Back towards the end of 2012 I was asked along by the boys of Apollo Junction to document their intimate Album launch over at their rehearsal studio’s in East Leeds. It was a fantastic evening and their tunes sound just as good live as on the record. These chaps are making waves, and being played on…
Happy Boxing day everyone! Last Christmas Eve eve, we threw our annual Sunday Service Xmas Charity Special in Leeds. The festive Sunday Service is one of my most favouritist things about the Christmas season. The SS is a gig night I run on-and-off through the year, showcasing three ace bands from near and far, at Verve Bar in…
Man! It’s clearly shooting season when pretty much every blog I post is either a wedding highlights or a pre-wedding shoot! But even when times are busy, I do still try to make time and take the opportunity to get out and shoot things for myself. A recent example of this was a shoot I did a…
Ace collection of images, fab light.
Last week Leeds-based muso, Gary Stewart asked me along to The Brudenell Social Club to photograph his ‘Year And A Day’ EP launch. I thought it’d be a great opportunity to test my new camera body, the Canon 5DmkIII, to see how it handled a low light gig scenario - especially considering that, apart from the dim red…
These are fantastic. I’m amazed you managed to get shutter speeds as fast as you did, with such little ISO-induced noise.
Brilliant blog post Barns! I enjoyed, in equal measure, the geeky stuff and the really superb pictures.
Having tried the MKIII at Focus, I was left impressed but totally confused by the AF system. That PDF will come in useful when I finally buy one or two bodies… or maybe you can just give me a quick tutorial! 
Last Friday night I popped into Leeds to catch a couple of good friends of ours play a gig at Verve Bar in Leeds city centre. When I got there I remembered I’d recently supplied them with a stack of music images I’d captured down at the Sunday Service night I run there occasionally, and they’d…
This is the second of of two blogs about a day I spent with Leeds-based muso/mentiles Hope & Social at their Big Red Button: Winter Warmer. If you’ve not read the first already, start here With their intentions spelled out on a board outside the evening’s ‘Big Red Button: Winter Warmer’ turned out to be fun…
Great photos Barnaby, nice to meet you on the night. My photos are up on Flickr including one of you http://www.flickr.com/photos/khaosproductions/sets/72157629381962559/
Cheers
David
[...] distilled from 5 days of recording which culminating in our Big Red Button Night (See Part 1 and Part 2 of Barnaby Aldrick‘s photo blog of the day), with friends, fans and family on choir duties, [...]
[...] also recorded three of the songs (including new massive singalong Knotted Wood” in front of an audience of 40 people at our Crypt Studio as part of our Big Red Button Night. Photo: Barnaby [...]
Last week I joined the fabulous Hope & Social band to document yet another of their musical events at their recording studio (AKA: the Crypt) in the less than beautifully-named ‘Liversage’ in Yorkshire.I know the band well and joined them in the afternoon, while they practiced for their evening gig ‘The Big Red Button: Winter Warmer‘…
Cheers Barns… lovely as always! Can’t wait to see the evening ones…
edx
‘hope and social’ live up to their name perfectly – they are incredibly inclusive and social with their music and forever optimistic and hopeful that the risks they take organising fan events like this will work out! Their Event track record is good and those fans that have signed up to singing in the crypt for ‘Architect of Church, the bistro evening ‘Come Dine With Us’, the hope and social funbus day out, the Christmas snowball, garden party, shit Vegas, Winter Warmer keep coming back for more! Lovely Crypt observations such as the mysteries of Ed’s mind and especially love the band group shots.
Fab pics! Looking forward to dancing like a loon in Fibbers, York, in March and at Galtres Festival in August! Woop woop! 
And once I’ve finished dancing like a loon in Fibbers I’ll be going next door to see H&S at The Duchess!! 
[...] distilled from 5 days of recording which culminating in our Big Red Button Night (See Part 1 and Part 2 of Barnaby Aldrick‘s photo blog of the day), with friends, fans and family on [...]
Happy Boxing Day peeps! Hope your Christmas was ace and you’ve left over turkey, pringles and baileys to get creative with! One of my favourite things about Xmas is the Christmas special of my gig night, The Sunday Service. It’s on the last Sunday of every month, generally showcasing three ace bands from near and…
Happy Christmas Eve Eve y’all! Some of you dear readers may know I host and organise a band night in Leeds called the Sunday Service. It’s a free night at Verve bar in Leeds on the last Sunday of every month and our mantra is to champion the cream of the North’s singer songwriter talent and…
I love this series of pictures. You can hear the music through them.
Barnaby, the second to last one, of the bass player is STUNNING. I am sure that could be used commercially for something. I’d hang a large version of it in my lounge:-)
It’s kinda quiet time in the wedding world at the moment, so for a bit of a laugh yesterday, I hooked up with good buddy & excellent musician Dave Pilla, and we filmed a music video on my iPhone 4S. Check it out: Pretty crazy what you can do with a phone eh?! For the geeks out…
Cracking effort! Nice song too.
