Canberra has always been home to great live music and the occasional festival, including the annual favourite: "Stonefest". Lately however, a new selection of festivals has been added to the calendar. Trackside and Foreshore.

Trackside on the 17th was fantastic. For a new festival, the lineup was greatIt was a new festival with some great names on the lineup:

Hilltop Hoods, The Butterfly Effect, Gotye, Clare Bowditch, The Cops, Koolism, Something With Numbers, Young & Restless, Dardanelles, Soft Tigers, Horsell Common, The Basics, Hancock Basement and more.

I got there at 11am and began shooting. I didnt stop until I left at 11pm. It was a fantastic day. Shooting at two stages. Hung around taking photos with klips which was fun. We managed to get backstage and acted like total fanboys when we met the Hilltop Hoods and Gotye. All of them really nice people. Very approachable and willing to have a chat which was great.

There was about 6,000 - 7,000 people there. (Estimates differ depending on who you talk to. - Either way it was a sellout).

Cant wait for next years one!

The current issue of BMA Magazine has a poster in the middle containing some of the photos I took that day.

Tomorrow I am shooting at Foreshore, another newbie to the summer music festivals here in the ACT. Cant wait to check it out. Looking foward to shooting Sneaky Sound System too. I have seen them live twice and always enjoy watching them perform.