Vanessa Amorosi - LIVE at the Lion!

What a great gig from the multi-talented and gorgeous Vanessa Amorosi - 27 July 2008 - 

The TRAK centre venue is a really nice room…. good bar placement, great auditorium style space with good acoustics and excellent viewing for 95% of the patrons… (Apparently it used to be “Silvers Disco”)

This was a fantastic show with a great mix of her old favorites and songs from her new album…  and a few classic versions thrown into the mix.  

A great way to kick off her new album / tour - if I had another hand, I would give it 3 thumbs up!

    

Well done V and thanks for the invite…    Photos as promised  

James Reyne with Mark Seymour at the Corner Hotel!

Well it was another rocking night at “The Corner” which is fast becoming my favorite haunt for shooting rock photos…

The two artists, Aussie rock icons, legends of pub rock, call them what you will…. gave a great performance to the largely over 30’s crowd.

James Reyne (Australian Crawl) and Mark Seymour (Hunters & Collectors) both belted out new songs and old hits and crowd favorites. … although there was the usual chorus of “why didn’t he play….. fill in the personal favorite …. ?” But if the boys did play all the requested favorites… we would still be there.. !!!

I will shut up now and let the pix do the talking..  (CLICK the more link just below for more pix… G)

(Low res with watermark only here.. if you want high res or prints… e-mail me)

Cheers Tex

  

Bobby Flynn and The Omega Three at the Corner Hotel.

What a great little venue the Corner Hotel (Richmond, Melbourne) is…  This week I caught up with Bobby Flynn on the launch of his 08 Tour… …. and shot these pix at the ‘Corner’. 
    

Zappa Plays Zappa

Tonight was a very special gig…. Dweezil Zappa playing the music of his father, Frank.  Special guests, original guitarist, Stevie Vai, and singer Ray White.       I took my little camera along to see if there was any chance to get a couple o happy snaps… LOL… little… pffft!           

Lifeline benefit gig…

Arna 1.jpg, originally uploaded by Gavin ‘Tex’ Warren.

I went to a Lifeline benefit gig last night… The Basics were the headline act.. great little 3 piece band with ARIA award winner Wally de Backer on drums.  They have a tight sound and obviously had a lot of fun up on stage… click that linkage and check out their myspace page.  Anya (Thanks for the e-mail)  organized the gig and the profits go to a very worthy cause…  The Northcote Social Club was the venue and as you can see from the attached pix.. it was a hot and sweaty night..

Lior - Heal Me

I made a little clip for our studio guest this week.  Lior is a very nice young man with a bright future in music.  He has a powerful presence and a great crisp style that will delight and inspire.   Keep an eye out for him on his Australian Tour. Have a listen to his albums Autumn Flow, Daniel or Doorways of my Mind (Live)..  I have removed the video as the sound was a little boxy and didn’t do true justice to Lior’s sound… I hope to go to a Lior gig soon and bring you some photos….  Keep watching… Cheers Gavin. 

The genesis of my “Rock Photography” interests.

   

This pic was taken on December 24th 2000 at the New York City Hall, 123 W 43rd St, New York, NY. The Artist is David Broza, a fantastic Israeli guitarist who I met whilst doing a radio show with Joey Reynolds at WOR 710. I was lucky enough to be in Joey’s studio when David played an acoustic live set… I was blown away… to be privy to that amazing talent in a room with just 5 of us.   (Joey, Kenny Kramer, Sue, David and me) .. oh yes.. and the rest of America listening on WOR710 …. anyhow… David gave Sue and I a couple of Tickets and an invite backstage after the show….  I had a small digital camera at the time  Nikon CoolPix 900 (it wasn’t even a Megapixel camera)….  So I also had a small monocular (telescope) which I attached to the camera as a kind of crude telephoto lens.. crude as in Gaffer tape and rubberbands.. and got this shot… which started my creative ball rolling.            Now I am the proud owner of a Nikon D2X 12 Megapixel Digital SLR camera and a Nikon 200 mm f2 telephoto lens.  I am looking forward to getting down to the Corner Hotel again and shooting a few more artists!… Cheers Tex 

Some of my better work… Thanks for the opportunity Mia!

Thanks to Mia Dyson for giving me the opportunity and inspiration…The Corner Hotel, Richmond was the venue and Mia went onstage at 11PM.  She really rocked the venue and I hope the pics here capture some of the essence of the gig.  Texx