It’s not just the music that people go to gigs for but it’s a fair comment to say that a lot of up and coming bands (as well as some successful bands) forget that. I remember seeing the Verve on the main stage at the V festival a decade or so ago. Musically they were fantastic, and you’d have been hard pushed to tell the difference between listening to their live performance and their CD, but that’s part of the problem…

Over on the strobist.com group on Flickr a discussion has fired up about the new Nikon S550 and its features which include "smile mode". Naturally enough, the discussion soon turned to "alternative modes" that the photographers of strobist would like to see...

Well after a flurry of activity it would seem to most that I've abandoned my blog. Things have been very hectic of late and my camera hasn't been out of it's bag for a while. I had hoped this was about to change with a trip to Leicester's Summer Sundae Weekender.

My very first post and some photographs from a recent Delays gig