This is how I spent my Sundays, I go visit Paul bakery for some chocolate pain and drink a lovely frappe whilst watching the day go by. Today they ran out of large chocolate pain so I opted for the smaller ones and used the excess money to by me a strawberry tart. The ham baguette was awesome too, anything with ham generally is.

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Joanna Newsom live at Royal Festival Hall. Was so glad I went to both shows, the harp is such a magical instrument, even though it’s a monster to tune (chuckled at the thought of bringing a spare harp). Both nights included a cheerful Q&A session which all involved cheese.

I enjoyed the second night the most since she played Emily and Peach, Plum, Pear. Can’t wait to see her again, hopefully playing more from the 2nd and 3rd CD of her latest triple album whammy crazy album cd type thing. More photos since I’m a man with few words (to quote Bill Compton before he starts glamouring the police officer and taking his gun and stuff)…

Oh and Roy Harper who provided awesomesauce support

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Zoooeeyy! M Waaaard! Whilst everyone else went to ATP to watch she & him play there, I was stuck in London enjoying their first sold out London show. Was quite an awesome set, playing all the best songs of Volume One and Two. There was even an M Ward song thrown in there and a cover of Roll Over Beethoven. The show was showered with screams of “I love you zooey”. Poor M Ward! We love M Ward too

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Good times

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The Pipettes are fun live, despite the crazy amount of band member changes. Somebody needs to sort the lights out at Hoxton. Anyway, here’s a video i shot whilst pulling shapes (had to put the camera down so i could do that). It’s nice seeing things in a different perspective.

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Some more photos too

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om nom nom nom nom!

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There were strings involved too (compared to the borderline show which didn’t have any) and i probably got a bit excited when I saw them (in fact, one of the violin ladies said so herself). Good times!

More photos and an HD video i took of her doing said dance:

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POW!

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Owen Pallett live at Koko, quite a lovely set despite the fact that he played in Koko. Listening to Lewis Takes His Shirt Off is all kinds of awesome. Owen was very engaging to the audience and played an awesome set. Good times. I played around with the settings for this show, tried to keep the iso lower than iso3200 (which i usually shoot in) to get better quality shots, mmm i miss lower iso’s

The support band were fun :p nothing wets the appetite more than a short burst of thrash metal

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Uka told me to get a girlfriend! Haha, i wish

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Tonight I saw Lisa Mitchell play at the Borderline. I arrived late since i had stuff to do at work, was too lazy to do the whole smuggling malark and ultimately they took my camera away.

I have been smuggling taking my camera to gig for over 2 years. There have been some crazy moments, nearly getting caught with it, getting caught in the middle of it and having to delete my photos (only to recover them back home), all sorts of crazy stuff. It was crazy how at the end of each gig I managed to somehow get a photo taken for that gig. These days it’s all photo passes but looking back, it was just crazy knowing the things i did to smuggle haha (still not sharing all my details.. just in case haha).

Anyways… the year before wasn’t exactly a “challenge” or a requirement to take a camera to the gig, but it was always more interesting to try, and when i was doing 365 last year, it was “critical” that I took a photo of the gig I went to (because I didn’t have much time to take photos of anything else). So last year was quite an intense one. Fortunately I somehow managed it each time!

Anyway, a few friends have asked me would i pick the show or shooting the show as my number 1. I hesitated for a bit, but my answer was definitely the show, the hesitation somewhat came from the 365 motivation of ensuring you have a photo taken each day (and i wanted to make sure each photo summarised the day, so a gig in the evening usually was it). Now that I no longer am doing 365, it was only a matter of time when I had to stop. So yeah… feels weird. But at the same time opens that restriction i have when i goto gigs (yes i groan a few times when i dont think ill be able to sort myself out with a photopass haha).

So what does this mean to you? NOTHING! Man I keep making my posts goal orientated for the readers, like why are you reading it? But as I promised, more ramblings now. I probably won’t ever catch up to any gigs I’ve shot lately so you just have to check flickr out to know what I’ve been up to!

… that’s about it.

Oh and i just realised tonight wasn’t the night i didn’t have any photos for a gig, the Antlers was another one, though this one I did take a lot of photos and videos (brought my gorillapod with me) but my memory cardz failed on me turning videos and photos into unusable files, grr.

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