Category: Promotion

Bevendene Bevendene are a young energetic band. Their website tells us that “Bevendene are an indie rock band hailing from Reading, England, whose 4 members are Thomas Ordish (Rhythm Guitar and Vocals), Alfie Cruickshank (Lead Guitar), Will Grant (Bass) and Will Etheridge (Drums) The band formed in August 2023 after their shared love for Oasis,…

Funkin’ Souled Out

Funkin’ Souled Out Funkin Souled out are an outstanding covers band that we had the great pleasure of videoing recently They did a great job of covering some great funk, soul and disco classics, and really got the audience up singing and dancing to the music Find other big band videos are here and here

Hold onto Hope- Macmillan Cancer fund raising event

Hold onto Hope This charity event, held to fund raise for Macmillan Cancer Support was held at South St Arts Centre on 8th June 2024 It was organised by Emma Macedo, who also wrote the song that runs behind the video It was a fantastic evening of varied entertainment that the packed audience really enjoyed…

Alphaline – flatlining

Alphaline We had the pleasure of videoing Alphaline at Wokingham Festival 2024 Their website tells us that they are a “4-piece band from Berkshire/Surrey UK, with a sound drawing on trip hop, jazz, funk, ambient electronica and alternative psychedelic rock.” All I know is that they did a great job of entertaining a packed audience with…

Selina and the Howlin dogs

Selina and the Howlin Dogs We videoed them in Reading South Street Theatre, and really enjoyed the show Their website tells us that “Selina and the Howlin Dogs combines a classic power-trio with the added female lead vocalist. They play upbeat funky blues rock with a modern feel.” All I know is that they are…

Ghostly Tales – Spriggan Mist plus guests October 2024

Apr 1, 2024

Spriggan Mist Ghostly Tales – Spriggan Mist plus guests was a fantastic evening of pagan fun and frolics!Described as an energetic progressive folk rock band with Charismatic lead singer Fay Brotherhood providing the voice and onstage theatrics, Spriggan Mist feature Tribal belly dancers Jadoo tribal who accompany the band with their mesmerising double Sword dances, injecting…

Caitlin Lavagna

Apr 1, 2024

Caitlin Lavagna Her details are…Caitlin is an Actor Musician graduate from Rose Bruford College; a talented Actor, Songwriter and Drummer. Born in the Rhondda with strong Gibraltarian Roots, Caitlin has developed a huge passion for lyrics, percussion and harmonies. With a strong, rich vocal and a knack for instant pop hooks, Caitlin blends honest songwriting…

Moth Man – Nutter

Mar 29, 2024

AN unexpected event! Moth Man are a band from Manchester and Reading. It’s a bit difficult to put them into a genre, as they create very varied compositions. However, they have a very pronounced sense of humour, that commonly is expressed in their lyrics. The start Moth man asked us to help promote “Nutter” right…

TRIM Album Launch

Mar 27, 2024

TRIM TRIM had a fantastic album launch. Along with 2 support acts, they showcased their new album to a packed audience that were bopping in the isles Their lady singer had broken her leg just before the show, and had to sing sitting down, but even that didn’t reduce the energy, musicianship and enthusiasm that filled…

Warmrain keep going – video

Mar 29, 2023

Warmrain perform “keep going” are a quintessentially English melodic art rock/prog rock band – I know that because it’s on their website I met Warmrain at Wokingham Festival 2021, and they asked us to video their set. So we did, using 2 cameramen, a gimbal cam and a locked off camera. The sound was recorded directly from…

Social media promotion

Mar 28, 2023

Social Media Promotion Part of what we do is to promote festivals by using the videos shot on the previous year to enhance sales during the current year 2022 was going to be a difficult year for Wokingham Festival, and all the other festivals, because Covid 19 was rearing its ugly head again, and also people…

Pink Fish band – promo

Pink Fish Promo The Pink Fish band asked us to create a promo video for them to support getting more gigs as the horrors of Covid 19 subsided So we did an 8 camera shoot as soon as the restrictions eased They did a great set full of energy and showmanship even though the venue wasn’t packed…

Castello Music – The Subscription Rooms

Castello Music – Colin Henney and Tim Hillsdon Sometimes, things just ooze quality and professionalism from every pore. And so it was when I met Castello Music at The Subscription Rooms in Stroud and met Rory Evans, Colin Henney and Tim Hillsdon -the 3 fantastic, talented, genuinely friendly musicians that are Castello Music They are also fit chaps,…

Festival promotion 2022

Social Media Promotion Part of what we do is to promote festivals by using the videos shot on the previous year to enhance sales during the current year 2022 was going to be a difficult year for Wokingham Festival, and all the other festivals, because Covid 19 was rearing its ugly head again, and also people…

Chilfest 2022

Chilfest 2022 2022 is a medium sized 2 day festival that happens on the outskirts of Tring in the grounds of Pendley ManorThe first day features tribute acts, the second day is original artistsIt’s a friendly place with an audience that like dressing up and vendors who serve with a smile The weather was warm…

