L.A. Guns live at the Camden Underworld

On December 5th L.A. Guns performed live at the Camden Underworld in London.
The line-up of this band can get confusing to some, as there are two bands using the same moniker.
I'll let you sort out the bands history for yourself on Wikipedia.

Here are some images from the night.

Jizzy Pearl

The colourful Sound of Tracii Guns

I love this image of the backstage hijinx

Jeremy Guns felt the cold during the opening song!

 

 

Full of energy and just like the old days, they totally rocked with barely any chit-chat the songs were barraged at the noise hungry crowd one after another.

For an encore they came back on and did a cover of "Knocking On Heaven's Door" with Phil Soussan

Phil Soussan during the encore

Pretty Boy Floyd perform at Camden Underworld supporting L.A. Guns.

Last night six of us went along to the Camden Underworld to see L.A. Guns and Pretty Boy Floyd.

Before the bands

The current line-up of Pretty Boy Floyd opened up spot on 21:00 with such an energy which continued relentlessly all through the gig.
Troy Patrick Farrell on drums was powered by a bottle of Jack, while Steve "Sex" Summers opted for a nice bottle of Glens Vodka to keep his extraordinary voice energized! Kristy "Krash" Majors on guitar stuck with the beers, and Chris Sixx drank what I think was leftovers!
Blasting out all the old favourites from the eighties had crowd... I won't say singing along, more like screaming along. The usual obscenities from Steve kept everyone amused.

Here's some of the images of the kick ass Pretty Boy Floyd gig.

"Are you wearing a bra?" Shouts Steve Summers pointing to a girl!

Thumbs up dude

Here's looking at you

Kristy Krash Majors of Pretty Boy Floyd Sneers

Sing along with me

Out of Area Photo-meet

On Sunday the 5th of December at 07:30 I'll be attending/hosting a Nature/Wildlife Brighton flickr group meeting at Bushy Park
You needn't be a member of the Brighton flickr group to attend.
Wear warm clothing as it WILL be cold.

There are refreshments available in the car park from a wagon,  There is also a cafe within the park where we'll be heading for a break at an agreed time, ideally not lunchtime as it gets extremely busy.

Images taken throughout the days meeting will be plonked here on my blog, and I'm sure you'll be posting some on flickr. :)

If anyone would like more information to attend, I can be contacted @ jaigrieve"at"gmail.com. Send me an email and I'll send back my number in case you need directions or if you're late you can call to rendevous.
I hope to see at least some people there on the cold winter morning. The snow may stop all the possible traffic routes to the destination, but I'll definitely be there. :)

Optional things to bring:
1. Carrier bag with no holes in it. (The blue ones from off-licences are usually good)
2. A couple of elastic bands.
3. Flask of hotness.
4. Spare socks
5. Camera and lens(es)
6. Presents for me. Haha!

Winter Wonderland Photography and People.

Okay, my first blog is here, and it's about people photography!

The other day my friend Andy Andy's images and myself travelled into town to capture some images at the Winter Wonderland taking place in Hyde Park. Now I'm not sure if it was our approach or something else, but the people of London seemed more stand-offish than compared to the other day's shooting in Brighton with another fellow photographer Nadine. Nadine's Blog
Although in Brighton we boldly approached strangers and asked them if we could take their photograph, whereas by contrast in London we wanted to take a more candid approach.
The light wasn't the best and the choice of lenses was difficult, I opted for taking a full frame 35mm body with a 135mm f/2.0 and 85mm f/1.2. Andy on the other hand went for two bodies, a 1.3x crop and 1.6x crop respectively, along with a 70-200mm f/2.8 IS (VR) and what I think was an 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS (VR)
In retrospect I think the wider angle Image stabilised option was the way to go in this situation, but we live and learn! If I can get back there at some time I'll be taking a tripod and the 17-40mm and fisheye.