Well, the first version of the new-look website is up and running, with the first gallery of pictures for you to look at. The gallery is just a small selection of the pictures I took at the fantastic ATOM Live! event at the O2 Academy in Bristol a couple of weeks ago. Five locally-based (Bristol) bands played alongside a touring band from Norwich. The standard of all six performances was really high, and I was very grateful to have been invited along to take pictures.
As well as shooting the performances, I managed to get a few minutes with most of the bands backstage, and shot a handful of posed pictures, which I hope some of them will want to use for their own promotional material. One of the bands, Punch Drunk (who were awesome on-stage, and really nice off-stage, just like the rest of the bands) were a bit rushed though, I didn’t get to shoot them until they’d finished playing, so they were naturally a bit hot, and there was only a short gap until the next band played, so I’m arranging to meet up with them sometime in the near future, to do a proper session with them so they have some really good pictures for their website and stuff.
Shooting bands is definitely a lot of fun – especially for me as an occasional musician, and I’m hoping that I’ll be able to build on the experience from ATOM Live and do more work in that particular field. And you never know – one day soon when one or more of the six bands is hugely famous, I might get to take pictures of them again.