Always nice to get a freebie at a gig and this time around it was a supposedly limited edition collectible Band of Horses wristband. I reckon that every band and venue should do this just to see if people keep them on for decades like the festival ones!
Quite interesting to shoot a band that a lot of my friends (yup, I have more than one) were talking about but I'd never heard any material of. The stage set-up looked suitably South North American (think country/rock n roll bar in Georgia/Florida) and was a quite a change from the usual full-on wall of amps at rock and metal shows.
It's really easy to tell when a band are enjoying themselves and this is obvious by the huge smiles from their lead singer before the first note is even played (more photographic evidence over at ConcertsCaptured).
The bass player was great fun to watch (and reminded me of an old Uni friend too!) and was the epitome of being "in the moment" and/or "one with the music"! The lead guitarist was a cool cat, although way too tall to photograph properly, I will have to have words with his parents about that.
Quite an easy gig to shoot really although for the real action shots I had to be on the ball as these were few and far between. That's not to say it wasn't fun to shoot and it was great to shoot something a little different (bearing in mind my last two shoots were Drake and JLS)
Some absolutely amazing sounds were screaming out of the guitars throughout the whole show proving that you don't need a massive set-up and oodles of effects and what-nots, you just need to know how to play.
I can see these guys being a massive hit on the festival circuit as I imagine they are the closest most people will get to folk and country music. The band have done a great job in bringing these genres, which are still negatively perceived by some, to a mass market. Let's hope that this opens up doors for others, past, present and future, to do the same.
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It's really easy to tell when a band are enjoying themselves and this is obvious by the huge smiles from their lead singer before the first note is even played (more photographic evidence over at ConcertsCaptured).
The bass player was great fun to watch (and reminded me of an old Uni friend too!) and was the epitome of being "in the moment" and/or "one with the music"! The lead guitarist was a cool cat, although way too tall to photograph properly, I will have to have words with his parents about that.
Some absolutely amazing sounds were screaming out of the guitars throughout the whole show proving that you don't need a massive set-up and oodles of effects and what-nots, you just need to know how to play.
I can see these guys being a massive hit on the festival circuit as I imagine they are the closest most people will get to folk and country music. The band have done a great job in bringing these genres, which are still negatively perceived by some, to a mass market. Let's hope that this opens up doors for others, past, present and future, to do the same.
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