When you get an email from HotPress asking if you want two tickets to fo see The Murder Capital play a small intimate gig in Aloft Dublin, you'd be crazy to say no, so after talking to myself for a while, I said yes!
I'd not seen The Murder Capital before, but I'd heard lots of great things about them and was looking forward to the gig. I didn't bring the camera along, well, I did, just not the big one, I brought my small Sony DSC HX60. I figured it was a HotPress gig and they'd have their own photographers in the crowd and I was only there as a punter, so the Sony would do just fine.
The Murder Capital were absolutely fantastic. I always think it's the sign of a good band if they can replicate the passion and intensity of a studio album when playing an acoustic set, and The Murder Capital had no problems doing this! I can't help but feel that these guys are going to be massive on the festival circuit this year!
My only gripe on the whole night was the lighting. It was, well, difficult is an understatement. I resorted to B&W edits as my colour shots looked terrible.
The setlist on the night was:
- Only Good Things
- The Stars Will Leave Their Stage
- Green & Blue
- A Thousand Lives
- We Had To Disappear
- Crying
- Return My Head
- Ethel
And now for some (not so great) photos!
