Sleeping With Sirens

Last weekend I was back in Birmingham, yet again, to shoot a gig. This time I was shooting Sleeping With Sirens for Mosh - Hit The Floor. Check out the coverage and photos from the show here.

Here's a few of my favourites...

See the full set of photos on Flickr 

All images © Jemma Dodd Photography 

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Band promos in the snow...

It's the second week of January and I've done two shoots - I'd say that's a pretty good start for the new Year. Let's hope I can keep it that way! Earlier today I was back in Birmingham to shoot some band promos for a local Birmingham band (name to be announced soon), and yes we shot in the snow, and yes it was very cold!

I won't be releasing any of the photos for a while until the band have made their decisions on the final shots, but here's a little outtake from the day...

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Skindred - Birmingham O2 Institute

Since moving to Peterborough I hardly shoot as many gigs as I used to. You really don't realise how lucky you are to live in a big city, with tonnes of gigs every day of the week, and only having to drive 20mins to the venue, until you move to a much smaller place. So of course, I make a few special trips back at weekends to see my family and occasionally shoot a gig if possible.

After a 3 hour journey back to Brum on a Friday night, due to getting stuck in traffic on the M6, I just about made it in time to catch the start of Crossfaith's supporting slot at the O2 Institute.

Here's some of my favourite shots of legendary Benji Webbe - Skindred.

See more photos on Hit The Floor magazine here.

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Gigster Promotions

I have always loved music and going to gigs, and photography and live music really do make the perfect combination when I get to shoot shows and see some of my favourite bands. Over the last few years I've gone from shooting tiny local shows in Birmingham to photographing some massive bands at Sonisphere & Leeds festival and even Linkin Park at the O2 Arena. Sometimes it's nice to go back to those smaller venues, and while the lighting for the most part can be pretty tricky to shoot in, it's nice to see some different bands and different music.

Gigster Promotions asked me to shoot the launch of a new music event at O'Neils on Broad Street in Birmingham. Here's just a few shots from the evening...

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Chasing Skylines

Chasing Skylines are an alternative, rock-pop band from Birmingham. I first came across the band when shooting another local band's gig which Chasing Skylines were also playing. Since then the band's line-up has changed the odd few times and they've now relaunched with only one of their original members.

After trying to arrange a photoshoot for I can't think how long, (a slightly good thing considering how much the line-up has changed since we first tried to arrange a shoot) we finally arranged a date.

All being from Birmingham the shoot couldn't really have been anywhere else. We decided an outdoor location would be best, although very worried about how the weather would turn out we luckily managed to avoid most of the rain and get some ace shots on top of a car park and near Millennium Point

I love that whilst doing this shoot it got darker as the sun went down, which meant the lighting was different in the images we created.

Here are the final shots chosen by the band...

The guys had also asked me to get some shots of their new merchandise and so drummer Josh Murphy was chosen as model.

After not playing a live show for a good while Chasing Skylines are finally heading back out on tour in the next couple of weeks. Here's the tour flyer and another design using my photographs designed by bassist Jordan Plant (Jordan Plant Design).