The book that I made as a graduation piece was called ‘Rock Seen’. I cringe now at the naked ambition of doing a book on the Dublin Rock Scene and it was a hopelessly inadequate book for the general public but as a final project over a few months it was going to be fun and as a 19 year old music fan who could resist? Looking at it now there were a few successful images and I’m proud of it as a piece.

The book was comprised of 4 chapters covering 4 bands playing live, The Davy Spillane Band, The Golden Horde, The Mock Turtles and An Emotional Fish as well as a series of portraits and general images from Dublin.

In the short period I was working on it I managed to photograph Dave Fanning the legendary Irish DJ on 2FM as well as Niall Stokes who was the Editor of Hot Press Ireland’s equally legendary music magazine.

Also included were portraits of Denis Desmond of MCD concert promoters, journalist Barry Egan, Davy Spillane (who was the first portrait session I ever shot in a studio) and more. I will add a few images on this post and possibly more on another day.

It’s ironic that The Frames were starting out at the same time as the photos were taken for this book and I had to wait 5 more years before I discovered them for myself and at that time I was living in the UK in a funny town called Mansfield, just as Brit pop was happening and there were guitar bands everywhere. Around the same time I started to take music photographs again. But that’s another story.
To be continued…