Q Acoustics feat. DIY Magazine, Lambrini Girls, Getdown Services and Mere Amore!
It was a rare treat to photograph at my old haunt Colours Hoxton (formerly Hoxton Bar and Grill), for legendary speaker company Q Acoustics, who were sponsoring a DIY Magazine gig called Class of 2025.
The lineup started with superb noisy bastard/ette/s Mere Amore, followed by the epic Getdown Services who had us laughing and gawping and shouting along from the moment they arrived. Last up were Lambrini Girls - IYKYK.
Of course gig photography isn’t my usual source of income - I’m generally a corporate event photographer to pay the bills, but in reality I have a background as a fine art sculptor, a potter and pottery teacher, a paper cutout artist, a lecturer at a uni, a gig photographer, a fine art photographer, advertising photographer, a bookie, and in the distant past I was a singer/guitarist busker (which at age 10 I earned enough in an hour to buy a dozen new albums to feed my habit which was my only reason for doing it, then packed it in due to self doubt), and then at college doing music tech. It’s quite strange thinking about my life in that way. I guess as a creative one just falls into vocations as they present themselves. My family are a musical bunch so I suppose it made sense to start off there, but visual art suited my naturally quiet nature as time moved on.
It was such a joy shooting the gig at Hoxton Colours, not least because that’s the venue that started my career in photography, when it was called Hoxton Bar and Grill and Lowri organised gigs for up and coming bands to play there.
Thanks Nick and John for getting me on to this job, and Rupert at DIY for helping out too!
