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Video of Caitlin Rose live at Manchester Night and Day (25th Aug 2010)

hobbsy — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:39:01 +0000

Videos from Green Man Festival 2010

hobbsy — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:18:56 +0000

I’ll try and add to this blog post over the coming week, but for now, here’s a few videos below I shot last weekend at the Green Man Festival in Wales.

NB: I’ve since set up a Green Man Festival 2010 section to collate my videos (and other YouTube finds), so please check it out :)

First Aid Kit – Hard Believer

Live at Green Man Pub stage / 3m38 / Watch in 720p on YouTube

Summer Camp – Ghost Train

Live at Far Out Stage / 2m54 / Watch in 720p on YouTube

Steve Mason – Am I Just A Man

Live at Far Out Stage / 3m21 / Watch in 720p on YouTube

Steve Mason – Dry The Rain

Live at Far Out Stage / 4m15 / Watch in 720p on YouTube

Photos of Beat The Radar at Manchester Moho Live (14th Feb 2010)

hobbsy — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:01:59 +0000

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally got round to editing and uploading my photos from Beat The Radar‘s gig at Manchester Moho Live back in February

» View the full Beat The Radar / Manchester Moho / 14th Feb 2010 gallery here (32 photos)

Video of Jens Lekman live at Manchester Deaf Institute (2nd Aug 2010)

hobbsy — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:37:31 +0000

Here’s a quick video I shot last night of Jens Lekman performing ‘Your Arms Around Me’ at the Manchester Deaf Institute:

Length: 4m27 / View in 720p HD on YouTube

The audio sounds beautiful in this clip – but the video could be better, it’s tough trying to keep a steady hand at x12 optical zoom (equivalent to a 300mm lens). You can also see an annoying strobing effect the Panasonic Lumix TZ7 suffers from sometimes when pointed at stage lights – but hopefully that doesn’t detract too much from what was a wonderful performance.

I have a few more to follow – including footage of a special aftershow Jens played at the Sand Bar across the road. My upload speed from Be Internet is only around 0.5Mb so it’s taking about 3-4 hours per video. Check back later today/tomorrow :)

‘Your Arms Around Me’ appears on the 2007 Jens Lekman album Night Falls Over Kortedala

Update: 4th Aug @ 3:08am
More videos now available after the jump

Manchester Deaf Institute:

Your Arms Around Me (4m27)
Black Cab (4m04)
A Sweet Summer’s Night On Hammer Hill (3m11)
Into Eternity / Sipping On The Sweet Nectar (7m36)
A Postcard To Nina (6m25m)
Maple Leaves (3m22m)
Pocketful Of Money (6m19)
Playlist of all songs

Black Cab

Length: 4m04 / View in 720p HD on YouTube

A Sweet Summer’s Night On Hammer Hill

Length: 3m11 / View in 720p HD on YouTube

Into Eternity / Sipping On The Sweet Nectar

Length: 7m36 / View in 720p HD on YouTube

A Postcard To Nina

Length: 6m25m / View in 720p HD on YouTube

Maple Leaves

Length: 3m22m / View in 720p HD on YouTube

Pocketful Of Money

Length: 6m19 / View in 720p HD on YouTube

View YouTube playlist of all Deaf Institute videos

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart at Chorlton Irish Centre (22nd May 2009)

hobbsy — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:28:35 +0000

In an interview with Nothing Bad magazine Peggy Wang from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart declares last summer’s Friend Of Mine show at Chorlton Irish Centre as her most memorable gig:

Q: You have toured all over the world with your band (The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart), where has your most memorable gig been?

A: I would have to say the Manchester gig at the Chorlton Irish Center. If I’ve ever been “high on life” it would have been at that show. It was a bunch of sweaty kids moshing to “Teenager in Love” and it just felt so surreal, like I was in a parallel universe, where people think wussy songs about love are actually kind of punk. Afterwards, we sold our merch out the back of our van in a big parking lot, and all these kids were hanging around. I just felt really happy to be contributing to such a quintessential teen moment, when your curfew’s been half an hour extended and you’re just enjoying the finer things in life, like sitting on the hood of a car and pretending to be bored.

