At home in Sheffield with the Arctic Monkeys.
Night two of the Arctic Monkeys UK tour. Such is the home support in Sheffield they managed to sell out the Motorpoint Arena for four, consecutive nights. I guess, it made a nice change from being constantly on the road and after almost five years a decent, home visit was long overdue. Despite the challenging […]
Bingley Music Live 2018
Headlining this year’s Bingley Music Live – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. This little, three-day, family festival is fantastic and though it’s grown over the years in size and stature, it has successfully retained its warm and friendly vibe. Sadlly, I missed Friday night but on Saturday we got the Cribs, and Jake Bugg headlining […]
The Vaccines at the Brudenell Leeds
Work has got so busy this summer that for the first time in years I might not actually make it to Leeds Festival. Thankfully though, I got asked to cover some of the pre-festival activity and the Vaccines at the Brudenell was a fantastic gig. No support, just a full house to watch England fail […]
Artists on Audio Network
Audio Network is a music library supplying the TV, film and advertising industry. For many programme makers it’s the go to source of the next, memorable theme tune. I guarantee you, plenty of your favourites will have come from Audio Network. An archive in excess of 154,000 tracks has been composed and produced by […]
The Rolling Stones and Download Festival
We’re off on our annual pilgrimage to Download shortly. First though, a quick detour to Old Trafford where I just made it by the skin of my teeth to photograph The Rolling Stones after four hours stuck in accident traffic. First time for me and a brilliant experience, albeit positioned at the end of the 94 […]
Arena gigs: Noel Gallagher and Manic Street preachers
This month we’re offering a First Direct Arena, bank holiday bonanza; three, great opportunities to test out my new Nikon D5. I’m really happy with the results – great quality images, with amazing definition. The arena always presents one or two challenges – the height of the stage being the main one. For Noel Gallagher’s […]
Thirty Seconds to Mars.
Alternative rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars consists of Jared Leto, Shannon Leto, and Tom Miličević. This month, the Thirty Seconds to Mars tour bus rolled into a packed Manchester Arena just days before the release of latest album America. Thanks to some accidentally divulged, inside info, our pit gang of four girls and two guys (that […]
Q magazine: Morrissey in Glasgow
Last time I photographed Morrissey was more than a decade ago at Sheffield City Hall. On this occasion we’ve upscaled to Arena level so clearly there’s no sign of a waning in popularity of the Smiths one-time frontman. This was my first visit to Glasgow’s SSE Hydro and honestly I was impressed. It’s a lovely […]
Reflections.
Putting together a collection of work for a book is always an interesting exercise. For the first A3 one I produced, I focussed mainly on music and even with 60 pages to play with I struggled to narrow it down to a final selection. It’s great to have your best pictures from 10 years […]
In the Studio for Q Magazine – Johnny Marr
It’s quite nice to arrive at a job and get a cuppa courtesy of Johnny Marr. For the record it was a very good brew! We were at Johnny’s studio, in a former factory on the outskirts of his home town. Q were featuring him ‘In the Studio’ for the January magazine; I was there to […]