LIAM GALLAGHER + JOHN SQUIRES @ O2 APOLLO, MANCHESTER
No one thought it could happen, but Gallagher and Squires headed out on a UK tour to play their new penned album. Mixed reviews followed. I was never much of an indie kid, so I'm not the one to ask if it was any good. I was photographing as the house photographer on this occasion. The pit was rammed with around 17 photographers and videographers from the Gallagher/Squires camp. Lighting was a bit on the challenging side and we only had two songs. So basically it felt like in and out in a flash bang wallop. Support came from Squires son Dillion and Jake Bugg. It was my 2nd time shooting both these guys. I just wish they would move about a bit more.
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I made a playlist of songs that people said they really liked in chronological order, so you can hear my progress and how different my voice changed after taking T, or just getting more comfortable with a deeper voice. It's about an hour because I've been making music since I was 15 lol, and I'm 26 now.
If you have the time to listen to someone thats been grinding at it for a decade, I think you'll at least find one song I've made you like. Maybe.
I've made usually country-folk, folk-pop, ambient and electronic sample-based music. I've been recommended by Animal Collective fans on their subreddit lol, but I'm very influenced by Daniel Johnston, early Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan, The Beach Boys, and lo-fi acts like Bruce Haack, R. Stevie Moore, Joe Meek. I made everything pretty much in my bedroom or house.
As you can also tell, I pretty much made all of my album artwork myself. All of this, my music, my paintings are my own project. My own little description of the world. So, I hope you can dig it.