First Train Home

In the cold light of day, I quite like this one too.



I have also written a review, along with plenty more photos for The Music Fix, which you can have a squint at here.

Imogen Heap Live Review

Tomorrow's gig is going to be a 100% copper-bottomed, cast-iron disaster. I can feel it in my water. But I'm going anyway.

Headlock

This is a photo what I have taken of Miss Imogen Heap tonight. That is all.

I'm Not Dead

More in an attempt to prove that I'm still ailve and kicking than anything else, here's a shot of Jamie T from Preston last weekend.



To be honest, there were only two other shows I wanted to shoot in January and didn't get to do either of them.

New Year's Eve

What's interesting, is that going into this year I had no plans at all to do anything. In fact, my plan was pretty much to keep my head down and just get on with the status quo.

Instead, I've been to Vancouver, Alaska and Paris, become a published photographer, bought a house and adopted a couple of cats. If you'd told me that I'd have shot Depeche Mode at the MEN Arena this time last year, I'd have laughed. And if you told me that was just the last of more than 70 bands I'd shot officially this year, or that I'd have been published in the national press and internationally, I wouldn't have believed it.

So I'll close the year with one from my favourite set of the year, Florence & The Machine, shot back in June outside St Phil's Church, Salford. The day before we went to Vancouver en route to Alaska, and the day before we completed on the house.



Hopes for 2010? More of the same would be fine. Would be happy to just keep shooting bands (although a new body would be nice - I'm saving for a 7D) and hopefully open a few more doors and get more shots published.

Everything Counts

With Depeche Mode at the MEN Arena tonight, I think that's 2009 done for me. Hard not to be pleased with what I've done this year. Will try and compile a list of the bands I've shot before the end of the year, but I'm anticipating it'll be 50+

Nancy Boy

I've always been quite a fan of Placebo, and I've seen them live a few times. My general feeling is that they blow hot and cold, which makes it a shame that I was reviewing them tonight - one of their cold nights, it must be said. They hadn't done much by way of ticket sales (£5 from a tout was the best offer for my spare - and when I saw the half full venue, I understood why) and their insistence on playing a hit-light set to a big venue really disappointed me.

Essentially - look at what the crowd did when you played Every You, Every Me. Look at what the crowd did when you played three off the new one in quick succesion? Get it? In the words of the poets, "Do some old".

And no Nik Kershaw cover this time? Boo.

Lungs

Another night with Florence & The Machine. Only stayed for my allotted three songs, which is a shame, as I really wanted to catch the whole set, but I've been tired all day and there's no point making the situation worse.

Also, curse you, evil purple light.