Last weekend I took a little break from taking photos at gigs and went and enjoyed a great day’s music at the Walpurgis Nacht festival at the Windmill In Brixton completely camera free. It’s a really lovely, welcoming venue with a lot of sweaty character (and by the end of the evening, sweaty characters too),…

When approached to photograph a Pit Party at a secret warehouse location in north London I learnt something about myself. The bit of me that said yes, more or less straight away, was clearly completely bonkers. You see a Pit Party involves a band playing in the round, there’s no stage, they’re surrounded by the…

When a Rough Trade in-store sells out way before the event you know you’re going to be in for a bit of a musical treat… That or you’re watching a band that’s pressed all the industry juggernaut buttons to become “Hotly-Tipped” and is in the process of becoming the “Next Big Thing”. Given that Explosions…

Before last Thursday’s end of tour spectacular from Plague Vendor and Love Buzzard I’d never been to the Old Blue Last. The pub at street level was loud and brash and rammed, with a DJ pumping out the Michael Jackson classics guaranteed to get those care-free enough to be celebrating the fact that there was…