Archive for May 2007
Some photos from a gig at The Globe last month that got missed and have been sat on my hard drive.
Is hard getting photos of pianists/keyboard players; even though they don’t move, they always seem to lean in close on the mic so that you always get it obscuring half their face, and from the photo pit their hands are generally hidden behind the keyboard. Hands = more important than head in my book. I would rather cut off the top of someone’s head from a photo if it meant could get their hands in. And I quite often do…
Got there late and everyone was sat on the floor and remained sat down for the whole gig. So ended up sat down and didn’t move around as would normally, hence why all the photos are from the same place…
A few more photos on flickr.
Emma Dean
Tara Simmons
This was the third time of seeing Howling Bells (after the 2006 shows at The Rev and The Columbian) and definitely the best of the three shows. It was also the second time that I’d seen The Temper Trap and was good to see them for more than the three songs that saw them for at V Festival before had to go and photograph Phoenix on another stage.
Been playing around with silver gelatine toning. Some photos below and a few more here.
Howling Bells
Temper Trap
Originally we were told we would get 2 songs from the mixing desk. On the train out to the BEC got a phone call from the Sony rep to say this had now become 60 seconds from the mixing desk – as in the roughly 60 seconds it took Beyonce to walk to the centre of the stage and stand there and take the audience’s acclaim. As soon as the first song started we were to be escorted out. 60 seconds, no songs. Apparently someone wasn’t happy with the photos that had been published from the night before’s gig in Sydney. Because giving us worst conditions to shoot under makes for better photos, obviously…
Rave gave me a ticket so got to see the show (the seat was much closer than where we were photographing from…). And it was a fantastic show. A 13 piece band and 10 dancers would have made for great photos.  And the ridiculous thing was that even after 1 3/4 hours of singing/dancing Beyonce look amazing; not a hair out of place and I don’t think she had even broken sweat.
Didn’t have the advantage that the newspaper guys did of being able to pop into the store room and pick up a f2.8 400mm lens… so the photos were just about ok but nothing special.
At least the photo pass was nice. Am guessing that the photo on it might have taken more than 60 seconds to get…
Apart from moving house at the start of March also managed to tear myself away from unpacking to get up to the Valley to see a few things. A few here and more on flickr.
Bellrays
Vegas Kings
Comets On Fire
Grey Datsuras
Scul Hazzards
The Slits
Japanther
