Zoetrope at The Buffalo Bar

I have to do some serious catching up, I haven't written a Blog or uploaded anything in 3 month. The gig that zapped me of all my will was Zoetrope at The Buffalo Bar, which I was suppose to shoot for The Girls Are...

I was suppose to do a couple of portraits as well as shoot their gig for publication, so I got there a bit earlier, met and hang out with the band for a while and looked for a suitable place to try for some portraits. I got the band to sit down, got my camera out and switched it on. Well, I tried to switch it on but nothing happened. Then it dawned on me, I had left my battery in the charger at home. In 4 years of shooting, this had never happened to me before and I was not happy.

As a joke I suggested I use my phone to take a portrait shot, you know, be all trendy. This is the resulting photo:

As luck would have it, I knew that Neil was coming to the gig, who shoots with the same camera as me. The band texted him for me asking if he'd be able to lend me a spare battery. Thank you very much to him for saving the day!

But the disaster of an evening didn't stop there, oh no! The night was running so late, that by the time Zoetrope took to the stage, I had just about time to shoot 2 songs before I had to run out to catch my last train.

Since then, I have been shooting very little and had no desire to share any pictures online but I guess I'm over it now :) .