tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15001358729969852852024-02-18T21:42:38.120-08:00Chapter Twenty OneChapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-35875360578387831272014-11-02T05:07:00.000-08:002014-11-02T05:18:39.899-08:002014 got off to a quiet start. but within a few week s I found myself at the Club Academy shooting The Strypes. What an energetic band they are...<br />
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I didn't stay until the end , but wish I had. Prince was playing next door and there were still tickets on sale.<br />
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I shot Toy again in February, for their performance at Gorilla in Manchester. Another very low light gig of theirs, making getting a good shot difficult. But I managed to get one of Tom Dougall.<br />
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March was the month I photographed the lovely Nina Nesbitt during her set at the Ritz. I only stayed for the first 3, as Shirley our reviewer was writing the review, but after reading her review I wish I had stayed :(<br />
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Later on in March and I got to shoot Toy again, this time a portrait shoot, on location at Liverpool 1. The venue had a lovely fireplace with a little light coming from a window high up on the right. I got this shot...<br />
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... and then had a little play on Photoshop to get the additional effects. <br />
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A couple of days later I got to shoot Nile Marr during his band,Man Made's, performance at the Night and Day Cafe.<br />
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John Cooper Clarke, The Punk Poet, performed at the Palace Theatre in May. An untraditional gig as such, poetry is an art within itself, but what a hilariously fun packed night it was.<br />
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Summer came and the festivals started, so the gig venues in town have a break and the photographers don their wellies and go shooting outdoors.<br />
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September came round and the sun was still shining as we headed out to the Welsh mountains to Festival Number 6 in Portmerion.<br />
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The Doc Martens Shop</div>
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Viv Albertine (Book signing)</div>
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The Undertones</div>
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Martha and the Vandellas</div>
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What a fabulous venue this was, the setting was perfect, the weather couldn't have been better. I met up with some other tog friends from Twitter, Ken Harrison, Hayley Taylor and Andrew Benge. The only downside was that I couldn't shoot the main artists Beck and the Pet Shop Boys (Agencies Only) and Peter Hook and the Light had a rights grab contract, so I didn't shoot them either - My choice!</div>
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Some months come and go with no shoots at all, then, like buses, they all come at once. October brought Caro Emerald performing at the Manchester Arena. A venue I love to shoot at - mainly because the lighting is good...</div>
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So... what does November have in store?</div>
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Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-795939113359831022013-12-29T13:00:00.002-08:002013-12-29T13:09:00.130-08:00<pre wrap=""><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2013 - Looking Back</span></b></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2012 threw in some unexpected surprises towards the end. The sort that make you reassess and count your blessings.</span></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The arrival of 2013 found me sporting crutches and a plaster-cast but not only this, as a family we struggled though an event that would make us stronger, but at the time we couldn't see that.
My priorities at the start of 2013 were a lot different from those of previous years. Resolutions weren't made this time, we entered 2013 with hope in our hearts and our fingers crossed that the Great British justice system would work it's magic, and to some extent it did. But that's another story for another day.
So 2013 was going to be a quiet year - my second to last photo shoot of 2012 was Crystal Castles at the Manchester Academy. If you remember less than a week later I broke my foot. Whilst feeling sorry for myself hobbling around on crutches I was asked if one of my images of Alice Glass could be used as the lead photo in Mix Mags Gigs 3 page, and yes it came with a cheque.
