First of all Happy New Year everyone, shall 2009 be a loud year, I intend to shoot more shows this year to bring some colours to this page!

And sad news today, legendary guitarist Ron Asheton passed away, he was the guitar behind one of my favourite riffs of all times, “Wanna Be Your Dog”, the distortion of The Stooges alongside Iggy Pop, probably one of the most influencial punk band in rock’n'roll history. RIP.

Ron Asheton - The Stooges - London 2007

(No, not THE Queen). Bryan May and Roger Taylor together with singer and musician Paul Rodgers play an impressive show in front of a full house O2 Arena last night: Queen + Paul Rodgers.

Now for a good bunch of loud guys with the Unholy Tour featuring metal legends Slayer, travelling with Trivium and Mastodon, the crowd was mental and the walls were shaking to the guitar riffs.

Slayer at Hammersmith Apollo, London October 30 2008

Trivium at Hammersmith Apollo, London October 30 2008

The live sets are back! So that was last night at the Shepherds Bush Empire with a young multi award winning Australian singer, Gabriella Cilmi, and I think we’re going to hear a lot about her pretty soon.

Gabriella Cilmi at the Empire

She was supported by local indie pop band Cosmo Jarvis.

Cosmo Jarvis

Ok and hopefully tomorrow I’m back with a large set shot last week of the very metal tour ‘Unholy Alliance’ featuring loud crews like Slayer, Trivium and Mastodon so check it out!

No new live set yet but the live season will start again pretty soon so watch this space. I spent more time doing studio work - I’ll find a way to broadcast my fashion work soon but a few samples can be seen on www.marcbroussely.com. One of my latest sets here done at the studio with young and talented guitarist Stevie Lee for some charismatic and dark promotional photos.

Stevie Lee promo shoot

I left my blog untouched for a while again. I haven’t been shooting live much this month though, concentrating on other things, but there should be a few gigs lined up for the near future for you to see. In the meantime I found a few images from early this summer, as I was photographing at the VIP of Hard Rock Calling festival at the end of June in Hyde Park. Just a sample then in no particular order here

Tim Burgess of the Charlatans

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Here are some new promotional images for the Electro band Go Control. It was nice to meet again with Bruce Aisher since photographing for Suicide Sport Club at V festival two years ago and this brand new trio sounds very promising, so hopefully you should hear about them soon.

Go Control - Promo images - 2008

Also I was quite pleased to have my so far most viewed cover published this summer: The Sunday Life Magazine (distributed with the Sun Herald Newspaper in Australia) with over a million estimated readership.

Sunday Life Magazine cover - Operator Please

A late update here with gigs from earlier this month, Serj Tankian at the London Forum and Stray Cats for their farewell UK tour show at Brixton academy. I haven’t been covering as many gigs as I usually do this month, hence the lack of update, but some more images to be appearing here soon. Oh and I also added a lot more images to the Iggy, Hives and Kate Nash sets from Get Loaded, check them out!

I’ve spent time working on my studio and it is now ready to welcome you and/or your band so should you need a great promo shoot: knock at my door.

Serj Tankian - London Forum - 3rd September 2008

Stray Cats - 10 September 2008 - Brixton Academy

Again I fell into this trap of having so much to do that it took me a while before putting these online. I hope to be able to add more but this will have to wait a bit more. So for the moment some action from Iggy and the Stooges, The Hives,  Supergrass, Gogol Bordello, Reverend and the Makers, Kate Nash and the Midnight Juggernauts.

Iggy Pop teasing the crowd of Clapham Common

Gaz Coombes trying to sing louder than the screamings of the fans.

I only posted a quick selection. Hopefully a larger selection with crowd surfing action soon.