HAIM Brought Debut LP To London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Following a storming headline set as part of this year's fabulous All Points East festival at East London's Victoria Park, L.A.-based sister rock trio HAIM announced a last minute show at West London's 2,000-capacity Shepherd's Bush Empire venue to celebrate the...
Maggie Rogers Sparkles In Other Stage Return At Glastonbury 2023
Maggie Rogers, one ridiculously sunny Saturday afternoon in June at Glastonbury could have equally been at a little party where she performed in her back garden. If her garden was big enough to fit a few thousand people in. She is comfortable here, visibly enjoying...
Outstanding Performance By Tash Sultana At The Hammersmith Apollo
I was happy to find that despite this gig taking place on one of the hardest days of the year to fill a venue, the Monday after Glastonbury, Tash Sultana managed to almost sell out the Hammersmith Apollo. This was testament to the fervor their fan base feels for Tash...
Guns N’ Roses Bring The Energy And The Hits To Glastonbury 2023
L.A.-hailing hard rock legends Guns N' Roses come with both their famous hits and legacy of, well, destruction if you pardon the pun. The band formed in the mid-1980's when the band L.A. Guns needed a new vocalist and found him by way of Axel Rose, and so Guns N'...
Florence + The Machine Delight At Belsonic 2023
Belsonic Festival, held annually in June, has year by year brought global superstars to its stage at Ormeau Park. This outdoor festival embraces the Northern Irish weather, taking place rain or shine! And with only one stage, you are guaranteed not to miss any of the...
RAYE Wows The Crowd With Her Debut Glastonbury Appearance
The sun had long gone over the yardarm by the time RAYE’s took her turn on Glastonbury Festival's famous Pyramid Stage. Saturday saw temperatures pushing 30 degrees Celsius with the crowd already suitably warmed up from Rick Astley’s rousing midday set. [gallery...
Rick Astley Isn’t Gonna Give You Up At Glastonbury 2023
Picture the scene, you are a 15-year-old learning to play drums in your dad's garage and dreaming of one day playing the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival. Fast forward (unless that is you, now) to June 2023 enter Rick Astley, who at 57, finally realised the dream...
Carly Rae Jepsen Really, Really, Really Likes You At Glastonbury 2023
A Friday afternoon in the blazing sunshine is the perfect time to showcase all the pop tunes, Carly Rae Jepsen has many to offer. I knew a couple of the big songs and I will happily bop along to Call Me Maybe (2012) whenever the opportunity arises, now I will be...
Royal Blood Blow Eardrums For Glastonbury 2023 Pyramid Stage Set
Brightonian rock duo Royal Blood have been in the press for all the wrong reasons recently, their scathing treatment of a lacklustre audience response to their brand of bass-driven rock at the recent BBC Big Weekend last month had them defending their scolding of...
Arctic Monkeys’ Glastonbury 2023 Headline Show Proves Divisive
The Alex Turner-led, Sheffield-hailing rock quartet are famous not just for the hits that made them huge and six #1-charting albums (plus their latest that peaked at #2), but also their attitude towards their industry and bravado of their frontman. They have equally...
Return To Form For Friday At Glastonbury Festival 2023 In Photos
While the gates at Worthy Farm might open to ticket-holders from 9am of the Wednesday morning ahead of Glastonbury Festival's mammoth weekend of festivities, and music can be found across many of the area stages across the site, music on the main stages kicks off in...
Ber Is More Than Halfway At The Lower Third
Berit Dybing, known to her growing fanbase on both sides of the Atlantic as Ber has been on the rise since the release of her debut song Bad For Me just two years ago now. In that time, she has been both writing and developing her live performance in addition to...
Bad Nerves Warm Up Koko … And Then Some
While audiences are generally receptive to opening acts, the main act is why they handed over their cash, why they queued up in the rain for hours to get a spot at the front. And so when an opening act has the crowd bouncing so wildly, throwing around £7 pints of beer...
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...
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