{"id":7676,"date":"2016-02-21T01:10:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulbridgemedia.com\/news\/?p=7676"},"modified":"2016-02-21T02:01:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T16:01:54","slug":"best-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soulbridgemedia.com\/news\/?p=7676","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Its been awhile since we\u2019ve done one of these but \u201cnew year, new me\u201d right?? Yea I want to punch myself in the face too, but here goes anyway, a bit of a run down of our fave photos and gigs from last year.<\/p>\n

2015 saw a big shift in the live music scene, namely the fall of music festivals. The first year without Big Day Out<\/strong> and the last year for Future Music Festival<\/strong> (which I incidentally thought was one of the best in the way of general production and logistics) and finally confirmed, the last year for Soundwave<\/strong> \u2013 going out on a massive 2 dayer binge and then unfortunately leaving quite a few workers and punters with a bad taste in their mouths.<\/p>\n

Closer to home, our editor (The Music magazine, Brisbane) and all round top bloke moved on from the top dog position to the lucrative world of vinyl record sales\u2026. beginning to think he\u2019s a glutton for punishment! After many years of chasing deadlines and wrangling bands and gigs together it was sad to have to part ways but on the plus side his replacement has been going great guns to fill (or is that empty?) the big pint glasses left before him \ud83d\ude09 The magazine, and print media in general, wasn\u2019t immune to the shift away from physical publications and has since gone from a weekly to a fortnightly issue. Our southern counterparts however are still lucky enough to get their music news weekly.<\/p>\n

On the travel front, it was a painfully long year of minimal travel bar a couple trips to Melbourne. All this lack of international travel makes me something something! Thankfully we\u2019ll be rectifying that in a couple months time with a return to Japan, can not come soon enough! Anyways, on with the show!<\/p>\n

We kicked the year off with one of our fave drink and dance your ass off DJ\u2019s, Krafty Kuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nLike previous years the highlight of festival season is with its two stellar closing events, Soundwave and Future Music Festival and they didn\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n

Soundwave Day 1<\/a> and Day 2<\/a><\/p>\n

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—<\/p>\n

Our buds The Iron Eye smashed out their first gig at The Triffid<\/a> then followed it up later in the year at the Foundry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nWe got asked to write an article<\/a> for G-Street for those who use and abuse their G-Shocks (or are just grots).<\/p>\n

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\n2015 was also the year of weddings with a few great couples getting together and tying the knot. We were lucky enough to photograph two of them.<\/p>\n

Lauren and James<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rani and Eugene<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMotion City Soundtrack always has the perfect amount of wit, sarcasm and angst.\u00a0 Standing ovation on top of your mates kinda stuff.<\/p>\n

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\nWe got together with some lovely models and mocked up some ads for G-Shock<\/p>\n

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\nUs old foagies like a boogie too and the Candee Flip gang continued to provide the nights and the tunes. 1<\/a> 2<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nOur love for G-Shocks and Halloween<\/a> came together in a spooky late night photo sesh<\/p>\n

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\nTwo of our fave bands of all time came head to head in a night of ska punk awesomeness. Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n90s hip hop legends Naughty by Nature<\/a> still have plenty of energy and gusto putting a lot of current hiphop to shame.<\/p>\n

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\nYears in the making, two of our favourite things, G-Shocks and sneakers came together and gave birth to the G-Shock x Sneaker Freaker \u201cNightowl\u201d collab<\/a> …then had a party to celebrate.<\/p>\n

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\nJust when we thought 2015 was over, two concerts came in to finish the year off strong, Rise Against<\/a> and a double header with A Day To Remember and The Amity Affliction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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So that was the year in a pretty damn big nutshell, looking forward to just as much fun and craziness in 2016! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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