Carl Spring

Ghostpoet at ARU Cambridge. Click to see more.

 

Ghotpoet's start to hi recent UK tour was moved from the Junction to Anglia Ruskin University. Although doors were seven, it was queued up til way past eight. I missed all bar the last track of support band Alt-J but everyone I spoke to said how amazing they were.

 

Ghostpoet took the stage complete with a guitarist and drummer, adding a small twist to the albums sound. The electronica was there, but beefed up by the additional instruments for the live show. Heavy on material from Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam, the set featured only one new, albeit, unnamed track, played as an encore.

 

Ghostpoet's humble charm won over Cambridge, and he seemed a little overwhelmed at times with the crowd's reaction, especially evident at the start of Cash & Carry Me Home.

 

A great gig and one that makes me excited to see what is to come from Ghostpoet in 2012.

 

 

PHOTO NOTES

 

I was warned before the show that the venue could have terrible light, and as predicted it was a nightmare for this show.  It was at a point where iso6400 got me nothing.  Flash was the only option.  This is a show that shows why Canon need to sort out the autofocus on whatever follows the 5D2.  I struggled to get the camera to focus, even with focus assist on the flash it just would not nail focus.  On the plus side I got to shoot the whole show, luckily because I had nothing after the first 3. Another photographer there who didn't have a flash gave up, unless you had flash, you had nothing.

 

Part of an ongoing personal project.

 

 

 

Editing through Ghostpoet photos. These were shot iso6400. Man it was dark in there. More photos soon.

The Kaiser Chiefs. Click to see more photos.  

 

The Kaiser Chiefs in Lincoln for my first gig of 2012. In terms of a show it was great, a packed venue, a great crowd and a great band.  

 

Support came from Native Tongue and All The Young.  2 good sets, very well recieved from the crowd, but  when The Kaiser Chiefs took the stage the place went mad. A set made up of classic material mixed with newer stuff.  They played a great show that made it worth sticking around after the first 3.  The only downside of the night was the quality of light.

 

 

PHOTO NOTES

 

This show was pretty much blue.  There was plenty of light, I shot at iso1600, but the issue was the colour.  As you can see from the images, it was blue, blue and more blue for the first three.  If there had been some white mixed in with this, i would have been saying how great it was, but clean light simply did not exist for this show, which was a shame from a photographic point of view.  Maybe it's the photographer in me, but the lighting colour continued for the rest of the show, and as a fan watching the show, I just wished the front light was white. Ah well, the trend of heavy coloured lighting continues on.  Nice Kaiser Chiefs photo pass for the show, but, maybe because it was the freezing cold, it was the hardest backing to get off and had me standing there, looking stupid and wishing I didn't bite my nails.

 

Little weirdness on the night when I was threatened by security to have my flash confiscated before I could enter the venue because it said "3 songs no flash" but luckily a security guard who knew me from other shows intervened and got me through complete with flash.