Diversity Is Key To Self Esteem’s Hand-Picked Openers At Hammersmith
While Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s Self Esteem was the main draw to a sold out show at West London’s Hammersmith Apollo, it would be remiss not to share news of the other acts gracing the hallowed Apollo stage tonight. https://flic.kr/p/2omMutX First up, playing a delightful...
The Return Of Live Music Events In 2022
The live music industry, like so many others, took a battering across 2020 and 2021 when the COVID-19 pandemic made it at first impossible and then unreliable to put on events. Festivals such as Glastonbury and BST Hyde Park, among others, pulled their events...
Wilko Johnson: Photographs and Memories
I’ve written before in these pages about how it came to be that the iconic Dr Feelgood guitarist, Wilko Johnson sparked a second career for me in music photography. In essence, it was his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis in late 2012 and the (apparent) sure...
The Big Moon Make A Statement With Here Is Everything
London-based four-piece The Big Moon have been making waves since they formed back in 2014 and subsequently released debut record Love In The 4th Dimension just three years later. Two weeks ago, the group dropped undoubtedly their finest body of work to date with...
2000 Trees Returns With A Bang
Sunburn, hay fever, and a damaged hard drive with two days of photos lost. On the bright side, 2000 Trees is back in all its glory! For the first time since 2019 the ever faithful Trees crowd descend on the Cotswolds for four days of blistering heat and an even hotter...
Feature: Returning To Glastonbury Festival In 2022 With Children
By now most people that know my wife and me will ask us, as June approaches, if we're going to Glastonbury Festival this year. They'll also ask how excited our little one is about this year's festival. Because, lucky for some, he hasn't missed an edition of the...
Pearl Jam at BST Hyde Park 2022 – Day Two: A Photo Diary
RockShot were in attendance for both of the Pearl Jam performances at their two-night residency at BST Hyde Park. This is the story of day two.
Sunny Sunday At Glastonbury Festival 2022 In Photos
Sunday at Glastonbury Festival is the day you can't quite believe is the last at the festival. Before the arenas and stages close, tents need to be packed away and the magical world around us is slowly taken apart. And so you have to make the most of it. Go back to...
Alternative Saturday At Glastonbury Festival 2022 In Photos
Friday blew the proverbial roof off Glastonbury Festival, after years of pent-up need, Billie Eilish proved just why she should be headlining the Pyramid Stage and commanding audiences of all ages the world over, while Oxford rockers Foals tore apart The Other, their...
Pyramid (And Other) Action On Friday At Glastonbury Festival 2022 In Photos
With appetites for live music whet by storming smaller-stage sets on Thursday, Friday is when the main stages finally open and give the 200,000+ Glastonbury Festival-goers a full-fat dose of what they've waited three whole years for. But the site would be in a total...
Thursday At Glastonbury Festival 2022 In Photos
While the music might kick off in earnest at Glastonbury Festival from Friday, when the main stages finally opening up shop, with revellers arriving at Worthy Farm from Tuesday night and through the gates at 8am on Wednesday morning, there is plenty to see and do...
The Cancelled Series : Performer Portraits In Lockdown
As a Music Photographer, the announcement of a lockdown was a hard hit. While staying safe and healthy is of the utmost importance, I watched helplessly as my favourite shows and festivals were cancelled in Europe and England. Then, on one sunny day and for the first...
Alanis Morissette Strips Jagged Little Pill Back 25 Years On At Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Who can believe it’s been a massive 25 years – a whole quarter of a century! – since Alanis Morissette broke the perfect-pop mould and released her seminal alt-rock record Jagged Little Pill, imperfections and swearing embraced unabashedly and resonating with the...
Rews Offer A Glimmer Of Light In The Darkness
An interesting night with two bands I had never seen before. The Darkness on the last of eighteen UK shows on their Easter Is Cancelled Tour before continuing the tour in Europe next year. First up, a band I have been eager to see for some time, Rews. Songwriter and...
Aussie Rockers Electric Mary Attract A Virgin Mary To North London
Right..it's about time for some good ole' rock 'n' roll. We are talking about a band influenced by the rockier side of The Beatles and Tom Petty and who absolutely dig Deep Purple. And so after being treated to the two support bands, The Dark Light and the very...
