Around the Town – May 14-20
The Around the Town series is a weekly news summary of notable events and achievements by those in the Seattle music scene. If you’ve done something cool, send us a note! Also, if you’ve got a cool music-related event coming up, tell us about that too! If you’re reading this, it means you weren’t swept away in the rumored rapture. Congrats (if that’s a good thing)! Meanwhile, we’ve got…
SXSW Debriefing with Photos
SXSW is one helluva festival, and this year’s 25th anniversary was no exception. A reported record of nearly 40K people packed the streets of Austin, Texas causing scenes that many swore could have came straight out of New Orleans during Mardi Gras, or, for other Seattleites, like Capitol Hill Block Party on uber steroids. As SXSW newbies, Click & Dagger had only a vague idea of what to expect, and…
SXSW Photos: The Strokes and Wu Tang Clan
Thursday was Click & Dagger’s first and likely only night of seeing big name acts. The evening started off with The Strokes, who played an explosive set at the Auditorium Shores Stage. Located just off Lady Bird Lake, this stage is similar to one at Sasquatch!, meaning it was outdoors and filled with people hording in to see The Strokes. The photo pit in particular was jam packed; that combined…
A Photographer’s Guide to Shooting Festivals
As a special feature to Click & Dagger, we present a technical gear guide brought to you by Alex Crick, aka Snake Charmer, of the Deadly Viper Photo Squad. Crick is a veteran photographer in the Seattle scene with over ten years of concert photography experience. This guide is geared toward other professional and semi-professional photographers using DSLRs to photograph big events, namely music festivals. As a Canon-user, the article…
