Review: Pierce The Veil
30th January 2011 - Your favourite San Diego-ites? San Diego-ins? San Dieg-ons? Oh wait I know now, San Diegens finally get a foothold in the UK touring with New York's Bayside and Ocala heavyweights A Day To Remember. Review: With 2000+ people in attendance, outside there were a dedicated amount of followers who came for them just as equally as the →
Photos: Johny Flynn and the Sussex Wit
Being lit mainly by spotlights save for a single blue bulb far off into the background, it was quite a obstacale in creating a variety of photos with the same lighting employed throughout. The band were the first to support Mumford and Sons on their latest tour. They are of a similar genre so plenty of instrument changes and a →
Photos: Flyleaf
Doesn't time just fly by? Seems like last year I shot my first music festival. Another one of the bands I had to see is Flyleaf. With a passionate bassist and incredible soaring vocals coming from Lacey Mosley, how could you not spend the time watching them? More info and notes when you.. .. .. .. Can't even explain it... Shooting Notes: Argh, →
Photos: SRGents
There are all sorts of music I listen to, yet only certain genres that really stick and then there are some bands from a totally other area that really surprise me. SRGents are one such band I had no idea would interest me so much as they do. Predominately French vocals over layers of English folk makes one hell of →
Photos: Lamb Of God
As is most usual with heavy metal bands, photographing a dimly lit show is always a challenge. This was no exception. There are a few gigs I've done in the past that I really enjoyed shooting so the first of them is Lamb Of God back in February this year. Fast brutallic metal and a personal regret of not bringing →
Photos: Bring Me The Horizon
"We will never sleep cos sleep is for the weak, and we will never rest til were all f---ing dead!" The chant will never leave my head. Bring Me The Horizon performed at Manchester Academy, October last year and it was the best show I've been too so far. . . . . . Shooting Notes: At this point I was still →
Photos: Airbourne
Balls to the wall rock and roll, more Marshalls than a music shop and a complete disregard to the brutal elements of Britain's nature. Airbourne were a great close to the festival and closed it out perfectly. All that was left to do was run back to my tent. Shooting Notes: By this point I was too wet to care. I wanted →
Photos: Steel Panther
While still battling the rain, it did nothing to make me stray away from these heavy rocking dudes. I reckon they are the only band I have to see again and again because they are so fun to photograph while playing damn perfect music. Steel Panther rock no matter what the critics say. Besides they'll only fuck your mum for →
Photos: Switchfoot
Wow, one of the most memorable bands of my music history, that I first heard of when their hit single "This Is Your Life" was played on Smallville. Unfortunately for me I couldn't stick around to hear it live. You'd also think from the photos that I'd had the full set to shoot. From the crowd time, energetic performance and →
Photos: Megadeth
I will try not to drag this out but, I am super stoked on these photos. I normally show a maximum of 16 on here, bearing in mind they are from the best of the 50 or so I selected from of each band. This ones kinda a big post this time around so hopefully it'll make up for the →
Photos: Halestorm
A day and a half shooting against or with the sun I was ready to just leave it at that. There's only so much you can do, lucky for me Halestorm who I'd just caught in the press area previous were getting ready for the Pepsi Max stage. I'm glad I went because they are an amazing band, and it →
Photos: Slash
One of the highlights of the day, purely because...well, who doesn't like a bit of Slash? I posted a preview image on Flickr 3 days ago and it has been my most popular photo with 1,060 views. Also made Explore at #39, so in thanks to it I have posted this set earlier than planned. Enjoy. Shooting Notes: Just another day at →
Photos: Rolo Tomassi
Starting out sounding like a Nintendo on acid, they are fastly becoming one of the most interesting and vibrant bands I've heard from our little country, I was able to set some time aside and see them again this year with the pleasure of being in the pit for photo coverage. Rolo Tomassi are fun party band and are perfect →
Photos: Atreyu
A milestone of sorts, this being the earliest I've photographed a band. Fortunately Atreyu put me in a frenzy of of excitement that held out through the rest of the day. I adore this band and I'm privileged to shoot them. Quite a short set but highly enjoyable all the same. Shooting Notes: I honestly can't say anything bad about them..well I →
Photos: Them Crooked Vultures
What do you get when you have Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones from classic bands like Led Zeppelin and Foo Fighters? Well, another band but a good one at that, also some nice accent lighting, at the times it showed up that is. Shooting Notes: Like majority of the acts, working with daylight meant base ISO (alright I used →
Photos: Dillenger Escape Plan
Holy heck, if you ever want an extreme 10 minute exercise while trying to take a photo, Dillenger Escape Plan allows you to do just that. These guys are insanely fast, play fast and unleash an all out great time. Trust it to happen on the very last day but I got super stoked creating images with the final three →
Photos: Coheed And Cambria
A band full of proggy goodness, music that oddly ties into a series of comic books and the biggest hair you'll see all weekend. Coheed and Cambria rip open the Ronnie James Dio stage with an energetic set making for one interesting 15 minutes of this photographers time. First band I photographed on the 2nd stage of Download, as with most →
Photos: Download Highlights – Sunday, June 13
Celebrating its 30th year anniversary, Donington Park once again opens it’s gates for it’s highest ever attendance of rockers old and new, questionable wrestlers and a severe weather warning that took everbody by suprise made the final day a very mixed bag indeed. White Wizzard 3 Inches Of Blood August Burns Red Switchfoot Slash The Damned Things The Dillenger Escape Plan Steel Panther Airbourne End Notes: Expect full photo sets →
Photos: Download Highlights – Saturday, June 12
Celebrating its 30th year anniversary, Donington Park once again opens it’s gates for it’s highest ever attendance of rockers old and new, questionable wrestlers and a band that did the impossible in beating an American Idol winner to last years Christmas number 1. Of course I am talking about Rage Against The Machine. After easing into it yesterday today I finally →
Photos: Download Highlights – Friday, June 11
Celebrating its 30th year anniversary, Donington Park once again opens it's gates for it's highest ever attendance of rockers old and new, questionable wrestlers and one of the most popular bands in 6 stringed history, headlining their own stage AC/DC. The following 3 posts are just a summary of each day and will read like any other article but with the →
Photos: Killswitch Engage
With Download Festival quickly approaching it's 30th Year Anniversary and me attending and covering the whole thing for the first time, I figured I'd take the time to post a couple of previous shows, from a couple of bands to wet your whistle, that will be appearing there over the weekend. First up a wonderful melodic metalcore band from the →
Photos: Parkway Drive
One of them days where I honestly 110% enjoy being a music photographer, and there a few bands that bands bring this feeling on. This one in paticular is of course Parkway Drive. I've been a fan of them ever since thier 'Don't Close Your Eyes' EP released way back around 2003, so a chance to get some of Austrailians →
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