Simon Keitch Photography Blog

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…’.

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.

A couple of portraits of Bleeding Through keyboard player Marta Peterson produced in a matter of minutes prior to the recent show supporting Machine Head at the Pavilions in Plymouth recently. I was at the show to photograph the live performances as well as some backstage portraits to illustrate interviews with relevant band members for Rocklouder. I have a ton of material from the show so I’ll post up some more images over the next week or so.

Promotional portrait of Devon based singer/songwriter and musician Katie Marie; we shot this in a ruined railway cottage on the edge of what’s now the Plym Valley cycle route on the edge of Dartmoor. Another in a series of recent very wintry outdoor portraits and there was still a little -albeit slushy – snow on the ground at the time. As well as writing and performing on her own albums Katie has just launched her own record label; for more information check out her website HERE