{"id":1970,"date":"2010-07-22T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T09:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2010-07-22T11:12:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:12:34","slug":"taking-pictures-of-the-beautiful-south-photos-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/taking-pictures-of-the-beautiful-south-photos-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking pictures of the Beautiful South &#8211; photo archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/beautiful-south-01.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful South - vintage photos from 1990\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During my mercifully brief career as a rock photographer, I had the dubious honour of photographing a host of\u00a0 late 80s\/early 90s bands and solo artists for an Austrian pop magazine<\/p>\n<p>These included the chirpy scouser Sonia, the posh boys from Curiosity Killed The Cat, the miserably pompous what&#8217;s-his-face from the Fine Young Cannibals and a four pack of rock nightmares in the shape of Skid Row, Vixen, Europe and Bon Jovi at Milton Keynes Bowl (see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.com\/rock\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">My Rock Hell<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say I enjoyed any of the experiences, except one: the Beautiful South, who I snapped while they were shooting a video. They turned out to be a very affable bunch who went out their way to make my miserable job slightly fun &#8211; and they bought me dinner and beer too!<\/p>\n<p>The photos aren&#8217;t great &#8211; these have been copied from some ropey slides &#8211; but I&#8217;ll raise my glass to the band as they were a lovely bunch of folks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/beautiful-south-02.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful South - vintage photos from 1990\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Outside the pub having a beer with the band.<\/p>\n<p>Funnily enough, I struck up an email conversation with singer Paul Heaton a month or so ago as I tried to persuade him to play the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offlineclub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Offline Club<\/a> in Brixton. I failed, sadly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/beautiful-south-04.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful South - vintage photos from 1990\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/beautiful-south-03.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful South - vintage photos from 1990\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In terms of pro gear, my set up was rather limited at the time, with my main camera being a trusty used Olympus OM2n and a handful of budget\/secondhand lens.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve still got it somewhere, come to think of it. It was a lovely SLR (*goes all nostalgic for <em>propah<\/em> metal cameras that lasted decades).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my mercifully brief career as a rock photographer, I had the dubious honour of photographing a host of\u00a0 late 80s\/early 90s bands and solo artists for an Austrian pop &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,17],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-photos","tag-bands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/beautiful-south-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-vM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}