It’s time to look again to which live shows and festivals I shot in 2025. I ended up with 12 festivals and all collectively 276 live shows from these festivals and from completely different venues. Listed below are the primary batch of pictures from the primary half of the yr. I’ve chosen those I like essentially the most, not essentially from the comcerts I appreciated essentially the most. (Picture above: Man Forsyth Band on the Gruene Corridor in New Brunswick)
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After most of January in Spain, my live performance pictures began extra significantly in February with Carly Pierce, adopted by Elles Bailey and Loreen
Yearly since 1997 I’ve travelled to Austin, Texas to attend SXSW. So additionally this u´yr however earlier than I left, I photographed TOTO in Oslo
In Austin I used to be invited to Robert Rodriguez’ get together at his studio places by ny good frind and Robert’s brother, Patricia Vonne. After all I additionally noticed Patricia at her yearly present with nice feminine Mexicana artists on the Continental Membership.
One other good Austin custom is Ray Benson’s Celebration, with a lot of distinguished artists as visitors. This yr Hayes Carll, Jimmie vaughan and Steve Earle had been amongst them.
One in every of this yr’s music keynotes on the SXSW was Tom Morello interviewing John Fogerty.
One other good expertise was the Jones’ Household and Leeann Atherton at Soul Sunday at Alan Berg’s home in North Austin.
I noticed plenty of live shows throughout my keep in Austin, and I all the time love seeing Rosie Flores. This time she was doing jazz requirements with a jazz band at C-Boys on South Cogress. And I went all the way down to New Brunswick to interview Man Forsyth for the Norwegian Bluesnews journal at Gruene Corridor .
I’ve a number of different artists that I’ve to see when I’m in Austin. Carolyn Wonderland is one, Patrice Pike one other, Andrea Magee yet one more, and I have to all the time go to Donn’s Depot, this time to see Kevin Russel from Shinyribs. And I acquired to see Brannen Temple and Purple Younger on the Elephant Room.
Again in Oslo I noticed Astrid S at Oslo Spektrum earlier than going again to Spain for some heat climate.
In Could I did a number of live shows, and listed below are pictures from two of them – The Lumineers and Natasha Bedingfield.
June is all the time my first heavy pageant month. It begins in Trindheim with two seccessive festivals, Trondheim Rocks and Neon. Among the many artists I noticed at Trondheim Rcks, had been Halestorm, Battle Beast and Iron Maiden.
Neon is a typical pop pageant, and the live shows I appreciated essentially the most, had been Benjamin Ingrosso, Ary, Molly Sandén and the headliner, Think about Dragons.
From Trondheim I travelled to Bergen for the yearly Bergenfest. Right here I noticed Lee Fields, Confidence Man, Michelle Ullestad and Aurora plus a number of different bands and artists.
After Bergenfest, I attended OverOslo on the pictoresque Grefsenkollen, with a view over Oslo. I photographed a number of live shows right here, too, and listed below are Gabrielle, M2M, Nile Rodgers and CHIC, Maria Mena and Bertine Zetlitz.
My late June pageant yearly is Tons of Rock in Oslo. It’s a assive pageant, 4 days and 4 phases. I managed to {photograph} 26 bands, and listed below are a range: Black Debbath, Dream Theater, Turbonegro, Intercourse Pistols with Frank Carter, Djerv, Hurra Toredo, Dimmu Borgir, Exodus, Kaizers Orchestra, Megadeth, Cocktail Slippers and Machine Head.
If you wish to see extra of my pictures from 2025 and earlier than, you’ll be able to see them at Getty Photographs.
