Rockaway at Butlins Bognor
All taken with a Sony NEX-6 and a 35 year old Pentax 17 mm lens (I'd left the Minolta adaptor for the 28 and 50 I had with me on the Sony A7II back at home, d'oh ! A long weekend with some old friends and regulars to music festivals, Butlins have temporarily at least taken over from ATP for hosting interesting holiday camp music. Shook hands with Lee 'Scratch' Perry at this one :-)
Rockaway
The timings were arranged so as the bands rarely overlapped. There were a few more not listed here but there wasn't much excuse not to see everything.
Abbot
Patch and the first beer - our cans were much nicer than the muck that Butlins served - Guinness and Worthington Creamflow at about a degree above freezing with an aftertaste of bile - still we managed.
Kagoule
Talk about tawdry - this was 'Kagoule' - the first act we watched and I didn't get it. A sort of slug grunge sludge, maybe I was tired after my journey from bonny Scotland, or maybe I'm just too old to get it, but there was no energy in it for me.
Butlins bogs
The corridor leading out of the smelly 'men's room'. Someone was just opening the door as I clicked.
Girlfriend
They were OK.
Mixer
What else do you take a picture of when you've only got a wide angle lens with you ?
Monotony
The sound people and the audience just textin' away.
We are Scientists
There's life in them.
Glow seats
Tim, Patch & my brother Dazza, taking a break.
Saint Etienne
At least I think it was Saint Eienne. Anyway, they didn't inspire.
Tim's ear
To get a wide angle this close, it has to be your friend, or a friendly stranger.
Cover shot
Hungover prom photography.
Beach
I liked the lines on this one.
Pier
Strolling along, playing chicken with the gulls.
Monocolour
Bognor Pier
Converging
Some morning boats had been hauled out of the water by trailer.
Worm casts
Under the pier.
Tim & Patch.
Waking up, but not yet wide awake.
Strong and British
After the Brexit vote, and the plumetting Pound, how long will it be until we can export bin bags to China ?
Jeggings
I've never seen a pair on a live human being, or maybe I have but didn't know it. Gotta be too cold and wet up here for them anyway.
Butlins marquee
Now this beer was nice and tasted good cold. A North American weissbier. Don't remember what it was called - hair of the dog ?
Ten pee falls
Not many music venues with slot machines all around you.
Bloody Knees
Proper grunge, and energetic, enthusiastic and happy to be playing. They were excellent.
Audience shadows
So much noise in this image that it could only be monochromed.
Jah Wobble
Didn't really inspire me.
Lee Scratch Perry
This audience looks quite big but it wasn't. They were all next door waiting for Killing Joke.
Lee S Perry
Funky Rasta colours - he mostly passed the time drinking other people's wine.
Lee B/W
I shook his hand a minute later. When I was a yoof, he was a hero. He's 80 years old, older than my Dad, and makes me feel young.
Batuk
They were on at around 1.00 am IIRC. Quite bonkers.
Yuck
They were alright.
Sunday morning
Eyes wide shut.
Rain
Like Moffat, Bognor gets rain too but it must be rarer because its people take time out to shelter from it
Hand in the machine
Tim's hand no less.He made a plastic pot full of two pees last a whole hour and gained a couple of plastic monsters too.
Membranes
Lots of songs loosely about astrophysics and stuff, which I appreciated.
Damo Suzuki.
Hmmm ... This was 15 minutes into a 'song' that went on forever. Sounded a bit like Bauhaus, but their songs were shorter.
Killing Joke
It was busy so couldn't be rrr'sed to get any closer.
Cat's Eyes
Most excellent. Really good in fact.
Man in Moon.
TBH, I can't remember much about their sound but I did enjoy it.