Gig Photos

Welcome to my gig photos page. All photos were taken from the crowd, by me and in most cases there’ll be a review of the gig on Every Record Tells A Story that you can find using the search feature on the site.

Enjoy!

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Metallica at Glastonbury

Ray Davies

Lana Del Ray

Josh Homme

British Sea Power

Ryan Adams

Wilko Johnson

Parquet Courts

I took this photo in 1991 at Wembley Arena when they supported AC/DC

Bruce Springsteen: Nice to get a shot of The Boss as the light faded and he stood in front of the 80.000 crowd. Another time I was glad I was at the front of the crowd…

Soundgarden

Billy Gibbons

Angus Young, AC/DC

Wayne Coyne

Jake Bugg at Southend

Tim Elsenberg of Sweet Billy Pilgrim

The Horros

Breaking The Law! Breaking The Law!

Guy Garvey of Elbow played a great set at The Isle of Wight Festival. I like the backlighting to this photo.

Soundgarden

John Grant at Rough Trade East

Metallica

Atoms For Peace

Spector

Soundgarden

I Wanna Be Your Dog

Time to swap the leather outfits for something more fashionable….

Richard Hawley: I saw Richard at the Mercury Prize launch where he was in a certain amount of pain, whilst recovering from a broken leg…. He soldiered on bravely.

Elbow

Spector

Glen Tipton, Judas Priest

Wilko Johnson at Fives Records, Leigh on Sea yesterday

Noel Gallagher

Soundgarden

Carl Barat sang at Rough Trade East for an event to launch Beck’s Songreader album

Pearl Jam

Elbow

Dusty Hill

Kaiser Chiefs

Pearl Jam

Joe Perry at the 100 Club

Anthrax at Hammersmith 1989: All pictures by Every Record Tells A Story

Bruce Springsteen

Neal Schon playing with jimmy Barnes

Wayne Coyne

Motorhead played Hyde Park – and it was good to see Lemmy, even if he didn’t look 100%

Steve Mason of The Beta Band tries to remember what Glissando means…

Dan Bejar of Destroyer

Jake Bugg

Tribes

Charlatans

Smiths legend Johnny Marr played Southend in support of his second solo album Playland

Spector

Chris Goss, Masters of Reality

Martyn Walsh of Inspiral Carpets

Destroyer at The Village Underground, East London

Bruce at The Isle of Wight

Tom Dougall of Toy

The Horrors

Biffy Clyro

Bruce Springsteen at Isle of Wight

Tom Petty

Will of Mystery Jets

Richard Hawley

Destroyer

Dancing in the Dark

Living Colour

Wayne Coyne

Iggy Pop at Hyde Park

Judas Priest

Elvis…

Alison Moyet

Noel Gallagher

Tim Burgess

Kaiser Chiefs

The Boss

Chris Cornell, Soundgarden: The reformed Soundgarden put on a great show at Hyde Park – we managed to get to the front of the crowd to get this shot.

..Wayne holds a baby doll. Honest, it’s perfectly normal…

Robert Plant

Palma Violets – I love this picture of this up and coming band who featured on the cover of NME and whose debut album comes out in February on Rough Trade

Paul Weller

Brett Anderson of Suede at Rough Trade East

Ozzy

Motorhead

Iggy

Parquet Courts

Sufjan Stevens with The National O2 Arena

Courtney Barnett

Winn Butler

London Grammar

Jack White

Midlake

Inspiral Carpets

Arcade Fire

Ross Farrelly of The Strypes

Soundgarden

Guy Garvey of Elbow

“Like a hairy Scott Tracey on a space-octopus strewn knoll”

Paul Weller: The Modfather played The Camden Roundhouse to support his latest album Sonik Kicks

IoW mosh pit

Temples

British Sea Power

ZZ Top

Accept showed German Heavy Metal at its best

Bruce Springsteen

Elbow

I saw Drenge a couple of times this year – this shot was taken at Glastonbury

Blaine Harrison, Mystery Jets. Blaine had a broken leg in this show but the band were very impressive nevertheless.

The National played a great set at The O2

The Vaccines – taken from their show in a cave in Derbyshire. The Vaccines returned with a really good album and a sell out show at the O2 Arena.

Brett Anderson of Suede at Rough Trade East

Wilko Johnson

The Flaming Lips

The Black Belles supported The Horrors and are on Third Man Records – Jack White’s label.

Jack White

Jimi Goodwin (formerly of Doves) played at Glastonbury just before the heavens opened

The Boss

Anthrax

Pearl Jam

Wilko and Alison Moyet

Guy Garvey

Acceptable in the eighties. Bon Jovi at Wembley Arena. Picture by Every Record Tells A Story

Spector

Iggy Pop

Josh of The Horrors

Wilko

Michael Katon

Temples

Soundgarden

Rhys of The Horrors played at Southend’s Chinnerys venue – a tiny club as part of JD’s homecoming shows. Great band – looking forward to their new album (hopefully) in 2013.