Bartolomy’s Diary

The second show of Doll and the Kicks was a lot better, it sounded right and on stage it just looked better, still room for improvement but overall it made me forget Sunday night’s performance.

The Troxy and the two Brixton shows I had 3/4 songs to shoot the band, Ross Halfin is right when he says “You don’t get anything within 3 songs”, I have some pix that I like but overall the harvest is too bloody meagre, and I am too old to spend my time travelling, waiting and then get three songs for the privilege.
I also fail to understand why we get chucked out and punters in the crowd can just zap away with their compacts (some of them can be as powerfull as my digi camera from 4 years back and you can easily make A3 prints from it) for the whole set, and they stand a few feet behind me………

I gave up shooting the third and final show, add on I had to pack for my trip to Holland that same evening. There’s no point pursuing/following/portraiing people if you are kept at arms length.
That’s why there’s papparazzi’s…….. :-0

Holland; Teri and I left last Thursday for Holland just before 5am to get on an early flight to Eindhoven.
The right wing engine, where we happen to sit next to, made the noise of something very amiss.
The pilot decides to call out the engineers and they end up replacing the starter motor (always a good thing when you are about to leave…….) so we sit all patiently for about an hour with the AC off, and it does get hot inside the plane but no one uttered a word of discontent whatsoever.

We arrive in the pouring rain, it gets even better when you have to walk 150 meters over the tarmac to get to the building and arrive completely soaked.
Welkom in Eindhoven…………………..

Meanwhile I went for a run, the first in 9 months, boy oh boy my legs are like planks now……….

I am going again tonight…..just managed to fix one camera.

Here are some shots salvaged from the batch I did manage to keep….the show itself was possibly the worst one I saw them do (never saw them perform this meager to be honest), the sound was boomy and the band seemed to be nailed down to the floor……

Lost my money, cards and personal stuff but to make things worse half of tonight’s shots as well, which made me so angry that both my cameras are fucked as well………..
Losing money, cards and all that is one thing, losing images is the real FUCKER……………..FUCKCUNTBOLLOX

Supporting Morrissey, alright show, strong voices of Hannah Scanlon and later on by Morrissey……not a bad sounding venue either, good warm up for the Brixton Academy shows. I had to shoot from the crowd and was allowed three songs, 2x I got approached by people asking me for a pass, did not like shooting like this for one bit. Wasn’t happy with the lighting either it was lazy, and I only say this because the lighting tech was sitting on a flightcase a few feet away from the desk and only every now and again actually came off it and turned a knob or two………

Kevin Williams and Nathan Perier of Capricorns fame were doing a free show at CroBar, thought what the heck lets check them out. Thought it was good, the material has large elements of Capricorns in it added with some harcore raw stuff, I will see them again in the future no doubt.
Some shots:

Then I shot Wayne Hemingway at the Design Museum, his talk was excellent, I even got involved in it when he wanted to know what the Dutch Red Light District was called, which is De Wallen btw
Wayne himself was a pleasure to take a quick portrait off just before his talk.

Some various shots from Florence in 2007, the hailstorm from two weeks ago shot down from our bedroom window, and a shot across the design museum.

Last but not least: Tyson Ritter of the All American Rejects for Notion magazine out soon.

I was in Portugal earlier this week, Sintra near Lisbon to be exact. I shall return there soon and will make some pix.

Last night they played an industry show at 229, they played great, I have seen them 5x now and this was their best show yet, Michael’s guitar strap went off during the fourth track and it fell but it was dealt with like nothing happened.
Meanwhile Danny Logan has gone, gone indie so I have been told, and they have a new trumpet player called Chris , different edge and sounding nicely, should be used a lil more…….
Ze Von Trapp Family: