11 x Grammy award winning rockers The Foo Fighters perform their Sonic Highways World Tour, in support of their eighth studio album. Dave Grohl front man @ Cape Town Stadium November 2014
11 x Grammy award winning rockers The Foo Fighters Sonic Highways World Tour, in support of their eighth studio album. Dave Grohl front man @ Cape Town Stadium November 2014
The Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders perform songs from Red Light Fever on the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage on Day 1 at Download Festival 2010. Featuring Taylor Hawkins front man and sticks beast on a drum solo. ( Taylor Hawkins is also the long time drummer for The Foo Fighters )
In October 2014, the Charlatans were given a lifetime achievement award by Q magazine, the icing on the cake after journalists wrote glowing reviews of Modern Nature across the UK and international press. This image features the band in London, 2009 with band members Martin Blunt, Tim Burgess, Mark Collins, Tony Rogers and Jon Brookes.
Bring Me the Horizon (often abbreviated as BMTH) are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 2004. In 2019 BMTH were nominated for a Grammy for their album, “AMO”. BMTH were Photographed at the Gibson Studios London in 2010 with lead vocalist Oliver Sykes and drummer Matt Nicholls. They are signed to RCA Records globally and Columbia Records exclusively in the United States.
Machine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California. The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist/guitarist Robb Flynn and bassist Adam Duce. The band's aggressive musicianship made it one of the pioneering bands in the new wave of American heavy metal, and it is also considered to be part of the second wave of thrash metal bands from the 1990s. The band was nominated for a Grammy for Best Metal Performance, Aesthetics Of Hate in 2007.
Band members photographed backstage at the O2 Academy Brixton, London, England featuring drummer Dave McClain and guitarist Phil Demmel while on tour for The Black Procession. Dave and Phil left the band in 2018.
Paul Weller, The winner of the Godlike Genius award in 2010 chosen by music magazine NME to honour a figure or group who has helped to shape the musical landscape over the years and past winners have included New Order, The Clash, Ian Brown and Manic Street Preachers.
Weller achieved a string of hits with The Jam such as Eton Rifles and Start! before they disbanded in 1982. He bounced back with The Style Council the following year and then launched a solo career in the early 1990s, achieving hits such as You Do Something To Me, Wild Wood and The Changing man. He is also the principal figure of the 1970s and 1980s mod revival, and is often referred to as "The Modfather".
Weller has received four Brit Awards, winning the award for Best British Male twice, and the 2006 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
This image was photographed as part of a video interview at the Round House, Camden, London in 2011 ahead of Paul Wellers 'Sonik Kicks' tour and two live performances at the venue in 2012.
Amy Lee, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence. She is a two-time GRAMMY winner as the lead singer of Evanescence. Photographed here at the Gibson Studios, while in London to speak exclusively to Gibson.com about her band’s new album, new single “What You Want,” their 2011 U.K. tour and her much-loved Baldwin piano .
The interview was photographed, filmed and directed by Mark Antonello and featured on Gibson.com and Antonello’s online show Block TV.
Block TV interview link: https://youtu.be/uPpV3yTkVY4
Olly Murs photographed and filmed at the Gibson Studios London in 2011 performing an acoustic version of "Dance with Me Tonight".
The single was taken from his second studio album, In Case You Didn't Know. It was released as the album's second single on 18 November 2011 and was written by Murs, Claude Kelly and Steve Robson.
The song stayed at number two in the UK for two consecutive weeks before finally giving Murs his third UK number-one single in December 2011. The track was released as the album's third single across Europe in November 2012, and as with his previous European single "Oh My Goodness" will receive a CD release that was absent in the UK. In August 2013 a new version of the song was released as the third single from the US version of Right Place, Right Time.
Mötley Crüe photographed live at @sonispherefestival 2010 with front man @thevinceneil lighting up the Saturn Stage late in the afternoon @knebworth_house performing Kickstart My Heart, Dr. Feelgood and Too Fast for love ( First time live since 2006). Mötley Crüe has sold 100 million albums worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. Their story can now be watched on the Netflix series " The Dirt". This shot was taken from the press pit on the day.