AMSTERDAM
GLASGOW
LIVERPOOL
LONDON
MANCHESTER
SWANSEA
Bridgewater
BIRMINGHAM
STOkE-ON -TRENT
BRISTOL
CHELTENHAM
NOTTINGHAM
Newcastle
Contacts:
Jordan Darby
Instagram: @jordanxphotos
Facebook: Jordan Darby Photography
Email: jords_d@hotmail.co.uk
Bronnie
Instagram: @bronniemusic
Facebook: @bronniemusic
Twitter: @bronniemusic
What is the main emotion you feel when you’re at a gig? Is it the exciting reality that you will hear your favourite song live? Is it the sense of community in a room full of likeminded people? Or is it the unbelievability of seeing your favourite artist perform live, right before your very own eyes?
This series of photographs remind you these emotions with the use bright lights and the gritty sharpness of the images, to make you feel like you are there. A music photographer tends have more access of a gig with a photo pass, abling to capture your favourite memories of the show for you to keep forever. However, even behind the stage there are unseen stories which I want to present to the fans, to make them feel a part of something more than just a performance.
I decided to embark on a European tour with pop punk band, ‘Bronnie’, in order to bridge the gap between artists and their fans. I wanted to portray the energy on stage and the tiredness they felt back at the hotel rooms. From service stations to flat tires.
I want you to feel like you know the band, inside and out, on a more personal level. Since fans only tend to see them on stage and through their social media accounts, I feel as if we forget that artists are people too, just like us. That is why there is a lot of photos ranging from live images, reliving the euphoric energy, to backstage images showing things you wouldn’t normally see.
Travelling in trains and cars and even planes for this tour, I wanted to bring the fans along with us, to give them the insight of what a real band tour is like, the good, the bad and the ugly.