Here’s my photos from the V Festival in Sydney last weekend.
It’s quite a civilised festival as far as these things go. Not overcrowded, just three stages, not too many timetable clashes, great setting, good bands and a mix of young and old punters.
I was a Smashing Pumpkins fan back in the day, first seeing them at the Hordern Pavilion circa 1996. So it was a nostalgic rush to hear them open their set with the chiming guitar intro to Today.
It’s a pity anything Pumpkins post ’96 doesn’t interest me at all. Even if they will throw an attractive new bassist.
RóisÃn Murphy was notable for her mid set costume changes and attractive backup singers.
Robyn and her crazed dancing were fun to shoot.
Modest Mouse were playing but all eyes and lenses seemed to be trained on their ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.
Glass Candy were a wild card for me and were quite fun. A languid lead singer and a baseball cap toting synth player.
I’m sure The Jesus and Mary Chain pleased their fans, i’m embarrasingly ignorant of the cult band.
This was the crowd for Cut Copy – who deserved to be in high spirits after news filtered through their new album debuted at number one on the charts.
CSS were lots of fun – but the sound mix was shocking and had the crowd chanting “turn it up!”.
Read the Time Out Sydney review here – and check out a full gallery of my V Festival photos here.
The sound was poor throughout the whole festival I thought, it put a bit of a dampener on what is otherwise a pretty hassle free event. The Jesus and Mary Chain were amazing at the Enmore last Wednesday, the sound was spot on unlike at V!
Awww, no Queens!
Good photos nonetheless.
I know! They were the one band i missed on the day. I had to go backstage and shoot some photos with The Presets at the time Queens were on. Bad timing.
Tell me about it. I could really relate to the reviewer when it came to Queens/Air/CSS. Missed two great acts, but c’est la vie!