More Kit and Weddings

The thing I most like to do (with obvious exceptions too profane to mention) was achieved this week when I added to my range of kit with two more Canon lenses - one of which was put to immediate use at one of those events I least like to do (a wedding). This was for a long-term mate of mine Chris and his lovely wife Simone so was a freeby from me and the pictures look great, he modestly states, so all is well. I must berate his planning though - arranging a wedding that I am photographing at the same time as the first Arsenal home game of the season is not the work of an intelligent person and means me hunting around frantically for someone to take my season ticket. No gigs this week - it's all very quiet and the day job is cutting a swathe under my ability to seek out some as I am managing numerous projects at the moment.

Recently very proud to have my work featured on the official John Barrowman site (http://www.johnbarrowman.com/fanzone/galleries/concerts/uktour09/gallery.shtml). He certainly knows how to work an audience - women screaming at a gay man always makes me smile - and his show is a highly entertaining experience which hopefully I captured, that was the intention for sure (more shots in my own concert section here). I also had a shot featured in Classic Rock of Airrace which I took a while back at The Twist in Colchester - now this is a band worth checking out, their shows have been getting better and better and they are some of the nicest people in rock too so all the more worthy. They are back together after a long time apart and sound better than ever - far rockier than the original album. I've also covered them at Islington and The Cambridge Rock Festival and hope to continue to do so in the future.

Then there was the great pleasure of recently shooting the Jack Bruce, Robin Trower, Gary Husband show at Shepherds Bush Empire - all were in great form and Jack can still launch those vocals despite being two years into the pension period (66 for those who cant be bothered to work it out). The majority of their material was drawn from their recent album Seven Moons but it was when they ventured into Cream territory that the crowd erupted into life with an 11 1/2 minute epic take of Sunshine of Your Love being the highlight of the four Cream tracks played (run close by the wonderful White Room it must be said). Another highlight of this show was the support act, a young lady called Joanne Shaw Taylor, who absolutely rocked the joint with a tight blues set led by her own majestic guitar playing. A couple of my pictures from this show were apparently going to appear alongside a Sunday Times review (23/8) of The Seven Moons album, but I couldn't get a copy anywhere late on Sunday, the first chance I had, so I don't know if it went in? Does anyone else know?

Cheers for now
Les