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Form 696 is a Bad Thing

The London police have apparently decided that Keeping Track of ‘Dangerous’ Music Scenes will be easier if they mandate the organisers of events to help them keep tabs on both performers and punters, via some new paperwork, Form 696. This is a Bad Thing, and smacks of past efforts to keep young people Firmly In Their Place when it comes to music and nightlife. We’re written about this in more detail over at BigShinyThing — have a read, check out some of the links (including petitions and FaceBook groups dedicated to stopping Form 696 in its tracks), and if you …

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King Adz in Acclaim Mag

Nice to see our friend King Adz getting some press back home in Australia, in Acclaim magazine. The photo top left (with CCTV camera — what was that about?) is one of mine, from The Urban Cookbook launch party at Cargo earlier this year. More photos from the night here.

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Darrell Featured in Time Out Magazine

It’s nice to be featured as one of London’s ‘premier nightclub shutterbugs’ in this week’s Time Out magazine, alongside Billa Baldwin, Alex Warren and Robin Baharaj.

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Eat Your Heart Out

Thursday 11 December — the first night of Scottee’s new performance showcase at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. Pix here.

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UNDERCONSTRUCTION 4 November 2008

Season 4 of our favourite night of alt.performance works-in-progress kicked off on Tuesday at Bistrotheque, with work from Spanky, Akimbo, Dame Jayne and Le Gateau Chocolat. Pix here.

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UNDERCONSTRUCTION Season 4

Lisa Lee and the crew return to the stage at Bistrotheque on Thursday November 4th, for a new season of performance works-in-progress. Click on the image above for a personal selection of my favourite photos from the last couple of seasons. Some nice images here, but they don’t do justice to the sheer diversity of acts, and the energy, enthusiasm and sheer brilliance of much of the work. For more on UNDERCONSTRUCTION, check their MySpace. You can find the rest of my pix from UNDERCONSTRUCTION over on Flickr. But most importantly, come along.

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Kit List for Nightlife/Club Photography

I’ve received a few emails recently asking what kit I’m using. Virtually all the photos here and on Flickr were shot with a Nikon D200 or D300, although a few are from my Leica D-LUX 3 compact. I use the D300 almost exclusively now — the dynamic range and colour are vastly superior to those of the D200, and the metering is way more flexible. It’s a big heavy body, but I love it. Many of my favourite shots were taken with the D200, but I don’t miss it. Most of the club shots are with on-camera (or hand-held) SB-800 …

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Jonny Woo’s Birthday Party

Tucked away in a bar at a Casino on the ‘wrong side of Leicester Square’, with a light up dancefloor and some fabulous outfits and performance turns… pix here.

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This is War!

Spent the weekend rather immersed in the world of war photography. I’ve been involved in James Nachtwey’s XDR-TB campaign over the past couple of weeks, and seized the opportunity to watch the documentary about him, War Photographer, at a rare screening at the Barbican. The film is a must-see. If I were screening it, I’d programme it on a double bill with Chris Marker’s Sunless. To me, both Marker and Nachtwey focus unblinkingly into the abyss which — for much of the world — was the twentieth century, yet frame their record of these terrors in a radiant humanism. In …

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