Dizzee Rascal @ The Metro
I occasionally take photos for Inthemix and the opportunity came up for Dizzee Rascal’s BDO side gig. ITM contributors don’t get paid, they write articles or take pics for love (and to get into events for free). Most of the gigs I’ve done were DJ gigs or dance parties not concerts. I found it all a bit daunting when I had to fill out a photo pass application form from his PR agency & found out that we could only shoot for the first 3 songs and NO flash (eek) - I’m not used to shooting under pressure! I rocked up to The Metro and met Matt Booy who takes awesome pics for TripleJ - surprisingly he was really nice to me. There ended up being about 10 photographers in the pit: half were women (incl quite a few short Asian chicks). Dizzee Rascal was pretty good from what I saw - he had the crowd jumping and screaming. I’m not really happy with the shots I took - it was all a bit too intimidating not being able to use the flash and being at the gig by myself. Usually when I do these jobs I try to get a mix of the main acts, the crowd and portraits of the punters etc. Some guy came up to me and said take my picture, then proceded to try and pull his pants down - it was that kind of crowd.