Florida Room, Water Rats
Bit late to the party on this one, but got to see FOAFs Florida Room at the Water Rats (possibly again, or they might have been “Work” last time) and as usual a nice set of rocky numbers. Mike gets a bit busy swapping keyboards and guitars though! Good stuff. You should come next time. [...]
Bleech, Bull and Gate
Aside from them having cleaned the speaker stacks of the stickers including the Cuban Heels one, the Bull and Gate remains a fairly decent venue on the toilet circuit. I’d also not seen Bleech since before I went to Taipei and aside from a change of hairstyle, there were as solid and as rocking as [...]
Grace Solero, Water Rats
I’ve known Grace for over four years now, since I first saw her busking at Tottenham Court Road tube station and took a picture that I’d be happy to have somewhere in my portfolio. So, back to the Water Rats for yet another gig, having dragged ourselves out in the damp, instead of watching yet [...]
Malefice, Camden Underworld
This will be entirely biased. I toured as tour manager for Chthonic in November and Malefice were also on the bill with us. When you do this, hump gear together, negotiate merchandise table space, share the dressing room, you get to know whether the chaps you’re working with are nice guys or not. Once we [...]
Regent’s Park in color film
The experiments continue. This is a roll I shot mostly in Regent’s park a few weeks ago when it was autumn rather than the Siberian conditions we have right now. This is the only passable picture out of 36 in my editorial opinion: The colours off the Fujifilm are good and the lens flare and [...]
Beardyman album launch
I’d only been vaguely aware of Beardyman as some kind of beatboxing prodigy but had never witnesses the man, or beard, in action before. Tonight fixed this. Let’s be very clear, this is not your average punk on a street corner, or indeed that black guy from Police Academy. Oh no. He takes this to [...]
Chthonic Manchester
Long day, must sleep, just want to say a great show, great crowd and thanks to Arch Enemy for drawing them in! Here’s some pics for you: Related Posts:Malefice, Camden UnderworldChthonic, HMV Forum, LondonChthonic, WolverhamptonFrom the road, a shout out to Arkan!Florida Room, Water Rats
Sheryl Crow, Hammersmith Apollo (Odeon!), grumpy.
Grump. Third time shooting there, third time no pit, third time photographers plastered to the side wall. Seriously, how do they expect to look good? Oh, wait, we’re good. So that’s all right then. Also, she’s so not metal. More pictures on musicpictures.com. Related Posts:Grace Solero, Water RatsLogan Plant @ Purple Turtle, CamdenBleech, Bull and [...]
She Makes War @ Proud, Camden
She was first on at Proud, so we turned up as show of solidarity and to give her a few ticks on her entry sheet. I’d met Laura as part of the Canon camera buzz event and we’d followed each other on Twitter before I’d made the connection. Anyhow, check out her album on spotify [...]
Run Don’t Walk, Proud Camden, S90 at a gig again
Normally, I wouldn’t blog a mate’s husband’s band but in this case I’m going to make an exception for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I’d gone armed only with the S90 and given the limitations, like to get f/2.0 you need to be wide at 24mm equivalent, it performed as well as can be expected. [...]
Logan Plant @ Purple Turtle, Camden
OK, that was disappointing. Last time I saw him it was to a packed, jumping audience at the Barfly. This time he got blown off the stage by the support band The Mercy House whose fans mostly departed after they’d finished. OK, so he’s trying out a new album apparently and he’s nursing a cold, [...]
