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Continue reading Photo Gallery | The Tea Party + The Superjesus @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney – October 15, 2014
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Photo Gallery | Joe Bonamassa + Sinead Burgess + Claude Hay @ State Theatre, Sydney – September 14, 2014
Album Review | FLYING COLORS – “Second Nature”
Review by Peter Coates
The second album from progressive rock “supergroup / side-project” Flying Colors is released in Australia on October 3rd 2014 and perpetuates the initial basis for the band, formed in 2012, of seeking to combine virtuoso progressive rock musicians with a melodic pop singer / songwriter, and see what happens.
The musicians are all enormously experienced and influential heavyweights from the modern and progressive rock world, featuring Steve Morse (Deep Purple / Kansas / Dixie Dregs) on guitars, Neal Morse (Spock’s Beard / Transatlantic) on keyboards, Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater / Transatlantic / Adrenaline Mob / Winery Dogs) on drums, and Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs / Satriani / Vai) on bass – with Casey McPherson (Alpha Rev) providing the songwriting and vocals.
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Album Review | JOE BONAMASSA – Different Shades of Blue
Review by Pete Coates
JOE BONAMASSA – Different Shades of Blue
Release Date – 12th Sept 2014
J & R Adventures Records
Joe Bonamassa has produced an extraordinary range of blues and rock music in his career – whether as a solo artist, or in the blues rock fusion work of Black Country Communion. The common threads of all his work lie in the distinctive voice, and the pure but often slightly scuzzy guitar riffs, with the clean solos reminiscent of Gary Moore and Carlos Santana.
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Live Photos + Review | Tim Hulsman @ Frankie’s Pizza By The Slice, Sydney – July 30, 2014
Photos and Words by Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography
One of six children raised in a rigidly devout Jehovah’s Witness family, Tim Hulsman’s father was a respected elder in that community, responsible for counselling and advising “the flock” and for ex-communicating members who were deemed to be straying or worse, ‘unrepentant sinners’. Any music other than hymns and religious music was heavily regulated in the Hulsman home and Tim’s parent’s deeply-held belief was that music “will lead you astray.”
Continue reading Live Photos + Review | Tim Hulsman @ Frankie’s Pizza By The Slice, Sydney – July 30, 2014
Photo Gallery | High On Fire @ Crowbar, Brisbane with Shellfin and Smoke – July 16, 2014
Photographer: Peter Coates
Continue reading Photo Gallery | High On Fire @ Crowbar, Brisbane with Shellfin and Smoke – July 16, 2014
Photo Gallery | Violent Soho + Smith Street Band + Totally Unicorn @ The Manning Bar, Sydney – July 10, 2014
Photo Gallery | The Supersuckers + Bruce! @ Hermann’s Bar, Sydney – June 20, 2014
Photographer: Peter Coates
Continue reading Photo Gallery | The Supersuckers + Bruce! @ Hermann’s Bar, Sydney – June 20, 2014
Photo Gallery | Royal Blood + Born Lion @ Oxford Art Factory, Sydney | June 4, 2014
Photographer: Peter Coates
Continue reading Photo Gallery | Royal Blood + Born Lion @ Oxford Art Factory, Sydney | June 4, 2014
Photo Gallery | CherryRock014 – Sydney | May 31, 2014
Photographer: Peter Coates
Continue reading Photo Gallery | CherryRock014 – Sydney | May 31, 2014
Photos | Lynyrd Skynyrd + My Dynamite @ Qantas Credit Union Arena, Sydney – February 13, 2014
Photographer: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography
Continue reading Photos | Lynyrd Skynyrd + My Dynamite @ Qantas Credit Union Arena, Sydney – February 13, 2014
Live Review | Lynyrd Skynyrd @ Qantas Credit Union Arena, Sydney – February 13, 2014
Review and photos by Peter Coates
This is apparently the first time US Southern Rock giants LYNYRD SKYNYRD have ever toured Australia in their 40+ years as a band! Judging by the number of tour T-shirts in the crowd from the past 20 years, many of the audience had seen them elsewhere!
I was lucky enough to shoot (photograph) their “God & Guns” Tour in London in March 2010, and jumped at the chance to see them again when the Australian dates were announced. Only two shows in Melbourne and Sydney, after a couple of festival shows in New Zealand, but two shows in 40 years is certainly better than none!
Continue reading Live Review | Lynyrd Skynyrd @ Qantas Credit Union Arena, Sydney – February 13, 2014
Live Review: Ed Kowalczyk @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney – February 11, 2014
Review and Photos by Peter Coates
Walking up Enmore Road to the venue, thinking about the 20 or more years since the two massive Live albums had left their mark on adult, contemporary rock music, and noting the ticket prices, there was a thought that this might be a somewhat “intimate” show – shows how switched on I must be – the Enmore was packed at 8.30pm enjoying the solo guitar ballads of Anita Lester from Lester The Fierce.
A fairly minimalist stage and lighting set up, and a roar as the house lights dimmed and the intro kicked in… and the band strolled onto the stage and kicked in to the Throwing Copper album in track order… from “The Dam at Otter Creek” all the way through to “Horse/Untitled”. Ed Kowalczyk picked up a guitar for “Selling the Drama” and the huge “I Alone”, before leading the first of many crowd sing-alongs with “Lightning Crashes”.
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Photos | Ed Kowalczyk @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney – February 11, 2014
Photographer: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography
Continue reading Photos | Ed Kowalczyk @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney – February 11, 2014
Photo Gallery | Ghost + Witchgrinder @ The Hi-Fi, Sydney – January 28, 2014
Photographer: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography
Continue reading Photo Gallery | Ghost + Witchgrinder @ The Hi-Fi, Sydney – January 28, 2014