Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre opened this year amid much fanfare. It’s a 2000-odd capacity theatre, situated in the Docklands, and designed by Daniel Libeskind. I managed to sneak my way in courtesy of my friend Dave O’Grady of Independent Records who, among other things, manages Josh Ritter. It was quite a strange experience as the [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Grand Canal Theatre
Posted in Grand Canal Theatre, Venues, tagged Daniel Libeskind, Grand Canal Theatre, Josh Ritter, large format photography, long exposure, stages on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Now They Are Four
Posted in Venues, Whelans, tagged large format photography, long exposure, Sea Dog, stages, whelans on June 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This is the awesome Sea Dog, shot in Whelans, on the same night as the Patrick Kelleher photo I put up earlier. It’s a 7.5 minute exposure taken, according to my notes, while they were playing a song called “Free Beer”. Sea Dog used to have three members but recently added a bass player to [...]
Wooden Shjips
Posted in Venues, Whelans, tagged large format photography, long exposure, stages, u:mack productions, whelans, Wooden Shjips on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hairy psychedelia from San Fransicso courtesy of Wooden Shjips- what can go wrong? Well the first thing would be that your cable release breaks immediately after setting up the camera. You have to use a cable release for long exposure shots on the 4×5 film camera I use. You press the cable release once to [...]
Vicar Street At Last
Posted in Venues, Vicar Street, tagged BEAM Orchestra, Daniel Johnston, foggy notions, large format photography, long exposure, photography, stages, vicar street on June 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Right from the start I saw Dublin’s Vicar Street venue as being ideal for this project but it took me quite a while before I managed to get in there to try it out. The venue management were very helpful and open to the idea from the start, but the problem was that it’s a [...]
