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These New Puritans, Madrid 2013 |
A friend of mine once made a comment that Kaisa you are a street photographer and a mutual friend of ours is a concert photographer. It's been haunting me, because I have thousands of concert photos on my hard drive. It's something I love to do and in a way have been doing for many years. Extremely poorly in the past and extremely rarely these days. Foremost 'cos I don't end up going to concerts (on my own) that often and somehow taking photos is a solitary thing in so many (good) ways. So here I am looking back and my worst and best and mediocre. But always with a feeling. I might not often recognise songs and artists (looking apologetically at my weekly music quiz teammates), but you know... music is life!
Way back when digital camera was a pipe dream for me. In all honesty, shooting concert photos on colour film was a nightmare and I would assume it still would be except I would have some experience to make adjustments on a go.
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The Crash, Helsinki 2004 |
Poorly. With a flash. First digital years. I have forgotten that guy's name. He was a fun singer-songwriter from Australia. I remember seeing him earlier also in my university town. I had perm(!). I danced.
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A Guy From Australia, Tallinn 2006 |
The band that changed everything (?!) when I was 16 (another lifetime). Nostalgia factor sells well.
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Brainstorm, Helsinki 2010 |
Any camera works (including a smartphone). Some work better. But at that time micro four thirds Olympus was all I had.
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Breton, Madrid 2012 |
Dia de la Musica was one of my favourite festivals.
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Darkstar, Madrid 2013 |
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Waxahatchee, Madrid 2013 |
La Riviera was one of my least favourite venues in Madrid.
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Beach House, Madrid 2013 |
From the back row.
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Catpeople, Madrid 2013 |
All the feels.
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Ben Howard, Madrid 2013 |
Back when Nick Murphy was Chet Faker and had less than 20 000 Facebook likes. Close to a million now.
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Chet Faker, Madrid 2013 |
All the cool kids were there.
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Tame Impala, Madrid 2013 |
I am hooked. I will be back with more concert photos! I am sinking in sound.
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