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carmel aka carmymac

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About Me

i like going to gigs and getting down the front and taking photos and then (very) randomly adding them to my website - www.carmymac.com [or more than likely to flickr ]. my photos have been published in artrocker, sandman, nme, fact magazine, vibrations, etc. and on numerous websites including lms, drownedinsound and mtvu.com.other things about me - i like playing vinyl and talking to random people and going to second hand shops and being bewitched by the full moon. i don't like sticky labels.

My Interests

photography, music, gigs, smiling, drinking, daydreaming

I'd like to meet:

fun freaks who like good music. and flickr friends.

Music:

interpol, ¡forward russia!, cowboy junkies, the barbs, the research, tom vek, the broken family band, kaito, radio dept, fonda 500, redjetson, micah p hinson, metric, bright eyes, the smiths, tigers that talked, dugong, rilo kiley, sigur ros, komakino, architecture in helsinki, port o'brien, stephen malkmus, secret machines, violent femmes, iliketrains, mazzy star, grand archives, moving units, phosphorescent, duels, ted leo, editors, golden virgins, the postal service, the low lows, mimye, handome furs, arcade fire, the mae shi, etc.

Movies:

true romance, pretty in pink, memento, breakfast at tiffanys, city of god, the edukators, amores perros, city of lost children, motorcycle diaries, spirited away, eternal sunshine. . .

Television:

six feet under, never mind the buzzcocks

Books:

ghostwritten (david mitchell), perfume (patrick suskind), all points north (simon armitidge)

My Blog

october time

i've recently realised that i haven't taken any shots of leeds bands in a while. not that i've not been seeing any leeds bands playing, cos i have. this month i've seen (in chronological order): dinas...
Posted by carmel aka carmymac on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:49:00 PST

end of the road festival bands

i didn't get to go the end of the road festival (which happened last weekend in dorset) but i did manage to catch one or two of the bands who are playing when they stopped off in leeds en route s...
Posted by carmel aka carmymac on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:39:00 PST

seeing bands in norway & sweden

am going to be seeing a fair few bands in both norway & sweden next week at oya (for one day) & way-out-west festivals. although many of the bands are playing both, one of the only b...
Posted by carmel aka carmymac on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:44:00 PST

fleet foxes & scandinavian festivals. . .

after almost being scuppered at the last minute (due to not buying a ticket to the gig before i went to london for a week), i did actually manage to get sorted and make it to the fleet foxes gig this ...
Posted by carmel aka carmymac on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:14:00 PST

bradford music week

this happened last week. a few pics: a few more from 'the hop' on 31 may and the lightspeed champion gig on 29 may here and here. x...
Posted by carmel aka carmymac on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:31:00 PST

nastyfest ix (& animal collective)

two weeks ago today it was. i enjoyed it. and i saw: spodni pradlo, napolean iiird, paul marshall (no pics tho), slow club, lord auch, a place to bury strangers (not many pics due to the band playing ...
Posted by carmel aka carmymac on Sat, 31 May 2008 07:19:00 PST

noisier gigs on saturdays!

two weeks ago i hung out at 'live at leeds 2008' - had a fun day, although didn't quite get to see as many bands as i should have. this was a city-wide event and i only got to about 50% of the venues....
Posted by carmel aka carmymac on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:29:00 PST

quiet gigs on thursdays

it seems thursday is the day for quiet(ish) gigs of late. i have been out every thursday for the last three weeks, the first of which was low, at the wonderful city varieties in leeds. this is a lovel...
Posted by carmel aka carmymac on Fri, 09 May 2008 04:10:00 PST

the twilight sad

they were excellent last week when they played the on-the-bone night at the library in leeds. this was the second time i saw them - the first being last summer, which for some reason, noone remembered...
Posted by carmel aka carmymac on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:59:00 PST

more manchester orchestra

i saw these for the first time at leeds fest last year and was more or less blown away. they came back to leeds last month and played the cockpit. twas a good gig. but then i got sick which wasn'...
Posted by carmel aka carmymac on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:40:00 PST