How much some things mean to me.

Why am I so aggressive when it comes to photography?
Why am I willing to play as nasty as I can to get what I want?
Why am I telling you this?

Well with the recent events of people going behind my back and playing nice to get what they want I've decided it's time to make something clear.

Nothing ever came to me falling from the sky. I've worked hard to get what I have. Maybe being born and raised inside the music/art/press industry has given me some advantages compared to most others. Some apparently think that therefor I don't appreciate what I have enough or that I don't need to work hard for it, just like anyone else.

That's not true, me being who I am and being born inside only means I have to work at least twice as hard as most others to prove I'm good enough to be where I am.

While I can be friends with other photographer outside of the barriers and 3 song rules at concerts and while I can control my ego when it comes to my personal project. And I'll (most of the time) will gladly go out of my way to help a friend or colleague with their projects or even recommend them to someone I know in case I think their suited for the job.
I DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT APPRECIATE PEOPLE GOING BEHIND MY BACK TO GET THINGS I'VE WORKED HARD FOR DURING YEARS TO ACCOMPLISH!

As Todd Owyoung once said, “As soon as the light go off, I wanna destroy you”. That applies to my way of thinking. We can be friends outside of the industry but when it comes to work. I will make everything I can to bet you at everything.

Sounds too aggressive? Well fear me not, most photographer thinks this way, some are just too good at hiding in under a sheep's skin.

Where am I trying to get with this?
Dear photographers, art, industry friends, are you reading this then please remember. It's nothing personal. There's just things I'm not that willing to share or that I'm more protective of. I don't think that people who don't work hard for things should have them.
Now that raises the question of why I'm not willing to share it. Quite simple. You know that everybody has one thing or person or something that keeps their sanity at a accepted level right?
Photography (mostly music) is what keeps mine in place. Being there and not having to concentrate or think about anything else for those 3 songs is all I ever wanted. To be able to shut down everything else in my head and only focus on what I'm shooting.
While my personal photo projects are much more of my alter ego speaking, and those are normally the nasty thoughts that runs inside my head everyday.

On a final note: I will not play nice and hide beneath a house of cards build upon lies to get what I want. But if someone out there is stepping on my toes I would recommend an immediate retreat, 'cause I won't hold myself responsible for playing dirty if necessary.

Now not everything today will be based on my rants. I'll leave you with a sneak peek of the Biffy Clyro photos coming up on one of the next few days. Enjoy.

You Me At Six + Kids in Glass Houses + Ten Second Epic

Yuuush let's try again (since I accidentally deleted the post before posting it earlier today).

So I went see You Me At Six not many days ago.
First off, I ended arriving almost a whole support set late, 'cause of bad internal communication.
I apologize to Ten Second Epic for the lack of better and more photos. Hopefully I'll get a chance to make it up to them.
I ended up spending most of the show up in the balcony hanging out of it while climbing up the hanging monitors to get most of the photos. Since it was almost impossible to take photos from the front of the stage. (Who says music photographers don't work hard?)

Anyways enough talk here's some photos:

You Me At Six








Kids In Glass Houses





Ten Second Epic

Siamese Fighting Fish + Marionette

Okay I'm sorry I'm spamming today, but hell I need to update this and stop backlogging all the time.

Anyways this is kinda of a continuation of the Trusted Few's Release Party Post further down.
As I wrote on the other post, they weren't the headliners that night. But Swedish Marionette were. Extra support came from also Danish Siamese Fighting Fish.

So let us starts with that night's headliners Swedish Marionette. They look quite funny, but the music is really good (and I normally hate swedish bands) If you like me didn't knew them then go check them out at their myspace.





And Then we have the Danish Siamese Fighting Fish.
I'm not the keenest person on earth when it comes to their music, but it's growing on me.
Lead singer Mirza is a friend of mine so I snapped some photos of the band this time (long story made short, usually I miss their set or my computer dies and all photos are lost with it, or I accidentally delete the photos from my memory cards....resuming I'm not always that smart).






And this is all for this post. Coming up : You Me At Six, Kids In Glass Houses and Ten Second Epic.

Trusted Few Release Party At The Rock

Those who know me, They also know that I'm a big fan of the Danish band Trusted Few. Not only I'm a fan those guys, but they have been my friends for a few years now.

It all started about tree years ago when their bassist Andreas contacted me about the release of their first self titled Ep "Trusted Few". I instantly grew to love this band, from that point on I was at almost all their shows always with my camera in my hand. This resulted in me working more than often with them. When they released their second Ep " Futatsu" I was there as well. I think that since I met these guys I've only missed a handful of their shows in Denmark. (which is quite impressive if you ask me).

So Saturday two weeks ago, October 1st, they finally released their first full lenght album. And off course I wasn't gonna miss that. So there I was at The Rock with my camera ready.
I arrived at the venue around six hour prior to them playing since I wanted to grab some backstage and soundcheck photos. And here they are:







As for the live photos, well Trusted Few was unfortunally not the Headliners tonight, which is quite odd considering it was their release party. Anyways here's some more photos.

Trigger The Bloodshed + The Dead Lay Waiting + Billy Boy In Poison

So I know this was some time ago now. Approx. two weeks or a bit more. But I decided to post this anyways.

So I went off to the tiny Danish venue Beta (formerly known as Amager Kino) to see the British Trigger The Bloodshed plus their support, which came from also British The Dead Lay Waiting and the Danish Billy Boy In Poison. And while I can't take The Dead Lay Waiting seriously, ones got to admit that they worked hard to get the crowd to "warm up", too bad it didn't work and most people had left the venue under their set.

Anyways here's some photos from the gig.

Danish Billy Boy in Poison



British The Dead Lay Waiting



British Trigger The Bloodshed



For more photos, check my Flickr out