Roll Deep @ Club Revolution, Peterborough [January 29th, 2012]

So a couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to get the chance to interview the lovely Tania from Roll Deep over the phone which was a new experience for me. In the past few months, I've managed to interview the epic bass man that is Brian Weaver (formally of Silvertide and Automatic Fire, current bass-face of Terrible Things) via Skype (which meant two hours of me being mean to the poor, poor man) and Army of Freshmen with awesome recording equipment that I rented from college.

Phone interviews are more nerve wracking than being sat on a sofa talking to some of your favorite musicians face-to-face, trust me.

But thankfully, Tania was lovely and even though I managed to trip over my words quite a few times, she didn't get arsey like I know some musicians would have. But overall, the interview was actually great and even though it lasted ten minutes at the most; I got the questions I asked answered and have a giggle with her.

It was reasonable that I make the effort then last weekend to go and see Roll Deep when they played my favorite local venue and grab some live shots of them (which, I haven't had a chance to look through yet).

Sneaky photo time!

So after I arrived at Club Revolution (because it's the only local venue I ever seem to go to!) and said a quick hello to everyone, I ended up in the band room (before Roll Deep arrived) and met an awesome photography and film crew, the Hennessy Crew. They actually took all the photos in this blog post, so check out their page! They're actually really good and talented guys who I hope to get the chance to work with again in the future!

Me and Tania from Roll Deep

The crowd went crazy for the group which made me realize that I was probably better up on stage at the side getting shots and not interrupting people's good times just to try and get that perfect shot. Big ups to the security guy that pulled me up onto the stage in exchange for a photo of him, got to love kick ass guys like that!

The gig itself was actually brilliant.I'm not the biggest fan of urban/R 'n' B/rap music but, I had such a brilliant time! The group put on a fucking brilliant show to the point that I will be making the effort to go and see them next time they're in the city and dragging friends along with me!

Grinning like a fool whilst taking photos!

Honestly, even if you're not into the genre or going to a gig at two am, I would make an exception for these guys 'cause you'll regret it if you don't!

In a couple of weeks times, I shall actually post the interview along with parts of my interview with Brian Weaver and my Army of Freshmen interview along with my Roll Deep on, of course!