Last time we visited Chester Zoo our boy was just that little bit too young to understand it. It was a cold December day and, at two-and-a-half, his stamina didn’t allow for the most relaxing visit. In April this year, on...
Read MoreElbow played Manchester’s Phones 4u Arena on Wednesday night to a crowd of almost 20,000 and pulled off a spectacular trick. They made it feel like an intimate gig. On the back of their first number one album in the UK (I...
Read MoreLast week’s Manchester Arena gig by Gary Barlow was a first for me. Photographing from behind the mixing desk, it was difficult to make out the Frodsham frontman without a telephoto lens. However it was a good opportunity...
Read MoreOne of a small handful of (non-BBC) photographers granted access to the BBC 6Music Festival, I’m dropping off my bag in the Green Room area, just after lunch. There are a few phones charging so I take the opportunity to give...
Read MoreThe crowd here at Manchester’s Ritz is a right old mix – there are your 17-year-old girls obviously (and no shortage of 17-year-old boys, I have to say) but also folk old enough to be Jake Bugg’s grandparents....
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