Warpaint / Twin Shadow
By James | Feb 23rd, 2011 | Live Music |
I’d been wanting to see Warpaint for an age, so pleased to finally get a pass sorted – and Twin Shadow was a name on my radar that hadn’t yet reached my ears, so a decent gig in the offing I thought. And I was right.
The Hold Steady
By James | Feb 20th, 2011 | Live Music |
It is always a privilege to shoot The Hold Steady due to the insatiable and boundlessly enthusiastic, middle-aged elasticity of frontman/glass-half-full bar-room preacher Craig Finn. He gives more in the first verse than most front men do in the first three songs. And he’s a challenge to shoot, but in a sporting way…
Band of Horses
By James | Feb 04th, 2011 | Live Music,Music |
I had shot Band of Horses twice previously, the first time seated and sedate with dry ice in excess and no lights, the second a relatively pumping experience, upbeat and radiant, with lights (almost) to match…
I Am Kloot / Steve Mason
By James | Jan 30th, 2011 | Live Music,Music |
I was pleasantly surprised, upon checking stage times for tonight, to find that Steve Mason (ex-Beta Band and occasional genius) was playing in support…
Anna Calvi
By James | Jan 30th, 2011 | Live Music,Music |
Hype can, sometimes, be nice. It was this nice hype that made me read about Anna Calvi in the first place, one of the BBC’s Sound Of 2011 preordained hyperbolic starlets of the possible future, and it was that same hype that got me to this show without having heard a note…
The Walkmen
By James | Jan 26th, 2011 | Live Music,Music |
I have, ever since I heard ‘The Rat’ in the early 2000s (it easily remains one of the singles/tracks of the decade), been somewhat in thrall to The Walkmen.