Avangelist Photography

I played at Unfest set in the Pantiles area of Tunbridge Wells with my band Here There Be Monsters yesterday. It was a fantastic day with lots going on. Was really impressed with these guys Raina who helped us out with some equipment.

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Dixie Dread performing at Club Revolt! Concorde2 Brighton

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Nedry montage video featuring Swan Ocean from the Condors album.

Filmed at Komedia, Brighton UK – The Great Escape 2011.

I’ve begun a new direction.

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Narrows – Gypsy Kids, The Green Door Store, Brighton UK

Shot on Flip HD

I was asked to work the crowd a little this week for the wonderful girls at Ophelia Fancy as they held their new collection launch in the Pelirocco Hotel, Brigthton.

The evening was a great success, their viral video is absolutely incredible to so go watch. http://opheliafancy.com/flashmob/

Tunbridge Wells based solo artist James Medhurst, promoshoot April 2011 Read more…

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Very happy to see Nedry playing this years The Great Escape Festival in Brighton and always happy to see one of my favourite images still doing the rounds.

This morning after dealing with some slight visual issues, being that I couldn’t see out of one eye, I looked through the posts I made in 2010.

I very much took the year off in terms of music. 2005-2009 I was out at times every night of the week, snapping show after show submitting them wherever I could and regularly getting nowhere except increasingly frustrated and regularly told off for being a loud mouth and doing/saying things I shouldn’t have in public.

It left me a bit burnt out from it. I made a decision to take a different approach in 2010. I was only going to cover the shows I was interested in and I was only going to do it if I was asked to by a 3rd party. Regularly, as has been the case since the first day it opened its shiny white doors this was for Thrash Hits. I have a good relationship with Hugh and Raz, the brains behind the site and we regularly help each other out. There have been times in the last year where I have felt that my decision to live in Brighton is still keeping me out of the loop when it comes to the London contingent, and I am right but I am also OK with it. I know that if I had wanted to go two footed into the media world I would have made the move 10 years ago and I didn’t because I kept getting burnt then the same as I do now.

This choice gave me greater opportunities than when I was busting my back trying to be heard. I got an exclusive with the now reformed Earthtone9, spent the day in the studio with them took some great shots and wrote a blistering interview. I witnessed the last night at The Hobgoblin in Brighton with the now disbanded Blackstorm, went on tour with long term friends Here There Be Monsters, who I am now playing with. Thanks to some well directed feedback I did a national promo for Sonisphere UK Festival which then led to a position on the official team at the Knebworth event covering the Bohemia, Jaeger, Red Bull and Strongbow stages, huge huge thanks to David Harrison for making that happen, I really hope I can work with him a lot more this year.

2011 has a lot going on already. Forget VAT and Tax increases crippling the nation or Royal twits getting married. February 25th sees the first time I have been on a stage to perform in a little under a decade. I’ve also got a few bookings already in and I am intending on doing a new series with Nedry who have had an insane year before they go to SXSW.

What else am I looking to do? I am already discussing with someone I have worked with before about collaborating on a larger scale and I intend to cut through the red tape pish that divides the southern service between Brighton & London Victoria.

It is time to do some serious string pulling.