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Posted on September 18, 2018
by philipJvernon 
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This was only my third time seeing Hands Off Gretel performing live, but I've been a fan for a while and was really impressed when I first saw them at Firebug back in 2017 that I’ve kept and eye on their tour dates ever since. Being based in South Yorkshire I haven’t noticed too many gigs from them around here, I think this may be their first time back in Leicester since that gig at Firebug, but I did manage to get to their Christmas show at The Old School House in Barnsley last year. For this gig they had Flying Kangaroo Alliance as their support band which was a massive bonus as I’ve also...
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Leicester Pride was celebrating its 10th year on Saturday 1st September, and I’ve been along and covered Leicester Pride for the past 7 years, since one day back in 2011 deciding to venture out into town and Leicester Pride was taking place when I got there. It’s always a fun event, come rain or shine, and this year was no different.
The main part of the day takes place on Victoria Park in Leicester, with the parade starting in the city centre at noon, taking roughly an hour to work its way through the city streets and towards the park. I arrived at Victoria Park, collected my pass and then...
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This was a gig I wasn’t sure if I was going to until a couple of weeks before as I’ve got some busy days coming up.
Originally I saw that As December Falls were playing a Leicester gig and I wanted to go along, but then being on a Sunday, those gigs just don’t have the same feel as a Friday/Saturday night gig. I’d made a note of the gig on my calendar but what really clinched it for me was when I saw who the support bands were, I knew it would be great from start to finish, rather than going along just for the headline act.
As December Falls are one of those bands that I’m a big fan of, have...
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I’d been looking forward to this gig for a while, 4 bands taking to the Firebug stage with the first hometown headline show for switchdown.
Support on the night came from The Hunting Circus, Penelope Tree and Kill The Ideal
Four fantastic bands, all with a similar pop/rock style, anyone who is a fan of this genre would have had an amazing night.
This may have been their first hometown headline show, but I’m certain it won’t be their last, expect big things from switchdown in the future.
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This was only my second time attending Barefoot Festival, the previous time was two years ago in 2016, and I missed it last year due to it being on the same weekend as local music festival Simon Says. This year, Simon Says has taken a break so there was no chance of it clashing and I thought I’d head over to the grounds of Prestwold Hall, just outside Loughborough for a few days.
The festival takes place and has activities/events from Friday to Sunday and they were published on the website in the days/weeks leading up to the event so that people attending could plan what they wanted to do. Even...
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This was the second Glitterbug show of 2018 and I was really looking forward to it as these shows have been fantastic every time I’ve been along. At the last show they advertises who would be performing at tis show, and with a geek/nerd theme, it was sure to be an interesting evening. Taking place on the same weekend as Comic-Con in Leicester, it couldn’t have been better planned. I’m sure quite a lot of the people in attendance for this show may have been interested in the convention taking place only a short walk away from this event, so why not make a day/weekend out of it.
I arrived...
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What a wonderful weekend.
Riverside Festival in Leicester takes place each year in a few different locations, all around the Bede Park / Castle Gardens area, and there are lots of different things to do for the whole family.
I missed going to the event last year, as it’s a festival that if I’m available on the weekend it’s held, I’ll go along to it, but I won’t specifically have time off work to attend, and I think I was working when it was on last year. With the weather forecast looking good, I decided I’d nip down over the weekend for a bit on both Saturday and Sunday.
While...
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I'm planning to do a live blog again this year for Glastonbudget, so this post will be updated throughout the weekend.
Similar to the last couple of years, my plan is to have some photos uploaded after each day, so long as technology doesn’t let me down. So keep your eye on this post for photos later on.
I woke up a bit later than I wanted to, but that was mainly due to me looking at the weather forecast and thinking I somhould have an extra hour in bet rather than go out in the rain.
Arrived on site in time to catch the opening act on the main stage, ABBArevival, who I’ve seen before,...
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The SoapGirls are back touring with their ‘Stinks Like Punk’ tour. Covering 9 months, kicking things off in April and going all the way to December, this is going to be epic.
They started this tour in April at Percy’s in Whitchurch, then having a few UK dates over the next couple of weeks before heading off to Europe for a bit. Of the UK dates, I’d taken a look at which ones were quite local to me and realised there were two that I could possibly get along to, the first one being at The Shed in Leicester.
The first time I ever saw The SoapGirls was at The Shed back in 2015 on the ‘Calls...
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A kind of quiet month for me this time, with a few events covered in other blog posts and then 4 model shoots, 2 with photography clubs, and 2 solo shoots.
The events I attended which are covered in other posts are Daphne and Celeste, The Virginmarys and Brandy and Burlesque. Now we’ll get onto the model shoots, starting with the photography clubs.
The first event was held by Click Group Shoots and originally I didn’t know if I’d be able to get along to this shoot. Where the events normally take place, it’s about 30 minutes drive from where I work, and starts at the same time I finish...
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I’ll admit it straight away, before this gig I’d heard of The Virginmarys, but hadn’t been to see them live or listened to that much of their music. However, I’m definitely a new fan after this night.
The main reason I went along to this gig was that the three support acts are all people I’ve seen before and like their music, so I wanted to go along and see them with the added bonus of the headline act being a band I’d heard good things about.
I arrived at The Soundhouse not too long before the first act was about to go on stage, so there wasn’t much time to walk around and have...
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Now firmly established as one of Leicesters top burlesque shows, Glitterbug is back with it’s first show of 2018.
I’ve been working with the organisers of Glitterbug for quite a while now, and have been to every Glitterbug show so far, I think this will have been their sixth show. So far, every show has had the same layout for the audience and I’ve had to take photos from a kind of alcove at the side of the stage, or use a longer lens from the back, but then get audience members heads in the photos. However, this time it was a bit different. Earlier on in the day I saw a post go up on Facebook...
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March was busy in a way, but mostly involved me attending photography club nights. A couple of things not at those clubs, which are covered in other posts, were the first Glitterbug show of 2018 and Sumo Cyco were back over in the UK touring and I went to two of their shows.
There were three photography clubs I attended in March, we’ll start with Obscura.
It had been a while since I’d been to this club, they only have events every fortnight and had taken a break over Christmas and New Year, so this was the first one I could get to in 2018. The theme for the event was ‘Candy’, with...
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Canadian rockers Sumo Cyco are back over in the UK on there ‘No Sleep! No Surrender!’ tour.
It was around the end of last year when I was looking back at my 2017 photos and posting a few favourites on Instagram, that I posted one of Sumo Cyco as it was certainly one of my favourite gigs of the year. On that photo I had a comment from one of the band members saying that they should be back in the UK at some point in 2018, maybe March, so I was looking forward to them coming back.
One day I woke up and saw that they had announced a new UK tour for March 2018, the No Sleep! No Surrender!...
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I have been quite busy over the month of February, with a couple of things covered in other posts, I’ll link to them in here and write about everything else.
The month started off with one night me being bored and wanting to do some photography, so I decided to have a go at something I’ve not done for a while, oil and water photos. The basic idea behind these images is that you have a glass container, it can be a cup, bowl, but this instance I used a baking dish, and fill it with water then add some oil on top. Underneath this you place different items to create different backgrounds and it’s...
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