I’m a 62-year-old grey-haired gig goer. I get to a lot of gigs and festivals in a variety of places. Through the last decade it’s cranked up a notch with the help of a similarly (even more gigaholic) enthusiastic mate and my gig-loving wife.
I thought I could leave a blog trail as I go on my gigaholic wanderings – the bands – my photos – the venues – the festivals – bits on travel and parking – the odd handy pub and all that stuff. It’s my virtual scrapbook.
All photos are my own unless I mention otherwise. I use a Panasonic Lumix compact pocket-sized zoom mostly, a TZ90 (replacing my TZ60 in October 2022). Unobtrusive and only occasionally not permitted, and that’s where there is a no phones or cameras rule, which I always abide by. I occasionally used to take a better Nikon bridge camera to outdoor gigs, especially festivals so the pics there were best quality – too much to carry though. Then there are gigs when I forget my camera, run out of battery etc. 🙄
My mobile phone camera was pretty bang average, on an older Samsung A6 until 2023, but I do take an occasional video clip if it isn’t going to get in anyone’s way – I like a pillar or a wall behind me. In November 2022 I started to use the video function in my pocket camera – much improved quality. In Spring 2022 I started putting these clips on my YouTube channel. It saves memory on the blog account if nothing else and clips gets hundreds of views in their own right, several over a thousand: USA interest can pump the numbers, with Foreigner topping 74,000 views and Suzi Quatro 33,000+. Link to my Grey-Haired Gig Goer channel.
The Covid pandemic hit activities hard but through my blogs you can see the various attempts to keep ‘gig-fit’ and the measures brought in during that awful period in our history – let’s hope that’s the end of that.
Keep rocking!
View my YouTube channel, Grey-Haired Gig Goer:
https://youtube.com/channel/UCG8ghSorkbqAZFRjKRiOwag
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