Karohemd's World

Despite the non-existing light, I actually managed to get  a number of shots in I'm really happy with, some with slow flash.

Rome Burns were on their usual form, despite simonsatori claiming his voice wasn't up to scratch. They played a number of new tracks, too.


After a short break for rearranging the equipment on stage, Zombina and the Skeletones came on. Fun and bouncy all the way through with their skeleton outfits (Zombina a short black dress and the Skeletones white jumpsuits with caps and masks). I think this was the one hour set with the most tracks played I've ever heard. ;o)



There are still more on flickr. Click on a big pic to go there and then on the relevant set link on the right.

Finished the lot last night. Considering the lighting conditions, the low stage and not being able to move around much during RB and TLD, I'm very happy with these. You can see all of them on flickr but here's a selection.

After another null day (except cooking some lovely salmon), I made a good dent into processing the Rome Burns/SBA promo shoot.
As the night is going to be one bloody hour shorter, I'm stopping now so I can do housework and stuff tomorrow morning/early afternoon and then finish off the pics after dark. If I must, I can put in another hour or two Monday night and can then burn CDs so I can give them to toripink on Tuesday evening.

 
Click the thumbnails to open the relevant albums

Got to work nice and early and it wasn't too bad today, either.
Off to the station, train to KingsX, early dinner at Tokyo Diner (yummy ton katsu). Wandered over to the Marquee at 7:30 but it wasn't open yet because they were still soundchecking (somebody got delayed in traffic). There was some confusion because the bloke at the door couldn't find my name on the guest list (which was sorted by djpsyche, though) and I eventually got in.
The venue was tiny, more wide than long, had a very low stage and two(!) bins for lighting. Great, I thought, this is going to be fun for taking photos.
Chatted to simonsatori for a bit while the rest of the band were setting up and soundchecking and then they started.
It was a good set and sounded good, too. toripink is a fantastic addition to the band, all they need now is a drummer and I think they could really take off. Well done, guys!

Next up was Eva O, who I hadn't heard of before and turned out to be quite fun death rock type stuff but a bit boring after a while. Very cheesy was the thing with the bloody apples (I would have a great shot of her biting into one with stuff oozing all over her but it's utterly out of focus *cries*). Bloody goths. *shakes head*.

Due to the delay, I had to leave before The Last Dance got on stage so I could catch the 11:15 train (I really didn't fancy the 0:06 and getting home at 1:30)

As always, I can't just go to bed after a gig because everything's buzzing, so here's a photo preview:




( Larger versions and a few more )
Either the lights weren't that bad after all or I'm getting better at this thing, it's got to be one of the two.