A few things I have been doing recently or forgot to show here, I’ll throw a few images on this page:

Elvis Costello at Hyde Park

Gaslight Anthem at the Hard Rock Calling VIP

The Hives at Hard Rock Calling 2010

A photoshoot with up and coming artist and future rock star Serina Mucci.

Serina Mucci Promo Photos

A fashion shoot in Derby I haven’t posted any image from yet.

Style Couture shoot with Katharina Bober

Style Couture fashion photoshoot - Katharina Bober

Style Couture fashion photoshoot - Katharina Bober

Also a brand new music video with has got a lot of fantastic feedback already. The Emancipation is the name of the track from Tricil chosen for our second music video with Burning Head, starring the talented Miss Maleficent Martini and we can now showcase it as it is broadcast to promote Enter Calico, the iPad application project produced by the label Clear Notice. The video has been entered into the Vimeo Festival + Award judged by the likes of David Lynch, Roman Coppola or Nicolas Schmerkin. You can also help by nominating it, just copy the video link http://vimeo.com/13230643 into the nominating page there. It has been entered to the UK Music Video Award 2010 as well.

Tricil – The Emancipation from BURNING HEAD on Vimeo.

Oh and last, like most photographers I always know all my publications when I receive my monthly statement, in my case from Getty, and at that time all the papers and magazine concerned are far form the newsagent so it’s always nice to hear from a friend who saw an image in a broad paper like yesterday’s Guardian with my shot of Lady Gaga, below.

My Lady Gaga in yesterday's Guardian

So where are all these blog entries? Over a month of silence but a lot of things going on behind. I will just be brief and give a few highlights and images here but some more detailed news of anything to do with music photography can be found on my Loud Pixels BLOG here.

The freshest and biggest news this week is that Franck Trebillac and myself have the pleasure to announce that the Music Video of Born Dressed is finished and online for you to see!! We have received already a lot of great feedback and feel free to give you opinion on here. There should be a launch party soon, watch this space (or my Twitter account here). This was shot in part at the Brixton Dogstar, a really cool and stylish bar with the nicest staff. It is starring Roxy Velvet and of course Paul Gravity the man behind Born Dressed (and ex M.A.S.S. & Hey Gravity!). The BURNING HEAD website should be online soon and that will surely be an excuse for a new post.

Born Dressed – Coffee machine from BURNING HEAD on Vimeo.

End of April saw my exhibition at the Images En Scene festival at La Roche Posay in France where I presented 50 Digigraphie prints, alongside Francis Vernhet and Jacques Bisceglia to name a few, and a tribute exhibition of Alain Dister’s work. I appeared on French’s prime time news as you can see below. (Coincidentally I made an unrelated appearance on the BBC that very same week). The exhibition went very well and I thank Yves Lafosse, Didier Coupeau and really everyone in the team for their great work and welcome!

Marc Broussely – TV News from BURNING HEAD on Vimeo.

And to close this entry, a chosen portrait from my recent work, of talented dancer and actress Sophie Anneliese.

Sophie Anneliese, dancer - London, May 2010

The Music Video is on its way and we’re working on the editing, here is a snapshot from the shoot.

Born Dressed music video in the making

Another successful start-up in front of my lens, JogPost is an original new company in West London for the distribution of leaflets made by.. joggers! The result being a faster delivery, better paid employees that get healthier doing it, not bad at all I say, no surprise their phone keeps ringing all the time.

Action shot for JogPost commercial shoot

In music a few new shoots, I posted a “summary of previous episodes” on my Loudpixels Blog including Suede’s first show in years at the 100 Club, Tangerine Dream at the Royal Albert Hall and I would note a big night at the O2 Arena with some of the biggest legends of Soul and Motown, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Three Degrees and The Drifters. The following photo was taken by The Three Degrees’ manager in my failed attempt to join the band with Cynthia Garrison, Valerie Holiday and Helen Scott of Three Degrees  .

Me pretending to be a R&B singer from Philadelphia, with the legendary Three Degrees, O2 Arena in London, March 26 2010

And last but not least the big exhibition in France approaches, the Images En Scène festival at the Photomusicales De La Roche Posay on April 23, 24 and 25 where I’ll be exhibiting 50 large prints from my Loud Pixels collection, live and portraits, from Nana Mouskouri to Rihanna, from The Rolling Stones to The Maccabees, thanks to the sponsors Rainbow Color in Paris and EPSON’s Digigraphie label.

