Sometimes there is a bill so good you’ll clamber over the corpse of your dead grandmother to go to it. This was one such gig with appearances by the over amped doom of Pombagira, time signature bending Black Cobra, groove ridden hardcore gods Saviours and deep south cliché shotgun totting Jack Daniel’s guzzling Weedeater. Lips were pouting, heads [...]
I’ve been digging around again in the Paul Caudell Archives and come up trumps with this environmental portrait I did in 2007 of MMSoraya. MMSoraya is a London based sculptor, doll maker and mixed media artist. Her work is striking, textured and dark. She is available for commission and exhibition. Please contact me and I will put [...]
Between listening to Deicide and Emperor this week I’ve been going mental for The National’s new album High Violet. I’ve had 4 favourite tracks already from this slow burning masterpiece! Last week I was lucky enough to see them twice, both at Camden’s Electric Ballroom and Royal Albert Hall.
Last week was a busy week for me running around Berkshire and London shooting a school over in Slough and a deli in Soho. It’s be a refreshing change from music photography shooting everything from sport to still life over the last 4 days. Of obvious reason I can not put any photos of the school [...]
London club nights are 10 a penny and I feel like I’ve seen 9. Shake, Rattle and Bowl however is a club with a difference. My newly crowned ” Favourite Club Night in London ” Shake, Rattle and Bowl provides it’s quiff sporting attendees with table football, karaoke and 13 bowling lanes not to mention 2 [...]
Progressive rock with a pinch of Kyuss, teaspoon of Patton and drop of electronics. Experimental stoner influenced rock I here you say? Yeah, I’d never heard anything like that either till I stumbled across Agent Elf. I think it is about time you stumbled across them as well. Lucky old you they are playing South [...]
Wandering the dark backstreets of Camden is not something I’d normally recommend to anyone but it is the only way you’ll find tonight’s venue. The Black Heart has proved itself to be a hidden gem of Camden Town by simply walking around the corner to find a giant black heart swinging from the wall. It’s the black cherry on the cake that stripped down ranchy blues rock duo She Keeps Bees are joining us tonight courtesy of The Allotment.
Don’t be fooled by the ampersand. Dimbleby & Capper are just one. The 22 year old Laura Bettinson who miraculously remains unsigned produces witty, refreshing and sultry dark electronic pop. Dimbleby & Capper certainly has a lot in common with artists like Goldfrapp and The Knife but adds a more playful reality to the electro-pop [...]
John Peel brought me up in the latter years of my musical independance. Laying in the dark listening to him harp on about Fierce Panda records with my pair of headphones hoping my parents wouldn’t hear. John Peel described The Fall “always different, always the same.”. So when John Peel’s favourite band played the my second home The [...]
Friday night and I’m looking forward to a evening of brap and ‘money grabbing’ . I’m standing waiting for Hip Hop legends Dead Prez to come on stage. To my very pleasant surpise our own ‘ackney wide boy and one of my favourite UK MC’s Klashnekoff is providing us with some very quick little uk [...]