Prior to Splendour i photographed Tricky‘s sideshow at The Metro.
Seeing some of Danny North’s shots gave me forewarning that the light would be very low and difficult to shoot in. And it was – no front light at all with lots of red and blue.
Luckily i was able to go side of stage and shoot a few pictures from there. That was handy since he seemed to spend a fair bit of time with his back to the audience, looking toward the drummer and lighting up ‘cigarettes’.
I was surprised at how upbeat and ‘rock’ the show was. I guess that’s the direction of his new record.
After coming home from the show i got all nostalgic and crawled youtube for his old material. Such great music. Takes me back.
Poems
Broken Homes – featuring PJ Harvey
Hell is round the corner
Pumpkin – with Alison Goldfrapp on vocals from 1995
Black Steel – covering Public Enemy
I love them all but especially the B&W and sepia shots.
Freaky contact lenses, no?
I don’t think they were contact lenses, just his eyes rolling to the back of his head.
2nd shot is insane! Maxinquaye is a brilliant album, so timeless and 1995 was a supreme year for British Album releases, I was having a conversation on Friday about favourite years music wise and 1995 was my first choice by a mile!
brilliant, amazing, brilliant photos of Tricky!
Love Maxinquaye
Guess you could say it was a tricky photo-shoot.
Sorry, been awake for too long.
Shots are very good. Esp 4th one.