About | Rockshot Magazine

About Rockshot Magazine

Rockshot Magazine is an online, UK-based music magazine with a focus on live music photography and insightful writing produced by our team of talented photographers and writers with a diverse and eclectic taste in music. We share live music event reviews, band/artist interviews and features as well as exciting music, tour and video release news provided to us by the fantastic British music industry PRs we work closely with.

If you fancy joining our team or want to get in touch, please drop us a line at: rockshot.magazine@outlook.com!

Kalpesh Patel

I’m a London-based photographer and writer specialising in live music photography, portraits and concert reviews. I also love travel photography and snowboarding, so have managed to damage a fair amount of equipment trying to shoot while boarding or hanging off cliffs! I shoot gigs as often as I can, I drink coffee every day.

Nicola Greenbrook

Nicola is a freelance music, fashion and lifestyle writer based in East London and has her own website: Nicola Greenbrook. Nicola and her music partner in crime Rosie Kendrick have also created and host a fabulous music podcast Pause and Play It Forward, which you can check out here.

Coldplay @ Glastonbury 2016 (Kalpesh Patel)

Nils Van der Linden

For a laugh, Nils van der Linden started writing about music in 1997. He forgot to stop.

Paul Lyme

Unable to play a musical instrument. Or sing. So he sticks to the closest place he can be to the action. In the photo pit with his camera.

Sarah Sievers

Sarah is an American transplant in London, a screen and comedy writer and occasional producer. She was first introduced to the joy of music when her Grandma bought her a copy of Combat Rock by The Clash. Sarah has wildly eclectic taste but a special interest in alt rock and alt country.

Simon Reed

I am a music, event and portrait photographer, shooting pictures mainly in London and on the South coast. I tend to like bands with guitars – they move about more. When I’m not photographing music, I write about it and sometimes conduct the odd interview. Also in occasional spare moments, I control air traffic and walk Zebedee, Florence and Dougal, the springerdoodles.

Pauline Di Silvestro

Pauline is a London-based music photographer from Brussels. Brought up in the punk rock scene, she’s most likely to be found in dark and sweaty clubs.

Stereophonics @ Electric Brixton (Kalpesh Patel)

Lilen Pautasso

Lilen is a writer and photographer with over 10 years of experience covering artists, bands and festivals across Australia and the United Kingdom. She is open to all styles and genres, welcoming the weird and wonderful at a moment’s notice.

Emmylou Harris To Close European Farewell Tour At The Long Road 2026

The UK’s largest and most immersive outdoor celebration of Country, Americana and Roots returns this summer as The Long Road Festival announces its seventh edition, set for the August Bank Holiday weekend, August 27th–30th 2026. Taking place once again at the picturesque Stanford Hall in Leicestershire, the four-day festival continues to bridge generations of artists — from genre-defining legends to the fresh voices reshaping modern country and Americana.

Foo Fighters @ O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire (Kalpesh Patel)

Foo Fighters Let Loose At O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Just two nights after levelling The Academy Dublin and with Manchester’s O2 Ritz in their sights, Foo Fighters storm the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire for the second of three word-of-mouth, in-person-ticket-only club shows. No pre-sale frenzy. No dynamic pricing warfare. Just queues round the block and 2,000 devotees crammed into the Empire like it’s 1996 again.