Tom Martin

Quick portrait I took of Mr Sheeran a couple of months ago, before he won his Brit awards.

Quick portrait of Michael before his Xfm radio session in their Manchester studios yesterday, good session, very pleasant chap.

At the end of the summer last year I spent a warm afternoon on the rooftops and wondering around London to doing some press shots for the superbly talented Mr  Random Impule. I've had one of the shots from that day in my Bands portfolio for a while but I thought I'd post a few more I like from that day...

Big love to Allie, Tom, Seb and Jovel!xx

Two Door Cinema Club at XFM Manchester, looking pretty smart for the thrid day of the NME tour. 

I was going over all my old blog posts and I realized that I've posted blogs from nearly all the UK festivals that I shot last summer apart from Kendal Calling. Which is silly becasue Kendal is always the highlight of the summer for me. For the last couple of years I've been in charge of running the staff photographers for the festival organizers and running the live online gallery (which you can see HERE!) as well as covering it for NME. So I've picked out 50 of my favourite shots from 2011 and re-edited most of them - I don't mind saying that sometimes when your in the middle of the lake district struggling to get content online asap your edits don't always get the time that they deserve. Anyway I thought people might like seeing some warm summery shots after the horrendous winter weather....

The Cribs mainstage crowd.

View from the Green Room.

KC institution Craig Charles wrapping up the last night with his Funk Soul show.

The awesome Chapman Family on the Calling Out Stage.

Site decor

Site Dinosaur.

Chase & Staus.

Chase & Status crowd.

Chase & Status

Summer Camp.

Cat Women and .. erm... Flower Woman?

Blondie crowd.

Blondie from a million miles away.

Craig Charles relaxing lakeside.

House Of Pain.

House of Pain.

Campsite.

The Cribs.

The Cribs.

Setting up.

Building the Real Ale bar.

Middleman.

Polar passion.

Superbestfriendsclub.

Employee of the month.

Frankie & The Heartstrings

Slamboree

Slamboree

Fire

Tassles 

Boone 

Mainstage in the daylight.

Erm some sort of flowerbull?

Hannah Trigwell.

Hannah Trigwell & Band.

Happy lady.

Charlatans acoustic set.

Tim and crowd.

Middleman

Lee Mavers secret gig.

Lee Mavers fans

People and people and people

Not sure what/who these are? Inscect-robots of some sort. Why not.

Frank Turner lakeside session.

Frank Turner signing.

Frank Turner fan.

The Spirit Of John.

Kieron O'Malley trying to bribe the stage manager with whiskey.

The Spirit Of John. Good times.

Kendal Calling 2011. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I went to shoot the Maccabees on the first date of the Given To The Wild tour for NME in Sheffield a couple of weeks ago.

Went backstage for a quick chat before the gig with my NME buddy Emily who was reviewing. It was nice to catch up with the band again.

Setlist for the Leadmill.

I think the chaps were a little nervy as it was the very first date of the tour, which is more than understandable, but they were kind enough to do a quick snap in the dressing room anyhow. 

Not sure whats going on here.

It was a bit of a tricky one to shoot lighting-wise.

I love working with The Maccabees, they're a great live band and very nice people. Thanks again to TM Nik for all his help as usual.    

 

Thought I'd post another edit from this shoot. And a little outtake in which you can see how embaressingly dirty my background paper got during this!

I got chance to go into the studio with The Courteeners for an NME 'in the studio' feature that was out in last weeks mag. So here are some of the pics from that!...

 

I've been out shooting some press shots with my good buddies Hawk Eyes today. New album on the way and all... Here they are in North Yorkshire getting annoyed with me in the rain. Good times. More edits on the way from today coming very soon.

A couple of shots from a shoot I did recently with Leeds singer Jen Armstrong. Jens off to LA soon and it's all very exciting so I wish her the best of luck with that!