Nick Miners Photography

The launch of Plaid’s latest album, ‘Scin­tilli’ at Shoreditch’s Vil­lage Under­ground was prob­ably one of my more chal­len­ging shoots this year. Plaid make all their music from three Apple laptops perched on a con­sole in front of them, and their per­form­ance was (apart from the music) all about the visu­als pro­jec­ted onto the massive brick wall behind them. So I decided that, rather than get­ting as close to the stage as pos­sible, I’d stand at the back of the room, back to the wall, and get long shots of the com­bin­a­tions of the pro­jec­ted graph­ics and the play of the spot­lights in the centre of the ceil­ing. It was a mes­mer­ising experience.

Scala is a former cinema loc­ated in the Kings Cross area of Lon­don, and is now a thriv­ing music venue. I went along to shoot Dry the River for a Drowned in Sound ‘In Pho­tos’ feature.

The Line Of Best Fit’s Scand­inavian showpiece Ja Ja Ja returned to the Lon­don cal­en­dar last night with a tem­por­ary change of venue. At the Hox­ton Square Bar and Kit­chen were Nor­we­gian all-​​girl Ska group Razika, Finnish sis­ters LCMDF (‘Le Corps Mince de Françoise’) and, kick­ing the even­ing off in style, Icelandic dance trio Sykur, with guest vocal­ist Agnes Björt Andradóttir.

Hail­ing from Los Angeles, White Arrows are cur­rently in Lon­don for a series of live dates, and stopped at the Monto Water Rats on 28^th Septem­ber, sup­por­ted by the glee­fully bonkers Sharl­iza Jel­ita (com­plete with tiger out­fit), Irish rock­ers Echo­gram and fel­low Cali­for­ni­ans Scar­let Grey.

The organ­isers of Ice­land Air­waves held a spe­cial event in Lon­don last night as a pre­lude to the main event in Octo­ber. Daniel Águst’s elec­tronic prac­ti­tion­ers Gus­Gus were joined by Hjaltalín’s Högni Egils­son on the stage, sup­por­ted by Denmark’s Rep­tile and Retard and their amaz­ing hair. I squeezed in next to the stage on a hot, sweaty even­ing at Brick Lane’s 93 Feet East to get these pics for The 405.