As a photo-journalist, over the years I’ve been snapping some of the music industry’s great and good to accompany my published writing.
So I’ve selected a few of my favourite images to create a gallery of music artists striking a pose that I thought you may enjoy.
Take a peek and enjoy the spirit of the performance again…
Januarys are pretty unattractive.
At least, they usually are. Post-Christmas blues, gloomy cold weather and to make it worse, I’ve been keeping off the alcohol all month in an attempt to do a ‘dry January’.
But this year, there has been a little shot of excitement with the management of a shoot for rock photographer Nick Elliott on location with classic rockers Thin Lizzy.
The first part of the shoot was in a studio in Bedfordshire where the band, complete with full stage set, was going through an entire rehearsal prior to the start of their tour the next day in Glasgow.
It's going to be a crazy crazy night!
As I was getting ready for the Hogmanay celebrations, I was mulling over the past year and began to recount some of the wonderful opportunities 2011 had presented.
So, as one year ends and another begins, it seems an appropriate time to share my best nine lives of 2011…
As a consultant I’m on the constant look-out for opportunities to promote my clients and, with time at a premium, it is often difficult to dedicate any effort to promoting myself!
So, this festive season, I decided to create a small campaign to raise awareness of the range of services I offer amongst existing clients and to encourage potential clients to commission me.
Having cultivated a decent amount of followers on the social networking sites I’m active on, I decided to use this medium to communicate a simple message on a daily basis, with a view to creating repetition and cultivating expectation.
To tie in with the season, I chose to adapt the festive classic The 12 Days of Christmas incorporating details of an existing or past client, details of a service or skill, and driving traffic through to my website.The ultimate call to action was to commission me…obviously!
With a business name like CAT, my eye is often drawn to sayings, stories or quotes about my namesake. Some see them as adorable creatures, others a mere pests, but either way, cats have their very own characters.
So I’ve collected a few of my favourite quotes about cats for you to ponder on and, of course, to consider how it relates to my business here at CAT…
Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
Dickens’ Scrooge may have the monopoly on memorable Christmas dialogue but the music business certainly knows how to coin a phrase with the Christmas song being an essential ingredient of our festive menu for some time.
As if by some invisible force, the moment the calendar flips over to December 1st (or more often now, November!), radio stations around the country delve into their archives and dust off a collection of classic croons, festive party anthems and odes to lost loves.