I can understand why she’d feel this way. This was truly a beautiful moment: the first days of summer, a brutually hot evening and most of Manchester crammed into that top room beaming beatific smiles and hollering the album back word-for-word at the band. Proper life-affirming stuff.. crazy dancing and crowdsurfing.

It felt as if everyone had been hammering the album obsessively in the preceding weeks and months – I know I certainly had – having been introduced to ‘Young Adult Friction‘ on a crazy car journey en-route to Sam Pridell‘s wedding, somewhere over the majestic Snake Pass.

There’s definitely a Manchester sound to this band, so you can imagine why they feel such an affinity with the place and hold fond memories of the loved-up sweaty audience that night. I remember after the show grabbing a taxi to the Deaf Institute with a few friends (as we’d heard the band were heading there to party). We were lucky enough to chat with Peggy and the band afterwards. Lovely people :)

I didn’t get much chance to take any photos at the gig (too busy dancing like a lunatic!) – but I did film a couple of short clips. I’m not sure if they really capture what it felt like to be there that night, but it’s nice to have some kind of record of the evening:

Everything With You

View in 720p HD on YouTube

A Teenager In Love

View in 720p HD on YouTube

Emmy The Great at Manchester Deaf Institute (2nd June 2010)

hobbsy — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:55:11 +0000

Emmy The Great played a charity gig last Wednesday at the Manchester Deaf Institute. It’s fair to say this event flew under the radar of most folk – I only randomly noticed a flyer whilst out and about at the Dot2Dot Festival on Monday night. Lazy Noggin has a nice write-up of the evening, but here’s a couple of photos I shot below:

I was in two minds whether to bother posting them as I’m pretty dissapointed with how they came out. I deliberately left the house with only my 24-70mm lens and no flash – I think the Deaf Institute can be quite hard to shoot without a flash, but I wanted to travel light. I’d also decided that I wanted to film most of the gig on my little Lumix TZ7 (which shoots nice 720p HD video, and currently sells for under £200 on Amazon). Again I don’t know if it was the difficult red stage-lights (or if I’d accidentally changed a setting on my camera) but the quality of video I get from the Lumix is usually much better than this (see my YouTube channel for examples)

Emmy played six songs (including two new ones) and I filmed four of them:

01. We Almost Had A Baby
02. The Easter Parade
03. Exit Night new song
04. Dinosaur Sex new song
05. First Love
06. Absentee

View the videos after the jump

02. The Easter Parade

The audio sounds wonderful in this clip above, but unfortunately it also picks up the guy to my left singing along! Luckily the next two videos are new songs :)

03. Exit Night

04. Dinosaur Sex

I should probably explain the reason the camerawork is a bit wonky is because for the most part I wasn’t watching what the screen was recording

05. First Love

Finally, here is a link to a playlist of all 4 Emmy The Great live in Manchester videos

Photos of Field Music at Salford Islington Mill (26th Feb 2010)

hobbsy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:48:55 +0000

I made a last-minute decision at 9:30pm tonight to jump in a taxi and catch Field Music at the Salford Islington Mill. I’m glad I made the effort as it was a cracking gig, despite not being too familar just yet with their newly-released album Measure (15th Feb). It’s the second time in a fortnight that I’ve been to Islington Mill and come away with mind suitably blown. Beach House the other week is a clear contender for gig of the year… and possibly the decade :)

Here’s a quick photo of Field Music I took after the gig, shot on my pocket camera:

Photos of Run Toto Run at Manchester Deaf Institute (16th Oct 2009)

hobbsy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:11:56 +0000

Last week (before the madness of In The City kicked off) I saw Rachael Kichenside’s band Run Toto Run play live at the Manchester Deaf Institute. I’ve alread posted a video of the band covering Passion Pit’s Sleepyhead from the same concert, but below you’ll find some photos I shot:

Click here to view the full gallery (25 photos)

Photos of Morton Valence at Manchester Electric Boogaloo (20th Oct 2009)

hobbsy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:11:31 +0000

Morton Valence photos from their set at the Electric Boogaloo as part of Manchester In The City 2009

Click here to view the full gallery (16 photos)

Photos of Young British Artists at Manchester Night and Day (20th Oct 2009)

hobbsy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:38:51 +0000

Young British Artists played the Now Wave showcase at the Night and Day on the final night of Manchester In The City 2009. Here are a few photos: