Music Industry Work

It seems ridiculous that given all I've done in music (and I directed a promo with Kiri Te Kanawi and even that's gone) - and to name a few artists I've shot on both film and video:

Madonna, Queen Latifa, Shane McGowan , Elvis Costello, Bon Jovi, the Everly Brothers, Harry Belafonte, Grace Jones, Paco Da Lucia, John McGloughlin, Julie Andrews, George Martin, Brian May, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfield, Mariah Carey, Ron Wood, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend, Blink 182, Yes, Sting, the Stones, Def Leopard, the Commodores...and a variety of classical musicians and ensembles including the Liverpool Philharmonic

- I haven't copies of any of these things but I do seem to have Van Morrison... 

• Longer Form Artworks
• ​Installations 1992 - Present
• ​Short Works With a Life of their Own
• Collaborations Terry Flaxton & Shawn Bell
• Collaborations Terry Flaxton and Emily Burridge
• Collaborations Terry Flaxton & Al Lethbridge
• Documentaries from the mid '70's to early '90's
• Moving Image Art Resources
• Blink 2003 - 2012​
• Work on Racism 1976 - 2000
• Short Dramas
• ​Music Industry Work
• Music and Sound 1969 - 1975
• An Early History of Video Art in the UK​
• Theatre Work​

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​The Healing Game

I was technical Director and Director of Photography on this promo and we shot this over ten days and on the final day we did the sound recording with the band in a stage setup. The 4 Super 16mm cameras, loaded with a new black and white film (why not shoot in colour and take that out - because its not the same!) and the film started to snap and it's well known that Van doesn't like to do more than one or two takes - but I had to go ask him - one more please - or we're screwed...

Van Morrison Concert
This was a concert to inaugurate the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. We had a 19 camera shoot and I was the technical director and also the lighting person. Van didn't like overhead lights so I tried a trick: there used to be a small light called a daedo light - I bolted them to the mike stands and whatever I could get them on to (also some of the cameras were hidden in similar fashion). Though a  risk for such a large shoot - it worked as you can see.

Eurythmics - for MTV