Dreamland for the Evening:
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Avalon Theatre, Catalina Island, 1993. Gelatin silver print.
I’ve been going to live gigs since I was 12 years old. Music doesn’t get any purer than a magical live performance. What could be better than looking your hero in the eyes and having them sing right to your soul. Last weekend I went to three different gigs, in Mullingar, Waterford and Dublin. Over the three nights I saw four very different songwriters and one band. Every one of them had a story of their own and each one was trying to move as gracefully as possible through the maze that is the music business…