Foo Fighters live at Channel V 2005

The best part about being a photographer is getting paid to go to things that you’d do for free. It’s a privilege to be able to do this for a job and with times likes these at the moment I’m even more grateful for everything I have been able to do.

My favorite band in the world is the Foo Fighters, after growing up in the 90’s with Nirvana and what they did to our childhood and our growing pains, we were all destined to love Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters.

So having the opportunity to photography my favorite band in 2005 as they played for Channel V out the front of Fox Studios was a dream come true.

Normally when shooting bands you only get to shoot the first 3 songs, then you are asked to get the hell out of there. But this time we were only allowed to shoot the first song, so lucky I had two cameras one with a wide angle lens and one with a 70-200 zoom. It was no time to be shy on the trigger.

Halfway through the first song (which I can’t remember) Dave stopped and started talking to the crowd that was packed in and security thought that was the end of the first song and started to push us photographers out of the way. They obviously didn’t know any Foo songs, so in the chaos we were screaming that it’s only halfway in and to let us keep shooting. I don’t think they believed us and kept pushing, then as only Dave can just belted out the rest of the song and we were allowed to stay.

Then we were told to get the hell out.

Straight from the front row to the car park, where we belong.