That was last night, in front of a totally ecstatic crowd, Pete Doherty and Carl Barat singing from the same mike again, The Libertines reformed and totally rocking the place, under the watchful eyes of Amy winehouse. Great emotion, totally made up for a horrible weather and a challenging lighting . Here is the gallery!
The Epitaph godfathers of american punkrock were in town last night at Shepherds Bush Empire. That was a quick one for us photographers considering how short their songs are, within a few minutes we were out of there already, so we didn’t have the chance to see how wild the crowd got (or not!). They were celebrating the 30years of Bad Religion. That was pretty nice to see this band I have listened to for.. 15 years, hang on, I only got there half way then .
Greg Graffin of Bad Religion at Shepherds bush Empire August 23 2010
Oh and the Loudpixelslive collection is growing so let me post another one here with my long-time punkrawk’n'roll favourites Nashville Pussy from Antlanta and their guitar hero Ruyter Suys wrecking yet another guitar on this end of set song “You’re Goin’ Down” from their first album, Hell Yeah!
The video branch of Loudpixels is now live, and kicking too: Loud Pixels Live. We already have a good bunch of cool live videos for everyone to watch, forward or embed to blogs or page. What is Loud Pixels Live? This is what Loudpixels has been about for almost 6 years now but replacing still images for moving ones, now collaborating with the talented Jim Shreim. To embed videos the html code can be copied from the Youtube page of each video, entering the size wanted, easy!
This has been my main activity these last few weeks, resulting in less still images posted here but some good music photography is on its way for next month so no change here!
A few samples of the videos below, with Gruff Rhys & Tony Da Gatorra playing In A House With No Mirrors (You’ll Never Get Old) on the Village Mentality / The Quietus stage at Field Day in London on July 31st. This was a really good day at Victoria Park in their company as well as Cate Le Bon and many others. Thanks to Hugh MacDonald and David Standen who completed our team, to Field Day festival, Ruth at Loudsound, Tom at Eat Your Own Ears, Paul at The Zeitgeist Agency, Alun at Turnstile Music and Mark, Ben, Gil and Rob at the Adventures In The Beetroot Field and Village Mentality stages.
A second sample with electronica artist and multi talented man Ben Jacobs aka Max Tundra performing Which Song on Field Day’s Village Mentality stage.
Now for some photography too, I added a short set of aforementioned Max Tundra.
Last night rock god Alice Cooper was in town to audition what London has best in terms of freaks! He is recruiting for his show Alice Cooper’s Halloween Night of Fear which will take place at the Roundhouse on Halloween this year. A selection of alternative artists went to showcase their act in front of the rock star and try to get him to faint from seeing them hammer nails in their nose, dance on broken glass or stick needles in their body. Glad to hear today that my friends Syban V and Vivid Angel were among the chosen ones who impressed Cooper, see you at the Roundhouse in October!
Alice Cooper at the London Dungeon to audition London's best freaks - Aug. 9 2010
Like most photographers I always know all my publications when I receive my monthly sales statement, in my case from Getty Images, and at that time all the papers and magazine concerned are far form the newsagent. I actually tried once to list a few of the main recent ones and went to a big library to search for a bit of tearsheets. But seems like the statement dates are not quite exactly the correct ones and I didn’t want to have that chap at the library spend the day in the archives just for me so I just end up rarely see the shots. So it’s always nice to hear from a friend who saw an image in a broad paper like today’s Guardian with my shot of Lady Gaga so thanks Andy for the info and have fun at The Big Chill!
My Lady Gaga in today's Guardian
And soon some news about a dozen of live videos and an extension of Loud Pixels!
The Emancipation is the name of the track from Tricil chosen for our second music video with Burning Head, starring the talented Miss Maleficent Martini and we can now showcase it as it is broadcast to promote Enter Calico, the iPad application project produced by the label Clear Notice. The video has been entered into the Vimeo Festival + Award judged by the likes of David Lynch, Roman Coppola or Nicolas Schmerkin. You can also help by nominating it, just copy the video link http://vimeo.com/13230643 into the nominating page there. It has been entered to the UK Music Video Award 2010 as well.
