One of the great things about this past year for me has been having the opportunity to work extensively with Chris Cleverley. I think I met Chris for the first time in 2014. I’d gone to the Red Lion Folk club in Birmingham to interview Martin Simpson for Folk Radio UK and as I recall,… Continue reading Working with Chris Cleverley
Filming with Martin Simpson
We headed North on a warm August morning to meet up with legendary guitarist Martin Simpson. The job had been booked earlier in the summer; I was on holiday in Croatia when I got the call and subsequently spent a day sitting on the beach listening to a rough mix of Martin’s excellent new album… Continue reading Filming with Martin Simpson
Filming with The Tweed Project
This one started with a message from Ciaran Algar: Ciaran and I had previously talked about doing something with the Tweed Project around the Cambridge Folk Festival. For reasons I won’t go into here but may get around to blogging about at some point, I didn’t end up going to Cambridge. So it was a… Continue reading Filming with The Tweed Project
Tilly Moses Band, Sam Lyon, Djana Gabrielle at The Big Comfy Bookshop
This evening’s artists travelled in from all directions to entertain the Big Comfy Bookshop audience. Djana Gabrielle came from Glasgow and brought some great songs with her. Sam Lyon, mid-way through her UK tour, came from the Isle of Wight and brought one bloody amazing voice with her! Tilly Moses came from Suffolk and, along… Continue reading Tilly Moses Band, Sam Lyon, Djana Gabrielle at The Big Comfy Bookshop
Lucy May Walker, Hannah Rose Platt & Roswell at The Big Comfy Bookshop
What better way to kick off a glorious bank-holiday weekend than enjoying some live music at my fave acoustic venue. Once again Michael had conjured up a line-up of musical talent guaranteed to put a Good Friday smile on people’s faces… For the (very few) people that read my posts about Big Comfy Bookshop gigs,… Continue reading Lucy May Walker, Hannah Rose Platt & Roswell at The Big Comfy Bookshop
Filming ‘Hidden Things’ with Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage
I’ve been fortunate to have worked with Hannah and Ben on a few different projects now; videos for The Fall, Way Over Yonder and most recently I Met A Man. They’re great fun to hang out with and I’m a massive fan of what they do. It’s beyond my comprehension how anyone can produce music… Continue reading Filming ‘Hidden Things’ with Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage
Filming and photographing Ruth Notman and Sam Kelly
I got a message from Sam last Autumn. He talked about the album he was making with Ruth Notman and needing some photography to support the album and tour launch. Having worked with Sam before, initially on photography and videos for the ‘Pretty Peggy’ album and then later on the video for ‘When The Reivers… Continue reading Filming and photographing Ruth Notman and Sam Kelly
Photographing Moonrakers
January saw me heading down to Oxford to photograph Moonrakers, a folk ensemble that along with their brand new recruit Jacqui, have a bunch of shows booked for 2019 and needed new images to promote the heck out of them. I suppose I’m slightly biased, but the decision to invest in images for any band… Continue reading Photographing Moonrakers
Filming with Ward and Parker
For the first job of the year we started with a cold one! I already knew Ward and Parker; Cliff from the Willows and the various projects that JP’s involved with. I’d also filmed a Big Comfy Session with them last year, so going into this shoot we had the advantage of having worked together… Continue reading Filming with Ward and Parker
Alden Patterson and Dashwood, Melissa Bel and Iona Lane at The Big Comfy Bookshop
My second visit to the Big Comfy Bookshop this year, primarily to check out Alden Patterson and Dashwood who I’d never seen but who BCB’s purveyor Michael had been banging on about since the last time they played at the UK’s hottest acoustic venue. Michael’s musical recommendations have, on occasion, been slightly wayward (we won’t… Continue reading Alden Patterson and Dashwood, Melissa Bel and Iona Lane at The Big Comfy Bookshop