Morrissey and Morris ..

The Monday after a Wedding is usually 'Editing' Day, when I start work on all the shots like this I've taken at whichever venue I've been working at. Not today! Today is Joy Division Day! (Oh, and Smiths Day, too!)...

Today is a day for driving to Macclesfield to put up some of my music photography as part of an exhibition staged by the Art and Design students at Macclesfield College. I've been privileged to be asked if I'd show some of my photography in their 'Sound (Track)' show at Incubation Art's HQ in Charles Roe House. There will be a private view of the show, opened by Joy Division drummer Steven Morris on February 24th. Tickets available!!..

It's just dawned on me! As the theme of the show is Manchester music - and thus the reason I'm showing Smiths pictures, too - it is, for me, a case of Morrissey and Morris! Both very charming men, of course ..

Bum, bum ..

Sorry, I'm turning into an exhibition bore here - yawn - but I just need to tell you some good news from yesterday. I had a meeting with a lovely lady from a place called Incubation Arts in Macclesfield, who gave me the green light for a new exhibition of my Joy Division photographs there in May and June. It's great news, although I kinda did a double take when she mentioned it would tie in with the 35th anniversary of the death of lead singer Ian Curtis. What a shock! So that's ten years already since I decided to show the work to mark the 25th anniversary!! Crikey!..

There's a blackboard set up for comments at my - zzz - 'Made in Eccles' exhibition at the People's History Museum in Manchester. I was delighted when, on the very first day, a tourist wrote 'Botev Plovdic' on it with a cheeky little border drawn around. Nice, I thought! I hope that's something good, I thought! Turns out it's the name of a bloody football team in Bulgaria! Hmm..

Anyway, that made me laugh, and so did going to the loo last week during a shoot - I apologise for the sheer glamour of the job here - at a bathroom fittings supplier near Blackburn. The toilet seat was broken! Bum, bum!..