The Drones live at the Chelsea, Vienna

I remember my first contact with the jaw-dropping music of Melbourne quartet The Drones four years ago. A friend who had recently been to Australia came back with the track “Shark Fin Blues” from their second longplayer “Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies will float by” and in an instant I fell in love with the raw power of their music. A year later I should experience first hand that their music is the perfect guide for urban and rural Australia. Unfortunately I haven’t had the chance to see them in concert in their homeland. But as their popularity steadily grew they played a few shows in Europe and, lucky me, paid Vienna a visit too.

In june they came to Vienna again and played a show at the Chelsea to promote their new album “Havilah”. Of course nothing could have stopped me from going and so I was there front-row middle and this time I had my camera with me.

Concert photography has always been a difficult and most of the time boooooring subject because you just can’t reinvent the wheel every time you take pictures of a musical live performance (same goes with DJing pics). Nevertheless you try (besides of simply giving an impression of the evening for all those who stayed home that day) to capture the moment that perfectly expresses the emotions created by the music. But more often than not photographers fail to do so. Surfers are always on the search for the perfect wave and speaking in terms of concert photography I just can keep on looking for those “perfect” moments. Until I find ‘em you gotta be content with the existing… *g*

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