The photos from this show are in the previous post. All the video is shot at a 1/100th sec, to make it look like Saving Private Ryan. Not really, but I like the fast shutter speed look. The video of 'Bongs' looks and sounds the best.
There was a good turnout to this gig, a number of people traveled from Melbourne and Sydney for it. It was sad to see Slowburn go, but it was a very fun day. They played a set that covered their entire time as a band, right from the early Top Gun songs, through to the album that was never released.
Slowburn decided to break up in November 2009. They started in 2006, they played their last show on the 6th of March 2010. Video of this show will be up tomorrow probably. All bands lit with 430ex left of stage against the wall about 4 meters in front of the stage, and 430ex back light stage right.
Something must break, this was one of this band's first shows and was first time I'd heard of them, they played very well for such a young band.
Phantoms are a bunch of awesome dudes, sometimes they cover Sad but true.
Relentless from Sydney, featuring Dcold from the internet.
Slowburn had two different singers during their time as a band, Dave and Sam both sang some songs at this show, and during the change over they sang a song together. Most of the these guys are in new bands: I Exist, Yoko Oh No, Jerkstore and Observer.
For anyone interested, this was their set list. In Dave's words "Some you don't know and some you don't." They also played bongs at the end when the crowd demanded it.
I haven't posted anything here for a bit, so here's a few random things.
I spent the last four days in Melbourne with I Exist as they recorded their new album 'A Turn For The Worse' with Jason Fuller from Blood Duster.
I took a lot of photos and video, I am unsure what I'm doing with either, but hopefully the photos will go in a magazine or two. Here's a few of them.
These were taken with my new camera, a Canon 5D Mark II and my new lens, a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8. As well as photos I've been taking a lot of video with it.
This is the second camera I have owned, every photo previous to this has been taken with my Canon 400D. I still have a lot of photos from my 400D to sort through, edit and put online, including a bunch from the shows Dead Kings played in New South Wales.
Here's some video from a few recent shows. These were the first times I shot video with my 5D, I have
done absolutely nothing to the sound and video, except to compress it
to a smaller file size before uploading. It was shot wide open at
f/1.8, at the maximum ISO in very low light, so this is basically the
worst that video can look coming out of this camera. Very shallow depth
of field and manual focus make it hard to keep the subjects sharp.
These two shows are coming up in Canberra this week. The first is Damo's last show as vocalist for Dead Kings and the second is Slowburn's last ever show.
