Lux Lisbon at the Scala, London
Lux Lisbon sell out the Scala, London
It's great to get to shoot a high energy live gig, but even better when it's a band you like, so I was more than a little chuffed to get to shoot Lux Lisbon's largest gig to date at the Scala, in London.
Michael Kilbey on stage at the Scala, London
There were two support acts starting with singer-songwriter Michael Kilby. I’d not shoot at the Scala before so it gave me a good chance to get a feel for the venue - singer-songwriters don’t generally move around too much and I'm pleased to say Michael followed in that honourable tradition. Michael has a great following, the 'Sea Queens', as they're known, really enjoyed themselves!
Orlando Seale & the Swell on stage at the Scala, London
Next up were Orlando Seale and the Swell. In addition to a guitarist, Orlando was playing with two great violinists and a very lively group of backing singers. It's easy to tell when a group are enjoying themselves on stage and they were really enjoying themselves. I had the pleasure of meeting Orlando, he's such a nice guy and was happy to chat to the audience in the bar after the gig.
Lux Lisbon have no management or record company - everything is completely DIY. I later found out they're the first self-managed band to sell-out the Scala, a great achievement. I admire them for doing it that way, it's really hard work, all the band were on stage before the set doing what would normally be roadie duties.
Lead singer Stu from Lux Lisbon on stage at the Scala, London
Lux Lisbon are one of those bands that really come into their own in a live setting. I'm no music journalist so I'm not going to attempt to describe the references that inform their work - happily there's a free 10-track EP you can download and do that for yourself.
It's a fairly easy journey home from the Scala never-the-less it was still after midnight when I started editing. I was shooting RAW + small jpeg. I've written before about how great the Fuji jpegs are, it's a massive time-saver to be able to grab jpegs straight from the camera, give them a quick tweak and email them off. The band wanted a few shots for their twitter and facebook feeds so they didn't need to be huge files, the jpegs were ideal.
Charlotte from Lux Lisbon on stage at the Scala, London
I've been playing with using the built-in wifi on the Fuji XT-1 to download files to an iPad. Snapseed and Lightroom Mobile are so intuitive on the iPad, in some ways I enjoy editing with them more than with full-blown Lightroom. Doing it that way would allow me to get some shots out even quicker, but I'm still not at the point where I feel I could rely on it to work without a hitch.
I spent the following morning editing the RAW files, uploading the final images to dropbox by the end of the day. I hope you enjoy them and thanks to Lux Lisbon for the opportunity.
