Posts Tagged ‘Brixton Academy’
February Gig Compendium
By James | Mar 14th, 2012 | Live Music |
Starting with an orchestra rehearsal shoot featuring upmarket TV actor Hugh Bonneville, ending with a wedding and taking in chart pop, hip hop, synth indie, French uber-house and a giant glowing crucifix, February was nothing if not varied…
January Blues
By James | Jan 29th, 2012 | Live Music |
January bluegrass may be nearer the truth, actually. Though there was blues, of a sort – foot-stomping, banjo-belting, deep-south country. And a heft of post-rock too…
DFA 1979 / Andy Burrows
By James | Oct 14th, 2011 | Live Music |
So summer was, for various reasons, a bit quiet. I barely set foot in a venue, for the first time in years and years I didn’t set foot on festival turf, and yet somehow I’m already behind on my blogging…
Primal Scream / Cat’s Eyes
By James | Mar 31st, 2011 | Live Music |
Primal Scream as a band may aspire to the swagger and finesse of men half their age, actually pulling it off with more élan than you might think much of the time, but glancing around Brixton Academy it seems their audience haven’t exactly managed to pull the same trick.
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…
Manic Street Preachers / BSP
By James | Jan 24th, 2011 | Live Music,Music |
I started my photography year as I ended the last, in Brixton Academy photo-pit. My long-overdue first gig of 2011 was the Manic Street Preachers, rescheduled from last October when JDB contracted laryngitis…
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