May 26th, 2010 § 2 comments § permalink
One of my band portraits of the Plymouth based group Brotherhood Of The Lake made it into the current issue of Rock Sound Magazine available now from all good newsagents… The band’s new album ‘Iron Sails” will be released on June 28th 2010 and gets a glowing write up by Rock Sound, stating: ‘we promise you won’t hear as many records as good as this in 2010…’.
March 9th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Here are a few candid portraits of Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel from an interview with him backstage at the Plymouth Pavilions stop of the Black Procession European tour. I shot a mixture of film and digital during the interview with Rocklouder but these are all film scans; the digital images look great but the square format and grainy black and white film stock (Ilford Delta 3200) suits the candid documentary style perfectly I think, and I’ve found myself choosing this super-high ISO film stock and going with the available ambient light a lot more recently.
March 9th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Some live music photos from Machine Head’s recent headlining show at the Plymouth Pavilions on their Black Procession tour. No flash photography allowed, and the stage lighting was horrible hence the black and white conversions…
January 6th, 2010 § 1 comment § permalink
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.
