Kasper Rosa
…post gig celebrations last weekend.
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Packing up backstage.
Young DJ and sound engineer (in both capacities I can safely say he deserves the title) Neil McCartney, who recently published a remix of Kasper Rosa’s ‘Scaling Mount Improbable’, was down at their birthday gig this weekend rocking out in serious fashion.
I managed to catch a small glimpse of his energy on the night but really – as with the gig itself – you really had to have been there.
Kasper Rosa
…just as soon as the gig ended I asked the lads to jump down into the crowd for a few quick birthday celebration shots with the crowd.
Saturday was a great night, another success for Kasper Rosa in terms of letting their music roam freely around less obvious environments than bars and clubs.
Jordan Watson from noise-creationists Like Statues has been down here all day ‘frolicating’ with balloons and such like…
So I put his idle fingers to a keyboard.
It was a massive honour to be asked back again for the 2nd year in a row to Kasper Rosa’s birthday show. This year also doubling up as our 1st birthday…
…little known to most. 
Very excited for the night ahead, it’s just past 9pm and things will be kicking off shortly. Today has been an incredible day so far, soundcheck went so smoothly (always a weight off the shoulders) and we got some sandwiches backstage…SANDWICHES AT A GIG!! YES!!
There was also the option to have a shower in the room next door but I’m not that sweaty yet. Stage time for us will be 10:15pm or so and I cannot wait to get up there and rock some socks off and hopefully make some new fans in the process!
At the minute, we, (Like Statues) are in the studio getting some new tracks down and still writing a few more to hopefully release this Summer. For now, we have our first couple of festivals and a few other gigs coming up around the country…so busy summer for us!
It is now time for a beer so I will leave you back in the capable hands of Mr. Patton (aka God) (ED: I need to curb this god thing before it gets out of hand…)
Pictures to follow!
Peace x
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http://www.facebook.com/likestatues
http://likestatues.bandcamp.com
Bless ‘em.
Tags: jordan watson, kasper rosa, like statues, matthew alexander patton, summer
Next up I’ve managed to wrangle James Bruce (chief of percussion within Kasper Rosa) over to a keyboard for a few thoughts on what it has been like as a band over the last two years.
I am currently sitting in quite possibly the most comfortable backstage room I have ever had to pleasure to grace enjoying the company of my guitarist, Ryan, and Matthew Alexander Patton. Today, he is a god. (ED: …and I have the picture to prove it, thanks Colm.)
Soundcheck is pretty much done and now we’re all currently having some much needed down time before the room opens again for the last of the band’s checks.
I guess I’m most excited about just seeing how tonight turns out. We have never put on a show like this before but everything has gone to plan to far which is nice.
Yes, so two years of Kasper Rosa…well, it has been really interesting, possibly the biggest learning experience of my life to be fair. We have met some of the nicest, and it must be said bizarre, people through playing, recording and touring with this band.
Musically we have taken leaps and bounds. Together, we’re better friends and work so tightly as a unit when it comes to writing. Another thing that is really nice is that people seem to like the music that we have been doing, which to be fair is a surprise for me. It’s not that I don’t feel the music is good or anything, it’s just that it isn’t inherently cool or radio friendly so it’s great to get support from fans and other bands alike.
This year we are concentrating on doing up an album, something tasty. So there is lots of work to be done, and with no real idea of what the tunes will be like when we are finally finished it is really exciting for us at the same time. Who knows what the next year could bring?
Sweet as.
Tags: dave shannon, james bruce, john ryan mccormick, kasper rosa, matthew alexander patton, steven butler
Eatenbybears‘ young scamp, Aidan Kelly is with us to introduce proceedings during soundcheck for the Kasper Rosa 2nd Birthday Gig down here at the Crescent Arts Centre.
Starting to get rather excited.
I can hear some Butler-riffs seeping in from next door and we’re awaiting the arrival of the mighty Like Statues. So far today has consisted of trying to fit into various small spaces (lockers, showers), blowing up a hella’ lot of balloons and staring longingly at our rider. Hopefully we’ll have a wee cheeky sound check soon to distract us. Ryan McCormick is sitting opposite me with his finest (figurative) business hat on, doing all the boring admin things that intimidate the rest of us. Olan, our guitarist, is wandering around looking like a cross between a Slayer tribute act’s guitarist and an incredibly camp cabin boy.
