I shot this band over a year ago, but they’ve since gone through some line up changes. They’d come down from Manchester, and after spending the day recording some tracks in the studio, we had little over an hour to do this shoot….before they raced off to a music video shoot! The champagne shot was really fun to try again (we did the same in their original images last year and it was requested again!), although my strip boxes got soaked and needed a decent clean afterwards!
A couple of weeks ago, I did a portrait shoot with Nigerian-born Brighton-based rapper/model Gerrald. I hadn’t met Gerrald before shooting, but he was a natural in front the camera, and it was difficult to choose which shots to edit! It was nice to finally get outside and do a shoot in natural light 🙂
The Easter weekend kicked off to a good start on Friday with Cage The Gods’ first headline show in Brighton. Sticky Mike’s isn’t my favourite Brighton venue to shoot at since there’s no photo pit and it can be very dark, but it was a good show and it was nice to see the guys play on their home turf! I shot this set with my new 50mm f/1.4 lens, which I looooved for a recent engagement shoot I did but I think I’ll stick to my 24-70 2.8 in future for gigs.
Last night, I was shooting a double headline gig at Brighton’s Concorde2 – Fozzy + Soil. I’d seen Fozzy before (also at Concorde2 actually, with Jettblack supporting) so was looking forward to their high energy show. Frontman Chris Jericho was great fun to photograph and was bounding about all over the stage! They put on an awesome show, and got the crowd raring to go for Soil who I was reeeally excited to shoot. I remember seeing Soil about 10 years ago at the Astoria in London. I was 17 and living in a flat in Islington, I happened to be walking down Charing Cross Rd and saw that Soil were playing, so I got a ticket from a tout and went in. Think I ended up crowdsurfing 4 or 5 times that gig and had a great time, but for some reason I never got round to seeing them again – til last night. Frontman Ryan McCombs was in the crowd for the whole of their last song ‘Halo’ and everyone was goin crazy 🙂