I have — well, not slacked, but I have seen far fewer shows this year than I did last year, and I have definitely missed a lot of homecoming, release, celebration shows by people I love that I wish I hadn’t. Unfortunately, concert photography is a calling that wars with my anxiety and depression, and I’ve…
Category: opinions about concerts
tift & jte @ cat’s cradle
A co-headline show, and it was magical. Tift plays so well at home, and JTE is such a gift, such a great songwriter and performer. It was a warm and fantastic night. Full set here.
final 2012 show at the FARM
A quietly beautiful show at the FARM for 2012; Des Ark and the Tender Fruit both such heart-stopping songs about heart-stopping feelings, and the company, though a smaller crowd than the last show, was warm and funny and full of people I love. I ate a quesadilla and warmed my hands over a bonfire and…
grant hart @ slim’s
It is always a pleasure and a privilege to shoot Grant Hart, and see him play; he’s a genius songwriter, he’s one of the weirdest and most interesting people I’ve ever met, and as a photographer, he has one of those gorgeous, odd, sharp-angled faces that are fascinating, endlessly, to shoot. It was a lovely…
heartless bastards @ haw river ballroom
Erika Wennerstrom is a badass. The wall of guitar and bass that Heartless Bastards produce is enough to rattle your fillings in the best possible way. Haw River Ballroom is one of my favorite places to shoot in the Triangle, if not my favorite, because the lights are so perfect and dramatic. Futurebirds are more…
old 97s @ cat’s cradle
Okay, look, let’s just get this out of the way: if you’re touring the anniversary of Too Far To Care, and thus are playing the record start to finish, and thus are opening every show with “Timebomb”, I don’t care that you’ve been using it as your closer for 15 years, since the album was…
kathleen edwards @ haw river ballroom
asking for flowers is like asking you to be nice
speakers in code garden party: admiral fallow
And then on Sunday, the North Carolina division of Speakers In Code took over the stage that’s immediately in front of Matt and Tracey’s new house (most convenient stage ever), loaded it with a full PA system, plugged the keggerator full of Fullsteam’s summer basil beer (graciously donated by Sean from Fullsteam, who turned up…
admiral fallow @ local 506
A double shot of Admiral Fallow photos today; Speakers in Code had the pleasure of hosting the charming Scottish indie rockers for two shows in Chapel Hill over the weekend. The first was Saturday night at the 506, and we had a great turn out including people Matt and I didn’t know. I really expected…
lucius @ local 506
Had the pleasure of seeing Lucius open up for Milo Greene at the 506 on Friday night; they play deeply eerie candy-colored synth pop that I’m completely smitten by. (Their first self-titled EP is out now.) If ’60s girl group doowop made a baby with Owen Pallett, that baby would be Lucius, with their matching…
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