The Imagined Village

The last time I saw The Imagined Village was at the Big Chill, either last year or the year before (sorry I can't remember which!). Then they had Sheila Chandra with them and they've also featured Billy Bragg. Now they've slimmed the line-up down a bit but there's still a fair few of them on stage.
I photographed them last night at Birmingham Town Hall for Brum Live and they were great!
There should be a review up there soon.
For now, here's a few pics.


Not many uprights in the bass player collection so this is a nice rarity.




Their sound is somewhere between ancient English folk and Indian/world music, oh with a bit of Electronica thrown in for good measure. Many of the songs are re-workings or arrangements of songs I normally would steer well clear of! That's testament to how good they are at it. I even bought their CD. :-)

Suzanne Vega & TV

Just back from Birmingham Town Hall where I was photographing Suzanne Vega and Eddy Morton for Brum Live. It was a charity concert for Casa Alianza and Suzanne was on fine form.
There should be a review on Brum Live in the next couple of days, with some more pictures of course.


One for the bass player collection!


It's been quite a day actually. I covered Shedman's poetry breakfast for the Ledbury Poetry Festival (below), then had a family shoot in the studio before dashing back into town to grab some more performer portraits on the Festival's last day.


While I was driving to Birmingham for the Suzanne Vega gig, the Benjamin Zephaniah interview aired on BBC West Midlands and featured... me! Well, not really featured but they filmed me photographing Benjamin after his interview and showed it on the tele. Will have to keep that one on the Sky+ box for posterity!