Acoustic Session – Maybe Refuge | Indies Music | March 19, 2010

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:17:41 +0000

Last night was a special night, a few of my closest friends were playing an acoustic gig at Aspetta Caffe, around Kensington Market. Interestingly enough, the four piece are from 2 different indies bands, Violets and Viruses (John and Hiu; check out photos of the bands here) and Shades of November (Joey and Eugene). And of course, this is the first time they performed live as Maybe Refuge.

An interesting fact is I know all four of them have very different musical styles, ranging from pop, rock, to heavy metal. What they have in common is their love of music. At the end of the night, what made it such a successful acoustic set was their unity and how they performed as a new band. Here I present to you a few photos from the first ever show from Maybe Refuge.

Maybe Refuge

Maybe Refuge Vocalist - Joey, Eugene in the background

Maybe Refuge Vocalist - Joey, with Hiu in the foreground

Maybe Refuge Guitarist - John

Maybe Refuge BassistGuitarist - Hiu

Maybe Refuge Drummer - Eugene

More photos here in my Facebook page.

If you are ever interested in last night’s videos, search up on Facebook. I’ve seen a couple of friends/fans posted some clips already.

Venue: Aspetta caffe

Rock show – The Ultimate Rock Show | Indies Event | Feb 3, 2010

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:52:48 +0000

As many of my friends and past clients might know, one of my passion aside from my wedding and portrait work is concert photography, or simply music photography. Thinking back, the first time I seriously took photos for an event was for a concert by a band named ZiON NOiZ, I wound up taking photos for them for the next few years for various gigs on 35mm Kodak film with a Nikon FE. For quite some time I lost connection with photography and bands, but 3 years ago, I had an opportunity to kick start my interest in indies rock shows, with SFC, Spider’s Kiss from the Toronto Asian Indies scene. Through these bands and shows, I met a lot of great musicians and friends.

It has been a while since I took any music photos (aside from the promo shoot for Violets & Viruses back in November, read here), last night, The Ultimate Rock Show was held in Rock n Roll Heaven, the following four bands played and I had the opportunity to have some fun shooting some photos.
-Sunday Music Class
-Protocol – MySpace
-Violets & Viruses – MySpace
-The Drama – MySpace

Sunday Music Class

Protocol

Violets and Viruses

The Drama

Venue: Rock n Roll Heaven

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Acoustic Session – Maybe Refuge | Indies Music | March 19, 2010

Rock show – The Ultimate Rock Show | Indies Event | Feb 3, 2010