Music has played such a huge role in shaping me and my work and so my one big regret so far is that I don’t get to photograph many bands and musicians; well 2010 is going to be different… My first shoot of the year was with Brotherhood of the Lake; a Devon based band ‘intent on creating innovative, heavy music based around solid song writing and an energetic live show’ to create promotional portraits of the group. The band were great to work with despite the freezing temperatures and biting wind on location at Dartmoor as well as the usual down-time between set-ups and locations of which we squeezed in three in total with a few different options.
I’d already tech scouted the first two locations and knew exactly what images I wanted from each but I also had a third location in mind if time allowed; fortunately not only did we have the time but the band knew of somewhere close-by that fitted exactly what I needed; an old ruined manor house hidden away in the woods near Burrator that provided a dark grey stone backdrop and shade from the winter sun.
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The guys had been killing time with a bag of Mega Sour Apple Sweets and a video camera; Rusty (guitarist) kindly offered me one but I thought better of it and figured I’d rather steal their idea and photograph each of them choking one down. I thought Rob (vocalist) was going to lose his lunch.
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Check out the Brotherhood of the Lake MySpace Page for more info and a teaser for their forthcoming album debut Iron Sails.
[...] of my band portraits of the Plymouth based group Brotherhood Of The Lake made it into the current issue of Rock Sound [...]