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About Me

Hey, I'm Maurvin. I like to write songs and blogs about stuff that happens around us all. A lot of it is sitting in the vault waiting for a dust down and a polish. Other stuff is in the careless hands of muso friends, who are currently waiting for the right syn wave to ferment to turn them into pop gold. Sometimes I write about online stuff, and othertimes make hugely sweeping and improbable statements about life and music. People online generally know me more than him below. Him below's a bit dull, but pays my bills.
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Hey I'm Photo John (or John Le Photo when I'm feeling overexcited). I freelance for the Sunday Mail and others to pay for my general existence and aliveness. As you can see I take photos of bands too. Am a delegate at YourSound at King Tuts, where unsigned bands get to talk to people, who are generally more of interest to them than me, like promoters, managers and labels. People in the real world know me. Him above, he's a sham faker.
Visit www.lazyeyephotos.co.uk for bookings and more info about our services.
Here's my flickr site full of photos of bands and good stuff to overload you with pictures and colours.

My wee dodgy vid for Wilburnsilver's 'Days'

My Interests

photography . music . photography . music . photo graphy . music . photography . music . photography . music . photo g raphy . music . photography . music . photography . music . photo gr aphy . music . photography . music . photography . music . photo gra phy . music . photography . music . photography . music . photo grap hy . music . photography . music . photo graph y . music . [eating]

Music:

Johnny Cash . Most 4AD stuff . The Clash . The Specials . Pulp . Cold War Kids . The Pogues . The Smiths . British Sea Power . Julian Cope . Sparklehorse . Sufjan Stevens . Tapes n' Tapes . Gram Parsons . Stuff like that .

Movies:

The Devil And Daniel Webster

Heroes:

Or people I've been lucky so far to have photographed -
Jeffrey Lewis, Patti Smith, Teenage Fanclub, Correcto, Joan Collins(!), Frightened Rabbit, The Black Lips, Dufus, Major Matt Mason USA, Lightspeed Champion, The Proclaimers, Laura Marling, Noah and the Whale, Snow Patrol, The Fratellis, Franz Ferdinand, Pete Doherty...
...and er, Justin Timberlake...well he was coming out a restaurant in Edinburgh and I'd just started work as an agency photographer. Really, really terrible picture.
Oh and before I became a photographer I took some pics on a disposable camera of Mars Volta and Les Savy Fav at King Tuts. That doesnt count (does it? nae chance!), but I sooo wish it did.

My Blog

saturdays song of longing

Cat WomanCan I touch your handCan I touch your legCan I touch your stomachCan I hold you pleaseCan I touch your handCan I touch your legCan I touch your stomachCan I hold you pleaseCAT WOMAAAAN!!!...
Posted by Maurvin vs Photo John on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:53:00 PST

Good Friday Song

The Leather Runs Smooth...The alley it drove out the citywhitewall tires bruising stones in the rutI only came here to hear you singJust the once then to tear out your gut.Cos we’re miles from t...
Posted by Maurvin vs Photo John on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:21:00 PST

Fury Lane (kicking out time)

Do you remember the nights; you’re not sure they existed. Spent in pubs with the people in fights that were fisted? You know once you were caught up in a bar brawl... but that other times none o...
Posted by Maurvin vs Photo John on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:46:00 PST

poems about people

Here’s a wee poem I wrote a couple of months back. I don’t normally share poems but I’ve not communicated with the world of interweirdos for a while and thought I’d share somet...
Posted by Maurvin vs Photo John on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:18:00 PST

A storm of intent/declaration of war

Wilburnsilver. That's silver, like purple and orange. Words without rhyme. Wilbur came along just to help out for the night and left Andy a man on a mission from God. After being in Glasgow bands for ...
Posted by Maurvin vs Photo John on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:45:00 PST

Searching for internet sex, I mean love, on Gumtree

Desparate measures for desparate times; I posted a personals add on Gumtree recently. There were a few things that led to this-boredom, singledom were a couple, although the appalling quality of the ...
Posted by Maurvin vs Photo John on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:52:00 PST

Why pamper lifes complexities...

Sometimes watching or reading Paul Morley can feel like a unique form of trauma. It's the closest I hope to ever come to the feeling of a favourite uncle trying to have his way with me. Okay admittedl...
Posted by Maurvin vs Photo John on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:03:00 PST

Shall I compare thee to a mad bastard?

New Year blogs, eh? They're everywhere; ranging from basic resolution based blog to the deeper pseudo philosophical stuff. Before social networking site became my favourite waste of time I hardly noti...
Posted by Maurvin vs Photo John on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:31:00 PST