Crazy Arm

Last night I went to see my brothers in Rock Crazy Arm at the Joiners. I love watching that band, they a properly one of the best bands in the UK right now and have better songs, better stage show, are better musicians then 99% of every other band banging out the same old crap on the music circuit these days. 

I wanted to talk about the images I shot with them and if you haven’t heard them, you’ve been missing the hell out!

These images were some the last I did in my make shift studio over Reskue in Southampton. I rented it for the use of my old iPod that I had to hold the hard drive in place with masking tape. It was a sweet deal. 

I really miss being able to use my Bowens studio lights now that I don’t have a studio but location photography is hassle to say the least without dragging along a bunch of massive lighting kit. 

The images shot outside were interesting too. These were done in the days before I had my radio flash triggers so I was relaying on my slaves I got from Jessops year ago. It wasn’t the best or easiest way of working. If you’re looking to use more than one flash, or any flash for that matter, I can’t recommend getting radio triggers more. They make everything 8000x easier!

I was really happy with how these turned out and it was at a time when I was only just getting my shit together with photographing bands, and with the limitations I had on equipment and experience, it couldn’t have worked out better. 

Since these photos were taken Crazy Arm have had a line up change and are sounding rad as ever. Last night I booked them in for a new shoot new month so keep an eye out for those.

In the mean time get over to http://www.myspace.com/crazyarm