Some more projects are already in the oven on the BH side. But some video actions are up as well on the Loudpixels collection and a new dedicated page should be added pretty soon. For the time being you can watch the two videos of CONVERGE performing at ULU on July 16th as well as Pulled Apart By Horses performing at Camden Crawl a couple month ago in London. These have been seen thousands of times and add yourself to the viewers and spread the links!
And for the good old music photography, the latest additions were Converge performing at ULU on July 16th (shot from the balcony where I was set to film as you can see above ), as well as two rather unlit shows and which have the common point that we were only in the pit for one song only, not because that was the plan but because security didn’t count to 2.. but if you ever tried to argue with security you know what I’m talking about . That was PiL, aka John Lydon’s Public Image Ltd, at Shepherds Bush Empire on July 19th as well as Good Charlotte last night July 27 at Koko.
Converge at ULU, London - July 16 2010
PiL at Shepherds Bush Empire, London - July 19 2010
More on this later but here is a live video of hardcore heroes Converge playing Heartache followed by Hellbound from their awesome album No Heroes, shot at ULU Friday 16th of July. Catch them live again on the 29th at the Underworld if you dare, they play a warm up “secret” gig before Sonisphere.
Great summer so far for UK, splendid weather and hot festivals, well until today that is but I’m sure the sun will be back. Now I did it again, not updating regularly and there was quite a lot of action since last time so it will be another quick summary.
Last big news was the first Burning Head produced music video, we now have just finished our second video! This was a commission for the Mancunian electronica label Clear Notice, on a track called Emancipation from the talented electronica artist Tricil (Atlanta, USA). We can’t show it online for a while but this will be part of a very original release pretty soon so more on this later – there should be some kind of preview online in the www.burninghead.co.uk site soon. The video features Miss Maleficent Martini, the front-woman of the band Maleficent, and she is a truly talented dancer.
Snapshot of the new Burning Head video for Tricil "Emancipation" out soon on Clear Notice's Enter Calico
Since last updates I went photographing Dead Can Dance’s half Brendan Perry at a really nice show at the Union Chapel, it was great to hear this very familiar voice- as I have been listening to DCD a LOT, beautiful.
Brendan Perry performing at Union Chapel, London on June 10 2010
Then I left for the homeland to photograph French’s biggest metal festival, HELLFEST in Clisson near Nantes, France. This had caused many controversies provoked by a stupid minority of extremist catholics who probably thought this Hell festival was going to feature black masses, sacrifices and who knows the conception of a few antichrists? It is funny how narrow minded some people can be. Thankfully they got ridiculed in their action and the festival was really nothing but a very friendly yet very loud feast of metal. The line up was a real pleasure for the big heavy metal crowd, although the press was handled in an appalling way (or at least for photography) and the pit was invaded by half a hundred photographers of all sorts, which is nothing wrong really, if there had been a hint of organisation to ensure that the ones that are working (and there was already a lot of us) can actually work. Will give it a miss next time. My highlight was Jello Biafra who preformed a truly awesome show in the Terrorizer tent.
Alice Cooper at Hellfest, CLisson, France, 19 June 2010
Slash performing at Hellfest, CLisson, France, 19 June 2010
Motorhead performing at Hellfest, CLisson, France, 19 June 2010
Followed three busy days covering the photography in the VIP & backstage area at Hard Rock Calling 2010 (headliners Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder and Sir Paul McCartney), another great HRC weekend ending up in gigabytes of photos from which here is a selection: Hard Rock Calling Day 1, Hard Rock Calling Day 2 and Hard Rock Calling Day 3, featuring The Hives, Gomez, Elvis Costello, Bill Wyman, Tiffany Page, James Morrison, The Chakra, Lissie, More Than Me, Alejandro Escovedo, Melissa Etheridge, Diane Birch, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Gaslight Anthem, Robert Francis, Rox, Joshua Radin, Crowded House, Urban Voodoo Machine, Joe Echo, Crosby Stills and Nash and the Jonas Brothers with their mate Frankmusic, pfiou.
The Hives at Hard Rock Calling 2010, Hyde Park, London, June 25 2010
Gaslight Anthem at Hard Rock Calling 2010, Hyde Park, London, June 25 2010
Bill Wyman and Micki Free performing at Hard Rock Calling 2010, Hyde Park, London, June 26 2010
Diane Birch at Hard Rock Calling 2010, Hyde Park, London, June 26 2010
Corinne Bailey Rae at Hard Rock Calling 2010, Hyde Park, London, June 26 2010
That’s all for tonight, lots of things in the pipeline, more in the next blog update!
I’d better update before the festival season kicks in and I’ll have far too many images in a short time!
One big news is that not only the BURNING HEAD site is online but our first music video, Coffee Machine by Born Dressed, is online! We have received already a lot of great feedback and feel free to give you opinion on here. There should be a launch party soon, watch this space (or my Twitter account here). This was shot in part at the Brixton Dogstar, a really cool and stylish bar with the nicest staff. It is starring Roxy Velvet and of course Paul Gravity the man behind Born Dressed (and ex M.A.S.S. & Hey Gravity!).
Burning Head is the brainchild of Franck Trebillac and myself, adding video production to our respective creative bows. More work in progress including another music video and a fashion video clip, hopefully all online mid July.
Recent shows covered were Brian Jonestown Massacre, Pennywise supported by Strike Anywhere, and Liars all on different days at Shepherds Bush Empire, Roses Kings Castles the new project of Adam Ficek (ex-Babyshambles) at the Chapel of St Barnabas and the new queen of Pop, Lady Gaga at the O2 Arena shot from the furthest we’ve ever been placed at the O2 so far, upstairs on the opposite side, that was a nice collection of huuuge lens on display during Telephone and Brown Eyes.
Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour at the O2 Arena, London, May 31st 2010
Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour at the O2 Arena, London, May 31st 2010
Ellie Goulding at Shepherds Bush Empire, London, June 9 2010
Adam Ficek of Roses Kings Castles at the Chapel Of St Barnabas June 7 2010
Pennywise at Shepherds Bush Empire, London, May 16 2010
Myleene Klass at the Classical BRIT Awards, Royal Albert Hall, May 13 2010
A lot of exciting things coming this month and I wonder when I’ll find the time to sleep! Follow me here and see my galleries being updated on my Flickr account.
Non-Stop bank Holiday weekend (Holiday?? what is a holiday?) when the Camden Crawl is overlapped by two shows from the godfather of all punks, the one and only unequaled Iggy Pop with The Stooges playing their 1973 cult album RAW POWER!
Ok forget chronological reporting, here is a gallery of the fantastic show from Iggy & The Stooges. I really don’t understand where Iggy finds all this energy, I mean, you could see the pogo didn’t last a full song as punters were getting tired. Tired? Iggy doesn’t know that word. And he keeps jumping in the crowd from the stage on and on (when not inviting the crowd to join him onstage!). It was also very moving when he was asking for the lights to be on the audience to salute them and everyone would stand and put their hands in the air as a rock’n'roll standing ovation, awesome!
Iggy Pop - Iggy & The Stooges at Hammersmith Apollo May 3rd 2010
The crawl wasn’t quite a sunny weekend out and about, Saturday was rain rain and rain, leaving me drenched and cold by the time most of the shows were done. And Sunday was freezing, and it looks like a lot of crawlers didn’t find time to dry and gave up on waiting outside in the cold. Anyway here is for the artists covered here, in a total random order, all linking to my Flickr galleries:
And as a preview, a video of a sonic mayhem I like to hear, energetic warm up set from Pulled Apart By Horses at the Black Heart pub before their show at Electric Ballroom later. I Punched A Lion In The Throat, awesome.
And to finish with this update, the first of a series of show by Fergie, Will.i.am, Taboo and Apl.de.ap at the O2 Are.na in Nor.th Green.wich, the BLACK EYED PEAS last night!
Black Eyed Peas Perform At The O2 Arena In London, May 5th 2010
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