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Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-85383364789919725782013-04-01T08:10:00.001-07:002013-04-01T08:48:33.750-07:00Saturday Night at The Ritz<b>Saturday 23rd March</b><br />
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Flickr Explore Gallery: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/explore/2013/03/23">http://www.flickr.com/explore/2013/03/23</a><br />
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<br />Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-83227768815151712642013-04-01T07:21:00.003-07:002020-03-07T09:08:34.629-08:00Turning Down The Courteeners, a Broken Foot and a Rendevouz with Carl Barat<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>8th December 2012 Carl Barat Interview</b><br /><br />Almost
a week after photographing Crystal Castles I had a little mishap on a
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />...So Shirley Procter and I went off to do an interview with Carl Barat
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Shirley interviewed Carl here:</span> <a href="http://www.new-reviews.co.uk/?p=7505" target="new">http://www.new-reviews.co.uk/?p=7505</a> <span style="color: #eeeeee;">where we chatted about his solo career, life after The Libertines and his new film 'Two Dancers'.</span></span></b></span></div>
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Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-24626661412908273872013-04-01T07:08:00.001-07:002013-04-01T07:55:17.600-07:00Crystal Castles and a suprise from MixMag<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>28th November 2012 Crystal Castles</b><br /><br />With all concert photography our biggest challenges are, lighting and the dreaded smoke machine. <br /><br />We arrived to the Crystal Castles concert and were informed of the following:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;">The band <span style="font-size: small;">didn't</span> <span style="font-size: small;">particularly</span> want to be photographed</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;">We had to shoot from the side of the stage, actually on stage</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;">There would be strobe lighting</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;">There would be smoke</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alice Glass was going to throw her mic stand in our direction.</span></span></li>
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were three photographers this evening and as the crew led me, Mike and
Haydn to the side of the stage we did our 'Hail Mary's' and wondered
what the hell we'd let ourselves in for!<br /><br />We sat packed tightly, (lodged be<span style="font-size: small;">tw</span>een
a speaker, the bands water supply and a pile of towels) and because the
band were fashionably late on stage, our feet, then legs had started to
go numb.<br />A crew member went through the routine and to our relief
said he would be standing near us to catch the flying mic stand (which
he did), and we were very happy - particularly Mike, who was getting
married a week later and wasn't looking forward to a potential black
eye! (Imagine trying to explain that to the new Outlaws!)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><br />Lots of strobes, lots of smoke, lots of clicks of the camera and lots of <span style="font-size: small;">disappointing</span> shots, then all of a sudden Alice decides to jump into the crowd. Which meant:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;">She more or less stayed still for a few moments (even happier)</span></span></li>
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a couple of weeks later, to find that MixMag wanted to buy one of my
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get to shoot from the Press Pit, which makes every concert photographer a
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Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-8188601471517110252013-04-01T07:01:00.003-07:002013-04-01T07:45:39.174-07:00Jools Holland<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>17th November Jools Holland</b><br />
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One person who's work I admire (from his days with Squeeze to his show
'Later With') is Jools Holland, and so when I had the <span style="font-size: small;">opportunity</span> to
shoot Mr Holland, I <span style="font-size: small;">couldn't</span> wait.</span></span><br />
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As usual the<span style="font-size: small;"> A</span>pollo was a seated gig :( so shooting was restricted from
the side aisle (Stage left) and as I was the only photographer there I
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Same old rules: first three, no flash, except on the third song Mr
Holland decided to switch pianos and played on one to his left, which
meant he had his back to me. But I'd got some pretty decent shots
already, so I packed up and headed to my seat.</span></span>Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-79367140368226250932013-04-01T06:57:00.005-07:002013-04-01T07:45:25.602-07:00Matt Cardle Album Signing<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;">An email lands in the In-Box and I find that I've been asked to photograph Matt Car<span style="font-size: small;">dle at HMV Manchester to go with an exclusive interview for New Reviews. </span></span></span><br />
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2012 is proving to be the year of change. I got my first photos of
Yukimi Nagano (Little Dragon) and Florence + the Machine published in
MixMag (and I rushed out to WHSmiths to buy copies, just to be sure I
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'Funtimes', we've both worked with The Heartbreaks over the last two
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photograph The Selecter for their website. I remembered watching Pauline
Black in my youth and never ever thought for a moment that she would
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1st and I was off to Sound Control with my partner in crime Jill
Coleman (Jillcolemanphotography.co.uk) to photograph and review
