Backstage
These are my last photographs from San Sebastian, and were taken backstage just before the gig, but you can catch the final tour diares of one of the orchestra’s trumpet players here.
Rehearsal & Concert
The Phil play their final concert in Spain tonight with a 5 hour performance of Wagner’s Parsifal in Santiago De Campostella and with such a large scale performance, there’s been a lot of large scale rehearsals and the full story from these can be read up on at trumpeter Brendan Ball’s blog. Meanwhile these photographs [...]
The Phil on Tour
Sometimes I wish that orchestras still wore them Viennese style wigs and white stocking outfits and had to keep them on at all times so that I could photograph them on tour and make it look like they were an orchestra on tour as getting anything more than the rehearsal/concert routine is the hardest thing [...]
Keeping it Rhyl in Donostia
I’ve always had a soft spot for retro fairgrounds but throw in a funicular railway and a vista panoramica and I’m walking the length of a very long bay, in the heat of a Spanish morning with an orchestra sized hangover just to get there. San Sebastian, Donostia is a bay and a half and [...]
Basqueing
I’m in northern Spain with The Phil and currently awaiting hotel style internet to upload photographs to the Echo picture desk. I’ve been to see Vasily lead the band in a brilliant start to a Spanish tour and along the way, and it’s only been 24 hours, I’ve climbed a hill in a town that [...]
The Phil On Tour
The last time I went on a trip with a band, which was to Texas back in March, it was like herding cats so I’m looking forward to seeing how you actually get an 80 piece orchestra from it’s home at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool to a concert platform in Spain as much as [...]
Stock & Print Sales
This has been a while coming, as there’s been a fair bit of work to go into it, but I’m finally launching my new site dedicated to stock and print sales which basically means you can license photographs for either personal or commercial uses as well as buying prints for display in both homes and [...]
Ladytron in Budapest
I’ve just been digging out some old Ladytron photographs for their forthcoming ‘best of’ and I found this shot taken in Budapest and I’d forgotten about the other photographers at the gig and how one of them had a bracket mounted flash and even a tripod and he actually stayed in that position for the [...]
Westport
After going through my recent photographs from Ireland, I thought I’d look to see what I had scanned in from other visits but I only seem to have these two old shots from the Westport horse fair form about 15 years ago. I’m also testing out some new offline blog editor as posting online sometimes [...]
Mayo
It’s amazing what 24 hours away, 6 pints of Guinness and a cup of tea in your mum and dad’s house can do for you but that’s what I got to do last week when I went on a very last minute overnight trip to Ireland.
Show Some Love
Show some love is a term used a lot on modelling websites when models ask for people to tag and leave notes on their photographs and the more notes you get, well the more popular you are. Well, sort of and only in a virtual way but on the nighttime streets of New Orleans you show your love by chucking strings of beads at anybody you like the look of.
The Drums
Whilst clearing up my desktop (the virtual one), I came across a folder of images I intended to blog from the States so I’m going to put all three blogs up today and then that’ll be the end of it. Honest!
Troy
At a late night stop at an Arkansas gas station the boredom of scanning the crisps, sweets and dodgy microwave food on offer just to delay the prospect of getting back into the van was briefly interrupted with a straight off the tv style cop dropping his coffee when an alert came through on his radio,
Back to New Orleans
Whilst the shocking news of the Mexican Gulf oil slick has been all over the news in the last couple of weeks, what hasn’t been widely reported is the fact that large parts Nashville were flooded this week in storms which caused havoc across large parts of southern U.S. states. Having friends in the city [...]
New Orleans Marching band
Ever since seeing Live And Let Die as a kid, I’d always wanted to see one of them marching jazz funeral bands that they have in New Orleans and on leaving my hotel on the second night I got to see on for real.
Lucky Dogs
Everything in New Orleans is the most authentic, biggest, original, oldest, bestest ever though I think the Lucky Dog stalls are a bit of a New Orleans tradition even if they are just hot dog sales men! I saw it written in some tourist guide that if you come to New Orleans, you really have [...]
Silver Statue
I don’t know if he was giving me the v’s or just asking for two dollars for taking his photo but I just smiled and carried on, though I did keep a pocket of single dollar bills for passing onto buskers and street artists when taking their photos which I think is only fair. The [...]
Made Up
I don’t quite know what this lady’s talent was but just being one of the great characters of Bourbon Street was good enough for me and, although I was all ready to tip her, she got to me first with ‘gal’s gotta make a living now’ with her hand outstreched.
Saint Patrick’s Day
These photographs were taken at the home of Kevin and Kathy in Austin on Saint Patrick’s Day when they cooked us Mexican food and the band played on in their yard until the very early hours.
Take my photo
Whilst the rest of Bourbon Street are begging for beads, one happy kiddo spots the photographer!
Hello, do you do mail order?
This was taken only a week after St.Patrick’s Day in New Orleans so maybe they had the green ones on special offer that week.
Dancing In The Street
Dancing in Bourbon Street, New Orleans to be precise and he was dancing to the amazing sounds of one of the amazing marching jazz bands.
