Well 2009 has been a busy year for me – I decided to do a wee run down of some of my favourite shots of the year and its brought back so many good memories of the year!! I’ve shot bands I’ve always dreamed off, worked with so many class people, travelled to festivals and seen some amazing shows, some of these shots you’ll have seen before others you might not have! Thanks to everyone who I’ve had the pleasure of working with this year and here’s to 2010 being a great year for all of us!
My 2009 ….
I have always wanted to shoot ACDC they are one of my favourite bands ever so getting the chance to shoot their Dublin Date for Hot Press was a dream come true – made even better by this picture making it into Hot Press’ top photos of the decade in their annual out now!
ACDC at Punchestown
ACDC
Then there was Download festival which I shot at for Kerrang this year – giving me the chance to shoot someone I’ve wanted to since I was a gothy teen – Marilyn Manson – and also to snap some of the most hilarious characters I’ve ever met – it was an amazing weekend topped off my shooting Steel Panther – one of my fave bans of the year!
Marilyn Manson
Download 2009
Steel Panther
Shot some amazing bands and been to gigs with all sorts of music from heavy metal to the Pussycat Dolls – variety is the spice of life and all…
Limp Bizkit
Pulled Apart By Horses
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Twin Atlantic
Down
Beyonce
Marilyn Manson
The X Factor
Primordial
Biffy Clyro
Franz Ferdinand
Lady Gaga
GreenDay
Two Door Cinema Club
Flo and The Mofo
Muse
Muse (full stage shot)
ASIWYFA Album Launch
ASIWYFA Album Launch
Here Comes The Landed Gentry
Morrissey
The Pussycat Dolls
Glasgowbury
Pink
Met some legends…
Corey Taylor & Scott Ian at the Kerrang Awards
Rob Trujillo
Steel Panther at Download
I even dressed up as a bear while doing some production stills for the New Black Bear Saloon Music Video
The Bear Necessities!
And had work exhibited in the Hard Working Class Heroes 2009 show…
Electric Wizard Crowd
Stepping away from music for a bit then, in 2009 I got to work with the BBC teaching young people about photography and lighting…
BBC Blast Photography Workshops
BBC Blast Photography Workshops
Met some delightfully saucy ladies…
The Whistle Bait Babies
Took writers out to lunch…
Glenn Patterson
Photographed bars for adverts…
Muriels
Shot some scandalous comedians…
Russell Brand
Made Solicitors look important…
Legal Island Corporate Portraits
And models look saucy…
Gemma Garrett
And even got Zoe Salmon skating on thin ice…
Zoe Salmon
Saw several brides up the aisle, congratulations to them all …
Leigh and Paul
Claire and Stuart
Louise and Ed
Janice and Barry
Naomi and Brian
Photographed beautiful rooms…
Ligne Roset Dining Room
Hülsta Bedroom
Fultons Advertising Shoot
And the people who design them…
Interior Designer Leah for career profile
Papped Gail Porter snogging Titty Von Tramp…
Gail Porter and Titty Von Tramp
Gail Porter and Titty Von Tramp
And even turned my hand to designing gig posters…
Big Gig 666
Then to finish up we go back to music again… offstage it was a great year too as I worked on promo and offstage shoots with a mix of great bands and artists. I had an eventful day at the seaside with ASIWYFA…
ASIWYFA AU Cover Shoot
ASIWYFA -
Shot Dutch Schultz for Kerrang (don’t worry the blood’s not real!)
Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz unused shot
Conquered my fear of heights to work with Duke Special on the Belfast Wheel …
Duke Special
then again to shoot Delirium Tremens on the Europa Roof…
Delirium Tremens
Snapped The Panama Kings for their new press shots…
The Panama Kings
Had some therapy? …
Therapy?
photographed new band The Young Blood backstage at their first ever gig…
The Young Blood
followed by a little Punk rock with the Dangerfields…
The Dangerfields
Seen Red with Mullingar band Crimson…
Crimson
Dropped my glowsticks to photograph Dance DJ Jorg Zimmer…
Jorg Zimmer
And braved the cold with brand new band No Mean City…
No Mean City
then finished the year of with local favourites ASIWYFA again for their new promo shots – these haven’t been released yet but here’s a wee shot of all the fans who came along to take part in the shoot (they are all legends!!)
TheseRIOTSareJUSTtheBEGINNING
So here’s to 2010 being just as eventful as 2009. Happy New Year everyone!
