Live Review: Alice in Chains @ Ally Pally.
After two promising performances by special guests Walking Papers with former drummer of Screaming Trees, Barrett Martin and bassist Duff McKagan and the eccentric on-stage presence of the Swedish band Ghost, the band that Dave Grohl played the magic wands on their...
Interview: Gary Lucas. Grace, Gods and Golem.
Gary Lucas is back in the UK, more than 30 years after first landing here from the US to tour with Captain Beefheart. He’s travelled the world in the intervening years, writing songs and playing guitar with a plethora of both legendary and obscure artists. This time...
Live Review: Tomoyasu Hotei @ Shepherds Bush Empire.
Tomoyasu Hotei, who last played London at the Roundhouse in Dec 2012, was back at Shepherds Bush Empire with his Electric Samurai concert on another cold winter's evening. That didn’t stop his Japanese and London fans being there for a night of exciting live music....
Live Review: Kodaline @ Shepherds Bush Empire.
Kodaline at the Shepherds Bush Empire demonstrated a faultless, multitude of musical immensity, from the lyrics, the hooks to the emotion that sits behind their music. Laura Bradley went to the show to photograph and review for Rockshot. Their performance was heart...
Photography: Simple Minds @ KOKO. Virgin 40th.
Simple Minds played a special show at London's Koko as part of a string of gigs marking the 40th anniversary of Virgin Records. With the band playing the capital's vast O2 Arena at the end of the month, this was a relatively intimate show and a special treat for fans....
Interview: The Selecter – Back On Your Radio.
The Selecter was an integral part of the original 2 Tone scene in the UK with hits such as Too Much Pressure and On My Radio. With a major tour coming up in early 2014 and a new album just out, the band took to the road for a few dates supporting Public Image Limited....
Live: Steve Hackett. Genesis Revisted.
The Birmingham Symphony Hall is one of the best venues in the world for listening to live musical acts, it features sound boards purposely positioned and when looking upwards from the stalls the roof structure reflects like an upside down hull of a dream liner ship....
Live: Nick Cave @ Hammersmith Apollo
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds kicked off the first of a three night run at west London's Hammersmith Apollo on 26 October 2013. Dressed in an elegant black suit, Cave paced the stage with his familiar intensity of expression. Photographers were only allowed to shoot one...
Live Review: Graham Parker & The Rumour
Graham Parker & The Rumour performed in London for the first time since 1979 and had a set list to thrill. With lights bright for the opening numbers of Fools Gold and White Honey the over capacity crowd, I mean it was crammed at the Shepherds Bush Empire, went wild....
Photography: Marky Ramone & Andrew WK.
Marky Ramone brought his Blitzkrieg to London's Electric Ballroom on 23 October 2013. With Andrew WK taking on vocals, the four piece band exuded lots of energy - and hair - from the start. With a two page setlist, the crowd were in for a packed and sweaty show....
Live Review: Al Stewart @ Fairfield Halls.
It is always nice to photograph your heroes and Al Stewart is one of mine. The people at Fairfield Halls in Croydon made it all possible with their bend over backwards care, thought and great customer service. Al has been around since the mid 1960's when he got his...
Live Review: Public Image Limited @ Shepherds Bush.
Shepherd’s Bush Empire is packed out with fans young and old on this Monday night as Public Image Limited take to the stage. Opening with ‘Deeper Water’, the band stampede through a set that includes the classic ‘This Is Not A Love Song’ (thrown in early), ‘Warrior’...
Live Review: The Selecter @ Shepherds Bush.
The Selecter is an interesting choice to support Public Image Limited at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. The obvious link is that John Lydon was first coming to prominence at the forefront of London punk in the 1970s when Coventry’s 2 Tone ska act The Selecter were also...
Live Review: Joseph Arthur @ Heath Street Church.
It’s a rainy Friday night in north London and tucked away behind Hampstead tube station there is a church filling up with expectant faces and hushed voices. The congregation are not here to pray, however, but to worship the musical poetry of one Joseph Arthur. Adorned...
