Audio on the Fujifilm Finepix X100

This short video was snatched as I was leaving the studio of Steve Lockwood (Harmonica master). The camera was set to manual focus and I tapped the AF/AE button on Steve’s face in the bright doorway which will explain why it’s a little overexposed. I’m not too fussed with the lighting as I was more interested [...]

Homemade Harmonica Microphone

Homemade Harmonica Mic

The other night I really enjoyed listening to the blues band ‘Split Whiskers‘. Especially the harmonica player who had a great sound thanks to a little handheld mic called the ‘Harmonica Honker‘. I have a mic called the Green Bullet but it’s heavy and cumbersome and gets in the way of playing. Looking around online there are [...]

Longplayer Live at The Roundhouse

Longplayer Live is an incredible endeavor. I first blogged about it here. A single composition playing for 1000 years. It started in 1999 and on the 12th of September I was invited by Artangel to blog about it live. It was a great day. It was a long day. 1000 minutes of 1000 years. You [...]

Longplayer Live

Longplayer

On the back of a bus in 1995 a guy called Jem Finer had an idea. Nearly five years later in 1999, on the verge of the third millennium that idea came to life as a thousand year long musical composition was set into motion. Longplayer is a piece of music that’s been playing since [...]

Melanie Safka

I’m so glad my parents were hippies. Without that fact, my musical upbringing would not have been a diet of the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Melanie. One of the first sounds I heard was needle on vinyl and my first memory was gazing out of the window of [...]

Photoshoot with the band ~ Talc

I have just finished uploading a few of the photos of the band Talc to my Flickr stream. For most of Friday afternoon I had the pleasure of hanging out with the two awesome funksters Dr. Fun and The Gift. They had imaginatively arranged for us to visit their local beer making establishment so as [...]

Money for nothing or your pix for free.

I love music photography. It’s just not that easy to make a living from it unless you work for an agency or a glossy mag. I have two rates normally, one for mates and unsigned bands (unless i am doing a trade for trade kind of deal) and then a more corporate rate for the big guns. [...]

Media Reincarnated

This morning I got a link to a musical Jam I was a part of over 10 years ago in 1997. This was an impromptu get together of a few friends in an attic room in Rugby town UK. Everything was ad-libbed with only a bottle of wine for lyrical inspiration. The musical attendees were… [...]

Episode 32 – The Larmer Tree Festival

In a wet kind of way, Summer is upon us. Somehow though one festival always seems to survive the worst of the weather under a bubble of good vibes and great music from across the globe. Here is a random collection of moments from this years Larmer Tree Festival. I left out all the typical [...]

Episode 07 – Josh

I just found out about a friends death. He was a great musician able to play anything you put infront of him. I am glad he managed to record some of his music for those left behind. Listen to the mp3