Holy moley was it a big one this week!
Firstly we kick things of snapping the lasses from Marville for The Music Magazine’s (Brisbane) – “The Guide” section cover shoot. Then we caught Adalita doing her thing again but this time with new band in tow at The Zoo, and THEN we head to the convention center for British India and Fall Out Boy, we even managed to string together some words for a review! Phew! I think I need a lie down!
Check out Marville and Adalita in this week’s issue of The Music (Brisbane) #012 and head directly to The Music website for the highlight photos and review of Bristish India and Fall out boy. Stay tuned for a full gallery, coming soon!
Get it FREE from all the usual street press outlets or read current and back issues online @ The Music magazine – Brisbane
Adalita @ The Zoo
This week we snap Marcus Blacke for our photo for The Music Magazine’s (Brisbane) – “The Guide” section and we checked out inaugral Parklife replacement festival, Listen Out.
Check it out in this week’s issue of The Music (Brisbane) #009. See below for highlight photos from Listen Out, full gallery coming soon!
Get it FREE from all the usual street press outlets or read current and back issues online @ The Music magazine – Brisbane
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Listen Out Festival Brisbane photos
Blah blah blah Festival 2011
Blahfest once again rose to the occasion and delivered a quality festival minus all the usual qualms associated with large gatherings of “music lovers”.
Over abundance of bad dubstep (is there even any that’s good?? ;p ) aside, stand out sets were easily marked by A.Skillz and LTJ Bukem.
Check out the full gallery – Blah blah blah Festival 2011 photos
The best thing about seeing the sights in central London is their close proximity, barely a couple km’s separates the majority of them so a few hours and footpower is all you’ll need. The trade off is of course having to compete with thousands of other tourists.
Trafalgar Square
Getting the Tube to Charing Cross will pop you up at fountains galore, Trafalgar sq. Like with alot of popular tourist spots there are always scammers, pick pockets and crazy bums accusing you of stealing their sandals so keep your wits about you and know where or how to contact police/security. Security here patrol the area and are easily visible.
Buckingham Palace
Fountain at Buckingham Palace
From here we took a short walk down to Buckingham palace where less than a month before Prince Willy and Cath tied the official knot. If you time it right you’ll also get to witness the famous “changing of the guard”. You can then cut through the gardens to the back of Cavalry Museum where you find guards on foot and on horse back ready to be demeaned with peace symbols and cheesy grins in a photo.
Mounted guard at Cavalry Museum
Big Ben
Westminster Abbey
A couple blocks from here are 2 unintentionally gloomy buildings thanks to period architecture and a typically overcast London day, Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament featuring Big Ben. There always seems to be road or building works in this area so you may need to cross the road a few times to get a good spot. On the plus side, with the tower being a lot taller than the adjacent buildings you can get a photo of it from just about anywhere.
London Eye
From here its another short walk across Westminster Bridge to the London Eye. Even with the typical London haze and boring skies it’s a great way to see a broad view of the city and if you time it right you might even score some sweet sunset photos.
Tower Bridge - Lego version 😉
If you have time to spare, continue along Southbank. There’s usually artists and small market stalls set up along the way and the rug store closing down sale style of the “Under croft”, London’s longest running central skatepark dating back to the 70s. Further along there’s the Tate modern museum, Millennium bridge, London bridge and then the Tower bridge (what people think is London bridge).
Travel tip: If you’re catching the Tube back from this end of town, try not to get stuck at Monument or Bank stations during peak hour. This is a major business area and center for multiple interchanges. If you’re new to Tubing, its definitely not for the faint hearted (or short of patience/fitness). Also note, even though on the map the interchanges look close together there are some considerably long tunnel/escalator runs so it may actually be quicker to spend longer on a train than running through tunnels, especially if you have luggage.
London 2011 part #1 – Arrival, Soho Shopping
London 2011 part #3 – Chelsea Flower show
London 2011 part #4 – Shopping – Hammersmith
London 2011 part #5 – Shopping – Covent Garden and Soho
London 2011 part #6 – Shopping – Camden
London 2011 part #7 – Shopping – Shoreditch
London 2011 part #8 – Hyde park, Piccadilly Circus
London photo gallery here
Chelsea flower show photo gallery here
