Emmy The Great played a charity gig last Wednesday at the Manchester Deaf Institute. It’s fair to say this event flew under the radar of most folk – I only randomly noticed a flyer whilst out and about at the Dot2Dot Festival on Monday night. Lazy Noggin has a nice write-up of the evening, but here’s a couple of photos I shot below:

I was in two minds whether to bother posting them as I’m pretty dissapointed with how they came out. I deliberately left the house with only my 24-70mm lens and no flash – I think the Deaf Institute can be quite hard to shoot without a flash, but I wanted to travel light. I’d also decided that I wanted to film most of the gig on my little Lumix TZ7 (which shoots nice 720p HD video, and currently sells for under £200 on Amazon). Again I don’t know if it was the difficult red stage-lights (or if I’d accidentally changed a setting on my camera) but the quality of video I get from the Lumix is usually much better than this (see my YouTube channel for examples)

Emmy played six songs (including two new ones) and I filmed four of them:

01. We Almost Had A Baby
02. The Easter Parade
03. Exit Night new song
04. Dinosaur Sex new song
05. First Love
06. Absentee

View the videos after the jump

The audio sounds wonderful in this clip above, but unfortunately it also picks up the guy to my left singing along! Luckily the next two videos are new songs :)

I should probably explain the reason the camerawork is a bit wonky is because for the most part I wasn’t watching what the screen was recording

Finally, here is a link to a playlist of all 4 Emmy The Great live in Manchester videos