Come On Feel The Lemonheads

The second set of photographs from The Lemonheads It’s a Shame About Ray gig in Roisin Dubh, Galway in April 2012

It’s a Shame About Ray ( Lemonheads gig, Roisin Dubh, Galway )

Last night I was at The Lemonheads gig in Roisin Dubh in Galway. They were playing their most successful album It’s a Shame About Ray in its entirety. The album is only 33 minutes long so obviously they needed to play some other material. Evan Dando began the night with about 30 minutes of acoustic material, then joined by the rest of the band for It’s a Shame About Ray songs.

It was an enjoyable night and my first time to see The Lemonheads live. There’s a growing trend for bands to tour playing their ‘main/most widely known’ album in its entirety and I don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s a good opportunity to hear an album that I listened and loved (still do) in my youth. Gigs like these bring out the older fans and newer ones who have only discovered the bands in recent times and are normally packed with enthusiastic fans singing along to every song.

I met two students, Maria and Owen who are new fans. Flash photograph isn’t allowed and Maria had a compact camera with the back screen broken so couldn’t turn off the flash. She snapped a few quick photos with the flash on, Owen was the ‘better for wear’ and they may or may not have been asked to leave (ah, young kids…)

The lighting in Roisin Dubh is awful for photography- dark red lights so even with my very fast lens (f1.4) I struggled to get any good shots. These are all unprocessed (it’s 1am now, I just want to post up some immediately). I’ll post up some more later this evening hopefully.

I can tell that we are gonna be friends

Post title is taken from the song “We’re gonna be friends” by The White Stripes.

From Me To You (Photograph giveaway competition winners)

I recently ran a competition where 2 winners would receive a 8″ by 12″ signed photograph of their choice with free worldwide postage.

The winners are Tirabaralla and Francoise F.Q.
Winners were drawn at random and I will contact them to see which photography they would like.
Thank you everyone for taking the time to comment and enter.

Post title is taken from the song “From Me To You”, the first number one for The Beatles in the UK.

A man will beg, A man will crawl, On the sheer face of love, Like a fly on a wall

I recently bought a proper macro lens and have been trying it out. It’s funny what’s suddenly interesting when you have a 1:1 macro lens. This is my ‘best fly’ so far (I never thought I’d say that). It was standing still so allowed me to get very close to it. Getting focus right is extremelly difficult, you only have a mm or two in focus when you’re working at 1:1 magnification.

Post title is some lyrics from ‘The Fly’, from ‘Achtung Baby’ album by U2.