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Photo Friday: By Toutatis Nordoff-Robbins Benefit w/ FractionsXNatashaHaws and Trev Gibb

By Toutatis at Head of Steam, 9th July 2015
By Toutatis at Head of Steam, 9th July 2015

It’s a double exposure! In the second part of Photo Friday catch-up, we catch up with some more established treasures of the North-East’s alternative scene.

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Photo Friday: Evolution Emerging 2015

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Been a while since I shared some shots, hasn’t it? So how about a wee catch-up on the sets I’ve photographed in recent weeks? First up, this year’s Evolution Emerging Festival, which took place in venues across the wonderful Ouseburn valley back in May. Every year, North-East music development agency Generator dedicates a night to the best of the independent scene – it’s a great evening for discovering hidden gems. Having missed last year’s due to the Edinburgh Half-Marathon, I was well looking forward to getting stuck into some new, up-and-coming music – that and getting some shots too!

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Photo Friday Sunday: The Lake Poets, Brilliant Mind and Coquin Migale at the Mind All-Dayer

© Ruth Booth
© Ruth Booth
I’ve got a lot of respect for the work of mental health charity Mind, particularly within the North-East of England. However, I have to confess that’s not the only reason the recent charity gig was a fixture in my calendar. A rare set from Brilliant Mind, plus the promise of new album material from The Lake Poets? You’d have been nuts to have missed it.
 
Sadly I couldn’t make it down to the whole day, but it’s always a good night when you find a new spaced-out indie band – Coquin Migale, in this case. Brilliant Mind‘s joyful set, by contrast, had a much poppier vein, a sort of Smiths-meets-The-Beatiful-South-via-Shearwater vibe, but with a North-East bitterness to it. The highlight of the evening for me was still the ethereal harmonizing of Martin from The Lake Poets and Rebecca Young (aka This Little Bird). Tracks like ‘Black & Blue’ suggest that Martin’s recent recording time in Nashville wasn’t wasted — definitely a record that’s on my wishlist.
 
Here’s some shots I took of Coquin Migale, Brilliant Mind, and The Lake Poets. Enjoy!

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Photo Friday: Nadine Shah and Kingsley Chapman

The glorious Nadine Shah recently debuted ‘Nothing Else To Do’, a brand new track from her new album Fast Food (out on 6th April) on THIS EPISODE of the Mary Anne Hobbs 6Music show.
 
Now the wonderful Kingsley Chapman, has a new song out called ‘Olympians’ – his first since the breakup of The Chapman Family.
 
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Put together, those are two grand excuses to show you these photos from when the two appeared together in January, as part of Tissue Culture‘s annual New Year bash. That’s where we were treated to a rare solo set from Shah, as well as a cover of ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’ with Chapman’s band The Murder – surely the perfect choice of duet for the two of them. Enjoy!
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New Photos: Richard Dawson at the Star and Shadow

Some rather more sedate news this time. I popped along to catch Richard Dawson‘s darkly brilliant hometown show the other week, shooting for Drowned in Sound. With support from Vibracathedral Orchestra, and the ruddy excellent Phil Tyler in a solo banjo set, it was a grand night out all round. And it really was a lovely way to say goodbye to the Star and Shadow’s old Ouseburn location too, before their upcoming move to Heaton later this year. Anyway, photos below…

 

RICHARD DAWSON
(w/ Phil Tyler and Vibracathedral Orchestra)
The Star and Shadow, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 7th February 2015.

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