{"id":976,"date":"2011-09-17T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/?p=976"},"modified":"2011-09-17T12:47:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T12:47:32","slug":"hug-hum-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Hug&#8230; Hum&#8230; Snap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I found myself on a Eurostar desperately trying to trick my 3G connections into loading a video of a band I\u2019d never heard of. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised at the first link\u2026 They had just been on Letterman!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI was on my way to Paris for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/\">The Independent on Sunday<\/a>, to shoot \u201cthe next big thing\u201d an American band called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/edwardsharpe\">Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zero\u2019s<\/a>, a massive 11 piece folk group who are really big across the pond. They were performing at the Rock on the Seine festival in the French capital and I had a backstage pass to shoot them before they continued on their tour.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros on Letterman\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qb9jY8yAxgs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDusting off my GCSE level French it took me two hours to negotiate my way past security, then trek across a massive swamp ridden site before I arrived at their stage, just in time for their sound check. It was all a bit fraught, but I\u2019d never been down the whole \u2013 I want to be a music photographer route and just put it down to rock and roll exuberance.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nLike a hunter stalking prey, I looked for a band member to ingratiate myself with and managed to find a shy trumpet player called Stuart with a love for photography. It was he who turned out to be my \u201cin\u201d.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/17\/hug-hum-snap\/edwardsharpe_jalden-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdwardSharpe_jalden-10-420x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"EdwardSharpe_jalden-10\" width=\"420\" height=\"233\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-977\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nJust as they were about to come on stage they had a group huddle, and it was my newfound friend Stuart who invited me to join in, amongst some harmonised, tantric humming I took my chance and snapped away.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/17\/hug-hum-snap\/edwardsharpe_jalden-15\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-978\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdwardSharpe_jalden-15-420x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"EdwardSharpe_jalden-15\" width=\"420\" height=\"279\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdwardSharpe_jalden-15-420x279.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdwardSharpe_jalden-15-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdwardSharpe_jalden-15.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAll went well during the gig, I\u2019ve done a few of these before and after a few songs, I decided that I had it nailed and I slipped backstage to wait for them to come off.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/17\/hug-hum-snap\/edwardsharpe_jalden-18\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-979\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdwardSharpe_jalden-18-420x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"EdwardSharpe_jalden-18\" width=\"420\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-979\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe next plan was to shoot a nice big group portrait, I\u2019d scouted an autumnal corridor of trees but the problem was getting them there. After the show they scattered like the leaves in my would-be picture, so I had to make myself content with shooting Alex, the lead singer.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/17\/hug-hum-snap\/edwardsharpe_jalden-27\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-981\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdwardSharpe_jalden-27-420x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"EdwardSharpe_jalden-27\" width=\"420\" height=\"279\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdwardSharpe_jalden-27-420x279.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdwardSharpe_jalden-27-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdwardSharpe_jalden-27.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHe turned out to be a nice guy and we chatted about where to go in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montmartre\">Montmartre<\/a>, while I put together a decent set of pictures of him.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe piece was used really well in the paper (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/news\/from-zeros-to-heroes-the-rise-and-rise-of-a-superband-2345163.html\">Read it here<\/a>). I\u2019ve already bought a couple of their CD\u2019s. I passed one of them to a friend, like one of those enlightened mortals who know what\u2019s cool, the other one is in my CD player and they are great so it might be for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I found myself on a Eurostar desperately trying to trick my 3G connections into loading a video of a band I\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}