The Mercy Kills @ Festival Hall, Melbourne, 16-Aug-2014

Melbourne's dirty rock sex punks The Mercy Kills played Festival Hall on Saturday 16 August 2014, as a stop on their first national tour of Australia, supporting Courtney Love. TMK are led by Mark Entwistle on vocals and guitar, along with Jen X Costello on bass and vocals, Nathalie Gelle on guitar and vocals, plus Josh Black on the flamin' drums. After their biggest hometown performance to date, I went backstage and took some more shots in their dressing room. Some of these shots were then used for the artwork of the band's DVD Paradise Motel - Australian Tour.

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ABOUT: Paul Miles is an Australian freelance rock photographer specialising in live music photography, who captures the true spirit of rock’n’roll in action by many of the world’s greatest performers. Since 2009, he has shot a vast array of rock music photography: from gigs in world-famous clubs like the Apollo in Harlem and the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, to iconic arenas like New York City's Madison Square Garden and Australia's MCG, as well as in retail stores Barnes & Noble, Apple, and John Varvatos CBGBs. He has covered rock shows from Brooklyn to Bangalore, Paris to Las Vegas, Tokyo to Los Angeles, including street concerts in Melbourne's AC/DC Lane and Manhattan's Times Square.

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