I popped back into 2009 last night whilst looking for some images for another band and had a browse through my "The Specials Reunion Tour" images... I wanted to pop these up to share... Less colour, but so much colour... Enjoy! -- Sime
Dave Matthews Band Limited Edition Print
I am putting up a couple of my music images from 2009 for sale, the proceeds going to GOSH. This Dave Matthews image was taken in London at the Brixton Academy on June 26th. This image is available framed, or printed on Fuji Semi-Matt, Gloss, Flex or Kodak metallic. I will ship anywhere (at your expense if framed. There are only ever going to be five prints sold - if you miss out, you will kick yourself when I'm famous* £140.00 Printed on your choice of paper and sent worldwide
Image Dimensions 5616 x 3744 | Please contact me - simon@gtvone.com
Please note that any profits from this sale will be donated directly to the Great Ormond Street Hospital
# Don't Drink The Water # Squirm # So Damn Lucky # Shake Me Like a Monkey # Crash Into Me # Funny The Way It Is # So Much to Say # Anyone Seen The Bridge # Too Much (fake) # Lie In Our Graves # Seven # Why I Am # #41 # You & Me # I'll Be ThereAdditional Information: Partial; Dave soloPartial; Dave solo (Jackson 5 cover) # Lying In the Hands of God # Stefan solo # All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) # Encore: # Gravedigger # Alligator Pie # Tripping Billies I don't plan on becoming famous any time soon, not for anything worthwhile, anyway!
The Grand Majestic
Formed in early '88 - The Grand Majestic (TGM) are a bloody brilliant funky pop kind of band coming from Brighton. I had the good fortune to pop along and photograph them in some pretty low-light kind of surroundings at the Underbelly - a great place for live music if you're wandering through Hoxton Sq with not a lot to do... You should do your best to see these guys live, quite the sound!
This is what makes all the noise...
Lizzy Littlejohn - Lead vocals Charlie Myers - Keyboards Duncan Howlett - Guitar Andy Lynn - Bass guitar and BVs Dom Clare - Drums Damian Mclean-Brown - Trumpet Ellen Campbell - Trombone Chez Harper-Grimble - Tenor sax
You can see more from the evening here - The Grand Majestic
And you can check out TGM on their website, myspace or facebook.
The Bedford head to SXSW at Indigo2
Music, friends and spirit. That was the feeling I had at the amazing "Live at the Bedford" gig at London's best kept secret (sadly) the indigo2 at o2. The venue in its hazy shade of red welcomed you in, this venue has something about it, whilst still being a little sterile and a bit of a "new kid on the block" it has some of the best sounding acoustics I've heard in a long time - I made my best mate, Nathan, stand and listen with me before the place filled up. Lucky enough to have no restrictions on photography, we had free run to wander onto back stage and snap shots you won't normally get to see, more on that later. We met the exceptionally energetic Kat (spelling!) who was lovely, excited and very cool. I got to pat Rita's tummy and give her a huge hug! It was lovely to be back amongst friends I've not seen in a long while - since November.
The reason for last night's show was to help raise funds to take the Bedford crew to the US, to the SXSW event in Austin Texas... You can help them realise that dream by heading over to PLEDGE MUSIC and pledging towards "something"
The night featured music from a whole bucket full of amazingly talented artists, with my artist of the evening award going to the spine tingling "Foy Vance" he's a lovely bloke and when he sings, the crowd stand, stunned, amazed and enthralled... Hell, I did! - Check him out.
That's not to say that I didn't like any of the other acts - I loved every minute of last night, including the last track when the uber talented Tony Moore (My birthday was Friday, thanks T) sang one of my fave 80's ballads - "I just died in your arms tonight" - one day I'll do BV's! ONE DAY! ...anyway, last night I was on stage for that song - standing behind the drummer, to be precise...
Many inspiring photos (Content, not the photos damn it all) to come - Sifting through the 695 moments that I captured, forever, right now. See you all soon! - Sime
What makes a good photography portfolio?
I've spent the last twenty four hours re-organising my "Gallery" section. It needed updating and I needed to better represent "me" as a photographer and what I was up to these days. I have taken it down to 36 images which some people have advised is still more than I should show.
What dictates "how your gallery should look?" I'd say the following factors are important...
1. Who is your intended target? Press? Glossy? Agency? 2. What do you want to say about you as a photographer? - I take too many shots, here they are? or I'm so hot, I'm only going to show you three and a half images, the rest you can beg for, low life scum... There's a balance somewhere between those two scenarios that you have to find... 3. Do you have any good images to show? Put them up, get someone to check them out, take advice (But not from your family, they say*) and cull cull cull... 4. Go over your gallery after you've slept on your choices - what jumps out at you as a bad choice? bin it...
They're a few ideas I've been given since I asked for people to check out my gallery and let me know what didn't work... What I've been informed from various sources is that, basically, I'm rubbish and should quit - most people kept about eight of my images live, they binned the rest... And that's OK...
Let's look further into these results "Keep about six" ...of all the results - and I've had around eight emails with suggestions, in addition to the facebook notes and tweets (thanks for those) let's take NiN for example - exactly three of the replies said bin it, and three said keep it... Very interesting and shows exactly what I say ALL the time on dPS - I may love a photo today that I hate tomorrow, it depends on my mood, the weather, if I've had coffee or not... So many things! (What music I'm listening to when I check out an image!!) - So, basically, I have decided that there is no real point worrying all that much because the person that checks out my images may be in a horrible mood... And then I'm screwed I guess!
My favorite images of 2009, in no particular order are...
You can see all of these images in large, glorious color in my gallery...