Bartolomy’s Diary

I got there early but missed out on their soundcheck so ended up staring at the walls for an hour drinking cans of lager…..as they had left for a curry.
I just got introed 5 mins before stagetime and agreed to take some shots after the show.
The show itself was good but fuck me what is an act like this doing at 93 Feet east where scruffy bands play, they should be playing Knightsbridge and Kensington instead (Sarah Lazenby confided in me that that is what they normally do). Some nice shots during and just after the show.

Lazenby @ 93 Feet East 270407
I will try and do some proper bandshots when they play in Soho @ the 23rd of May

Today it’s paperwork time and phone calls and such, this weekend DIY on Sat.

I have dropped my folio of at Wonderland and Dazed and Confused and had a meeting at Notion mag., and I did take a few shots of Brian Haw while I was waiting to pick my book up @ Wonderland. He was making himself a coffee and was not in a talkative mood. Which suited me.

I had a meeting with Mark Kebble and discussed the forthcoming shoot for North magazine, which will be done the 5th. I have high hopes for this shoot, sadly only 4 pages plus possible cover, i intend to make this very strong.

Next week I shall be shooting at the Design Museum quite a bit, besides shooting Jan Kaplicky and later on that week John Maeda I also have to shoot an add for the Luigi Collani talk, which shall involve 8 dancers in space suits in front of some of Collani’s pieces.

Tonight I am shooting Lazenby at 93 Feet East, looking forward to doing this.

In between I have been working on the stairs and the first “new” door in the house while the missu has been ill in bed with a mean cold.

Here are some shots of Banksy’s work I took about three years ago, just found a roll of film I had not had a look at for yonks. These were taken when I did the lighting on this exhibition in a warehouse (now knocked down and being replaced by uber expensive apartments) on Kingsland Rd. Never thought he would become this famous, I should have knicked his stencils Steve “skyla” Lazarides must be larfing all da way……….
These works were destroyed after 36 hrs.
I remember us working all trough the night cabeling the place (the warehouse was just a shell), the following evening saw an accumalation of the worst poser scum ever let loose on the planet, the greediest ones managed to get upstairs and enriched themselves to a pair of the sponsored Puma trainers. Later on that year I did the Santa’s grotto thing as well, it was just of Carnaby St. and had Jamie Hewitt (of Gorillaz fame) involved as well, I still have a print of his work, time I hang it up on the wall.

I’ve had an enjoyable weekend, watched some movies then went to Essex (da hood) to go to a 40th birthday bash, it was nice, we slept a few hours as we had to leave by ten to get home for 12 as Nick Jones was going to arrive to work on our doors (finally!!!!). After 4 hours he managed to get one in, BRAVO!!!! To be continued as they say

Today make appointments, see Liam @ Notion Mag. to have a chat and show my work and also some more brainstorming on “The Woman Who Fell To Earth” story for North Magazine’s June issue (whose ed. Mark Kebble I will see on Wed.).

I am also supposed to go into town today to pick up a 42″ Plasma (huge and I don’t have a clue where to put it heh heh) which was given to me by Lorn Money.

I spent 4 hours in the bunker in Mustafa’s garden in Kent to hear a torrent of abuse, as that is how Mustafa treats his customers, while he was printing my stuff out, of course he screwed up a couple of times and I had to make him print my b&w stuff out on metallic paper, all he did was moan and complain that he had not set the color settings right (something that took him 10 mins) blah blah….

From there I went to parliament square and have a chat with Brian Haw and Maria. It has been a while since I have been there and Brian is not alone anymore, it has now become a group, they call themselves Peace Strike, I took some shots of their “camp”, as they sleep in tents now.
I mean they took his display last year etc., but now they have set up 8 tents…..the games continue
I like some of the shots, especially they are among a “new” setting so perhaps it was good I did not shoot anything for a while.

From there I went to the National portrait gallery getting the tickets for the Don McCullin talk tonight, but they could not hand me any hard tickets until today, but reassured me I was on the list…..

Then I picked up my stuff from the AOP, which was displayed during March at their gallery. From there I walked to Starbucks to have a chat with Alicia Aimee to discuss our forthcoming shoot for North Mag., it will be good actually, eerie but hella strong.

I got home and after an hour buggered of again to see Big Wednesday at Turnmills, which had maybe 50 odd peeps, but this was a typical show where bands have their own following as viewers/listeners.
The place also could do with a few more lights, the gig itself was ok, I thought Waterrats sounded better then again there was a proper crowd/lighting at that gig.
Some shots………………….

