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Brendan Perry @ Rotunda, Kraków – 1 IV 2010
I have never been a fan of Dead Can Dance or Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard during their solo careers. However seeing Lisa perform year and a half earlier and seeing Perry now, I can say one thing – I prefer Perry’s vision.
I won’t put down all the obvious things about him and a great band he had because it’s really pointless. A must see.
Great lights during the second song – wonderful example of how you can lit the scene well and make it atmospheric at the same time. Turning off the light doesn’t make any good – a skilled technician can!
Gogol Bordello @ Rotunda, Kraków – 9 XII 2009
Just 2 hours before the gig I’ve got a phone call that I would be doing it (my friend who was assigned to do it had a serious problem that day). So there I was, me, my camera and my little photo ladder squashed in the photo pit. It was one of the most crowded, soundsystem(the barriers of the pit touched the speakers leaving us almost no place to walk..) packed pits I’ve ever been to. I had to leave my ladder in the pit’s entry and made some use of it later, while shooting the overall view from the crowd and later from Rotunda’s balcony.
We were really near the band so all the pics are shot using the 17-55 (the overalls from the balcony were shot with a 50 mm). Really, there was no need of putting a larger zoom. If only I could bring the ladder into the pit to gain me some extra centimetres…There are rumors that Gogols are coming back. Maybe then I can shot them from a “different point of view” but don’t want to worry about it now. Currently I’m flipping through some stuff from 09 and I’ll be putting some past gigs up here like Glasvegas, Fucked Up, Chris Botti, Samael, Diana Krall and more.
The pics were done for Onet.pl to illustrate Marcin Gnat‘s review of the gig. You can read it here.
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