Cover story about me in the Kansas City Star

More than you would ever want to know about me in this story. Have a look see!

http://www.kansascity.com/238/story/1700383.html

New site : www.snubnosephotography.com

The Bravery

It was my second time shooting The Bravery in 2009. This time they had just released their new album "Stir The Blood" just a couple of days prior to this show. Singer Sam Endicott and the band always put on a good show and play with a high intensity.

The Cranberries

The Cranberries at The Midland Theater on their reunion tour. Much like The Pogues that I shot earlier, another Irish band recently reformed for a US tour. Dolores O'Riordon looked lean and sounded great. They played all their best known 90's songs such as, Zombie, Linger, Salvation among some of her solo songs.

Snoop Dogg

Some shots of Snoop Dogg during his "Wonderland" concert at The Voodoo Lounge. Method Man and Redman opened up. The crowd was insane crazy, Method and Red really got everyone going then Snoop came on...an hour and ten minutes later. His boys were spraying champagne all over so I got out of the front pretty quick.


Method Man smoking it up.


Talking to a fan in the balcony after ice was thrown at them.




Meth and Red








Westcoast

Paramore

I took these on November 4, 2009. It was my second time shooting Paramore in 2009. They headlined this concert at the Uptown theater. Previously they were openers for No Doubt in July.

Halloween 2009

Yes I know....very late. Halloween in January? Why not. I shot a little photo essay for The Pitch on Halloween at Kansas City's Power and Light District. Company Of Thieves dressed up as The Wizard Of Oz and played to the large crowd.

Some crowd shots.




Swine flu....very clever.













Company Of Thieves

The Pogues

So much for the no smoking ban in the theater.

The Pogues in a rare visit to KC, their first I think in the Pogues 2009 reunion played at The Midland Theater. Shane MacGowan is great and toothless! I couldn't understand a single word he said all night and I saw him fall face down after tripping on a cable. He is quite a character, the band sounded pretty good.

The Dandy Warhols

I took these a few months ago but I'm late in posting newer photography on this blog. The Dandys were nice enough to do some portraits along with letting me shoot their entire show. One of the nicest bands I've worked with. Zia said she liked the photos and used one for her business card.










Polaroid Spectra composite of the band.

Something New ! Sports Photography

Hi--I'm cute.

So I'm no pro at sports photography, but what the fook, I will give it a try. Here is some Mexican soccer, NBA pre-season basketball and NHL Hockey. I don't really have the right lenses for this sort of thing, I did my best with whats I gots.

The Mexican Futbol...soccer for us dumbass Americans was between Club America and Chivas Guadalajara. I know nothing about this except that they both have amazing fans and soccer is much more exciting to watch when you are standing on the field.


These devil masks are kind of scary, so is that dude on the left.








Why so glum, chum?







Hockey

Islanders vs. Kings

Eh...not really happy with these. There were only two cut-outs in the plexiglass to shoot through and both were taken so I shot through the dirty glass. I asked a photographer from Getty if I could shoot through it for two minutes, when he was ten feet away editing, he said...uh no I'm using it. Thanks douchebag!


This might hurt









NBA Basketball

New Orleans Hornets vs Miami Heat

I do like me some basketball and its fun to sit on the court all up close like. Duane Wade ran over me and knocked my lens cover off, no injuries. I threw the ball back once to the ref...yep exciting. They played pretty hard, didn't really look like preseason to me. Wish we had a team.


NOLA Bitches!!

Buzz Beach Ball 2009 Concert

Mark, Blink-182

Local radio station 96.5 Buzz had a little festival of bands at Cap Fed Park on September 4th over labor day weekend. Headliners Blink-182 with other bands, Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French, The Von Bondies, Republic Tigers, Stellastar, Matt and Kim and a couple more that I missed due to traffic on the exit to the venue from an accident.

Overall a pretty good festival, I liked the smaller bands better than Blink and Weezer. Matt and Kim were especially good, I love the way Kim plays drums, always smiling and cheerful. The crowds were pretty thick at both stages. The Weezer fans were going crazy and crowdsurfing all over the place. I was dodging bodies while I was in the photopit shooting for most of the day.


Adam-Taking Back Sunday




Taking Back Sunday


Chester French
Maxwell Drummey








Stellastar


Von Bondies -- Christy and LeeAnn






Von Bondies








Matt and Kim












Weezer

The Wailers/Toots and the Maytals

Wailers singer-Elan Atias

Reggae. Plain and simple, I love it. I listen to all the great reggae artists, The Congos, Lee Perry, Augustus Pablo, U-Roy, Horace Andy and many many more. One legend, Frederick "Toots" Hibbert and The Wailers with one original member, Ashton "Family Man" Barrett, played at the Crossroads with openers Supervillians.

The Wailers played most of Bob Marley and the Wailers Exodus album and Toots put on a damn fine show, man that guy can sing! Decked out in black leather singing his rocksteady grooves he put on quite the performance singing and dancing the whole night, he has more energy than I do for sure. Don't miss him if he plays in your city.




"Family Man"








Supervillians


"Toots"

Shooting Three Concerts In One Night...

