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Posted on February 20, 2018
by philipJvernon 
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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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December has been a quiet month, I try to take a bit of a break over Christmas and New Year, or at least cut back the photography stuff for a bit of a rest. Most of the things I did in December were portrait related, mostly working with Charliee while she was up in the midlands for a few days, but we’ll get to that.
Starting off December, I went along to an evening at Click Group Shoots, and the subject was ballet dancers. For this evening there were three setups and three dancers, we were split into groups of 4 or 5, and then took it in turns with each setup. The first two setups were very...
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This was a gig that I thought about going to as soon as I heard about it. If I remember correctly, when I first saw it only Hands Off Gretel were named, with support to be announced, but I had no other plans for this evening and I’d wanted to see Hands Off Gretel again after seeing them earlier this year in Leicester.
With the gig being in Barnsley and at a venue I’d never been to before, I always try to look online to get an idea of what the venue is like from other photos people have posted from there, to have a better idea of what camera equipment to take. From some photos it looked like...
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It was a cold and frosty Thursday evening in Leicester and I made my way out into town for what would be a fabulous gig at The Musician. I’ll admit, I’m not familiar with JW Jones’ music, but I’ve seen the support acts many times before and know that Casbah Music Management and Promotions don’t put on bad gigs.
When I arrived at around the time the doors opened, there weren’t too many people there and it could have been one of those nights where people decide to stay at home due to the cold weather, and the crowd is really small, but it did pick up a lot before the music started...
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November was quite a busy month for me, most of which I will cover in here as there were only a couple of events I have given their own separate blog post, those being The Whiskey Rebellion album launch and JW Jones at The Musician.
I’ll start off with the first event I attended in November and that was a new burlesque show in Leicester, Babybug. This is the sister show of Glitterbug, aimed more for new things, so performers new to the scene or new acts that performers want to try out. I was there with my camera but I didn’t take any photos (apart from a group shot at the end) as I was doing...
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I was debating on whether to give this it’s own blog post, or just include it in my November post, in the end, being an album launch show, I thought it deserved a separate post.
I’ve seen The Whiskey Rebellion perform quite a few times in the past year, and I think it was around about this time in 2016 that I saw them for the first time and they instantly became one of my favourite new local bands. Various members I‘ve seen performing in other bands or solo, but bringing them all together creates something special.
It was time for them to release their debut album, Funeral Songs, and they...
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I’m not sure how long or short this blog post is going to be, there are plenty of things I could go on about from this trip, but I may just stick to the photography stuff, you may not be interested in what I had for breakfast as an example 😂 But let’s start right back at the beginning.
It was at the end of last year that a photography club I used to go to regularly, 18% Grey photography club, kind of stopped. There just wasn’t the numbers going along anymore, and for a few weeks over Christmas and New Year we weren’t sure what was going on. Around this time I decided to go along...
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I’d been looking forward to this event for quite a while, the Halloween burlesque shows always seem to bring out some interesting performances and the crowds are always up for getting involved. After the previous Glitterbug event not being too well attended, I was a bit worried about how this would go, but seeing status updates online about tickets selling out was a good sign and in the end it was very well attended.
I always aim to get to these shows just before the doors open, even though it’s then normally an hour until the show starts, but at least I don’t run the risk of being late...
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The main focus for October was my trip out to Spain for a week, with 7 other people, which I have covered at length (I honestly don’t expect anyone to read all of it) in another blog post. I didn’t think I had much else on for October, but a few things were connected to my Spain trip and I ended up quite busy this month.
So we’ll start with my first shoot of the month and as I was travelling out to Spain on Wednesday 4th October, I wasn’t expecting to do much before on the couple days I was off work. There is a camera club that meet on the first Monday of every month and that is run by Adrian...
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This came about with me receiving a message through Facebook from someone I’d worked with before who was helping out to organise the premiere of a locally filmed independent movie, Kelly was also starring in the movie. It was something a bit different for me, and I was available on the night the premiere was taking place so I agreed to help out.
With it being something I hadn’t photographed before, I wasn’t sure exactly what photos they would want, but after speaking to Kelly, she had a list of photos they’d like to get, which seemed doable, and she would also be on hand to try and round...
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