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…
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On a drizzly night last I went to the recently refurbed City Varieties Music Hall, in the centre of Leeds, to catch James Vincent McMorrow play. I remember going to the City Varieties as a kid, with nana, to catch the Xmas pantos. It was a bit tatty back then, and in recent years closed…
Excellent work as usual my friend!
A perfect documentation of a lovely evening!
Thanks a million!
Dare x

I just realised I never posted images from the Roy Ayers gig I shot at The Wardrobe a few weeks back. Occasionally, The Wardrobe ask me down to shoot gigs when they’ve special acts on I was excited when they asked me down to snap Roy Ayers & Pete Rock!Gigs are downstairs and queues were…
Hi Barnaby your live band photography always inspires me!!

I wouldn’t say I was proud to admit that I recently went to see Take That live on their ‘Progress’ Tour in Manchester, but after hearing all round amazing reports of the Circle tour (from my Take That obsessed girlfriend as well as more impartial others), as well as Robbie William’s return for this tour,…
[...] How to photograph gigs with a compact camera// Take That Live [by Barnaby Aldrick Photography] [...]
Last week, after the fun of the Leeds College of Music special Radio Leeds with BBC Introducing (post here), I was asked back by the LCM marketing team to start photographing various college events to help bring a new look to their upcoming prospectus. This event was an interesting one; college music tech students were recording ‘Buffalo…
[...] Emma Martin and some awesome pics from our recording session at the Holbeck Underground Ballroom by Barnaby Aldrick. Check them [...]
It’s been a while since the Leeds Festival last August Bank Holiday weekend. I was asked along to shoot it by The Leeds Guide Magazine and I really do enjoy capturing the event & checking out a bunch of (well lit!) new bands. Just the other day, ‘Becca.h’ commented on on my ‘Leeds Fest part 1′ post (here)…
Last night I went to Leeds College of Music to photograph a special Radio Leeds BBC Introducing show broadcast from their performance space, ‘The Venue’. BBC Leeds and Leeds College of Music are literally next door to one another, and this event was a great collaboration of Alan Raw‘s BBC Introducing Raw Talent show (a…
[...] Hi! We are having a whale of a time on our lil road trip playing gigs here and there. London was RAD, Reading was KILLER and we can’t wait for Bristol on Tuesday. We also had fun on BBC Introducing West Yorkshire with Alan Raw the other night. You can listen here. Photograph blog here [...]
[...] BBC Introducing special at Leeds College of Music // by Barnaby Aldrick [...]
I was approached by a drummer I know to do some promo photographs for his up-coming Wales-based band Catfish and The Bottlemen. So I rounded up fellow photo pals Tom Arber & Cris Matthews… and invited the band up to Leeds to spend an afternoon getting creative. (On the right is Tim Hall, their chauffeur!)…
Nice shots… Thanks for posting the worst pictures of my face the internet has ever seen :O)
Awesome! Catfish are undoubtedly the best band my ears have ever had the pleasure of listening to.




Simon - Cracking effort! Nice song too.