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...
The Borderline: A Retrospective In Words & Photography
It was with great sadness that we recently learned the Borderline, a mainstay of the live music scene in central London, will permanently close its doors this summer. It seems that spiralling Soho ground rents coupled with the seemingly never ending disruption caused...
French Quartet Juniore In Photographs @ The Stereo, Glasgow
French quartet Juniore are back touring Europe this year and I knew that I could not miss their show this time. Having previously played at The Mono in Glasgow in 2018, they were now at The Stereo, which they affectionately called “The Mono’s older sister” on stage....
Wolf Alice Bring Visions Of A Life To A Close At The Brixton Academy
London rock outfit Wolf Alice have had an incredible 18 months with what was always going to be the challenging successor to breakaway hit debut record My Love Is Cool. That debut saw the North London-based four-piece realise years of hard work and building up their...
BlogtoberFest 2018 With Babyteeth, Ennor & Lavender Hills In Photography
Rockshot Magazine hosted a night of new music played for the third year at Lost In The Manor's great festival #BlogtoberFest 2018. 31 nights of music from online taster makers and influencers. On the bill for us this year were Ennor, Lavender Hills and Babyteeth....
Swinging From Wooden Beams At London Tattoo Convention
London Tattoo Convention is an annual event which celebrates not only the great history and art of tattooing but also another side of life, for the slightly more curious, possibly naughty, but most definitely the creative, daring person in all of us. You’ll find...
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society At Proud Galleries
Proud Galleries, is hosting The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary multi-format release of The Kinks’ sixth studio album, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. On display is a selection of...
Slough Feg In Photographs @ Bannerman’s Bar, Edinburgh
When Slough Feg announced their summer European tour for 2018, it was an unexpected but welcome surprise for fans of the California-based power metal band. Having started in the 90s, Slough Feg are still touring across the U.S. and Europe. They played for the first...
Queen Kwong’s Secret is Out In Photo’s @ Forum Kentish Town
Queen Kwong aka Carré Calloway and band may not be new to the scene but they are one of the best-kept secrets in music. Discovered by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor when Carré was seventeen they have joined NIN on major tours. At the O2 Forum, they are...
Nic Cester A Photo Story @ Pretty Green, Carnaby Street
When we arrive at Pretty Green for Cester’s solo album launch – entitled Sugar Rush - and the vibe of the venue feels very much like something you would have expected to find Jet at in their earliest days: a small, incredibly intimate setting filled with instruments...
Keep On Trucking (Dancing, Prancing, Sweating) At Truck Festival 2018
Another weekend of almost pure sunshine fixed the woes of last year’s Truck Festival mud bath. Over the three days of the 2017 festival the rain barely stopped in Abingdon, Oxfordshire leaving the whole site flooded with mud by the end of the weekend. With a heavy...
2000trees Festival Rocks The Cotswolds
Where do you start to describe a weekend like 2000trees festival? Blistering heat, and a line-up that puts most of this year’s ‘bigger’ festivals to shame. It was fantastic. The atmosphere around the site is so chilled and laid back. With the site being relatively...
The Struts Bring Manchester To The Boil
The blisters have healed. My voice has gone back to normal. And my neck no longer hurts every time I move. It's only taken three weeks for my body to go back to normal after seeing The Struts in a tiny Manchester club called Gorilla. That's because these fine young...
Stone Free Festival In Photographs
Not every music lover is automatically an outdoor festival goer. The idea of seeing different bands over a weekend might be appealing, but the prospect of torrential rain, mud, temperatures of 30 degrees, or sleeping in a tent can be enough to stop people from going...
Roger Hodgson: Over Oslo
Roger Hodgson ('the voice of Supertramp' as the tagline on his tour posters reminds you) tends to play one or two shows a year in the UK - normally in May at the Royal Albert Hall. I make it an annual pilgrimage, as I love the music and I love the man. This year, the...
The Darkness Out Of The Shadows
Last week I was lucky enough to photograph The Hollywood Vampires, featuring Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp. With such a star-studded cast, it's no surprise that they occupied the majority of the RockShot photography real estate. But (shhh... don't tell...
Camden Rocks 2018 Festival Review & Photo Story
Camden Rocks is back once more to showcase the best Indie music the festivals organizer Chris McCormackcan find. The festival is the current version of what used to be The Camden Crawl only with far better organization than the Crawl used to have. We got to Camden...
Frankie & The Witch Fingers From LA To Shacklewell In Photography
On this exceptionally hot and sticky bank holiday Sunday, The Shacklewell Arms (where else?!) hosts Frankie And The Witch Fingers, from LA, who are on the second week of a four week European tour. You might think it's going to be some good psych/garage...
Pop Punk Pile Up In Photographs
You might expect a festival to be in a huge field with onsite camping and some large marquees for the bands to perform in for the weekend. But Pop Punk Pile Up took place at The Venue in Selby, a small place with a long bar, on the outskirts of Leeds. Riff Media ran...
Manic Street Preachers Strike A Chord
Thirty-two years after forming in Caerphilly, and some 23 years after being forcibly reduced to a trio following the still unsolved and mysterious disappearance of guitarist Richey Edwards, Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers continue to grow stronger as a unit,...
Callaghan and Jesse Terry At Bush Hall, London
Callaghan and Jesse Terry have toured together in the USA, so it made absolute sense for these two to tour the UK together. Originally from the UK, Callaghan moved to Atlanta in summer 2010 to tour and record with grammy nominee Shawn Mullins after they connected via...
Synth Metal Aerobics With Carpenter Brut
If you’re a synthesizer, wailing guitar, thundering drums, 80s horror movie music obsessed type human then you’ve gotta go listen to Carpenter Brut right now! Carpenter Brut is French synthwave artist Franck Hueso who’s currently on tour with latest release Leather...
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