Steve Albini, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Minehead
Testament to hanging around for AGES before a band starts to get a good spot for photography, here’s Shellac’s Steve Albini from their recent ATP performance. Interesting band from a photography perspective, since they require the lighting throughout their set to be bright, white light, with no flashing or changing of any kind throughout the [...]
Lukas Ligeti, Holywell Music Room, Oxford
This is a shot of Lukas Ligeti performing at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford. Aside from his impressive bit of kit, the marimba lumina (an electronic, sample-firing marimba built by Californian boffins), his show wasn’t much to look at, so I headed to the back above the stairwell to try to frame him down [...]
Truck Festival, Steventon (again)
This is a shot of the final song from Pulled Apart By Horses’s set, when they were joined by members of (I think) The Joy Formidable and/or Skylarkin for a run-through of ‘I Punched A Lion In The Throat’ (surely one of the best song titles around). I like how the three main figures are [...]
Truck Festival, Oxfordshire
This is Leeds’ Pulled Apart By Horses. They’re one of the best live bands in the country, so go and see them if you get the chance. This is a shot of their performance on the Barn Stage at Truck 2009, overlaid with a shot of the ground inside the Village Pub stage from the [...]
Cumnor, Oxfordshire
There are approximately 3,000 photos in existence of the old barns and sheds surrounding the Coldroom rehearsal rooms in rural Oxfordshire, most of them of moody teenage metal bands posing in front of rusty farm equipment for their demo sleeves. It is a beautiful place to go and play music, though – step outside the [...]
Doing your first gig
Well, my new band, From Light To Sound, played our first ever gig this weekend, so I thought I’d post a belated reflection on what that was like and how it went. I also play in Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element, and have played in The Evenings, so it was far from my first gig of all [...]
