Fuel Girl - Pacha

I got asked to come down and shoot the Fuel Girls performing at Pacha. Despite clubs being a place I'm not overly comfortable in (especially when it's not my taste in music) I went down as they were doing quite a few perfomances. It also meant I got to hang out properly with them in their dressing room.

They did five performances (two fire and aerial shows and one bar show) spread out over the night. It wasn't the easiest time I've photographed them. The club was pretty busy and as the shows were shorter (but more of them) it was hard to gage how much time I had to get the shots. The fire show was in a cage and with the crowd and security I couldn't really move around much. The second aerial show was harder as the three hoops were pretty spread out and covering them all meant lots of pushing past people as quickly as possible. The lighting was ok so I shot without flash.

The bar show was pretty cool and fun to shoot.

The photos aren't as good as they could have been but I know I can do better if there's a next time at Pacha as I know what to expect.

Sorry if this is a bit of a shit update. I'm not really sure what to write today.

You can click here for the other photos from the night.

Fuel Girls - Unholy (Aug)

There seems to be a theme of disapointing photos at the moment and especially after my photos of The Fuel Girls from the Unholy club night at the Scala I really wanted another shot at taking photos of them as I knew I could do better.

Thankfully they sorted me out with a pass for Unholy again which was going to be the last one and when I turned up there were two acts on before The Fuel Girls.

One act was a guy just making random noises on some sample machines and shouting nonsense down a microphone.

The second act was equaly bizarre (especially considering it was a metal night), it was a deadly serious, non ironic Britney Spears tribute act. She looked and sounded like her but it couldn't have been more out of place if it tried.

You can see more of Britney here.

Last time the venue had kept the lights really low and thankfully the lighting was a hell of a lot better this time. I got covered in champagne more than I ever had before and although my camera was soaked, I'm really happy with the shots.

The Fuels Girls are great and I can't wait to photograph them again. Not sure if I mentioned this before but I really want to shoot their aerial act.

Hopefully the girls will like these photos especially as they are so much fun to take.

The rest of the photos of The Fuel Girls from the night are here.

Fuel Girls - Unholy

This blog is squeezing it's way in between my New York update and my Warped update which is coming.

I got a text from a friend of mine who's part of the Fuel Girls saying they would be dancing at this new club night at The Scala called Unholy and did I want to come and take some pictures. The Fuel Girls seem like a great bunch of girls and I was really pleased with my shots from the last time. It was pretty last minute but I went down and when I got there I wasn't down for a photopass but the girls managed to sort that out. I've written about the other things I've shot at the place so I knew what the lighting was like so I was pretty prepared.

When I got in the place was pretty quiet. I'm sure thats mostly down to it being the first night and the fact it was the day before a festival in London. Despite it not being packed the Fuel Girls still killed it. I love their use of fire despite it being really hard to shoot. The one frustrating thing was that person doing the lighting seemed to think that because they used fire it would be wise to turn all the lights virtually out. That mixed with the fact that they spend a lot of time on the barrier with the crowd and there was no decent lighting for that. I had to have the shutterspeed right on the limit of what I can get away with which meant there's a slight motion blur in a lot of the picture and a lot of them are grainier than I would normally like them. I don't think they are as good as others I've shot there but I'm hoping that although they aren't techinically great, that their energy comes through.

Needless to say I got covered in multiple types of alcohol and liquid but it's all worth it.

Thank you Fuel Girls.

I *might* be shooting Hearts Under Fire twice on sunday then Gallows all in the same day. Fingers crossed it all works out ok.

You can see the other Fuel Girl photos here.