my favourite band of 2011, The Chapman Family. The set was energetic and
Kingsley fell in love with the 'Transporter Bridge' blue pillar that
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3rd... and a trip with my OH and BF to see Author Anthony Horowitz at
Manchester Town Hall. Anthony has been commissioned by the Arthur Conan
Doyle Trust and just written the new Sherlock Holmes Novel, he red an
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27th</b>... Another night out with OH, my camera and my special pen. Little
Dragon were performing at the Ruby Lounge and it was a gig I'd been
looking forward to. I first heard of Little Dragon when she collaborated
with Damon Albarn and the 'Gorillaz' and after seeing the Gorillaz
rehearse last year and reviewed Damon Albarn's Opera (Dr Dee), it was a
great to see Yukimi Nagano performing on stage, let alone have
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A hectic last minute drive to Bolton and finally my assistant (author
Cathrine Short) and I finally reach Fozia Khan's boutique Hanna
Boutique. We were greeted and looked after by the wonderful 'Team Khan'
family and I photographed the beautiful clothes and jewellery for
Fozia's website, along with some shots of her celebrity nephew Amir Khan
and other members of their family. The family pictures are for private
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second night the the DI, writing a review for my good friend Alex at
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while now, there were five artists in all and there is now a huge
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I've reviewed and photographed the other ex-Libertine a few times now, I
finally got the opportunity to do the same for Peter Doherty. If I'm
honest I was slightly disappointed, I feel he needs a band behind him,
but his loyal fans were thrilled and you can read all about it here:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0088cc;">http://designermagazine.tripod.com/PeteDohertyMANCACADEMYREV2011.htm</span><br /><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">More photos on flickr:</span> </span><span style="color: #006699;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandajwindowuk/sets/72157626759070756/</span></span></span><br />
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Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-32638122179976775672013-04-01T06:16:00.000-07:002013-04-01T07:41:47.003-07:00The Heartbreaks, The Deaf Institute, Manchester<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>9th April 2011</b></span></span></b></span></span></span><br />
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night in town with my partner in crime (Jill Coleman), this time to the
concert hall of the Deaf Institute to review and photograph Matthew
Whitehouse, Ryan Wallace, Deaks and Joe Kondras (AKA The Heartbreaks)</span></span></span><br />
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first Shaun Ryder gig was cancelled at the last minute, due to health
problems. And I was really surprised to be reallocated a press pass,
plus one this time. I looked forward to this gig, and although I didn't
get to take my camera this time, I wrote this review for Designer
Magazine.</span></span></span><br />
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Monday night Jill Coleman (Visonthing64) Charlotte Davies and myself
went to St Philips Church to photograph and review the new band formed
by The Horrors frontman Faris Badwan.<br /><br />On
arriving at the church, as always we checked out the venue and asked
the Tour Manager about areas for shooting and so on. The only
stipulation was that we were not to block to projected light coming from
the front of the stage. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t was pretty dark and we couldn't see any
lighting rigged out above us, so assumed that somewhere someone would
produce some light, enough to take some decent pictures. They didn't,
and it was literally pitch black. <span style="font-size: small;">A</span>fter shooting the first three songs
from the front of the stage we decided to climb the small wonky
staircase to the balcony to see if we could get any better shots.<br /><br />It
wasn't any better and to make things worse you couldn't even see in
front of your hand, we might as well have been blindfolded.</span></span></span><br />
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shots from the back in the hope that something from the many hundreds we
took, at least one might be half decent.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b>My camera's second trip out this year was to photograph the legendary James Blunt at the Manchester Apollo<b>, </b>where I took photos and wrote a review for Designer Magazine.<b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: small;">I
took my cousin with me (as she had <span style="font-size: small;">painstakingly</span> transcribed The
Heartbreaks interview a few weeks earlier - unpaid might I add) and
introduced her to 'the great side of Rock and Roll'.</span></span></span><br />
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of packing the wrong lens - had a major panic, but suprisingly came out
with one good shot<span style="font-size: small;"> :(</span></span></span></span><br />
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eventually met in Piccadilly after mixing up which Cafe Nero we were
supposed to be stood outside (neither of us realised there were two).</span></div>
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then went onto the lovely Earth Cafe on Turner Street (scrumptious
vegetarian and organic cafe) where Patricia was the most wonderful host,
and we held our interview in a 'not so quiet' corner next to the coffee
machine.</span><br /><b style="color: black;"><br /></b><span style="color: #006699;">http://designermagazine.tripod.com/TheHeartbreaksINT1.htm</span></span></span></div>
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Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-69344152939374513962013-04-01T06:08:00.001-07:002013-04-01T07:40:28.418-07:00January 2011<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>January 2011</b><br /><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: small;">I'm
