5 May 2006

CL24



Last weekend I covered Carling Live 24. I had to snap 19 bands, at 8 venues, in 24 hours! This years CL24 ran from 7pm-7pm, which meant that I'd been up all day before I started (I had marked in my diary 'afternoon nap' - but it never happened). By the end of the gigs I'd been up for 39 hours straight. I had 2 beers to celebrate, which went straight to my head, then promptly fell asleep on the tube and woke up at the end of the line. Amazingly I still had all my equipment with me.
Oh, and someone poured a pint of beer over my 70-200 lens to boot.
My highlights from the gigs were Dirty Pretty Things (singer Carl Barat above), and the Cuban Brothers, who are heroes for putting a smile on my face at 3 o'clock in the morning!

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