So, a couple of months ago I shot three different concerts at three different venues in one evening. The music was varied, country-psychobilly-dj/rap. It was quite a bit of work running around and getting the timing right, but I was able to shoot all the bands on time. Worked out well. Have a look see.

First up was Lyle Lovett and his large band at Starlight Theatre.









Next up I drove over to The Crossroads to catch, The Reverend Horton Heat. The Rev never disappoints and played a fiery set.













And finally spinning at the Power & Light stage in downtown KC was DJ legend, Grandmaster Flash. He was great to see up close and he spun some classic hits. I love old school rap, and the crowd was loving it as well.

Glasvegas

One of my favorite newish bands is the Scottish band, Glasvegas. Fronted by a charismatic singer, James Allen, Glasvegas has won many fans around the world including U2 and Kings of Leon, which Glasvegas will be opening for this fall/winter.
If you haven't listened to the band head on over to itunes for a demo of some of their songs. Thick Scottish accent with heartbreaking lyrics with fuzzed out guitars and a cool 50's sound. I talked to James on the tourbus and he told me his main influences were Elvis Presley and U2.




A pre-show tooth brushing with rubber duckie assisting.

Greaserama 2009 In Kansas City

Greaserama comes to KC on Labor Day Weekend every year. What is Greaserama you ask? It is a two day car show at a drive in consisting of Hot Rods, Rat Rods, Tattoos, Girls, Motorcycles, Custom Bicycles, Bands, BBQ and more. Here is what caught my eye this year.




















"Rat Rod Baby Stroller" Cool!

Warped Tour 2009 in KC

Black Tide

15th anniversary of the Vans Warped Tour at Cap Fed Park in Kansas City on August 4th, 2009. 71 Bands and 100 degrees. I tried to shoot as many bands as I could running between all the stages. I don't know much about most of these bands and went in for a purely photographic venture. Why can't they have festivals say in...October when its nice and cool outside? I hate being sweaty and gross, but me and fellow photographer Todd Z. stuck around until the end doing what we do best.


Hit The Lights




TAT


Scary Kids Scaring Kids


Bouncing Souls


Inward Eye


Meg and Dia


Fishbone






Shooter Jennings


The Architects




Brokencyde

No Doubt

No Doubt live at Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri on July 6th 2009. Reunited No Doubt with openers Paramore played an energetic set on a all white stage that looked like something from LAX airport. Gwen Stefani really looks great up close, she is ripped, hard to believe she is forty and had two kids. Quite a performer indeed.


Paramore singer, Hayley Williams



















More photos here: No Doubt

Buckcherry

Some shots of Buckcherry at Rockfest in Kansas City. It was hot as hell and right before I shot Josh Todd and the boys some fine gentleman threw a beer in my face while I was walking through the crowd. Some of the people at that festival looked like they were let out of prison and on the way out they were given a bag of meth. But Buckcherry are kind of catchy, they elicit many a naked breast from the females in the crowd...and they have cool tats all around.

Z-TRIP, DJ JAZZY JEFF, MSTRKRFT

The Bacardi B-LIVE DJ event made it's stop in Kansas City on June 9th, 2009. SPIN online contacted me about doing some live video interviews, so I spoke with Z-Trip and Mstrkrft. Unfortunately during Dj Jazzy Jeff's performance there was a bit of drama, his set was cut short. Depending on who you believe it was cut for either him playing rap music or redlining the sound system. Either way people were pissed. Mstrkrft were good, and very nice funny guys.

Z-Trip


Z-Trip


Jazzy Jeff


Jazzy Jeff


Mstrkrft


Mstrkrft


Mstrkrft

SPIN videos from the event:
http://spin.com/articles/go-backstage-z-trip-mstrkrft-bacardi-b-live-tour

Yeah Yeah Yeah's

The Yeah Yeah Yeah's played at The Beaumont Club in KC on June 3rd 2009. Quite a few people were upset that the show was at this venue due to it being very small and cramped with poor visability if you are beyond the fourth row. Well it was my birthday and I was in front of a teeny tiny barrier to shoot my 3..well 4 songs so I wasn't complaining. The Beaumont is a great place to see a band because of the low stage and intimate setting. If the bands bring their own lights it's a bonus for me because it makes shooting easier. Luckily YYY's brought a nice light set up. The barrier in front of the stage was about 3 feet deep and 12 feet long or so. Included in that small area were 8 photographers and 5 burly security guys..all very nice to me by the way. I only could stand in one spot but it looks like I picked a good one. I took as many photos as I could because I just love this band and the new album, It's Blitz. I've seen them several times and this was probably the best show.





















More photos from the concert on flickr: HERE

NIN/JA Tour - Jane's Addiction-Nine Inch Nails-Street Sweeper Social Club

The Nin/ja Tour came through Kansas City on a perfect night for an outdoor concert. An awesome lineup including SSSC, Nine Inch Nails and Janes Addiction. Street Sweeper Social Club was up first - featuring Tom Morello and Boots Riley opening the show with an impressive set of raprock.









Filling the middle slot was the farewell performance of Nine Inch Nails. Much more stripped down than the last tour. Lots of strobes and an audience that was pissed that they didn't headline.









And last but not least...the original lineup of Jane's Addiction. They put on a GREAT show and were in fine form. The crowd loved every bit of it as did I.