Festival Promotion – Management

Wokingham Festival Organisers When optimising Festival Promotion, the management of the event can add a different perspective in the minds of the potential attendeesWhat I mean by this is that the Management have a unique perspective about who is going to be performing, and the impact on the local community that cannot be gained using…

Dance Cult 10

Dance Cult 10 It was a real pleasure videoing Dance Cult 10 at Wokingham Festival!They perform classic songs by the greats such as Stevie Wonder, M-People, Chic, Dee-Lite, Chaka Khan, Bruno Mars, Jamiroquai and Madness and many more but always done in a happy, smiley way. They are all great musicians, and really nice people, but iI was…

Trim

TRIM at Wokingham Festival I videoed Trim at Wokingham Festival 2022 When I’m videoing a band, there is so much to think about, that I don’t listen to the performance in detail The opposite is true when I’m editing. I really get to know every word, every nuance It was during the editing phase that…

Using After Effects for Festival Promotion

Using Adobe After Effects in Festival Video Promotion Using Adobe After Effects in Festival Video Promotion There are so many Festival video promos that look the same – fast cut shots of the band and audience I wanted something different and Adobe After Effects enabled me to do that This was created to support the…

Kate Bush Experience – KBE

The Kate Bush Experience -KBE- at the Hampton Hub The Kate Bush Experience (KBE) are -guess what! – a tribute act to Kate BushWe were asked to create a number of standalone videos, plus a showreel by their band promotion/management company Tasker Robins Live It was shot at the Hampton Hub Club, a great little community live events…

Rachel Redman Band

The Rachel Redman Band The Rachel Redman band are an originals/covers band based in Berkshire with a 90’s country/pop vibeThe 4-piece perform all over the local area, and this video was shot at Wokingham Festival Other performers at this festival can be found here and

Dance Cult 10

Dance Cult 10 It was a real pleasure videoing Dance Cult 10 at Wokingham Festival!They perform classic songs by the greats such as Stevie Wonder, M-People, Chic, Dee-Lite, Chaka Khan, Bruno Mars, Jamiroquai and Madness and many more but always done in a happy, smiley way. They are all great musicians, and really nice people, but iI was…

Flutatious and Spriggan Mist

The wassail Flutatious and Spriggan Mist wanted to promote “The Wassail”, a joint event with extra guests Their music is original and both bands take a lot of inspiration from the power of the natural world, as well as pagan or faerie folk-loreThey had played together as separate acts at various events, and decided that there was…

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 DVDThis 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…

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…

Wokingham Festival 2020 Publicity

Just for fun – and then a reminder of how great the festival is In line with every other major festival this year, Wokingham festival has been postponed to 2021, however, we decided that we would still do wokingham festival 2020 publicity to keep the event live in people’s minds To keep the spirit of the…

Wokingham Virtual festival 2020 acts

Remembering all the great acts at Wokingham Festival In line with every other major festival this year, Wokingham festival has been postponed to 2021 To keep the spirit of the festival alive, a live stream – the Wokingham virtual festival 2020 acts – published over the 3 days of the August bank holiday was created by…

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…

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,…

Kepler Ten – Weaver

Kepler Ten Promo Project Kepler 10 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…

Wokingham Panto Rehearsal

There WILL be a Panto! Wokingham Panto 2021 Rehearsal Pantos happen in a theatre, around Christmas time – well in a Covid world – oh no they don’t!! The 2020-2021 performance had to be postponed and the venue changed in line with government advice Therefore, a delightful, small park right in the middle of Wokingham…

Totally Blondie

An outstanding tribute band Totally Blondie have rapidly gained a reputation as the best Blondie tribute band in the UK!Blondie were one of the most iconic bands of the 70’s & 80’s, with posters of Debbie Harry adorning most teenagers’ walls, and they’ve continued turning out hits and great music right up to 2017’s Pollinator…

Candlelit Macbeth

The creation of a promo video “Candlelit Macbeth” is a new treatment on that eternal Shakespearean favourite – Macbeth Bart Lee, the creator and producer of the show, wanted to create a more intimate experience than the usual large stage events. He therefore came up with the idea of using candlelight rather than a huge…

Butcher’s Arms Big Bash 3 – videos

Butcher’s Arms Big Bash 3 – an eagerly anticipated local event Rob Blues – landlord The Butcher’s Arms Big Bash 3 was the third year that this great local mini-festival was held in Sonning Common. “BABB” as it is affectionately known, is a much anticipated and loved event with a large turnout As well as…

Pennfest 2019 Bands – promotional stills photography

Pennfest 2019 Pennfest Festival has outstanding acts The headliners are world class, including Suede, Jax Jones, Pete Doherty, Craig David, Happy Mondays, From the Jam and Scouting for Girls and the amazing sound and light system enable them to be seen and heard at their best We were commissioned to do the promotional stills…

Wokingham Music Festival 2019

The fans come as they are, or make their own statement with what they are wearing 2019 was the most recent of a series of annual events that have been running for many years running on the Saturday and Sunday of August bank holiday We were asked to shoot and edit both individual performance videos,…