Big Wednesday @ Turmills 180407

Terri and I went to see Fuckshovel @ Purple Turtle, took a few shots…

Fuckshovel @ Purple Turtle 160407

I am finally picking my prints up from Aydin Colour, Mustafa had troubles with his computers so there was nothing to be printed today….
On the way back I may pass by Brian Haw (there is a demo), as I am also picking up some tickets @ the National Portrait Gallery for the Don McCullin talk Thursday eve. And I am meeting Alicia Aimee to discuss some future projects such as the Dungeness shoot.
Then I also may go to a gig on Wed. and Fri eve……we’ll see.

Frau Steidinger & Co. @ my “favorite” North London spot ;).

Terri and I meet the band sitting outside the pub (as it has been such a great day) and we decide to do a quick bandshot at pretty much the exact spot where I took it with Andrew (their former bass player) 2 months ago, thing is the shot doesn’t really go as planned, they are in a “positive” mood and start stringing blossom tree flowers in each other’s hair and then Silke heckles me a bit during shooting (payback will and shall be a beatch luv……….), I also shoot some close-up portraits which come out nice.
The gig itself (the second show for new bass player Mits) was pretty good, as I heard/saw a lot of progress and some new songs of which I really liked especially “A Little Less”.
Some decent live shots as well, lots going on.
They are doing Tesco Disco soon and then also on the 30th a show for XFM I shall be there and record it.

Kaputt @ Archway Tavern 140407

I am organising a shoot for North mag which should be done in the weekend of the 5th of May, still 3 weeks away. Gonna use Dungeness for a location, hopefully the weather will play along……I intend to make this a very strong fashion spread.

The old pc has been chucked out and the newish box works a treat, no probs besides getting my backed up emails back on which took me like 8 hours (**#$#@&**(&%#@

This weekend it is photoshop time and sort all printwork out once and for all. Tonight I am going to watch Italian opera at the Design Museum and tomorrow eve Kaputt are playing with their new bassplayer at the Archway tavern, I will make a new bandshot and drink a few

Also will update some more Holland pix over the next few days.

It has been a great week, and I did not go on the web at all, which is kind of liberating……
Last Thursday I met met up with Henk Lammers and his m8 Fred, the four of us went for Chinese/Indonesian food at Malakka a great restaurant near the Feijenoord stadium later on we went inside the KPN building in Rotterdam, some great views where I took some shots.

The next two days I spent with my brother’s kids, who I had not seen for more than a year, my my how much they have grown…
We play a lot of table tennis, my brother still wipes the floor with me, but soon his kids will do that to him, no doubt……

Saturday eve Terri and I left for Vriezenveen and basically packed things up from my dad (for ebay) and did a few DIY bits to alleviate my mom a tad.
Monday eve we went to see an Easter fire in Vriezenveen, I took a few shots there as well and also some landscape stuff (yes the area is just flat like a pancake…..)

Terri went home with a massive plant and I with a PC which Henk gave me, it shall replace my current old ageing box as it has done 7 years of service but it screws up too many times so it has to go.
It went rather quick, too quick, meanwhile the weather is just getting hotter and hotter…..

I did not go yesterday as yours truly has caught a cold and decided to stay in and do domestics instead.

Shot Goose, from Belgium, at the Soho review bar instead. Gtreat band, good act, good material (even though it’s not really my cuppa) and a good confident manner…
No wonder NME loves this lot, I have been listening to their cd but live they really do a much much better job….
they’ll go far.
Asd I barely touched my kit for 2/3 weeks I did not even pay any attention to the state it was in and it basically did not work properly, this of course made me go into safe mode, and just did a few quick shots, later on shot them live as well. I intended to stay for 2/3 songs only but I shot the entire gig……good fun.

GOOSE @ SOHO REVIEW BAR 040407

I spoke to Dean Berry today of Capricorns, they have been working on new material 3x a week and hope to record stuff in May. Nathan Bennet has moved to Berlin and is a Berliner now (I know;), but I just could not resist) and in the summer a seven week tour over Europe has been planned, sounds great. Whether Dean will be part of it remains to be seen as he has applied for a visa to move to Canada with his missus and lil’ one. Dean and Nathan Perrier will go to a studio in Wales (Hawkind recorded there) in May to record their bits and then they all go to Berlin to finish it all of.

I am going to Metro tonight to shoot a few bands, tiz been a few weeks….getting itchy.

Staywd in bed most of the day, and managed to finish series 5 of The Sopranos, then started to watch this Stephen King thing “Storm Of The Century”, which lasted about 4 hours and was very dissapointing with its ending, as a matter of fact I want those hours back…….Terri was smarter and gave up after 90 mins….

Today did a few bits DIY-wise in the kitchen as it such a glorious day.