Eliza Doolittle

Last night I got the chance to photograph the delightful Eliza Doolittle. While i'm happy with the shots I was in no mood to be there as i'd spent the day working dosed up on cold & flu tablets and drinking hot blackcurrant. Needless to say I wasn't best pleased to find at least 10 other photographers plus 2 guys preparing to film the gig.

This may sound silly but I was preparing myself to shoot, whilst feeling ill, for the first time. I assumed that my concentration level would be the same as it had been all day, pretty much non-existent but nonetheless I convinced myself that i'd rather do my best to shoot for 3 songs rather than miss out altogether.

Having got home I decided there was no rush to editing my pictures so sat down to relax and hope i'd feel better. A few hours later I realised I wasn't going to get to sleep any time soon and thought I may as well upload the shots and perhaps have a little look to see if i'd got anything good. Next thing I know it's 3am and i've edited everything i'd selected.

I have no idea what i'll shoot next but as I said on Wednesday I hope it's something soon!

As always follow the links (on the side) to facebook, flickr or my website to check out the results of my saturday night with Eliza.

Interpol & The Pigeon Detectives

I've not posted anything for a little over 2 months now and no one is more angry about that than me.

It's not that I haven't done anything worth talking about but with my website, facebook and twitter to update plus the sending out of images to anyone using them by the time that's all done I usually either don't have the time or just don't want to update something else.

You'll be pleased to know i'm attempting to work (in collaboration) on a new site which will incorporate this/a blog.

I shot The Pigeon Detectives last night, which went a lot better than I expected considering how much the lead singer runs and jumps around.

A couple of weeks ago I also shot Interpol, which I still can't quite believe. It was a bit awkward as despite the small pit the middle of it was sectioned off, I assume it had something to do with the microphones as it was being recorded for XFM. Luckily there weren't too many photographers but it was still pretty crammed. Not that i'm particularly bothered as i'm really pleased with my shots.

Here's hoping it's not too long before I get to shoot something else!

NME Awards Show

Wednesday night I shot the first of the o2 Shepherd's Bush Empire's NME awards shows. Los Campesinos! headlined with GROUPLOVE and Summer Camp supporting.

What's better than a Puppy?

I went home for Christmas and my uncle has got there lovely new dogs.

As always there are more on Facebook so make sure you check them out.

Cash

Last weekend I made my way to Islington to shoot the ridiculously good Cash - THE best Johnny Cash tribute band in the world!

You should definitely check them out if you're ever in the same town...I personally can't wait to see them (and shoot them) again!

KT & Slow Club

Despite hoping to get back into this whole photography lark big time I have, for whatever reason, just not managed it. I don't think there has been a time, since I first picked up a camera, where I have shot so little. (Technically that's not true as I can shoot hundreds of frames of some bands, but you know what I mean).

There used to be a time when I could go anywhere with my camera and come back with a nice selection of pictures which i'd look at, be pleased with, show my family and some friends and put them on flickr. But now, it's all changed. It's not that I couldn't take the pictures, i'm not lacking inspiration particularly. I just seem to be finding it easy to ignore. I never thought i'd say "that'd make a good picture" but have no intention of shooting it.

I don't want to sound, well, I don't know really but what i'm thinking is that with the more serious I have taken photography and the more i've tried to push it into becoming my career, the more i've become worried about what I post.

I can shoot a band at 9pm and have a good selection edited before bed but rather than post them straight away I seem to dwell on them and the thing that bothers me is that I don't really know why i'm doing it.

Anyway...

I took some pictures the other day, it'd be nice if some people looked at them. I only saw 3 songs of KT Tunstall but I was not offended by what I heard (that may not sound like a compliment but it really is, doubt it'll make it onto a poster for her album though). Slow Club were...I don't even know. Amazing? Possibly. I would definitely see them again, I would probably consider paying as well (yep, really) and you don't get much of a higher accolade than that, not from me anyway!

Anyway (Part ii)...

KT -

Slow Club -

Cheers

In the words of Bjork...

It's oh so quiet...

Well I have been at least, but I intend to change that (again!).

Right well first of all I got shortlisted (yay!) for the NME photo awards thing (linked) that I posted about a while ago, it was my Paloma Faith shot and it was doing rather well but has since dropped off a tad so i'd be ever so greatful if you could check it out.

Last week I shot Blood Red Shoes at Camden's Electric Ballroom for The Girls Are, it was my first time shooting for them but hopefully not the last!

You can see the shots on their website, on mine or on Facebook.

I'm hoping to update the whole website/blog thing and maybe make it into one easy to access hub of photographic enlightenment (or something) or if that's too hard I might just jazz it up a bit.

Also watch this space for shots from Lemonade Live and my shoot with 50ft Woman! They will, fingers crossed, be up very soon!

Until then why don't you tweet me up, buttercup? - www.twitter.com/adamrbrownphoto