The Smith Street Band @ Forum Theatre, Melbourne 2-Jun-2017

Distinctively Australian rock group The Smith Street Band played the first of two sold-out hometown shows at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Friday 2 June 2017. The band is touring nationally in support of their fourth studio album More Scared of You than You Are of Me that was released two months ago and hit #3 on the Australian ARIA Album Chart. The Smithies are Wil Wagner on lead vocals & rhythm guitar, Lee Hartney on lead guitar, Chris Cowburn on drums, Michael "Fitzy" Fitzgerald on bass, plus touring members Lucy Wilson on keyboards, and Jess Locke on guitar. It was the band's biggest show of their career to date.

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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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