I finally get to show you the photos I took at Forbidden Fruit last weekend. On Saturday we kicked off the day with an interview with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne which was amazing as I'm a big fan of them and he was such a good interviewee. I really think he would have talked for hours if we had the time. We also interviewed Irish band Ham Sandwich, Belgian band The Subs, British beatboxer Beardyman and another Irish band called Spies.
We rounded off the day in the photographers pit filming the opening of the Flaming Lips performance which was incredible! Wayne Coyne began the show inflating himself into a giant plastic ball and crowdsurfing in it, there were confetti guns, a megaphone with sparklers and coloured smoke coming from it and giant multi-coloured balloons (I got Donnacha to take a photo of me in front of them backstage).
Dave and Katie, the Cock and Bull Tv presenters
Brian, one of the camera operators (who I went to college with)
The guys with Wayne Coyne
Jape
Ham Sandwich
Spies
Beardyman
The Subs
Flaming Lips
The lovely crew minus our lovely editor Maeve and our lovely photographer Peter who was taking this photo (Back Row L-R; Brian, Anthony, Richie, Andrew, Dave. Middle Row; Ruth, Kate, Siobhán, Róisín, Me, Conor, Donnacha. Front Row; Kirby, Aisling, Eimear, Jessica, Katie.
Here's a preview of Day Two of the festival and tomorrow's post;
Hope you're having a great week, I can't believe it's Thursday already!
Emma x
It does my heart good to see all those fine young people gathered together to celebrate authentic homegrown music. I can't wait to see the highlights from Day Two. Thank you, Emma!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful imagery Emma! I particularly like the photo of Beardyman laughing.
ReplyDeleteThis looks like an awesome festival, I have stored its name away for future reference :-)