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As the year draws to a close it’s time to have a look back and see what impressed me musically in 2008. I have managed to whittle it back to my top ten gigs and my favourite albums of the year.

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Jet played a select show at The East Brunswick Club on Wednesday night. I was there to capture the action with my camera.

It was the first show Jet has played since finishing recording their third album in Austin, Texas – pretty fine show it was too.

Click the photo below to see the full set. Enjoy!

As the end of the year is fast approaching I decided to take a look back on my year as a music photographer and have assembled a collection of my favourite and most popular photos for the year.

Check them out and let me know what you think.

Click the photo below for my best of ’08.

Reuters are reporting that guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay accusing them of plagiarising one of his songs.

A law suit has been filed in Los Angeles alleging copyright infringement. Satriani is claiming that the Coldplay song Viva La Vida incorporates “substantial original portions” of his intrumental piece If I Could Fly.

The full report can be seen at Reuters.

Last night I had the pleasure of attending the third annual Age EG Awards at the Prince of Wales. There were a number of music awards handed out – some of the winners were Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds taking out best album for Dig Lazarus Dig, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu took out the best male performer category, Melbourne singer Sophie Koh took out the best female and The Presets took out the best song with My People. But the night belonged to the EG Hall of Fame inductees Died Pretty who took to the stage and delivered a mind blowing set.

They were ably supported with some fine musical contributions from Little Red, Dave Faulkner, Ash Grunwald and Phil Manning, Katy Steele, Mark Seymour, Even and Lilith Lane.

Photos from this fantastic evening can be seen here.

I’ve had the opportunity to do some photography for the 2008 Homeless World Cup soccer tournament being held in Melbourne at Federation Square this week.

What a fantastic event! What it is is a fast and furious brand of soccer played on a pitch a little larger than a tennis court, with four players on field for each team and two seven minute halves. What’s even more special is that all players were homeless and the street soccer program has given them vital assistance to restore their self worth and belief and to reconnect and reintegrate into society. There are 56 teams from around the world in attendance and 8 womens teams.

So if you have a spare half hour or more I suggest you head along to Fed Square over the weekend and check out the action. Full details can be seen at the Homeless World Cup website.

Some of my photos from the Homeless World Cup can be seen here.