This past weekend, I was down in Loughborough to shoot my friends’ wedding. The day was going great till the wedding band arrived: no one had considered the implications of hiring a zombie band to play, and before long, Zombina and the Skeletones were chomping their way through the bride and groom. Another shot of the horror below the cut! Read more…
Currently one of the UK’s most promising up-and-coming rock bands, Everything Everything put on a brilliant live show, filled out with four-part vocal harmonies, triggered samples, liquid basslines and angular guitar gymnastics. Add in to that an almost incomprehensible stream-of-consciousness collection of lyrics, and you’ve got quite the package! They recently stopped by Leeds on their tour with fellow bright young things, Delphic.
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This one’s a bit of a break from the norm! I’m waiting on getting a site-wide redress in the near future, to showcase a broader selection of my work than just live music – this post is a bit of a teaser of what’s to come!
Living in Leeds brings many pleasures, few greater than stopping by Opposite cafe for a hot cup of goodness. I got called in for a favour recently, to take some shots of the coffee-making process in action for an upcoming magazine article on the cafe. With the promise of a free brew in exchange, who was I to turn down the offer! Read more…
With a new EP freshly released, UK punk-metal bruisers The Rotted are on the road again. bringing a healthy dose of Lahndahn misery along with them. I stopped by their recent show at Manchester Moho Live to catch the action. Check out more shots below the cut! Read more…
Supporting Pulled Apart by Horses on their recent UK mini-tour were fellow Leodiensians Chickenhawk. With a raft of metal/rock/hardcore anthems to hand, they played an utter stormer of a set to a bizarrely sedate crowd at Manchester’s Deaf Institute. Check out more shots from the show below the cut!
Named by many as the most exciting live band in the UK at the moment, Pulled Apart by Horses are very much in their ascendency right now. With their debut album still hot off the presses, and a prestigious support slot for arena behemoths Muse approaching fast, PABH are surely one of the hottest tickets in the country right now. I got the chance to shoot them live at Manchester’s Deaf Institute recently.
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Pulled Apart by Horses will punch you in the throat, then high five you for taking it like a man. They also play some pretty gnarly tunes. Here’s a quick preview of their show at Manchester Deaf Institute recently. Check out a second shot, of support band (also fantastically rifftacular) Chickenhawk (who have awesome videos about zombie invasions) below the cut. Kapow!
Given my general mistrust of the entire “acoustic-singer-songwriter” genre, I was more than pleasantly surprised when I caught Charlie Bath live at Crash Records recently. She was performing as part of Test Space, a multidisciplinary art fair, and was a real breath of fresh air, singing engaging, challenging and thought-provoking little epics of songs.
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With their new album “Attack of the Wolf King” coming up, US metallers Haste The Day swung by the UK for a brief tour back in April. Labelmates Oh, Sleeper were also scheduled to appear, but Icelandic Volcanoes got in the way of things. Undeterred, Haste The Day came and provided Manchester Moho with a blistering set of harcore-tinged metal. Check out more shots below the cut!
17th April 2010 marked the third anniversary of (International) Record Store day. Since it’s beginnings in 2007/8, this annual event has grown to be one of the biggest events of the year for music enthusiasts and record collectors around the world, with this year’s event seeing more than 150 special releases put out for for rarity-hunters to snap up. I spent much of the day at Leeds’ very own Crash Records, shooting the huge crowd of people amassed outside before opening-time (one patron had even slept rough, determined to get his choice of the special releases!), and the various in-store events and shows put on throughout the day. Headlining the festivities were local heroes The Sunshine Underground.
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