A sample of the images to be exhibited at Images En Scène, 23, 24 and 25 April 2010 at La Roche Posay, France

The UK Folding Plug I photographed earlier this month have won the Brit Insurance Design Of The Year Award 2010, well done to Min-Kyu Choi and the team!

The Four Tops (shot last week) appeared in the main feature of The Times Arts&Ents last Friday, and the Sunday Times published one of my studio portraits of Marina And The Diamonds, nice double Times .

some recent The Times tear sheets

Music-photography-wise I covered the return of Craig David with his album launch at Scala last week, as well as a big sold-out show of Frightened Rabbit at KOKO which showed how fast these guys are growing, and finally Chris Rea supported by Paul Casey at the Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday night.

Craig David's new album launch at Scala, 9 March 2010

Chris Rea Performs At Hammersmith Apollo In London March 14 2010

A lot of time spent trying another time to make a fresh install on my MacBook Pro, from an empty drive, reinstalling everything one by one, for those who tried they know that it’s a long journey in front of a screen! Working on new exciting opportunities as well as on the Music Video I mentioned before, we hope it will be launched by mid April! Oh and despite these last few enjoyable sunny days I have a cold, shame, how am I going to enjoy the taste of the Guinness tonight? Happy St Patrick’s day everyone.

The Four Tops in London, March 4 2010 (L to R) Theo Peoples, Lawrence Roquel Payton Jr, Abdul Duke Fakir, Ronnie McNeir

The Temptations in London, March 4 2010. (L to R) Joe Herndon, Terry Weeks, Bruce Williamson, Otis Williams, Ron Tyson

Oh and by the way, Min-Kyu Choi’s Folding Plug, featured on my last blog entry and who I photographed last week, has won the Product category of the Brit Insurance Design Of The Year Award 2010! You can see the other category winners on the Wired site, with late Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer ‘10 collection posthumously winning the fashion award, not for sentimental reason by the way but because it is stunning. The overall winner will be announced on March 16th.

No photos this weekend, plus given I just got a bit older I kind of expect my head will be sour in the morning… . And then up for another exciting week!

Min-Kyu Choi's UK Folding Plug

Made In Mind - The UK folding plug's company February 26 2010, London

And yesterday’s team was from the Helen Hamlyn Center and their creation an innovative design for a hospital gown to fit all sizes, quite an odd style of “fashion” photoshoot .

Helen Hamlyn Center's hospital gown design, March 3 2010, London

But I need to pack and go now for an exciting photoshoot with some of the biggest legends of the Motown, direct from Detroit to Mayfair, more on this later !

Wednesday night back to Mayfair, at Jalouse Nightclub this time, for yet another London Fashion Week party also mixing music and fashion. This time The Rotten Hill Gang were playing their mix of Rock and Rap while models were showcasing the Wealthy-Paupers collection from designer Johny Rocca. A non orthodox collection meant a non-orthodox show and the whole thing was pretty rock’n'roll. Despite the rumours, Mickey Rourke unfortunately did not join the fun as quite a few papers announced on the day. This gallery is on Flickr already, the Rotten Hill Gang and the Johny Rocca show.

Johny Rocca Wealthy-Paupers collection at Jalouse, Feb. 24 2010

This was for the techie Mac, now for a far more sweet Mac, the musician one. Absolute Radio session at the Hard Rock Café with Amy MacDonald last night.

Amy MacDonald live at the Hard Rock Café London 22 Feb. 2010

So some samples of the results, starting with the shoot featuring experimental rock band Foxy Shazam from Cincinnati, who supported Hole last week at the Empire. Read and hear more about them here.

Foxy Shazam shoot, Camden 20 February 2010

Depeche Mode live at the O2 Arena. A gallery can be seen here. More generally, any music photo material is also  blogged & displayed on my music photography site www.loudpixels.net.

Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena, London 20 February 2010

And finally the boat trip back home with a nice view on the impressive O2 Arena.

The O2 Arena from the Thames