Band Photography // Manchester // Little Volcanoes – 2

Thursday tips over into Friday at the Hacienda with a lot of dancing, a lot of pizza, and a bit too much white wine.

Later, after sleep, a lot of tea, more sleep and cakes, on the phone with Phil from Little Volcanoes – “what is it you guys are after from this shoot?” – “don’t worry Mike, we’re all creative people, we’ll work it out”.

And of course, we’re also in Manchester, where we can roam freely around the station and back streets of Piccadilly without drawing any more than a wry smile as dusk fulls across the city on a busy bank holiday Friday. Exploring a little corner that I thought I knew so well, we are looking for angles, looking for light, somewhere between concentration and openness, close focus and wide angle, we are being creative. A pure pleasure that banishes the last bits of fuzziness from the night before.

Finishing up in Chinatown, we pass on beers with the band and opt instead for more tea, chinese this time, and an expertly dispatched, velvety sea bass in the Little Yang Sing.

A Good Friday.