Pure Acts are the best Abba Tribute act that I have seen As the organiser of Marlow Rock Bottom, I have numerous requests to get them back on the line up Richard Moss – MRB Organiser Pure Acts are an Abba tribute band who have been performing for over 20 years, and have supported such luminaries as John Mayer, Cher, …
Kepler Ten – Weaver
Project Kepler Ten are a three piece prog rock band that I first met at Wokingham Festival. I was really impressed by their musical virtuosity as I watched them play whilst I videoed their live performance. They in turn liked the live performance videos that I had created, and asked me to get involved in a promotional video to support …
Lockdown – Live Performance Videos
Stay in your fans minds Keeping yourself in your fan’s mind when all festivals, clubs and even pubs don’t allow live performances is difficult The concept of the multi-location “Home performances” never really worked – the technology made them difficult – and put bluntly, nearly all of them were, at best, amateurish, and boring So, we came up with a …
Lockdown Festival Video Production
This really kept our festival fresh in people’s minds Chris Hillman – Organizer I started the year with 17 contracts for festival coverage. These included individual performance videos shot as live performance videos, or as band interviews after their performances, as well as full event promotion videos for the festivals themselves They all got cancelled But, the bands and the …
Festival Video – Lockdown style – band promotion
This festival performance video was viewed over 7000 times I started the year with 17 contracts for festival coverage. There were individual performance videos that had been booked, as well as festival promotion videos. They all got cancelled But the bands and the festivals still needed to ” Be out there” So, both the bands and the festivals came up …
Whitestar Records at Wokingham Festival
Wokingham festival was a great showcase for many of our acts Chris Hillman Serial entrepreneur, Chris Hillman, owns and manages a number of record labels As a long term friend of the main organiser of Wokingham Festival, Chris suggested to Stan Heatherington that the festival should be increased by a day, and that his acts would populate that extra day. …
Flutatious DVD
This project was about making use of footage shot by another video company GigshotZ were asked to edit footage shot by another videographer to create a new Flutatious DVD This was because my good friends at FLUTATIOUS were constantly being asked for DVD’s of their performances, so they’ve made one which will be made available in the new year as a …
Let’s rock – the retro winter tour
The wembley arena Let’s Rock Retro Winter Tour had so many amazing acts! Back in the 80’s I had a residency at the now defunct Valbonne nightclub in Maidenhead, as well as being a mobile DJ The show was like I had simply got out my very best crowd pleasers and played them back to back. So here are some …
Unusual Suspects at Rugfest
Unusual Suspects play to a packed crowd at Rugfest One of our favourite bands to video are Unusual Suspects, who played to a packed crowd at Rugfest. We just love recording bands in a festival environment! Particularly festivals with large noisy crowds the get involved with the acts by dancing or singing along Rugfest is one of those festivals! The …
Ipsden Rocks 2019
Ipsden Rocks 2019 – a great mini festival Ipsden Rocks 2019 was such great fun. The barn at Ipsden is such a perfect venue for local bands to perform to a packed audience of enthusiastic music lovers who want to enjoy conversation, dancing wine, beer and great locally made food Such happy people doing their thing. This years event was …