Snap Scene: Spiderbait, Lookout Festival, Mornington Racecourse, Melbourne 23rd March 2025 by Paul Miles

Spiderbait, Lookout Festival, Mornington Racecourse, Melbourne 23rd March 2025 by Paul Miles

Australian alternative rock band Spiderbait performed at Lookout festival held at Mornington Racecourse south of Melbourne on Sunday 23 March 2025. The band was formed in Finley, New South Wales during 1989 by bass guitarist and singer Janet English, drummer and singer Kram, and guitarist Damian Whitty. In 2004, Spiderbait’s cover version of the 1930s Lead Belly song “Black Betty” reached number one on the ARIA Singles Chart. They have five top 20 albums: The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake (1995), Ivy and the Big Apples (1996), Grand Slam (1999), Tonight Alright (2004), and Greatest Hits (2005). The group has won two ARIA Music Awards with the first in 1997 as ‘Best Alternative Release’ for Ivy and the Big Apples and the second in 2000 as ‘Best Cover-Art’ for their single “Glockenpop”. In November 2013, the band released its first studio album in nine years, Spiderbait.

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Paul Miles is a rock photographer specializing in live music photography, who captures the true spirit of rock’n’roll in action by many of the world’s greatest performers. Over the years, 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.