Current housewives favourites One Republic rolled into the Academy tonight to deliver the goods. Singles ‘Stop and Stare’ and ‘Apologise’ were obvious crowd pleasers, but the band deserve a lot of credit for the polished performance that they served up to the sold out crowd.
As support for One Republic later in the evening, Headway laid the path with blissful beats and layered guitars.
One from Meshuggah, more to follow…
Woooo! Yashin wasted no time in exploding - a stage dive into the audience signalled the start of the first song and delivered a message of intent that carried on throughout the night!
Local boys Castro proved to be quite the challenge to shoot - no matter how hard I tried, I just couldnt get the little buggers to stand still!
Hunched over, eyes closed and a grimace on his face, Robin Trower in the flesh is the epitome of Robin Trower the icon.
Aynsley Lister is a photographers dream and by regularly strolling forward to the front of the stage, he gives me the wake up call I need to invest in the 10-22mm Ultra Wide angle lense I’ve been drooling over!
As the lights go down and Joe Satriani strolls over to the talkbox rigged up for ‘I Just Wanna Rock’, I take a couple of seconds to contemplate whether what I’m doing tonight could ever be described as ‘work’.
You see, there is no better feeling than being front row at a gig taking photos of one of your idols - It’s times like this when you realise you really REALLY love what you do.
As the heavily phasered closing chords of ‘Screamer’ rang out, the crowd finally got a chance to catch their breath from the arse kicking that Enjoy Destroy had just handed them.
As Ant West hurtles skywards from the top of a speaker cab at stage right, the rest of the band don’t miss a second of new single ‘Brain’.
