The AFP gig in a little more detail
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karohemdAs I won't be able to sleep for a while yet, here's how it went.
Against all expectations I left work and arrived at the station on time, only to find all King's Cross trains cancelled because of several overhead line failures so I had to go via Liverpool St which meant I got to Camden 10 past 7 instead of an hour earlier. However,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ginasketch hadn't made it out of work in time so I had to wait for her, anyway so not so bad. The queue was quite long but we got in eventually and found a reasonable spot by the mixer desk.
After a warm up/standup, the support came on: DetektivByrån a hard to describe band from Sweden (listen to their myspace to get an idea). Best use of scissors I've seen in a long time. ;o)
There was a reasonably short interval and Amanda started just before 9. She played a mix of tracks from her solo album, a new track, a few Dresden Doll tracks (Backstabber, Coin Operated Boy) and covers. The "Danger Ensemble" (a group of performers/pantomimes) accompanied a number of tracks with their shenanigans either on stage or even in the audience and there were a number of guest musicians, too (Leeds United had a full horn section). Obviously, there was a rant about the censoring of Oasis (because it allegedly "made light of abortion and date rape") but a praise for the BBC for playing during the bit with her on BBC Radio6. On her blog she had written that maybe if she suggested that i might be allowed to play it if i just slowed it way down and played it in a minor key. think about it. if they heard the same lyrics against the backdrop of a very sad and liliting piano, maybe with some tear-jerking strings thrown in for good measure, would they take issue? and mentioned this again during the gig and proceeded to start such a version to much giggling and laughter from the audience. Eventually she couldn't take it anymore herself, said "This is so stupid" and restarted the song properly. Gods, I love this woman. The music was interspersed with random things like the auctioning of some artwork with the proceeds going to the Danger Ensemble, a gay couple proposing on stage and the "photo session" at the end.
So much fun.
I only had the Fuji with me so the photos are rubbish but a few are actually really rather good. The light was *fantastic* for photography (strong white front light), if only I'd had my D700 with a good lens and been closer to the stage. Hell, even from where I stood with the 70-200mm f2.8 would have worked (LiveView, baby). This was shot at ISO400, 1/40th, F5 (according to the camera)
Sadly, I couldn't stay for the autograph session and made my way back to Liverpool St. to just catch the last train (the scheduled last train apparently didn't run) so I was very lucky. Very boring and long journey as I didn't have anything to read.
Anyway, I'm finally tired enough to be able to sleep, I think.
Against all expectations I left work and arrived at the station on time, only to find all King's Cross trains cancelled because of several overhead line failures so I had to go via Liverpool St which meant I got to Camden 10 past 7 instead of an hour earlier. However,
ginasketch hadn't made it out of work in time so I had to wait for her, anyway so not so bad. The queue was quite long but we got in eventually and found a reasonable spot by the mixer desk.After a warm up/standup, the support came on: DetektivByrån a hard to describe band from Sweden (listen to their myspace to get an idea). Best use of scissors I've seen in a long time. ;o)
There was a reasonably short interval and Amanda started just before 9. She played a mix of tracks from her solo album, a new track, a few Dresden Doll tracks (Backstabber, Coin Operated Boy) and covers. The "Danger Ensemble" (a group of performers/pantomimes) accompanied a number of tracks with their shenanigans either on stage or even in the audience and there were a number of guest musicians, too (Leeds United had a full horn section). Obviously, there was a rant about the censoring of Oasis (because it allegedly "made light of abortion and date rape") but a praise for the BBC for playing during the bit with her on BBC Radio6. On her blog she had written that maybe if she suggested that i might be allowed to play it if i just slowed it way down and played it in a minor key. think about it. if they heard the same lyrics against the backdrop of a very sad and liliting piano, maybe with some tear-jerking strings thrown in for good measure, would they take issue? and mentioned this again during the gig and proceeded to start such a version to much giggling and laughter from the audience. Eventually she couldn't take it anymore herself, said "This is so stupid" and restarted the song properly. Gods, I love this woman. The music was interspersed with random things like the auctioning of some artwork with the proceeds going to the Danger Ensemble, a gay couple proposing on stage and the "photo session" at the end.
So much fun.
I only had the Fuji with me so the photos are rubbish but a few are actually really rather good. The light was *fantastic* for photography (strong white front light), if only I'd had my D700 with a good lens and been closer to the stage. Hell, even from where I stood with the 70-200mm f2.8 would have worked (LiveView, baby). This was shot at ISO400, 1/40th, F5 (according to the camera)
Sadly, I couldn't stay for the autograph session and made my way back to Liverpool St. to just catch the last train (the scheduled last train apparently didn't run) so I was very lucky. Very boring and long journey as I didn't have anything to read.
Anyway, I'm finally tired enough to be able to sleep, I think.
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Date: 5/2/09 04:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/2/09 04:12 am (UTC)That was from the crowd, aimed blindly as this was taken with the D70 (the D700 was my Xmas present to myself ;o).
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Date: 5/2/09 10:51 am (UTC)Hee! May I borrow this photo for my own blogpost later on?
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Date: 5/2/09 11:02 am (UTC)Please do. Feel free to grab the icon as well, if you like.
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Date: 5/2/09 01:17 pm (UTC)