Crooked Still live at Whelans – My first gig!

As a photographer that is. Yes, today is a special day. I got to shoot my first gig. After an inquiry a couple of weeks back to Whelans they were kind enough to offer me along to whatever gig I was interested in shooting. When I saw Crooked Still on the lineup for July I couldn’t believe my luck! I queued up tonight along with the rest of the punters – a right old mix I have to say – and waited patiently and a little nervously to what I knew would be a great show but also for what I hoped would be a successful shoot.

As I went inside I seen that chairs where setup on the ground floor. My instructions had been clear – shoot for the first 3 songs, no flash and most importantly – don’t get in the way of the paying customers. I knew that the chairs would restrict me somewhat and to get in front of them would be breaking the 3rd rule. So I went upstairs for a look, found a spot (and chatted to an excited and very proud bunch of Aoife’s, the lead singers, relatives) and waited for the band to take centre stage.

This is where the slideshow begins. (Cont’d below…)

Gregory Liszt on banjo

I came back downstairs for a closer vantage point after the first song and hope I managed to stay out of the way. After a while it was time to put the camera away and just the enjoy music.
What can I say? It was an awesome gig and it was great to get to meet Aoife (Lead vocal) and Gregory (Banjo and poet!) afterwards when I bought a few cd’s from them. You wouldn’t see Bono doing that outside Croker…

Check out the band at http://www.crookedstill.com/ and also on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/crookedstill

Loved it. Thanks Whelans!

EDIT : I also took this video of the band performing the song ‘Tell Her’ from the Still Crooked album.