Sam Brown’s Ukulele Club – Kenton Theatre

Sam Brown’s International Ukulele club Last December I was asked to do the lighting design and operation for Sam Brown’s International Ukulele Club of Sonning Common, who were performing at The Kenton Theatre I thought, “well, as I’m there, I might as well do a live performance video of it on a couple of locked off…

Parklife – Marlow Rock Bottom festival

Parklife This was one of the first festival videos that I ever did back in 2015 for Marlow Rock Bottom. I was very proud of it then, and it’s still got some merit today, and is still being used by the organisers to promote each years event – talk about good value for money!!!, however….…

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…

Jodi Liz at the O2 Academy

Jodi Liz We were asked to do a 4 camera shoot of Jodi Liz, a young singer/songwriter, and her newly formed band as she performed at the O2 Academy, Islington For anyone performing at the O2 Academy, it’s a complete pain to find, and even worse to get into! The show was just 5 days…

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…

Rock around the clock – festival promotion

They are amazing musicians with a great show that amplifies and explains their tracks Over 3500 festivals of various kinds are announced each year. Less than 2000 actually happen and only 1200 make enough money that they are repeated the following year. Festival promotion should be top of the list of activities rather than left…

Rugfest and Bunkfest

Rugfest and Bunkfest Wallingford hosts 2 very different festivals each year Rugfest (So called because it is held in the rugby club) is a medium sized, standard festival with one main stage, food and produce stalls, and prides itself on having many genres of music from acoustic sets up to well known mainstream bands Bunkfest…

Butchers Arms Big Bash

BABB The Butcher’s Arms in Sonning has always had a charity fund raising ethos. Over the years it has raised 10’s of 1000’s of pounds with sponsored bike rides and many other activities. It was therefore particularly poignant when the landlady was diagnosed with bowel cancer. Whilst she was being cared for during the final…

Noasis at Marlow Rock Bottom

Naughty Boys! Noasis are the premiere Oasis tribute band and as Oasis are the bad boys of Britpop, so any good Oasis Tribute band have to be at least as bad! I have both videoed and taken stills of them and I can tell you they absolutely are bad boys!, but it’s mixed with an…

Edward Chilvers

Edward Chilvers Edward Chilvers is an incredibly talented pianist that takes music to new levels Whilst most of us can appreciate 2/4 time, or 3/4 time, anything more than that is beyond many musicians Edward likes to play polyrhythmicly, that is to say, he will play with multiple rhythms – sometimes as many as 4…

Rugfest 2018 – Video fun

Rugfest fun! The strangely named Rugfest has nothing to do with rugs! Instead it is named after its location, Wallingford Rugby Football Club (RFC) Rugfest is the largest summer festival in the area, and is well attended by the local community. The organisers of Rugfest give much of the profit to local charities, and strive…

Primitai launch new album – promotional photography

Primitai launch Primitai had an interesting start to the new year They asked us to do some shots in the recording studio, as well as their first gigs as they played the new tracks for the first time The live gig shots were designed to look as though they were shot in a fog, as…

Promotional photography and video for the Post War Orchestra

Post War Orchestra We were asked to do promotional shots for the Post War Orchestra a group of folk who re-purpose militaria, and, make music from the resulting instruments. The purpose of the photography was to support a crowd funding process to take them to the next level of instrument building and performnceIt was shot…

Publicity shots – walking on water

Publicity shoot We were asked by Primitai to come up with a range of publicity shots to be used for a new album launch. Having done many that reflected this heavy Metal’s band’s heritage, I decided to try something different These publicity shots were taken on the Jurassic Coast near Kimmeridge The ones where they…

Rocking out at Marlow Rock Bottom Family Festival – video

They are amazing musicians with a great show that amplifies and explains their tracks Marlow Rock Bottom is a lovely little family friendly festival It was originally conceived as a way of generating a few quid to support the local school’s playing field. These days it has grown and grown and now generates more than…

Isuzu – Making of – Photography

Isuzu shoot Jeff Boult was asked to do a launch / promotional video for the Isuzu D-Max. Chris went along to do some “Making of” photography. God, it was cold! Wales in winter might give some great backdrops, but it has an artic feel to it, that makes you really appreciate the great hot food…

Band promo shots – photography that sells

The Echo The Echo were to do a small gig at the Bosco Lounge . So as well of some promo shots, we also took just 20 minutes to do some extra shots that would be used to promote the band’s merchandise at a number of festivals including Marlow Rock Bottom and Pennfest You may notice that during the shoot, we…

Live music event – White Wedding – creative video editing

They are amazing musicians with a great show that amplifies and explains their tracks This is an example of creative video shooting and creative video editingOn this live event music video we used a 32 channel Mackie recorder to capture the individual performance stems, When mixed with ambient audio from the 9 cameras, we were…

2016 review – photography, video and promotion

2016 review 2016 has been a hectic year for GigshotZ – 8 festivals, 22 new bands that wanted live coverage. we produced 56 live performance videos – more than one a week!All of our live event music videos have had a different look and feel – after all it’s about what the bands want –…

The Echo at the Marlow Donkey – Video