All posts with the tag "music"
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
In 2006 I was contacted by a design agency here on Merseyside to help them photograph their forthcoming debut album cover. Exciting times !
Categories: Photography, Music
Tags: music, album, promo, cover
Published on Tue Oct 10, 2023
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
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
Positive Vibration is an award-winning reggae festival here in Liverpool and I was covering it for my agency ArenaPAL
Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Music
Tags: music, live, festivals
Published on Wed Sep 15, 2021
Sad to hear Jamaican reggae pioneer Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert has died at the age of 77. The legendary musician fronted the reggae and ska band Toots & the Maytals from the early 1960s.
Categories: Photography, Music
Tags: music, file
Published on Thu Oct 8, 2020
Africa Oye is the UK's largest free African music festival and it just keeps getting better and better. It is an Oye Family now - a solid crew of management and trustees and an audience that knows how to party !
Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Music
Tags: AfricaOye, world, music
Published on Mon Jul 1, 2019
My world music photography has been promoted by specialist photo library ArenaPAL since 2006 - so great to see that they have a sparkly new website and that I'm one of their featured suppliers
Categories: Photography, Music
Tags: world, music, AfricaOye, Glastonbury, festivals
Published on Fri Jun 21, 2019
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
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
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
Back again at my favourite festival - great music and a brilliant weekend weather wise. It really is a highlight in Liverpool's musical calendar - superb programming and really well organised.
Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Music
Tags: AfricaOye, world, music, live, festivals
Published on Mon Jul 2, 2018
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.
Categories:
Tags: Tinariwen, world, music, live, gigs
Published on Wed Mar 8, 2017
I covered the Big Chill Festival in 2008 and was lucky enough to witness and photograph a legend. RIP Leonard Cohen
Categories: Photography, Music
Tags: world, music, LeonardCohen
Published on Sat Nov 12, 2016
50 years on and the Beatles are still big news in Liverpool. Thousands of tourists and millions of pounds are spent as visitors come to the city in search of their idols.
Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Music
Tags: Beatles, culture, music
Published on Mon Oct 31, 2016
"The photos were great, they were exactly what we were after in terms of capturing the networking, the high profile speakers, the Awards winners and also the fun of the Gala dinner. It was great to have such an involved and professional photographer at our event capturing as much as possible and we would be very happy to use you again"
