Touched By Fire is a collection of work by artist Jane Bush consisting
of live concert photography, artistic creations, and other photography work. Jane has
been creating art since she was young enough to draw and paint, and ventured off into
other mediums as her education and experience grew. She is experienced in illustration
mediums such as drawing, portraiture work, fine art painting and digital art painting.
She has always been a music lover and had a growing passion for live photography,
venturing out to photograph gigs in early 2009. She quickly went from photographing local
bands to national acts, and has had her work published for such sites as buzznet.com and
notesfromthepit.com. She has photographed such artists as The Academy Is.., The Yeah Yeah Yeah's,
Peaches, Taking Back Sunday, and many more. She looks forward to photographing more live
acts in the new decade as well as continuing to create more artwork in the future years.
Karen O. in her usual show stopping stage presence in St. Louis
The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s brought the house down Tuesday, June 2nd at the Pageant in St. Louis with their incredible stage presence and unique rock sound. While the lighting was tough at times, it was never dull. I was constantly captivated by frontwoman Karen O., who came out in a unique robe and black light face paint. Ripping through everything from their latest Zero (in which she came out in her leather KO jacket) to an encore that consisted of Maps, the entire set was power packed and never dissapointed. The energy exchanged between the band and the crowd was infectious, and 24-70mm did justice to their vividly colorful set. Special thanks to Karen. These exclusive photos will be featured on Buzznet tomorrow, and you can take a look at the entire set of them here.
It’s that time of year again: Warm weather, BBQ’s, and time for your favorite bands to go on festival tours again. Kicking off this summer’s ring of larger festival tours was the smaller, more exclusive Journey’s Backyard BBQ. Headlining that outdoor fiasco of music and skateboarding was Taking Back Sunday, one of my favorite bands not only in the studio but in performance as well.
Opening with the awesome first track from their debut Tell All Your Friends, You Know How I Do (which I must say I was super pumped that they played!), frontman Adam Lazarra and company ripped through their set inducing crowd pleasing sing alongs and frequent crowd surfing on the sunny but breezy Saturday evening in the Chicago suburbs. It was incredible fun to hear them perform everything from the newer material from New Again that comes out June 2nd as well as the old school classics like Cute Without The (E), A Decade Under The Influence, and a rare live performance of What It Feels Like To Be A Ghost. Not only was it great to see them again live on stage, it was great talking to them before and after the show. Very personable and funny!
My only complaint with the Journey’s Backyard BBQ? None that I can think of at all, other than there was no actual BBQ. I was hoping for some gigantic pits fueled with charcoaled flames of good food. Oh well…there’s plenty of summer ahead of us to do that on my own time!
Head on over to Buzznet.com where you can see the gallery of 72 exclusive photos I took of the band that they’re featuring right now. A preview:
Watch the video for “Sink Into Me”, the new single from New Again coming June 2nd! It’s good for the soul..and it’s a damn good video! And of course, special thanks to Karen and Taking Back Sunday.
