Hi everyone,

I am sad to announce that I will have to cancel the Faderhead show on Sept. 5th, 2009 at the Nocturnal Culture Night Festival in Deutzen.

I had a lot of trouble with wisdom teeth and nerves lately and will have to undergo surgery in my jaw on Thursday the 3rd – so I won’t be able to sing/perform two days later.

My apologies to everyone who wanted to come out to see the performance, but this can not be delayed.

Hope to see you all at a different show in the future!

- FH

Hey everyone! Please help me out by voting on your favorite music medium!

This poll is about what you actually prefer and BUY for your own private listening. It’s not related to DJing or what you generally think is the best thing, but to what you actually want from an artist like me. This will directly influence the way I will release music in the future.

Thanks
-FH

… are not sitting around at home bitching about how boring life is, but instead do something creative with it.

Just found this guy on YouTube:

He is covering “Naughty H” on acoustic guitar and while he is far from perfect, I really dig the way he’s done it. Really love the alteration to the chords/melody and the overall totally different vibe!

Leave him some words of love in the comments if you like it!

-FH

… READ THIS!

Cause this guy is spot-on!

Woooohoooo! Back from a great Saturday at M’era Luna festival in Hildesheim/Germany. Had a blast all day: easy-going staff/crew, lots of old and new friends, Joe & Daniel from SAM backing me up on stage and last-but-not-least a great, great, great audience! The hangar was packed at 12:00 noon and what can I say? I don’t think you can get a better reaction than this at that time of day! Thank you!

So much stuff happened, I can’t even begin to recount everything – which is why I will leave you with our newest behind-the-scenes video. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed being there!

Ok, as Meatlord Mogumbe Visconti can confirm, I’ve been wanting to write this blog entry for months, but never got around to it. Today I saw a bunch of photos from last Saturday’s show in Munich/Germany and like after every concert I can only say “WTF???!!!”.

My question here to most party/concert-photographers is: What the fuck are you thinking??? Are you thinking at all??

Before I continue my rant, here’s a little background info on myself: I’m a professional photographer. When I am not in the studio working on my music, I take photos for companies like Beiersdorf/Nivea, Universal Music, Warner Music, Gruner & Jahr Publishing and many others. I’ve worked for everyone from huge cosmetics companies to tiny alternative magazines. Here are a few pictures from my portfolio:

I rarely take concert photos these days, but I hope you get the idea …

So: after every show I find 30-100 concert pictures online that are simply the most atrocious and horrible looking pictures ever made of me or my fellow musicians. Mostly they are blurry, taken from terrible angles, showing terrible posture, terrible facial expressions, terrible light, terrible composition, terrible EVERYTHING.

I am not trying to debate the fact that most people who are in front of the stage with a camera have no fucking clue what they are doing. No, what I am asking is: if 97 out of 100 pictures from that concert are terrible – WHY THE FUCK DO YOU INSIST ON POSTING ALL 100 OF THEM???

Ok, two recent examples (photographer’s credit removed from the pic to protect their identity):

Do I look like that on stage? Maybe for a split second, yes. But that’s not what you want to show anyone because that’s not what it looks like on stage (trust me, I know, I’ve seen enough live videos of our shows!).

Let’s rethink this from the beginning. There are a number of reasons why you’d be a photographer at a concert:

a) you want to get in for free
b) you want to be cool and think you can impress the girls with your BIG camera and photopass
c) you actually like the band
d) you actually like taking photos and want to build up your concert portfolio
e) you are there to take photos for a site/magazine/partyorganizer – aka: you were documenting the event
f) you are a freelance photographer who wants to sell the photos later

If you are category a) and b) – why even bother taking any pictures? Or if you have to pretend, why bother with uploading them all? Especially if they reveal that you are in fact a completely shitty photographer?

If you are category c) and d) then you surely do not want to post an endless stream of pictures that make the band look like disfigured orks in Lord Of The Rings or that make your portfolio look like you are a photographer from the a) and b) category!

If you are in category e) and f) then you want something that can actually be used by the people you work for/sell to. You also want to look like a good photographer so they will book you again. Showing 5-10 great pics will do the job. Showing 95 shitty ones will make you look like a retarded amateur. Also, they don’t help in making the show/party/event look like something special. They make the event look much crappier than it actually looked cause of the on-camera flash that you probably used …

If you are just starting out and are still using your camera in “P” mode, it’s all good. Most people have done this. It still doesn’t mean you have to POST EVERY PICTURE THAT YOU TOOK. Understood??

Are there good pictures of my ass? You bet!

Photo by Edwin Van Der Ende

Photo by Martin Black

Photo by Nicole Imhof

Photo by Daniela Vorndran

So whats the point of all this? The point is that you as a photographer are there to make people LOOK GOOD. To make the party/gig look FUN. To make everything LOOK EXCITING. Choose the best 1-5 pictures and delete the rest. You will never need them. The band will like you cause you made them LOOK GOOD and people will say that you are a good photographer because everything LOOKS EXCITING. You may actually get booked/paid because things LOOK FUN.

1-5 Pictures is more than enough. Get it???

Rant over. Don’t get mad unless I’m talking about you …