About a year ago I took my new camera to the perfect day out – a one day music and beer festival courtesy of our local Battersea brewery (Sambrooks) and reignited a bit of a passion I’d long given up on – gig photography! Back in my heady Cardiff days I used to photograph bands…

“Wow! What a lot of Pedals!” Was more or less my first thought on arriving at Rough Trade to see Desert Mountain Tribe tooling up the stage for their set. Given there were only three of them on stage they seemed to have enough wiring for a band many times larger… And even brought their…

You can read about a band and their music, hear their songs on the radio, and still be completely wrong about what you get when they get up on the stage to do their thing… Sometimes that’s not a pleasant surprise and more than once I’ve found myself half way through the second track looking…

I walked in to the Rough Trade store as Night Beats were sound checking and instinctively found my steps falling in with the beat. The combination of the compulsive immediacy drumming of James Traeger layered with bass rhythms of Jakob Bowden reaches out and grabs a hold of that part of the hind brain that…