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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