Young Bands Provide Modern Age Kicks On The Live Circuit
Modern Age Music are a company that specialise in organising gigs, festivals and artist management. They book bands for showcase events across the country, in places like London, Brighton, Manchester Bristol & Leeds, as well as organising full tours for artists...
Hats Off To The Tolerable Gentleman
The Fiddlers Elbow has become a regular haunt for Progressive-Rock outfit Hats Off Gentleman It's Adequate. Malcolm Galloway and fellow collaborator Mark Gatland, who both write and record all their material, possess a chemistry that has been honed through years of...
Reading Festival 2019: A Sun-Soaked Musical Delight
As summer fades away and becomes a distant memory, it's easier to look back at the season's festivals and pick a winner. This year, for me, it would be the legendary Reading Festival. The headliners were bound to please an audience of various backgrounds and ages, and...
A Place of Our Own : The Punks Are Back In North London!
A Place Of Our Own is a collective started by Jay and Keith a few years ago. Their objective is to resuscitate the North London punk scene and open a new punk venue to stop London burning with boredom. We recently got the opportunity to talk with Jay, who told us...
You Have Been RickRolled! Inside One Of London’s Most Mysterious Performances
Just before Foo Fighters were scheduled to start their UK-Northern Ireland tour, Dave Grohl, Rami Jaffee, and Rick Astley made a surprise appearance at a tiny club in London. It was late Thursday night when my friend pointed me to a series of cryptic messages from NME...
Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse @ The Tuesday Night Music Club
Anglo Americans Beaux Gris Gris (pronounced \ˈbō\ \ˈgrē-(ˌ)grē\ ) & The Apocalypse returned to the Tuesday Night Music Club following a very well received debut appearance in 2018. The Tuesday Night Music Club is a regular event held at The Comrades Club...
Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Photo Story
Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams is marking the recent 20th anniversary of Car Wheels On A Gravel Road with a select number of UK dates, performing the album in its entirety. First stop is The Barbican in London, with additional Gravel Road shows taking place in...
Sunday I’m In Love – With Photos At Glastonbury Festival 2019
Sunday at Glastonbury Festival 2019 promises to be the coolest day of the festival so far. It’s cloudy as I wake in my tent and I put on a thin hoodie as I wander down to grab a coffee. But while the day is cooler, it’s still a warm one out there and the sun...
The Lowdown In Photos From Saturday At Glastonbury Festival 2019
Following a super-hot Friday, Saturday at Glastonbury Festival 2019 is shaping up to be the scorcher of the weekend, but we can’t complain as the alternative is so, so much worse! As we sweat profusely, wait patiently in line for drinking water and find ourselves...
Fantastic Photography From Friday At Glastonbury Festival 2019
With the former Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival (better known these days as Glastonbury Festival) now in its 49th year – and back on this summer following a fallow year during 2018 – the highways & byways, the nooks & crannies, the stages and fields have...
A Photography Experience Out On The Road With Buck & Evans
Buck & Evans are the best Welsh band that not enough people know about. Scrub that. Buck & Evans are simply the best band that not enough people know about. I know about them because I've seen them quite a bit and photographed them quite a bit. I've also just...
A Monday Night @ 100 Club With Alvin Gibbs And The Disobedient Servants
Do you hate Mondays? Do you find it hard to start the week after a heavy weekend? Why don't you go to a punk rock gig? We kicked off this week by going to the legendary 100 Club on Oxford Street where Alvin Gibbs & the Disobedient Servants were playing. The first...
All Roads Lead To All Points East
The first festival of the year for me was All Points East. A last-minute decision to head down meant I didn't get to spend as much time at Victoria Park as I'd have wanted, but I packed the hours I did have with some great music. The weekend lineups were quite a bit...
Nashville’s Next Country Star-In-Waiting RaeLynn Dazzles The Royal Albert Hall
For all you Country Music fans out there looking for more fabulous music to fill your ears, look no further than Texan singer-songwriter and star-in-waiting Racheal Lynn Woodward, better known as RaeLynn. Like a few of the current crop of Country Music artists finding...
UK Foo Fighters: The Dream That Came True
UK Foo Fighters haven’t put out a single album of their work. In fact, they don’t even perform their own work. They're a tribute band of a group that still tour worldwide and sell out stadiums – the mighty Foo Fighters. And yet, they manage to sell out venues across...
