Florence and the Machine at the First Direct Arena
Looking at the staging for Florence and the Machine at the First Direct Arena, the oversize trucks outside the Leeds venue made complete sense. The set was made up of huge lengths of timber, creating a warm, naturalistic performance area and giving Florence the freedom to move around and use the entire space. She is always amazing to photograph, delivering a […]
Bloc Party in concert @ The Brudenell Leeds 13th October 18
No lights and no pit. Not ideal conditions at the Brudenell Social Club but still it was nice to be asked to cover Bloc Party’s tour warm-up in Leeds. It was sold-out and absolutely rammed in there. Fortunately though, people were really lovely and gave me some space so I could actually take the pictures. And […]
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 […]
A new film following Damo Suzuki – get involved
I’ve known photographer and film maker Michelle Heighway for a few years now. We got to know each other at Bingley Festival and since then have kept in touch, regularly bumping into each other on the Festival circuit. Michelle’s currently in the final stages of production for ‘Energy’, her 2nd feature about the life and times […]
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 […]
Funny Cow premieres in Sheffield
It’s not often we get a world premiere in my home town but last week the cinema circus came to town for the launch of Funny Cow. I got a call inviting me down to the Showroom Cinema to photograph the event. It was more low-key cool than red carpet glamour but all the stars […]