Interview: Joseph Arthur. The Ballad of Joseph Arthur.
Discovered by Peter Gabriel in the 1990s, Joseph Arthur’s musical pilgrimage since has seen him release ten albums, form ‘supergroups’ with high profile musicians, have his work covered by virtual household names such as Michael Stipe (REM) and Chris Martin (Coldplay)...
Photography: Leonard Cohen @ 02 Arena
Leonard Cohen opened his London show at O2 Arena with the heartfelt 'Dance Me To The End Of Love'. As part of his ongoing and extensive world tour, the master of poetic song arrived on stage in an almost spritely manner, with a band all sharply dressed in suits....
Photography: The B-52s
The B-52s partied on down at the Indigo 02 in Greenwich, London and I just had to go and photograph them. They started their set with Planet Claire with Kate and Fred swapping vocals and vocal effects. B52s live in London at the Indigo 02 on Friday 16th . August 2013....
Live Review: Jello Biafra @ Dingwalls
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine at Dingwalls, London on 12 August 2013. As the appointed hour of 9.30pm slips by, the tiny, crowded Dingwalls venue in north London begins to swirl with an agitated air and calls for Jello Biafra to take to the stage....
Live: Blondie @ The Roundhouse
Blondie's 2013 UK tour took them to Camden's legendary The Roundhouse on 7 July and Kew The Music festival on 9 July. Imelda Michalczyk went along to photograph for Rockshot and Rebeladelica The band were promoting their new album Panic of Girls. Opening both times...
Photography: Patti Smith @ Empire Shepherds Bush.
Patti Smith was photographed by Rockshot photographer Kim Ford at the Shepherds Bush Empire. Kim is another of our new featured photographers this week and it was great of her to step in and help because we had photographers at three different music gigs on the night....
Photography: Joe Satriani @ Indigo. London
Joe Satriani is a brilliant guitarist and puts on a brilliant show. The pictures were from the Indigo O2 in Greenwich, London but we have a review from the gig in Wolverhampton https://rockshotmagazine.com/7822/live-review-joe-satriani-civic-hall-wolverhampton/ With...
Live Review: Joe Satriani @ Civic Hall. Wolverhampton.
Orange lights flash, Scottish mists arise, as an opening drum solo shakes the floor of the Wolverhampton Civic. This is the same venue which spawned the likes of Robert Plant, who with his Band of Joy, featuring his best pal and drummer John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham literally...
Photography: Neil Young @ O2 Arena. London.
I love Neil Young. I do not love his artist/concert manager who made all the photographers stand behind a red line in the corner of the pit and gave me a very narrow shooting angle behind a camera man. However we have what we have and must get on with it and all in...
Live: Todd Rundgren @ Shepherds Bush Empire London.
The electronic pioneer returns. With help from guitar maestro, journalist and educator Jesse Gresse and The Tubes drummer Prairie Prince, Todd Rundgren blew our minds with a perfectly choreographed live DJ performance. Synchronising his Reason 7, iPad and Rack...
Live: Todd Rundgren Official State Visit
Todd Rundgren is my all-time favourite artist, musician and talker. He bought his State show to London and Shepherds Bush Empire to a less than sell out crowd but put on a fantastic performance full of energy and theatre that belied his 65 years. The set was dominated...
Photography: Bob Mould @ The Electric Ballroom
Bob Mould is one of my all-time favourite guitarists and performers. I was at his first solo shows in London when Workbook came out. Then (1989) he climbed to the top of the massive speakers columns and played I See A Little Light. Now he still moves around at an...
Live Review: Emmanuel & Taylor @ The Robin 2.
In 1910 a boy was born to a family of nomadic gypsies camped outside the village of Liberchies in Belgium. By the time of his death, only 42 years later in 1952, this boy, Jean Reinhardt, had become world famous as “Django”, possibly the greatest of jazz...
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