I don’t Beliebe it…
CAUTION : THIS POST CONTAINS ONE IMAGE THAT IS PROBABLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK depending on where you work, I guess. If it’s the SoHo book store, crack on but if you’re reading this from the staff-room of a retirement home for nuns, it’s probably best to wait until your shift finishes before continuing. [...]
Tripoli’s, like, fantastic
With my self-preservation system in full effect, I was assigned to covering the events and features of Tripoli and after weeks of extensive coverage by my colleagues, it was getting harder to find new angles to cover. Still, while ever I wasn’t being shot at, I could always look on the positive side! One of [...]
Licensed to Chill
Having spent the last few years with Glastonbury as my only festival event of the year, last weekend I got the chance to broaden my horizons and try out some of the competition, ie “The Big Chill” in Herefordshire. Running from the 5th to the 8th of August, the line-up consisted of a similar range [...]
Sensi and Instability (with apologies to Jane Austen)
Glastonbury 2010 was a new experience for me as, this year, I was going all multimedia on this festival’s ass. After pleading with the techno honchos in Gay Paris for some new toys, they managed to get a Zacuto Z-Finder and an Audio-Technica PRO24-CM couriered to me on the day before the festival. The downside [...]
They say it changes..
Having tried to put a blog together on this year’s Glastonbury festival, I was struggling to decide on which frames to drop until our lass suggested that I split it into on-piste and off-piste, as it were. You should have already seen the light. Now for the dark.. For me, the best time to shoot [...]
A Worthy cause for celebration
This year, Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts turned 40 with what ended up being a ridiculously hot weekend of music, performance and general chaos. Thankfully, I was sent down to the site for my second year running for AFP (and my ninth actual Glasto). Heading down as early as I could on Wednesday, I arrived [...]
Stung
This morning, I was asked to attend an event at Abbey Road studios with Sting. Arriving at the door, I could only tell the receptionist that I was here for “some Sting thing” as I had nothing but the name and the venue. Having been mistaken for an in-house photographer when shooting at Abbey Road [...]
A full 360°
With their trademarked sense of understatement, U2 set up camp in Wembley Stadium for a two-night residency and I managed to get into the first night to see what subtle delights they had to offer on their 360° tour. Running over 2009-10, the tour is expected to include up to 100 shows all over the [...]
Metal as anything
After the love and peace of Glastonbury 2009 comes the angst, anger and aggression of the Sonisphere rock festival at Knebworth. Featuring rock and metal bands ranging from veteran British groups “Saxon” and “Heaven and Hell” through to the latest young bands from around the world such as “Airbourne” and “The Defiled”, it saw the [...]
Eavis: Outstanding in his field.
Having had a lot of my Glastonbury festival shots on the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” site, I wasn’t sure how to put this blog together as I didn’t want to just repeat shots that a lot of people have already seen. In the end, I’ve decided to go for a mix of some of my [...]
IIIIIII’m wicked and I laser..
In a thoroughly unusual turn of events, yesterday I turned up to shoot Jean Michel Jarre‘s first world tour when it came to Wembley Arena only to be given a AAA laminate and told that I could stay as long as I wanted. Huzzah! Makes a change from the usual three song limit. Looking like [...]
Puttin’ on the Brits
Enough with all that serious news, it’s back to the red carpet and the London weather for me! Tonight, I covered the arrivals at the Brit awards for my fourth consecutive year, I seem to remember. Always the photographer, never the winner. Tch! You’d think those judges would want to at least give me a [...]
Mad on her? She’s alright, I suppose..
With a distinct sense of deja vu, I headed out to Cardiff on Saturday to catch the opening night of Madonna’s latest world tour, “Sticky and Sweet”. Taking in 27 dates around the globe, this will be her first tour since entering her 50s. I last shot her in 2006 at the same venue on [...]
The Gobstopper
Apologies for anyone wanting anything to do with photography in this post. August is upon us so precisely buggar all is happening. Having recently picked up drumsticks again for the first time in about 5 years, I was thinking back to my previous job as a drummer in the Sheffield band Elfin (insert any drummer [...]
Super Cooper
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of getting to shoot Alice Cooper at the ExCel centre in London. I’m sure it must be rather an odd gig for him as he was essentially the “turn” to entertain the crowds at the British Motor Show but he still put on a top show. Considering this guy is [...]
Capture the high notes
Music photography has always been an enjoyable sideline since my days of drumming, back in Sheffield. Shooting the behind-the-scenes japes of our tour bus and arranging our promo shots planted the seed of having fun with the world of live music and trying to visually record it. Powerful shots are highly dependent on the artist [...]
Glasto, the Summer Wine(house)
Ahh, Glastonbury number 6. After enjoying the heat of 1995, then four other randomly soaked years in between, I’d promised the rest of Team Glasto that 2008 would be dry and I was right! Yay! I RULE! (aside from a lot of rain at the start..) *cough* Despite lugging my poncho and boots from the [...]