Florence & The Machine, Nottingham capital FM Arena

Been a crazy crazy week, found out on Saturday afternoon Simple Minds wanted me to shoot their Manchester show for their Facebook page. Then yesterday afternoon got the go ahead to shoot Florence & The Machine at Nottingham Arena, beautiful lighting, a little LED but not a lot & beautiful looking lady to boot.

GX20 with the Tamron 17-50mm
K-5 with the DA* 50-135mm










As always more on my website & flickr stream

Gary - pass my regards on to Jim Kerr then! I'm the guy that delivered the contract to his gaff in the centre of Glasgow when the band signed up with Eagle Rock Entertainment in 2000/2001. I've also bumped into him a couple of times at Celtic Park.

Oh!!.. Almost forgot... great band pics!!

Quality shot's as usual, the last is awesome.

Ah teh Cry & Neon Lights era

I don't always comment on your photos Gary. Its because its a given that they'll be great.

These are great as usual

Yup!!.. I'm guessing you're a big 'Minds fan as well??

Sure am mate, think I have seen them over 30 times now... This tour has been the best since 2002 though

Gary - I still reckon the best concert I saw them is a toss up between the City Of Lights Tour, when they recorded in Paris. I was lucky enough to be there that night!! The other time was seeing them at Glasgow's Tiffany's Ballroom around '81 or '82! The big song on that night was Love Song!! I think is was the Sons and Fascination Tour.

Ah was only 13 in 81

saw them on all the UK dates in 89 on Street Fighting Years great times..

The latest tour has been brilliant. So many songs played I only ever creamt of hearing them play live, hopefully will see them again at latitude.

Again, your photos just amaze me. The framing, the moment of capture, excellent! I seriously hope that you are compensated well for this (as a fan? ) Thank you for sharing them.

I echo the comments above, all the shots are great.

Regards
David

Thanks for all the kind comments, really appreciate it.

One of your better sets Gary as these just have an edge over your other excellent work.

Best regards

Great shots

Love all three of them but love #2 more despite it being an unflattering angle (well I suppose that depends on which 'aspect' of the lady you are looking at) !