If you read the 'About me' part of my blog, you will read about how I am very much into Folk music. It's been a part of my life ever since I was little and from playing the melodeon it has become more of an importance to me. This is why I am wanting to go down a different route to most students and do a Folk magazine. Not Folk as in old men with beards sat around in a pub playing music, (although that is a big part of what I do) I want to use the more modern Folk Bands and appeal to my generation of Folkies. Here are a few bands that I enjoy listening to. These may also help me get ideas for the style of pictures I will want to use in my magazine...
I really like the band pictures of Ahab. They are just wearing their own casual clothes with their instruments. I like the idea of the photos being taken of them performing, that way they're not false. Also i like the look of the black and white photos that have been put together. You can see instruments sat behind them and its quite untidy looking but fits together really well. Seems like a relaxed atmosphere for them.
Luke Jackson...
This is a young artist called Luke Jackson, I have seen him at a few folk events and found these pictures online of him. I'm not necessarily using him for the style of music, more for the photos that he has. I really like the bottom photo of him performing with his guitar, I like the positioning of him and the surroundings he is in. I would like to re-create something similar to the one with the red door, I like that burst of colour and how he is standing with his guitar. The close up of him looking down on his guitar i find very effective aswell as we are looking down the neck of the guitar and he looks like he is in a zone of concentration. I would like similar pictures in my magazine.
Show of Hands...
Show of Hands are an older band but still liked by the younger Folk generation. I really like the picture that I found of these. The setting of the warehouse/underground pub adds real effect especially with the tone of the picture aswell.
Spiers and boden...
Finally Spiers and boden, the video shows them playing at the Royal Albert Hall with their 11 piece band called 'Bellowhead' who are very big in the Folk world. Jon Spiers the melodeon player has inspired so much when it comes to playing traditional english tunes. I like the picture as it is plain and simple, you get the idea of what it is straight the way. They haven't tried hard to find a good background, they just stuck with plain white with casual black shirts.
Right you'll have to pick one of these as inspiration for your main cover artists as I think they'd appeal to slightly different parts of the folk market:
ReplyDeleteShow of Hands are more for older people I'd say, Spiers and Boden are more what I think of when someone says folk yet they then go in a sort of Drop Kick Murpheys direction half way through (without the rock and violent aspects), Luke Jackson (from the few YouTube clips there are, is very traditional and quite US in style (I think I showed you Jamie N Commons in class but if not look at him. He's on the sound of 2012 list by the BBC)