We’re still down our drummer, who is lost up a mountain as we speak, but we’re pretty g0rramn’ pumped about this!
Kasper Rosa are our daddies and we’re eternally grateful for the chance to play this strange little dance studio.
Sorry for my ramble.
AIDAN OUT!
POW!
As well as that Ryan McCormick has been wandering around checking out the venue space.
Tasty.
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Making Music Photography An Art Form, A Profile – Matthew Alexander Patton
“Over the years, music photography has settled into an established art form, with conventions and rules of its own, so when a photographer can come along with a whole new lexicon, it’s time to sit up and take notice. Matt’s pictures somehow take you under the skin of the subject, revealing more than perhaps they thought they were giving away in the first place. And perhaps more importantly, he makes it look DAMN COOL to be in one of the bands he captures.”
Steven Edward Rainey, ‘BBC Introducing’
“I am Matthew Alexander Patton – cheers for the opportunity to promote my work. I try not to take life too seriously, but can often be seen doing so. I wear a crew shirt from the film Alien (the ‘Nostromo’) and a set of pink headphones to the death. For me life is all about the journey – not the destination and so my website is a record of my journey so far.”
“…The ‘Nostromo‘ is simply a concept that embodies all of this in my eyes and is a personal statement on several different levels. It embodies the lonely traveler, the distant land, the epic journey and the vehicle of choice. Each of which respectively represents how I feel about myself, how I see the world, my attitude towards life and finally my work. It is a concise unifying symbol. End of.”
“I am a massive fan of And So I Watch You From Afar, Angels & Airwaves, Bloc Party, Frank Turner, and Sigur Rós.”
“So far my film work has been recognised by BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) via a nomination for a short film award in 2007 and has been screened at the 2008 Cannes (France) and Hayden (USA) film festivals respectively.”
“My photographic work has been published domestically in the United Kingdom in a variety of film, music and photographic publications; and also internationally in Australia & the United States. Publicly I have exhibited work so far in Belfast, (Northern Ireland), Dublin, (Ireland) and Manchester, (England).”
“Companions on this journey are important to me, and so I am currently documenting A Northern Light, Colenso Parade, Kasper Rosa and The Rupture Dogs on their own journeys. Previously I was the photographer for A Plastic Rose.”
“Over the last few years I’ve had the privilege of being involved with music in Northern Ireland via my film and photography work. In particular I have formed a strong attachment with the documentation of bands with as little of an agenda as possible – other than to show them up as I see them through the viewfinder.”
“When I look back through my work and where I’ve been aiming it; it is striking to me how little that we see of the real people behind the music these days – what with the control and limitations placed down by publicists and managers who rarely seem to grasp that the icons of old were part created via the humanizing force of seeing their true faces in many cases. Showing their characters not as a contrived thought but as actual people. As an audience looking in, we connected more with them as people compared to the majority of today’s over polished ideas of image. This situation is something I try to pay as much attention to as possible within what I am doing.”
“Often I find that an Occam like approach to my work is the most effective way to accomplish this, using simplicity and a lack of pretense to create (I hope) a more relaxed atmosphere for the bands I work with. I try to stay away from using lighting setups (being well aware of how waiting around on setups affects actors on set I learned very quickly that most musicians are not naturally settled in front of camera), instead finding positions, natural embellishments, corridors of light or existing fittings to shape the image in a much more leisurely manner.”
“Despite saying that. I love technology, and it was my route into film-making and from that then photography. All of my equipment from camera to laptop I’ve tried to learn inside out (and in many cases self-repaired) to try and get a better grasp of each component’s limitations and uses. Though I can see how the progression of technology can get in the way of a good image, whether it is a young band being physically unnerved by a camera that you could launch a missile from or the technical perfection of the frame coming before actual content – something I have been and can be guilty of myself. Often I’ve personally found that the clear, crisp pictures that make up the bulk of music photographs out there can lack the emotion and life that was present on stage in the first place.”
“Basically and in the shortest possible manner. I love what I do and the people with whom I work and the experiences I’ve had so far, and would say to anyone interested in photography to find exactly what impassions you visually and follow it.”
“Don’t try to be other people, but learn from them. Make what you do, your own.”
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