I love my photo pass stickers... But my favourite one came this weekend in the form of Metallica... They had seperate accreditation for the weekend at Sonisphere (As did NiN and Linkin Park) well, here's my metallica one, it's awesomely large...
The Answering Machine
I just wanted to share some pictures of a great band, The Answering Machine, with you. These were taken by me at the Ben & Jerry's Sundae on the common festival...
All photos are © 2009 Simon Pollock - Please don't use without prior permission or I'll set the bloody dogs on you! awww, love!
Sundae on the common
Ben & Jerry's always put on a nice festival - and this year was no exception. With great food, good music and a whole host of activities for the kids, the festival was sure to be a crowd pleaser.. The nice people at CAKE sent me out a press pass and so, I went along to shoot me some bands - my highlight being The Human League (Showing my age?) What do you mean you "DON'T KNOW WHO THE HUMAN LEAGUE ARE"... here, get informed - The Human League are an English synthpop band. Formed in Sheffield in 1977, they achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s. They have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.
Originally an avant-garde all male synthesizer-based group from Sheffield, the only constant band member since 1977 is vocalist and songwriter Philip Oakey. Since 1987, the band has essentially been a trio of Oakey and long-serving female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley (who joined the band in 1980), with various additional musicians. The Human League have influenced many electro-pop, other synthpop, and mainstream acts including Madonna, Moby and Little Boots. They have been sampled and covered by various artists including YMO, Ministry of Sound, Craig David, George Michael and Robbie Williams.
Since 1978, they have released nine studio albums, twenty six singles (including 8 UK top 10 singles with 2 number one singles in the US/UK) and played over 350 live concerts. The Human League have sold an estimated 20 million records worldwide.
Philip and Jo on stage at the 2009 "Sundae on the common" festival
The were ably supported by "The Brute Chorus" (above) and "Camera Obscura" (below) amongst many others...
Much toooo much ice cream was consumed, waddled home on the bus...
See you next year, cows!
Sonisphere - Knebworth 2009
I am having a pretty darn exciting day, firstly my work (day job) website has gone live... So if you're a sports fan and want some cool content, sign up to the RSS feed or indeed the newsletter at http://www.worldsport.tv BUT further to that, I've had a confirmation for Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth... This is a Rock festival that runs over two days in country England and has the most amazing line-up! Check it out below...
I am in the midst of sifting through the Benicassim 2009 festival images for MTV and hope to have a gallery up before the end of the week, I will drop a link for you all to see the main bands that I was able to photograph, meanwhile, you can see some crowd shots here - http://gtvone.com/benicassim-2009/
Must run, have to drop Kev's lens back to him and it's GO LIVE day...!!
Killers play Benicassim!...
And this is as close as it looks that I'll get to them! - Tonight on Verde, the main stage at Benicassim we have Catpeople followed by White Lies (At which stage I will be lifted up into the air in a cherry picker to great heights!) then at 22:30 (note the revised time!!) Psychedelic Furs (Exciting!) followed by the killers (Sob!) then Rinocerose... All in all promises to be a good evening!... Anyway, as I won't get to shoot the Killers, I've popped a photo from as close as I'll get below... More to come throughout the evening!
