands it was a blue gel. I moved the lights around for each band, but basically had a side light and a back light for each setup, they are visible in many of the photos.

Atlantis Awaits are a new pop punk band, some of their songs sound like Paramore.

Reinger used to be called the payback, they just recently put out a new demo, which is really good.

Vera often seem to have fill in members playing for them, this time Sam from I Exist and Slowburn filled in on guitar.

I Exist used to be a 5 piece band with 2 guitarists, then Alex the bass player went to South America for a year, at which point Sam one of the guitarist started playing bass, and recently they've gained a second guitarist again with Josh from Pod People playing some shows with them.

Dead Kings, recently announced that their vocalist Damo was leaving, this gig was one of his last with the band, and his last all ages show in Canberra.