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Liverpool photographer David J Colbran covers  UK's largest free celebration of African music and culture

Music photography at Africa Oye 2024

Africa Oye is done and dusted - wow what a great weekend. Saturday's music and line up was a killer. So coming up a few highlights of the artists and some ground views. Anyways, my favourite festival and a highlight of my year for sure.

Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Music
Tags: AfricaOye, Oye, world, music, live, festivals, gigs

Published on Wed Jul 3, 2024

Liverpool photographer raids the archives for a selection of images of front man Maxi Jazz from Faithless

RIP Maxi Jazz

Raiding the archives for a selection of images of front man Maxi Jazz from Faithless, who sadly passed away at the end of 2022

Categories: Photography, Music
Tags: music, file, Glastonbury, festivals, live, faithless, maxijazz, gigs

Published on Tue Jan 3, 2023

Liverpool music photographer David J Colbran covers the Africa Oye Festival for specialist photography agency.

Africa Oye 2022 - world music photography in Liverpool

As I always say, Africa Oye is my favourite festival and probably the nearest, being about 15 minutes walk from my home. Slightly delayed, is the 30th anniversary of the festival a few weeks ago.

Categories: Photography, Music
Tags: AfricaOye, world, music, live, gigs

Published on Mon Jul 4, 2022

Live music photography on a hotel rooftop in the centre of Liverpool - highlights from north-west based music photographer David J Colbran

The Real People, The Cheap Thrills: Shankly Hotel, Liverpool

An amazing gig that I was lucky enough to be asked to photograph - old friends The Real People and new kids on the block The Cheap Thrills - legendary night.

Categories: Photography, Music
Tags: gigs, live, music,

Published on Sat May 18, 2019

File pictures of the late lead singer of UK rave electronic band The Prodigy Keith Flint performing live at Glastonbury music festival in 2009. Available to licence.

RIP: Keith Flint - file picture Glastonbury 2009

Sad news to hear that Keith Flint, lead singer with The Prodigy is dead - I took a series of live images of the band for an agency at the Glastonbury festival back in 2009.

Categories: Photography, Music
Tags: Glastonbury, music, live, gigs, festivals

Published on Fri May 3, 2019

File pictures of Oliver Mtukudzi available - taken in 2009 in Liverpool by world music photographer David J Colbran

RIP: Oliver Mtukudzi file picture 2009

Sad to hear that legendary jazz musician Oliver Mtukudzi has died - some images from the African Soul Rebels UK tour with Baaba Maal in 2009.

Categories: Photography, Music
Tags: world, music, live, gigs

Published on Thu Jan 24, 2019

Images by Liverpool photographer David J Colbran from the UK's biggest free festival in Sefton Park

Africa Oye 2017 - world music festival in Liverpool

The UK's largest free celebration of African music and culture takes place annually in Liverpool. Beginning in 1992 as a series of small gigs in the city centre, the event has gone from strength to strength, moving to its present Sefton Park home in 2002 to cope with demand

Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Music
Tags: AfricaOye, world, music, live, gigs

Published on Mon Jul 10, 2017

Tinariwen are poet-guitarists and soul rebels from the Southern Sahara desert. Their music expresses the aspirations of their people, the Kel Tamashek or 'Touareg' of the southern Sahara desert.

Tinariwen - live photographs from gig in Liverpool

Tinariwen are poet-guitarists and soul rebels from the Southern Sahara desert. Their music expresses the aspirations of their people, the Kel Tamashek or 'Touareg' of the southern Sahara desert.

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Tags: Tinariwen, world, music, live, gigs

Published on Wed Mar 8, 2017

Photos from the world music festival by Liverpool based photographer David J Colbran

Africa Oye 2016

Liverpool's Africa Oye festival returned to Sefton Park on June 18-19, 2016. The 24th festival of African and Caribbean music and culture is the biggest of its kind in the UK.

Categories: Photography, Music
Tags: AfricaOye, world, music, live, gigs

Published on Wed Jun 22, 2016