Splendour Studio 2011
At Splendour in the Grass this year i teamed up again with FasterLouder for the Splendour Studio, where we set up a studio backstage to take pictures of the artists. We had a broad theme this year of a Willy Wonka sugar high vibe. Lots of lollies and silly colourful outfits. It was stupid amounts [...]
Splendour Studio – Day 3
Here’s the third and final day of my FasterLouder Splendour Studio photos. One of the highlights was a chance photo opp with jónsi. Although we’d requested a photo with him, we’d been knocked back and he wasn’t on our official schedule. But i saw him wandering backstage, doing a photo with Harpers Bazaar. So i [...]
Splendour Studio – Day 2
By day two of the FasterLouder Splendour Studio i’d just about lost my voice. The combination of festival dust, tiredness and a day of barking instructions took it out of me. So i hoarsley rasped my way through the following days, prodding musicians to do this and that. Here’s my photos from day 2 featuring [...]
Splendour Studio – Day 1
At Splendour in the Grass i had one of the best assignments i’ve ever had – shooting backstage portraits of the bands and artists playing at the festival for FasterLouder. FasterLouder had a tent in the media compound backstage that i set up with a white paper roll and some studio lights (with help from [...]
Splendour Studio
Here’s a couple of preview shots from my time in Woodford shooting artists backstage at Splendour in the Grass for FasterLouder. Over the course of three days i shot portraits of Florence and the Machine, jónsi, Mumford and Sons, Scissor Sisters, Foals, Surfer Blood, Ash, Temper Trap, Band of Horses, Wolfmother, Passion Pit, The Vines, [...]
Splendour in the Grass photos
I posted the crowd photos from Splendour, now here’s the artists on stage. Folks like Sigur Ros, The Vines, The Wombats, The Grates, Cold War Kids, Laura Marling, Vampire Weekend, Hadouken!, Tricky, bluejuice, Polyphonic Spree, Band of Horses and more. Loads more in the Splendour in the Grass photo gallery.
Pressed against the barrier
Here’s a bunch of photos of the crowd from Splendour in the Grass. I’ve got a lot of admiration for these kids that manage to squeeze themselves right to the front of the barrier at a music festival. You’ve got to deal with hours of waiting, dehydration, not eating, not going to the loo, sweaty [...]
Splendour photos: The People, The Mud
The people – the life of any festival. This is the final installment of my Splendour in the Grass photos. About a dozen of my shots were in Drum this week to accompany their Splendour review, but it’s nice to be able to share the whole lot of them here. The mud was everywhere. I [...]
Splendour photos: Scissor Sisters, Wolfmother, Gerling
More photos of Scissor Sisters, Wolfmother, Gerling and Brian Wilson. That’s my last batch of artist photos – how good was the lineup!
Splendour photos: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, You Am I, The Presets, Jose Gonzales
More photos of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, You Am I, Jose Gonzales and The Presets. It’s hard to take a bad photo of the the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Splendour photos: Sonic Youth, Van She, The Zutons
More photos of Sonic Youth, The Zutons and Van She in their own album. Apologies for all the large images. Quick question: would you prefer less large images on the blog homepage? I assume (wrongly) that everyone’s got broadband these days.
Splendour photos: TV on The Radio, Mogwai, Dungen and more
I’m going to stop procrastinating and start posting my Splendour in The Grass festival photos to the gallery. First up is an album featuring TV on The Radio, Mogwai, Something For Kate and Grinspoon. A lot of people told rated TV on the Radio the highlight of the festival. They were really good – and [...]
Some Splendour festival photos
I’m back from Byron after a lovely week in the sun and rain. Splendour was as great as expected, so many good acts and good people to spend time with. Despite the mud, which claimed my only pair of shoes, the weather was actually quite good over the weekend, with hardly any rain. I took [...]