Dead Kings - Damo's last show

 

I Exist. To celebrate Damo's last show, Jake made himself a custom microphone.

The disadvantage of shooting shows with off camera strobes, is that they only cover a certain area, so when someone in the band decides to get into the crowd, something that should make for interesting photos, you get sub par lighting. I end up just raising the ISO and hoping for the best.

 

Dead Kings

The Abandonment

Dead Kings - Blacktown and Goulburn

In Blacktown Dead Kings played at the Blacktown Masonic Hall, it was basically a school classroom.
Bare 430ex front left of stage, 430ex with blue gel back right of stage.

 

It was at this show that Rohan decided to start doing punk jumps.

The Goulburn show was the most fun of all these dates, there was a smoke machine that we got to play with while the bands were on.
Bare 430ex back left of stage, 430ex with blue gel back right of stage.

 

Rohan continued with his new found love of punk jumps.

Abandon All Hope

At Our Worst

Reigner

Dead Kings, Abandon All Hope - Wollongong

More photos from the NSW dates with Dead Kings, these are from the Wollongong show.
Bare 430ex on a stand at the front either side of stage.
This is Everest, they were the only non metalcore band on the bill, they played a Minor Threat and a Gorilla Biscuits cover. I liked them. (Actually Never Content also played this show, and they're not a metalcore band either, I missed out seeing them at this show but check them out, their myspace songs sound good. Also I don't mean to say I don't like metalcore, it's just that 5 of those bands playing in a row can be a bit monotonous sometimes.)

Abandon All Hope were playing all the shows with Dead Kings, the bands were traveling separately so I didn't really get to hang out with these guys much at all.

For Dead Kings I moved the camera right flash to the back right of the stage and added a blue gel.

This show was also Another Days Remains' album launch, so they headlined it, they are real popular in Wollongong.

After the show we stayed at Matt's house, some of his friends tried to set him on fire while he slept.

Paddy knows how to pump.