Loudhailer Electric Company Album Launch #2

Thanks to Opher's World for the following review and fabulous photographs. What a brilliant gig! The band has gone forward another notch and the audience response was rapturous. This was a psychedelic experience of the first magnitude – Light Show, music, costume! They went through the whole album and finished up with a crescendo of Jefferson … Continue reading Loudhailer Electric Company Album Launch #2

Hull International Photography Festival Workshop

Rich was invited to host a workshop for Hull International Photography Festival 2016. The subject was live music photography and portraits. The gallery below is of the photographs chosen to illustrate different approaches, techniques and experience shared and discussed during the workshop. It was lovely to chat with photographers Ian Macdonald and Peter Dench. Thanks to … Continue reading Hull International Photography Festival Workshop

Flower like a Greenfinch

Today's Primula auriculas - Lazy River, Sweet Pastures, Grey Hawk, Clouded Yellow, Eden Greenfinch (colors like a greenfinch), and an unknown border we found in a Rotary Club car park plant sale. The cold frame is bursting at the seams and even the names of the flowers are fabulous. Rich took these gorgeous photos. Just click on … Continue reading Flower like a Greenfinch

Loudhailer at Filey Sunday

Photos from our Loudhailer Seaside Special stage at Filey Folk Festival. Click on an image and scroll through. Rich and Lou’s Showstarter – kick out the jams brothers and sisters. The Ramshackle Shantymen – festival folk featuring the founder of Filey Folk Festival, the guy who started it all off. Dez Allenby plays Forest – … Continue reading Loudhailer at Filey Sunday

From Poacher’s Starlight to Bilbo Baggins

The sun is out and the cold frames are brimming with flowers in bloom, so Rich set up a makeshift auricula photography studio in the kitchen. Dexter's sweet pea shoots are just starting to peep up, and you can see Stanley the money box dog/fox looking on. So, the first set of Rich's photos are … Continue reading From Poacher’s Starlight to Bilbo Baggins

Fairview 50th Day 1

Loudhailer Electric Company and Philip Larkin at Fairview studio... Fairview is a brilliant studio. I spent many happy hours recording the first Red Guitars album there and was delighted that John Spence invited us to record a track for the studio's 50th anniversary celebration. Today was our first day and it felt just like going home... … Continue reading Fairview 50th Day 1