A 3 day 25km uphill dusty hike with a 15kg pack through a herd of 30,000 people, 2500 photos, 25 bands, 4 stages, 3 beers, 6 panadol, 16 earplugs and Splendour is done for my 11th time. Personal highlight? Thanks Mogwai for cleaning my brain post Kanye, "Mogwai Fear Satan" made everything else seem just a bit silly really.

More photos on the way, here's Kanye West, Janes's Addiction, Kele, Regina Spektor, Coldplay, Mogwai, The Kills, The Mars Volta, Pulp, Kaiser Chiefs, The Hives, Warpaint and Modest Mouse for now. Click these for the larger versions.

Kanye West

Jane's Addiction

Kele

Regina Spektor

Coldplay

Mogwai

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Jarvis Cocker / Pulp

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The Kaiser Chiefs

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Warpaint

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The Hives

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The Mars Volta

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Modest Mouse

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All Photos Copyright 2011 Stephen Booth. All Rights Reserved.

For any print or usage enquiries please contact me here.

Violent Soho at The Zoo

It's been an eventful year, the lead up to my exhibition was pretty crazy, going through 15 years work was quite an experience, and the exhibition itself was a significant landmark to me, it was a very strange feeling walking into the Powerhouse on opening night and seeing the entire building full of my photos. Apologies to anyone who saw my 'speech' I still have no idea what I said.. Thanks so much to everyone who came and saw the show!

Rock and Roll at The Brisbane Powerhouse.

After the show I had every intention of adopting a less is more attitude to shooting, to be a bit more selective, and not let myself get quite as snowed under with hundreds, if not thousands of images to deal with every week. It worked, a bit, though somehow my plan of 2010 being a quieter year still ended up with me shooting 181 bands at 66 shows and 5 festivals at about 20 different venues. Sigh..

The Dead Weather ........................................Wilco

In 2010 my work was published in Timeoff, Jmag, Rolling Stone, The Courier Mail, The Australian and Yen Magazine to name a few, The State Library of Queensland now has 8 of my photos in it's permanent collection, as do the 30+ awesome individuals who bought prints from my exhibition so far. I licensed photos to one feature film and one TV series, and shot promotional photos for Texas Tea and Halfway, with my Gin Club, Seja, We All Want To, An Horse and Robert Forster photos getting a decent run through the year too.

This set of 25 photos were hard to chose, I picked an arbitrary number, and  just went with the ones taken in 2010 that I though were successful as photos, most were published somewhere, though a few are personal favourites that never made it to print.

If you're interested in publishing any, or buying prints just email me here? Thanks!

Thanks also of course to all the bands, editors, punters, promoters,venues, publicists, managers and publications that make this weird and wonderful job possible, a fab 2011 to you all. Rock on, and so on.

All Photos©2010 Stephen Booth. All Rights Reserved.

The Flaming Lips - Splendour in the Grass 2009.

I just realised I haven't put up any photos from Splendour 2009 yet, they were published all over, Rolling Stone, Jmag, Timeoff, Inpress and Drum.  Shooting The Flaming Lips last year was seriously a highlight of my music photography career so far, utterly amazing, quite an experience to be amongst it all..

Splendour 2010 is looming, 2010 will be my 10th Splendour in a row, I've shot them all since 2001. Heavens! Here's a quick look back at last year:

You can see the whole set over at flickr here

All Photos©2009 Stephen Booth. All Rights Reserved.

Splendour in the Grass 2009 - Music photography by Stephen Booth

Four of my Splendour 2009 photos in Rolling Stone Australia - October 2009 Issue #695 pp 34-35. Happy Mondays, You Am I, Bloc Party and The Specials. MGMT and backstage photos by Sophie Howarth.

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