"The bulk of these photos were taken at the Melbourne Big Day Out 2009, the first one I’ve been to in a few years. I’d forgotten how many punters the festival attracts".
Drew Wootton is lead guitarist in The Panics - a bunch of boys hailing from WA and now travelling the globe playing shows to loyal fans. Not a bad life eh?
We chucked a disposable camera at Drew (we didn't hurt him) and asked him to document his most recent Big Day Out experience...
Favourite Festival moment ... ever
15 years old. Summersault at Fremantle Oval, WA. Sonic Youth and witnessing the guitar assault that is Lee Ronaldo and Thurston Moore makin’ sounds I’d never heard out of a guitar.
Then there’s Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Flaming Lips bubbles of love. Recently Neil Young @ BDO and Dirty Three @ All Tomorrows Parties in Mt Buller which was fantastically run and organized ... who will curate the next? Paul Kelly? Robert Forster? AC/DC?
First rock concert
One of my dad’s. He’s a drummer. Probably at Bridgetown Blues Festival. Otherwise, You Am I @ Planet nightclub, North Perth. It was a day time show very hot and sweaty. Pure R’n’R , Pete Townsend windmills and all. Still don’t know how I took photos. Good photos actually.
What are you listening to at the moment
A whole mess o’ stuff: Leader Cheetah, Tame Impala, The Triffids, Blackeyed Susans, Catharsis (70’s French prog), Neil (always), Wildbirds and Peacedrums (husband and wife from Sweden), The Drones, TV on the Radio, My Morning Jacket.
Favourite Summer reads
Who Killed Martin Hannett? The story of Factory Records Musical Magician by Colin Sharp. Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
Favourite moment on The Panics most recent album Cruel Guards
Still the opening drum roll because it all happens after that.
Touring Vs Recording
The trick is not to pit them against one another. Going straight from one to the other and learning how to channel both into each other.
Next step for The Panics
Touring and recording in England and the States. Hopefully more of Europe aswell.
Peace,
Drew
Enlightnement
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Jim Dracula - My Morning Jacket
Much Appreciated
Carnival
Feed
Wish You Where
A Mouthful of Monkeys
TV on the Radio
Circus
Neil on Screen
N.E.I.L.
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