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About 7 weeks back now I jumped on a plane, destination Stockholm in Sweden. It was the first leg of my second international trip, and longest to date.
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Headliner Flava Flav of Public Enemy takes to the stage at Days Like This Festival with his trademark imagery – the giant clock necklace.

I headed to my first gig of 2009 to shoot Days Like This Festival for James Browning (of Niche Productions) and enjoy the day out with the sounds of soul, funk, hip hop and more. The line up wasn’t too shabby for the first festival outing of Days Like This, and included: Public Enemy, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Atmosphere, Morcheeba, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, The Dodos, Gilles Peterson, Carl Craig, PPP, Katalyst, Eli Reed & The True Lovers, South Rakkas Crew, Yo! Majesty, Flying Lotus, Recloose, DJ Vadim & Yarah, Ladi 6, Waajeed, Mr Scruff, Killaqueenz and more.
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Midnight fireworks over Sydney Harbour as viewed from Garden Island.

I was lucky enough to be invited out to the Royal Australian Navy’s Garden Island base to enjoy the view over Sydney Harbour as a large amount of explosives were detonated over the harbour to farewell 2008 and welcome 2009. I was with friends from uni and I would have to rate it as one of the better New Years I’ve enjoyed – apart from the lugging of a full esky, camera pack, tripod and chair between the Queen Victoria Building and the end of Garden Island and back (my shoulders took a week to recover).
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The next generation: my second-cousin’s daughter Caitlin.

Hanging around my second cousins kids has proven that I lost out in the looks department when it comes to my family’s gene pool.
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The Hordern Pavilion from the stands at the far end looking across the crowd to the blown out stage where The Presets were playing.

Love them or loath them, Modular Records has a track record of signing some of the biggest up-and-coming acts from Australia and around the world (with a list of artists up including: The Avalanches; The Bang Gang Deejays; The Black Keys; Blues Explosion; Bumblebeez; Chromeo; Colder; Cut Copy; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Ghostwood; Jack Johnson; Gary Jules; K.I.M; Klaxons; Ladyhawke; MSTRKRFT; Muscles; New Young Pony Club; Plug-In City; The Presets; Robyn; The Softlightes; Soulwax; Tame Impala; The Tough Alliance; Van She; The Whitest Boy Alive; Wolfmother; Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Leave Them All Behind). For their tenth anniversary Nevereverland Party the kids at Modular managed to pull together a number of big name acts. Was definitely a fun day out at Moore Park.

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