This is one from the archive – I was trashing an unloved Tumblr account and noticed this on there..

I caught Aynsley Lister, a great blues artist from the UK, playing at the Carlisle Brickyard in 2005 and he kindly let me take photos. This is one of them:

Aynsley Lister playing at the Brickyard in Carlisle in 2005

After the event I sent some of my shots over out of curtesy (they formed a key part fo my portfolio for some time after), and he wrote back asking if he could use one on a tour poster. As a student just getting into gig photography this was like striking gold! An artist I admired using my photo! I’ll post the shot he chose here shortly – and the poster if I can did it out of the attic…