Lisa helped create all the visuals that went on behind the band as they played and Matt documented the band as they played out the set. A few pictures from the night are shown below. Further details regarding This Morning Call kind be found here: http://thismorningcall.com/
Thursday 3 June 2010
This Morning Call live at Chorlton Arts Festival!
Well summer seems to be here at last.. woop! On what was the hottest weekend of the year so far, Black Cherry Photography got to work again with This Morning Call as part of Chorlton Arts Festival. This Morning Call were one of the highlights of the festival and headlined the night at St Clements Church, playing what was possibly their best gig that we have seen yet.
Friday 15 January 2010
Scherzo Brass
November saw Black Cherry Photography doing a
promotional shoot with Manchester brass quartet 'Scherzo Brass'
Since winning the title of British Open Quartet Champions 2007, as well as First Prize in the prestigious Philip Jones Brass Ensemble Competition 2008,
Scherzo Brass have been in demand nationwide and enjoy a busy schedule of performances.
They approached Black Cherry for professional looking promotional photography. A couple of examples are shown here:
The Sterling Trio
Black Cherry recently did a photo shoot with musical trio - The Sterling Trio. Since then they have launched a new website which has made full use of our images and we think they work brilliantly to showcase what they describe themselves as, which is an exciting, innovative and engaging chamber ensemble. For full details of them and to see how our pictures turned out visit them at:http://www.thesterlingtrio.com/Home.htl
This Morning Call Press
This week saw the album launch of 'This Morning Call'. Lisa and I both attended the gig at the Deaf Institute in Manchester and saw a brilliant set. It was a really good turn out for the gig so lets hope they do well with the album. Anyway, the article shown is taken from 'Urban Life'. (Click on it to see a larger version!) Picture supplied by Black Cherry Photography...
Saturday 24 October 2009
Run Toto Run Recently we got to work with up and coming Manchester band ‘Run Toto Run’.
On the MySpace page there is a comment which sums them up nicely courtesy of NME which is:
A curious mix of antifolk and airy, ‘postal service’ indebted electronica’.
I think this sums them up quite well. We managed to catch them at a live gig before we did the photo shoot to see what kind of band they were and we both came away impressed with the performance. For me it had influences of Postal service and Bat For Lashes which is no bad thing. It was clear they have fun performing and for me I loved the cover of Passion Pits ‘Sleepyhead’ at the end.
For the shoot, Rachel from the band seemed to know what kind of thing they wanted and when we turned up they were all already looking like they had
walked out of Bowie music video. We kept the shoot fairly simple, using home made decorations as the background which I think gave it a personal feel and inkeeping with the bands playful attitude. We played around with light effects and different poses and came up with images such as the ones you can see here.
On the MySpace page there is a comment which sums them up nicely courtesy of NME which is:
A curious mix of antifolk and airy, ‘postal service’ indebted electronica’.
I think this sums them up quite well. We managed to catch them at a live gig before we did the photo shoot to see what kind of band they were and we both came away impressed with the performance. For me it had influences of Postal service and Bat For Lashes which is no bad thing. It was clear they have fun performing and for me I loved the cover of Passion Pits ‘Sleepyhead’ at the end.
For the shoot, Rachel from the band seemed to know what kind of thing they wanted and when we turned up they were all already looking like they had
walked out of Bowie music video. We kept the shoot fairly simple, using home made decorations as the background which I think gave it a personal feel and inkeeping with the bands playful attitude. We played around with light effects and different poses and came up with images such as the ones you can see here. Gavin Higgins
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I recently ventured down to London for a few days to see the ol’ smoke and whilst there did some publicity shots for Gavin Higgins. Gavin is a musical wonderman whose talents include horn playing and most impressively writing brilliant music. He has had his music performed by numerous ensembles and soloists across the UK in venues including the Wigmore Hall, Regent Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. His work has been very popular with BBC young Musician finalists and in March 2010 the BBC Symphony Orchestra will premiere his new work, Dancing at the Edge of hell.Gavin wanted some fairly simple publicity shots but wanted to steer clear of the typical (cheesy) photography that so many classical musicians seem to have. So for this we got ourselves a day pass for the tube and shot round to different parts of London doing photos in a number of Locations including the underground, Primrose Hill which overlooks the city and down in the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus.
We wanted to wait until it went dark for some particular shots so we walked to the top of Primrose Park and sat and waited for the sun to go down.. and we waited.. and waited.. for quite some time. The day before we were sure the sun went down about 2 hours earlier. Anyway, we shared some beer and snacks and watched people doing some kind of fitness training and then we felt bad
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as all we were doing was eating.Anyway.. eventually the sun went down and the street lights came on so we got to work taking more pictures.
For more info on Gavin click on the link below: www.myspace.com/gavinhiggins
This Morning Call
Oops, well we seem to have forgotten to update this blog recently so from now on we’ll try to keep more up to date with it.
In September, Black Cherry Photography got to work again with ‘This Morning Call’ for a bit of an experimental photo shoot in preparation for the forthcoming album due out early next year.
From the MySpace page:
‘This Morning Call – aka Ben Heyworth – is a singer, songwriter and producer from Manchester, who writes downtempo but beautiful, life affirming tunes that engage the brain, please the ears and move the feet’.
Prior to the shoot, we listened to the new album at Bens house whilst enjoying cups of tea. We started to get a good feel for what kind of album this was and what type of imagery would work to promote it. A number of songs on the album
are connected to nature, emptiness, the sea and so on... With this in mind we thought we needed to steer clear of typical clear studio shots and go for something that better reflected the album.
One idea we all were particularly interested in was the idea of using projections. We gathered together a number of our own images of landscapes, lights and textures that we could use for the shoot. We hired a projector and set it up in a rehearsal studio in Ancoats. Some of the images we brought along worked brilliantly projected onto the blue brick walls and straight onto Ben. The images really gave us motivation to get creative. Lisa got busy doing close up shots whilst
I experimented with the idea of layering multiple images together in the camera (something we hadn’t tried before!).
Again, as with the previous This Morning Call photo shoot, the night was a good mix of music, a little bit of silliness, a small amount of dancing and much needed monster munch for snacks. Oh and not to mention, some really good pictures. We were really happy with the results and you can see some of the images and behind the scenes footage here..
For more info on This Morning Call click on the link below:
www.myspace.com/thismorningcall
From the MySpace page:
‘This Morning Call – aka Ben Heyworth – is a singer, songwriter and producer from Manchester, who writes downtempo but beautiful, life affirming tunes that engage the brain, please the ears and move the feet’.
Prior to the shoot, we listened to the new album at Bens house whilst enjoying cups of tea. We started to get a good feel for what kind of album this was and what type of imagery would work to promote it. A number of songs on the album
are connected to nature, emptiness, the sea and so on... With this in mind we thought we needed to steer clear of typical clear studio shots and go for something that better reflected the album.One idea we all were particularly interested in was the idea of using projections. We gathered together a number of our own images of landscapes, lights and textures that we could use for the shoot. We hired a projector and set it up in a rehearsal studio in Ancoats. Some of the images we brought along worked brilliantly projected onto the blue brick walls and straight onto Ben. The images really gave us motivation to get creative. Lisa got busy doing close up shots whilst
I experimented with the idea of layering multiple images together in the camera (something we hadn’t tried before!).Again, as with the previous This Morning Call photo shoot, the night was a good mix of music, a little bit of silliness, a small amount of dancing and much needed monster munch for snacks. Oh and not to mention, some really good pictures. We were really happy with the results and you can see some of the images and behind the scenes footage here..
For more info on This Morning Call click on the link below:
www.myspace.com/thismorningcall
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