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A Recap of My 2023 and 2024 Live Music Photographs

February 01, 2025 by Julian Baird

A recap of the photographs I captured in 2023 and 2025 featuring Muse, Snow Patrol, Nick Mason and Del Amitri!

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February 01, 2025 /Julian Baird
UnplugBatch3, Muse, Johnny Marr, Suede, Primal Scream, Reef, The Waterboys, Skindred, The Levellers, Gaz Coombe, LYR, Ocean Colour Scene, Gabrielle, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tom Jones, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, Sleeper, Beautiful Days, The Scratch, Cast, Pet Needs, Richard Ashcroft, Hard Fi, The Damned, Pop Will Eat Itself, Snow Patrol, King Creosote, Del Amitri
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Beautiful Days Festival - 19th to 21st August 2016

August 24, 2016 by Julian Baird in Uncategorized

Beautiful Days

Beautiful Days is one probably one of the biggest festivals in the South West and it's only a few miles from my doorstep.  So when I was asked by my friends over at MusicMuso to photograph the festival I jumped at the chance.  

When I first arrived on the Friday evening I was taken back by the sheer size of the event and the happy vibe from the crowd was contagious.  I immediately asked myself why I hadn't attended before!  So while I noted that I really must attend one year as a punter, my priority was to take photographs and capture the spirit of this wonderful, family friendly festival.  

Over the the three days of the festival I had no end of opportunities to shoot some brilliant live acts.  It was a busy few days and I barely had time to stop as I walked from stage to stage, but that's half the fun to be honest.  It's not just the musicians that make the even but the crowd and I met some awesome people on my walks between stages.

So this blog post is a celebration of Beautiful Days, the musicians and the crowd so please go ahead and enjoy some of my photographic highlights from this epic festival!

Friday and Saturday

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Sunday

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And Finally

Those awesome folks over at MusicMuso will be posting up a full review of the festival really soon so keep an eye out for that.  Remember though if you want see some images as they are shot live from my gigs follow me on Twitterand Instagram!  See you next time on The Unplugged Blog!

August 24, 2016 /Julian Baird
Beautiful Days, Calling All Astronauts, Damned, Devon, Dreadzone, Escot, Festival, Ibibio Sound Machine, James, Leftfield, Mad Dog McRea, Mariachi El Bronx, Rapha Ghetti, Reef, Seth Lakeman, Terrorvision, The Coral, The Damned, The Levellers, The Lounge Kittens, The Membranes, The Proclaimers, The Rag N Bone Man, The Selecter, Treacherous Orchestra, Ward Thomas, UnplugBatch2
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