I was able to get along to the Saturday morning / afternoon of this year’s Lymelight Festival in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Stage photos at this time tend to be a bit bland since the stage lighting makes no impact on the lighting on the performers. The music performed was of varying genres with performances by: Kira Mac, Charlotte Bettson. Millie May, The BlueYellows, Aaron Mobberley and friends, Helena Raby, Jay Johnson, Adam Finney and Fat Lip.
This was my first 6 Towns 1 City Carnival for a few years. The last few years I had an event or Wedding on the Saturday so my Sunday focus was getting those photos processed and delivered. My first experience of the carnival was a very wet one if it wasn’t raining then it had only just stopped and it would soon restart. This year was the opposite. Sheltering in the trees was to get out of the blazing hot […]
There can be no doubt that Kanye West’s Glastonbury booking and eventual performance created a lot of social media ‘noise’. The petitions and threats that followed the announcement of his booking mirrored that which greeted Jay-Z’s booking a few years back. With Jay-Z he quickly showed that he appreciated that UK events are different from those across the pond and Glastonbury is also very, very, very special. His performance silenced those whose views were not entrenched. Jay-Z at Glastonbury was […]