nick elliott rock art photographer officialRivalling The Cherry
Posted on March 12, 2012
Nick is renowned for making the most of any opportunity to get the best shot possible so when asked to cover the Black Stone Cherry and Rival Sons gigs, he looked at every possible angle.
From sound-check and through to the performance, Nick shot the bands on-stage, side-stage and off-stage at Norwich UEA last night.
This was the first time Nick had caught up with the brilliant Rival Sons since the Classic Rock awards in November and the high energy rockers Black Stone Cherry since their VIP acoustic gig early last year.
As usual, Nick got into whatever position he could to get THE photo. If you were there, it may have been difficult to spot him in the pit but on stage there was no missing him.
Nick shoots Rival Sons side-stage
Irish eyes are smiling
Posted on February 5, 2012
Pete Kennedy, Nick and Lee Williams
It was a sharp, cold day in London this week when Nick went on location to shoot an album cover for the enormously talented, Irish, singer songwriter, Pete Kennedy.
Pete has recently completed his latest recording in Nashville, USA, where his agent Lee Williams, arranged for him to work with some of the biggest names in country music.
Nick devised the concept for the shoot before being joined by Lee, who is also Nick’s agent in the USA, for a packed photographic session on the streets of the East End.
The boys are back in town
Posted on January 25, 2012
Last week Nick was shooting on location with the mighty Thin Lizzy, the first time he’d got together with them since the backstage project at High Voltage in July 2011.
The band is currently touring and Nick’s catching up with them again on the Cambridge leg of their tour for some on-stage shots.
From what we heard, Thin Lizzy are of top form, so if you want to see them live, check out the tour dates on their site.
Progressing the project
Posted on November 18, 2011
Last month we brought you news that Nick has embarked on an exciting photo-documentary project with the legendary Rochdale Cowboy, Mike Harding.
As a singer, songwriter, comedian, author, poet, broadcaster and playwright, Mike Harding is an incredible entertainer and Nick aims to capture every essence of this special man.
Part two of the project saw Nick and the team catching up with Mike on his Me, a guitar and some more daft stuff tour at the Nottingham Playhouse where Nick and his camera shadowed him backstage, sidestage, frontstage, onstage, indeed every stage!
It was another late one, but enjoyable as ever!
Roll of Honour with Classic Rock Awards
Posted on November 11, 2011
Nick was invited to the seventh Classic Rock Roll Of Honour at the Roundhouse, London, this week to shoot some of the biggest rock stars of all time.
The red carpet was a complete frenzy of media activity when the rockers arrived for the evening and to hear who was going to be honoured with a gong.
Amongst the famous faces Nick snapped were KISS’s Gene Simmons, Queen’s Brian May, the legend Jeff Beck, Motorhead’s Lemmy, Deep Purple’s Glenn Hughes, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, the lovely Joss Stone and Hanoi Rock’s Michael Monroe.
It caught us by surprise when autograph hunters mobbed Nick when we first arrived and what promised to be a bit of a crazy evening turned out that way!
Nick was part of the Planet Rock team at the event so check out the full story and see Nick’s fabulous images of rock royalty on their website at: http://fb.me/1eY2aAwiC
Nick teams up with Planet Rock's Darren Redick & Liz Barnes
Hardly started Mike Harding
Posted on October 27, 2011
Yesterday saw the start of the study project of the BBC presenter and folk/comedy genius that is the wonderful Mike Harding.
It’s been in the planning stages for some time, but Nick kicked the project off with some backstage shots of Mike chilling in his green room before his performance at The Little Theatre in Leicester.
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After shadowing him all night, there are plenty of cracking shots both on and off-stage to choose from to represent this side of Mike’s multi-faceted life.
We’re next catching up with Mike later in his tour in Nottingham next month. If you’re there, don’t forget to say ‘hi’.
To book tickets to see Mike, visit: Mike on tour
Route A149
Posted on September 13, 2011
We don’t usually bring you news of every photographic shoot that Nick’s involved in (there’d be too many and we thought you’d get a bit bored!). But the latest shoot was a little different…
Nick has worked with country-folk/rock, singer songwriter, Lesley Curtis throughout her career and decided she’d make a fabulous subject for some concept work.
So whilst shooting the new cover for her latest album, he took the chance to take work through some other ideas.
The weather was great, the location was the North Norfolk coast, and the shoot was just awesome.
A great day was had by all…
BBC Look East
Posted on July 29, 2011
Nick was interviewed from the Cambridge Folk Festival by BBC TV for their Look East programme to talk about his debut book TEN-A Decade In Images.
Here’s another chance to watch part of it:
Backstage, onstage, it’s every stage with Thin Lizzy!
Posted on July 25, 2011
Planet Rock’s competition winner Matt Brand enjoyed a photography tutorial with Nick shooting Thin Lizzy backstage and onstage at High Voltage Festival.
First up was the backstge shoot where Nick showed Matt how to set up a quick press shot of the band…
Nick introduces Matt to Thin Lizzy
Nick directs Thin Lizzy
Nick and Matt shoot Thin Lizzy
Onstage with Thin Lizzy
No Sleep Since Nashville
Posted on November 17, 2010
Nashville is a long, long way away, as Nick has just found out! Straight from shooting for a week in Music City, attending show-biz parties and working on the CMA awards, he’s now back in the UK with a heap of post production and a book full of orders.
No sleep yet, though, as there is the opening of his exhibition Just This Side of Sane on Friday, so more Champaign and nibbles. Can you have too much of the good life we ask ourselves?