MATT KLEINSCHMIDT

Shooting Gogol Bordello was definitely the best time of the weekend. Mainly because frontman Eugene Hutz is ridiculously animated and doesn’t stop moving the entire set allowing for some really great action shots. The only downer of the set was that his backup dancers/singers/drum beaters didn’t come out onto the stage until after the 3 songs in the photo pit were up, so I go no shots of them running amok on stage. Read the rest of this entry »

White Rabbits were one of the first bands on the main stage that day. I really like their album a lot but they weren’t the most kinetic band of the weekend. Mainly ’cause I’m sure its tough to rock out when sitting at a piano at 1 in the afternoon. I particularly liked the picture above, because I was kinda impressed with myself for catching the lead singer’s actual spit on camera from about 20 feet away. Definitely wasn’t a planned part of the picture, but it works. Read the rest of this entry »

These pics were taken at Liberty State Park at the All Points West Festival. Since 2/3 of the festival days had rain, Saturday proved to be the be best day to shoot since the weather was great. Just before their set, the band had a bit of a scare, their keyboardist took a fall off the stage while fiddling with some wires setting up his gear. He was okay, but it could have been hairy since the stage was about 8ft tall and there was only about 3ft in between the stage and speaker stacks where he landed. He was okay and the band put on a perfectly awesome set. Read the rest of this entry »