It’s about time I slapped another blog up. This will probably be my last for a while as I’m buggering off to travel across America for a month. When I get back expect a new site and a heck load of photos.
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Getting back in the gaaame… Well, not quite. Only a few gigs, a promo shoot and some posters later here’s a blog post.
Prints, prints, prints… I’ve decided to make an A3 portfolio of my photos and some design work. Everything looks so much nicer printed A3. At the moment I’m just doing these in Uni on 220gsm paper. Nice n cheap at £1.20 in uni.
When I rebuild my site soon, thinking about selling some prints!
Left to Right:
Dragonforce – CIA, PABH – Clwb, Joy Formidable – Square Fest, Nine Inch Nails – MEN Manchester, Janes Addiction – MEN Manchester, Exit International 2009, Spain 2009, Exit International (old), Trivium – CIA, ATDV EP Poster, Friends Electric Poster, Busker in Cardiff.
Behind The Line
Made these very young lads a myspace layout and CD layout to accompany it! They’re only just recording songs and finding gigs.
Simple design.
Attack! Attack!
It’s been too long since I’ve covered Attack Attack. Too long! This was a more intimate show downstairs in Clwb Ifor Bach. First gig I covered since breaking my big toe too so I couldn’t be too adventurous around all the younger kids jumping around. Also meant I was stuck in the corner to take photos! Look forward to catching them again soon.
Support from As We Climb. There’s always something nice about ‘catch flash’.
Attack! Attack!
Gun’s Posters
With Uni work I really, really didn’t have time to think about doing posters within a day so here’s just quick ones I managed to do.
Soundscape
So I decided to give Soundscape a proper face lift and create a simple font that wasn’t a bloody default font we were using.
We know the font used is slightly sci-fi, but we’re really all a bunch of nerds anyway! It’s Bold, Clean, Pointy, Better than default. The site is a wordpress blog template that I’ve gone and completely edited and re-arranged. Then I’ve done some business cards and stickers to match the site.
We have a new issue out anyway. Go check it out! A lot of us put hard work into doing this unpaid!
www.soundscapemagazine.com
InMe
Covered InMe, another band I haven’t seen for a long long time. They were a hell of a lot heavier than I remember. Nice crowd, a lot of fan girls meant I couldn’t really get many and again, from a corner. I snapped better photos of the support band Fei Comodo! That and Barfly’s lighting always sucks. Even when they add more lights it still somehow makes it worse.
Fei Comodo
Busking With Alex
Spent part of the (immensely hot day) following The Milk team promoting around Cardiff town. Alex pretty much spent most the time jamming out on guitar to people who cared to listen.
I’ve written about it here – www.soundscapemagazine.com/promoting-the-milk/
One Inch Tall
Part of my Uni project. Just some snippets of pages.
We were given a poem to interpret into a book or animation. Decided very last minute to do a comic book style book.
Used this fella as the main character – www.flickr.com/photos/nadineballantyne/4532166304/
You can see my crappy book here – www.nadineballantyne.com/book.html
Elicia Jones
Lastly, Went down to a studio in Cardiff Bay to shoot some snaps of solo singer Elicia Jones. She’s new and about to record some of her first material soon!
Sorry for a lack of update with photos or anything really…
I should of covered a fair few gigs over the last week, some bloody interesting ones too, but thanks to my clumsiness I’ve gone and broken my big toe. Pain in the ass really ‘cos they’ve stuck me on crutches which means no photographing gigs for a while. I may go mad…
The only thing I’m doing at the moment are a few A2 doodles, half way through a Slash cube, my final Uni project and working on the May release of Soundscape Magazine! Sweet stuff.
Here’s the last gig I covered, Grab Promotions – Tiger Please, The Muscle Club, Exit International, Blitz Kids @ Clwb Ifor Bach. More photos of the concert can be seen here – http://www.nadineballantyne.com/gallery/main.php/v/2010_live_gallery/tigerplease/blitzkids/
Mixed gig, well for my taste haha. Mixed shooting as well. Clwbs lights you have to work out the timing when the lovely white/orange light actually lights part of the stage up. Let’s just say some of the non flash shots are ISO 5000.
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