I’ve uploaded some more photos to the gallery of Huey Lewis performing at the Dublin last night. As mentioned at Family Guy’s blog it was a bit weird having a concert the way they do at Dublin. First off, the playing field of the stadium is converted into a seating area, and about 200 tables are sold for 10 seats at each table – this creates an “exclusive” zone where only the ticket holders can get to. The great thing about this is that the crush at the front of the stage was non existant and I was able to get some good close up photos from the front, standing in what would normally be the mosh pit, and yet I didn’t get jostled once. The rest of the fans are kept behind barriers on the bleachers, so the audience is basically split into two. This really cuts the atmosphere in half and it must have felt really weird playing to that sort of audience.
After the concert the fireworks were set off and they were pretty good. Not as extravagent as the Columbus Red White and Boom fireworks but still pretty good. I didn’t think they were as loud as fireworks in the uk and it was weird only seeing one set of fireworks going off – normally in the uk I’d see several sets of fireworks going off at various times during the evening. Everything was going great until some bozo decided to switch the floodlights on during the middle. Remember that everyone is sitting on the field or in the bleachers which meant that most people were blinded by the light and it was difficult to see the fireworks. The lights must have been on, at full power, for about 5 minutes until the left set went off – to a cheer from the crowd, and followed by the right hand set 30 seconds later.
I’ve also uploaded some of the firework photos to the Huey concert page (starting here). I don’t have a full size tripod so unfortunately the shots are a bit blurry. I tried long exposures and fast shutter speeds for different effects and I am still pretty pleased with how they turned out.
I’ve also uploaded some of the photos to flickr. I need to work out if I can get the geotagging and other facilities within Coppermine as that would be really handy.