not deserting my camera this month, but I have some very tight
deadlines and much research to do in aid of completing my novel. Nick
who edits for me is eagerly awaiting the 'next installment', and I have
to get a move on.<br /><br />I have put lots of feelers out for gigs from
February onwards, trips to London to sort and I'm currently in the
process of exhibiting a collection of photos at the rehearsal studios at
Brunswick Mill and a couple of pix are going up at the Night and Day
Cafe in Manchester.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">No rest for the wicked...</span></span></span>Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-69573576444885367492013-04-01T06:07:00.002-07:002013-04-01T07:40:14.329-07:00The Heartbreaks, The Yorkshire House, Lancaster<div style="text-align: left;">
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walked into this venue with the distinct feeling that, on average I was
just 'a wee bit older' that the rest of the audience. I'm just glad I
had my camera with me!</span></span></div>
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venue was in an upstairs room, painted wall-to-wall matt black and
freezing cold. It was only later that the gyrating bodies 'warmed up'
the atmosphere so much so, that the walls ran with condensation!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But don't this put you off, because this was the best gigs I've seen <b>The Heartbreaks</b> perform so far.</span></span></span><br />
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it was down to being their home-coming gig (the lads are from
Morecambe) or the fact that they were in jovial Christmas spirit, but
the night was a huge success. So huge that the Lancaster Guardian asked
for photos and a review of the night for their New Years Eve
publication.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Anyway,
despite getting trampled in the never ending mosh pit and spending all
night protecting my camera from 'stray lager' I got some pretty decent
pictures. The only grumble - The dry ice machine made it difficult to
manually focus, but I got some really atmospheric pix.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
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Heartbreaks long anticipated return home, was a huge success at last
nights gig at the Yorkshire House. Returning for a brief visit to
Lancaster, following their recent successful tour supporting
ex-Libertine Carl Barât.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>Sauntering
carefree onto the stage Matthew, Ryan, Deaks and Joseph kicked off the
event with some old favourites including ‘Jealous Don’t You Know’ and
‘Hand on Heart’ to the packed out audience.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>The
Heartbreaks lyrics are classically reminiscent of Morrissey and Marr,
singing about relentless weather and broken hearts in Northern towns.
‘Liar, My Dear’ inspired by ‘The Irish wind playing havoc with your
fringe and about being a naughty boy!’ says it all.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>The
Heartbreaks have a certain charm and their snappy memorable songs
certainly blew the crowd away. They have had two record releases this
year the most recent ‘I Didn’t think It Would Hurt To Think of You’ was
released in August.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>Described
as ‘one of the hottest bands to break through in 2010’ they certainly
brought some warmth to a cold dark corner of the north.</b></i></span></span></div>
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venue was probably the darkest I've worked yet, and it was only after
the support act* finished that we found that one of the stage lights
wasn't plugged in.<br /><br /><b>The Heartbreaks</b>
played an intimate gig to their loyal followers, including titles 'Liar
My Dear' and 'I Didn't think it would hurt to think of you'<br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Review for eGigs:</span> </span><span style="color: #006699;">http://www.egigs.co.uk/index.php?a=13733</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-19157859157494755642013-04-01T06:04:00.001-07:002013-04-01T07:39:00.731-07:00Three UK / Now Playing Event - The Monastery, Gorton, Manchester<div style="text-align: left;">
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previous week 'Patrick' from Relapse Media, interviewed Tinchy Stryder
for their 'Beats Per Minute' magazine. Tonight's photos are going on the
Relapse website along with the interview.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #eeeeee;">View the Tinchy Stryder photos: </span><span style="color: #669900;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandajwindowuk/sets/72157625431205894/</span><br /><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />View the I Blame Coco photos: </span><span style="color: #009900;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandajwindowuk/sets/72157625305598193/</span><br /><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">View the Kid Adrift photos:</span> </span><span style="color: #006699;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandajwindowuk/sets/72157625305581353/</span></span></span>Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-61057059925853132062013-04-01T06:02:00.004-07:002013-04-01T07:36:10.946-07:00Peter Andre at the Lowry, Manchester<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7th November 2010</b></span></span></span>
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great afternoon photographing, the rather handsome, Peter Andre turning
on the Christmas tree lights and singing some of his recent releases at
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Carter at the venue. It was such a mad day... and all those screaming
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Chapter21http://www.blogger.com/profile/14779323598406783455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500135872996985285.post-13670574519901033062013-04-01T06:01:00.004-07:002013-04-01T07:34:46.107-07:00Carl Barat, Deaf Institute Manchester<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>23rd October 2010</b></span></span></span>
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