I can fly, But I want his wings. I can shine even in the darkness,but I crave the light that he brings, Revel in the songs that he sings... My angel, Gabriel
I can't describe how beautiful tonight was, I can show you... I just can't tell you...
You will find more images after the jump - I hope you enjoy the images of Lamb as much as I enjoyed taking them. Lamb played at KOKO in Camden this evening.
AND - The set list...
I wish I was, but I'm not... A particularly uninspiring day of back and forth emails with "promotions" people, and some such bollocks. A completely misunderstood email, and a strong desire to want to slap someone - but really, life is too short. I'll be on her black list, I'll "never work in this town again" well, we'll see.
There's all this "hype" surrounding being a music photographer, unless you're commissioned by someone and have regular work - it's really hard to get anywhere with it. It can be quite depressing, being knocked back at a ratio of about 1:8 - Now, I'm not the worlds greatest photographer and, a lot of the time there is a little to be desired, but I'm not bad and I'm dedicated... Is that why I don't get gigs? Are there "brilliant" photographers in every possible position available in London? Well, I've had a look at a few of the images that are submitted and they're pretty rough. So, I don't feel so bad.
Is this image "that bad" (I'm not looking for back patting, I'm just saying)
Maybe it's time for a different approach?
Jeff Beck took to the stage at London's Indigo2, An intimate little venue (2100 people) in the o2 center. The Imelda May band played a tune or two and were then joined, or rather, Imelda was swapped out for Jeff and the fun began (again) His signature sound filling the room, the crowd loving every bit of it. Jeff muttered "Ooops, I pressed the wrong button" at one point - strangely, I had just pressed the wrong button too - Did he put me off, or I him? Who can tell? UPDATE : This post was brought to you, literally, by the 3 Mobile, Mobile Broadband Device - Let's call it MiFi - Thanks to the guys at 3MobileBuzz, I can confirm that I would use it on a live deadline gig... One thing I will say, It seemed to start off rather slowly... The images not that large in this case, around 30 seconds upload time for each 600px wide image (72dpi) - This resolution isn't enough if you're shooting for anything worthwhile and you would need to spend a bit longer at your little Starbucks cafe table uploading if you were doing high res gear, but all in all the device performs very well.
Read more about the device and about 3Mobile Buzz here
Jeff Beck
The Stunning Imelda May
The "Chord'ial" Jeff Beck (Like what I did with that?!)
Imelda can finish this post...
A great little experiment - Thanks to the guys at 3 Mobile Buzz, Jeff Beck, Imelda May and Indigo2
Sime
I'm a photographer, I specialise in music. Live music, Studio, Garage, Stadium - Whatever! That's what I love. To me, capturing moments during music is challenging and rewarding. I've been musical all my life, I'm not very good, but I'm very passionate about music - singing, playing, listening to, watching, all of those aspect combine into an experience rather than just a song laying on your radio. I've always had a love for capturing images - either in my head, on film or now using digital cameras, and with those two things combined, I have the perfect job!
When I say "job" what I actually mean is hobby - I'm not a "real" music photographer, I'm a pretend one - Well, when I say that, I mean I don't have a million contacts and I don't get called by magazines wanting me to shoot Pink for them! (Yet!) What I do get, through my own ways and means is photo passes to gigs of people that I love, I get to submit them to press and, occasionally, I get to see them in some newspaper somewhere.
Last night was no exception to this rule, I was allowed a pass for Jet and duly wandered along with my camera and a few memory cards to capture what I could of the evening. I packed my bag before work in the morning, when it was full I guess it would weigh about twelve kg's - not light! And that was with one camera! (Sometimes I take two, but more on that later)
What did I pack?
Canon 5D Mark II
All this fits in my thinkTANK Street Walker HD along with my MacBook Pro, My (Not really my) MiFi from 3MobileBuzz that I'm currently testing out and my two new CF cards from DigitalRev that are part of an upcoming post for dPS.
I arrive out there at about 19:30 - I'm usually always early to pick up my photographers pass, just in case something goes wrong. (As did last night with my friend Helen) however, for me last night - I picked up my wrist band and slapped it on. We headed down into the pit - flashing the wrist band at the security guards and in we go. Helen and I are in there and then Tina turns up, A few others follow...
The support band come on, Support are almost always plagued by bad lighting and you get used to that, nothing you can do - even with the 5DMk2 - the light for the support was average at best, but then it was average the whole night (Thanks HMV Forum) Support come out, roll off three songs (The regular amount, who decided three songs?) and we're out of there.. So, I stand at the end of the pit, against the wall and listen to Detroit Social Club, the support band, while the rock it for another four tracks I look through my photos and am very pleased that I've a load of space still on the 16gb CF card that I'm running, it's a SanDisk Extreme IV 16GB
I usually start off around iso800 and work my way up (or down!) depending on the lighting, and slowly am learning how things go at a regular concert...
PART TWO COMING TOMORROW! - MAKE SURE YOU GRAB MY RSS
I had the good fortune to be in the pit photographing Jet the band last night. Detroit Social Club were first on stage and they rocked it - great support band! (Couple of pics below) But Jet, for me, stole the show... Here's a couple of images from last night - Despite the fact that I seem to have been concentrating on something other than taking photos!
THE MUSIC! - The hidden catch of being a music photographer is that you enjoy what you do TOO much.
Nic Cester | Chris Cester | Mark Wilson | Cameron Muncey
Jet | Kentish Town Forum
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Detroit Social Club | Kentish Town Forum
