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Posted on June 3, 2018
by philipJvernon 
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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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The burlesque events held at The Musician and run by Talulah Blue, were some of the first local burlesque shows that I went along to. With two shows held in the year, one around Valentines day and then one towards the end of the year to celebrate the New Year, they were always well attended and really fun to go along to.
This event would be the tenth anniversary of these shows, and while it would be a celebration for 10 years of burlesque shows, it would also be a farewell to Talulah Blue, who was stepping down from hosting duties after this one. She will hopefully still help out and have some...
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It was only last year that I heard about Independent Venue Week, a weeklong series of gigs taking place around the country to showcase all the incredible venues and the people who put their time into organising the awesome shows that take place.
Last year I could only get to one show, which was Skinny Girl Diet headlining at The Soundhouse, and this year I wanted to try and get to a few more if I could. It ended up that again I only made it to one event, and this time it was Siobhan Mazzei and her band headlining at The Soundhouse. There were a couple of other events I’d thought about going...
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The start of 2018 was quite busy for me, with lots of photography related events, some which are covered in other blog posts and anything else I shall write about here.
I’ll start with linking to the blog post for NYE, which didn’t make it to the December blog post, due to me writing that just before the end of the year, and technically part of it was in 2018, so I’ll include it here.
The first proper time in 2018 (not including NYE) of me taking my camera out was a shoot with a local model, Dee, who I’ve worked with many times now, was out in Spain with last year, and this shoot...
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The mighty Steel Panther!
How do I begin to describe the unique experience of going to a live Steel Panther show? I’m not too sure that is even possible, but let’s take it way back, and start from the beginning.
My first and only time seeing Steel Panther before this show was back in 2015 when they played my hometown of Leicester and since then I’ve been waiting for them to come back over here and play a few gigs. They did do some arena shows in between, but I was unable to attend those, and I do prefer the smaller venues to larger arena shows. At the 2015 show, UK tribute act, Surreal...
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I wasn’t originally going to go to this event. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, I’d looked at British Dodgeballs event list to try and see which ones were going to be held close to me, and then looked at the dates to see if I wasn’t busy on any of them. There were only a couple of events I thought I’d be able to get to and this wasn’t one of them. I was working nights over this weekend and after speaking to a friend who would be there on both days, thought I’d try and get along to one day over the weekend, and I decided that would be the Saturdays event. On the Saturday they...
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New Years Eve, a time when people celebrate the ending of one year and the start of a new one, making New Years resolutions and partying the night away.
For the past few years I have either been working around New Years, or just haven’t gone out for it. I noticed that there was to be a gig at The Musician on New Years Eve, with The Brandy Thieves headlining, so I purchased my ticket and thought I could then decide at a later date what my plans were be. I thought there was a possibility that it could sell out, and it eventually did, so it was better to have my ticket and then possibly not use it rather...
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