Friday, October 14, 2005

Photo Shoot with Delaware & Royksopp

I went down to the recording studio, Metropolis in Chiswick West London and met up with my mate Andy Wright. He had been in the recording some more songs with Delaware. This is the band that he is producing. I know I have mentioned them before, they are totally different and amazing. They sound different and look different.. Not the usual !! I love them. They are over in London for about a week working on some new tracks with Andy and also playing a couple of live gigs. So, the band and I all headed off out of West London up to the Bedfordshire countryside for a photo shoot.
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Dunstable Downs to be precise. We did have to stop on the way as the band needed a "Snickers Stop" .I do feel that we could have done this shoot in a few other places, perhaps nearer London, but I just prefer this location for some reason. The band were all on form, there are 6 of them in all. When we arrived up there we got straight on with it. We just shot them against the background looking North from Dunstable Downs.. With the help of my Gloooominator aptly named by Cully, I think. He is the bass guitarist in the band. So we did the shoot and headed back down to Chiswick, west London.

When we got back to the recording studio we went in and Andy and all played the new tracks that the band have been recording on this trip. Like all of the material, it sounds fantastic. It is so hard to explain what genre they fit into. I would stongly recommend that you log onto there site http://www.delawareband.com/ When you are on the site go to the Media section and you can hear some of there music.. I love them hope you do too.

After leaving Metropolis at about 8pm ish, I headed off to Brixton Academy to photograph Royksopp from Scandinavia.. Electro ish kinda strange but nice..
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It was a late kick off there.. They finally came on stage at about 10:15 PM. I left Brixton at about 11 ish headed home and edited up all of the shots from this gig and the shoot earflier with Delaware.. Overall quite a busy day.