Snap Scene: John Waite – Corner Hotel, Melbourne 1st April 2018

For the first time in Australia, English musician John Waite played Melbourne’s Corner Hotel on Easter Sunday 1 April 2018. The night was billed as An Acoustic-Electric Evening with John Waite on his Wooden Heart 40th Anniversary Tour. The sixty-five-year-old performed songs from his time as lead singer and bassist in British rock band The Babys (Isn’t It Time, Everytime I Think of You) in the late-’70s, and from his supergroup Bad English (When I See You Smile) that he fronted between ’87 and ’91, plus solo hits like Missing You and Change. He closed his set with a cover of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love.

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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.