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 [...]
James Chapman, Offset Festival
Here’s another shot of Maps from the Offset Festival – James from the band presumably thinking hard about the lyrics to the Bob Dylan cover he’s contributing to the Audioscope album. And overlaid with a texture from a photo of some iron covered in moss that I took on the South Bank last week. Makes [...]
Maps, Offset Festival
Here’s a shot of James from Maps playing at the Offset Festival – he’s had the title of his new album tattooed on his arm, which I thought made quite a nice detail for a shot, given that they’re far from the most visually dynamic band (good as their music may be). This also affords [...]
Offset Festival, Hainault
Here’s a shot of the sun going down over the Offset Festival on Sunday – perhaps the last day of summer we’ll see in 2009. I managed to get hold of a photo pass, so took around 600 photos in the various photo pits, but I’m coming to the conclusion that I’m not the best [...]
Katie Jane Garside, Modern Art Oxford
Katie Jane Garside from Queen Adreena played at Modern Art Oxford a couple of years ago – I’ve just found this picture, in which I caught her between songs, in a rare moment of not being right in the audience’s face.
