Jamie Williams Photography

Either i’m getting lazy or too choosy, but these days it takes something a little out of the ordinary in the musical world to shift me from the cosy confines of my inner west abode to the frenzy of the front row. So when an email from a friend recommending a gig in the most [...]

Well, there you have it. Sydney Festival 2010 has come to a triumphant end. I hope you managed to get amongst the action in what was a jam-packed 3 weeks in “our city in summer”.
I’ll leave the reviews to those who are eminently more qualified to do that, suffice to say my highlights from the [...]

Another week in January, another stellar collection of offerings from the Sydney Festival program. Personal highlights included The Books’ clever, funny blend of music, found recordings and video, watching Peter Sellars inspire his 93-strong cast at the Symphony of Psalms rehearsal in Marrickville Town Hall, Lynette Wallworth’s powerful humanistic works, the stage presence of Six Characters [...]

And what a first week it was - First Night, Al Green, A R Rahman, Grizzly Bear, Neko Case, Hamlet, John Cale, Toumani Deabate and the list goes on. Here’s a selection of my pics. I can’t be in two places at once, so you may notice a few things missing (such as Rahman’s concert at [...]

It’s Sydney Festival time again and I have the pleasure of photographing much of the great program, including the wonderful Manganiyar Seduction, a group of musicians and singers from Rajhastan, India, who today held a media call and sound check ahead of their Hyde Park performance at Festival First Night tomorrow and a four night [...]

I harbour fantasies about being a contestant on the SBS TV show Rockwiz - you get to hang out at The Espy hotel in St. Kilda, flirt with the lovely Julia Zamiro, meet an Australian music legend or two and generally have a good time. But I dread the first part of the show where Julia asks contestants to come clean about the first [...]

Some of you may know that I have been documenting the Sydney Street Choir over the past couple of years, getting along to rehearsals, gigs and going on the odd tour with this dedicated group of people who have not only turned their own lives around through music, but have inspired others to do the same. [...]

How terribly sad it is that the very venue I mentioned in my last post about the early days of the band Wolfmother is now closed, indefinitely. If the Hopetoun Hotel’s doors were to remain so it would be a very sad day for Sydney’s, indeed Australia’s, musical community.

Some great Australian and international bands have graced her small but perfectly formed [...]

I wandered up to the Enmore Theatre last Saturday to shoot Wolfmother, which got me thinking about the first time I saw them.
Back in May 2004 I got a call from a friend asking if I wanted to check out another friend’s brother’s new band with the slightly odd moniker of Wolfmother, who were playing their first gig [...]

Check out MJ’s arcade game collection in this crazy virtual tour. I toyed (pun intended) with the idea of bidding for one of these when they were up for auction at Julien’s. Then MJ pulled the plug on the deal, so I was spared the heartache about which one to choose. Found this courtesy of garry.