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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
What I’m listening to….
A regularly updated scratchpad showing ten albums that I’m currently listening to. Right now, this is the music that’s inspiring me to keep doing what I’m doing… Karine Polwart ‘Laws Of Motion’ One of my…