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Deaf School in Amsterdam Part 2

I’ve always believed you need to be very brave to be a photographer and it was with this thought in mind, with my trusty Pentax Spotmatic 1000 and my home made camera case, I boarded the ferry for Amsterdam. This was the start of many interesting photographic journeys and a career which took me all over the world, some journeys were dangerous, some just plain enjoyable, some I have yet to talk about. You never know what is going to happen on a photoshoot be it in Bradford or Beijing and the build up can be quite stressful, even more so these days. Best thing is to go with it and try to enjoy it, be brave.

My college friends, in the band Deaf School were performing at The Melkweg club in Amsterdam. I was at a bit of a loose end and being no stranger to the hippy, arty Amsterdam, having already visited a number of times I decided to go and support them and document the tour. I’ve always loved the place, the art, the architecture, canals and the bicycles, the smoky bars and strange people and the feeling of relaxed freedom of thought. Since then I have been back many times (even been paid to work in Amsterdam).

I travelled there by myself as the band had a full tour bus but they very kindly let me sleep on the floor of their ‘luxurious’ accommodation and I spent my time documenting their tour. I produced a small booklet for the band which I know some have treasured even though I printed it out on an obscure brand of photo paper which still curls to this day, I remember my room at 104 Princes Road, Liverpool, full of booklets all over the floor with weights on top to try to get them to stay flat.

This was December 1974, a really long time ago, before I became a professional photographer and before what I consider to be the ‘modern’ world and it is curious that this is the first in my rock band photography series and probably the last that will appear on the blog. It has been a labour of love scanning and digitising these film negatives, which have not seen the light of day for 45 years. I have had to developed some photoshop techniques to enhance them. Looking at them now I see that what I lacked in technical ability and exposure control, I made up for in composition and drama. You are welcome to download them but they are not for commercial use without permission and the copyright is strictly ©montyrakusen  [email protected] please request a link.

Text edit: John Coombes

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Deaf School in Amsterdam Part 1

I’ve always believed you need to be very brave to be a photographer and it was with this thought in mind, with my trusty Pentax Spotmatic 1000 and my home made camera case, I boarded the ferry for Amsterdam. This was the start of many interesting photographic journeys and a career which took me all over the world, some journeys were dangerous, some just plain enjoyable, some I have yet to talk about. You never know what is going to happen on a photoshoot be it in Bradford or Beijing and the build up can be quite stressful, even more so these days. Best thing is to go with it and try to enjoy it, be brave.

My college friends, in the band Deaf School were performing at The Melkweg club in Amsterdam. I was at a bit of a loose end and being no stranger to the hippy, arty Amsterdam, having already visited a number of times I decided to go and support them and document the tour. I’ve always loved the place, the art, the architecture, canals and the bicycles, the smoky bars and strange people and the feeling of relaxed freedom of thought. Since then I have been back many times (even been paid to work in Amsterdam).

I travelled there by myself as the band had a full tour bus but they very kindly let me sleep on the floor of their ‘luxurious’ accommodation and I spent my time documenting their tour. I produced a small booklet for the band which I know some have treasured even though I printed it out on an obscure brand of photo paper which still curls to this day, I remember my room at 104 Princes Road, Liverpool, full of booklets all over the floor with weights on top to try to get them to stay flat.

This was December 1974, a really long time ago, before I became a professional photographer and before what I consider to be the ‘modern’ world and it is curious that this is the first in my rock band photography series and probably the last that will appear on the blog. It has been a labour of love scanning and digitising these film negatives, which have not seen the light of day for 45 years. I have had to developed some photoshop techniques to enhance them. Looking at them now I see that what I lacked in technical ability and exposure control, I made up for in composition and drama. You are welcome to download them but they are not for commercial use without permission and the copyright is strictly ©montyrakusen  [email protected] please request a link.

Text Edit: John Coombes

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Kodak Recording film 2475

Reg Cox, my photography tutor at Liverpool College of Art - whom I owe so much to - met me in the busy corridor of the Myrtle Street annex and in his tall gentle scouse way said ‘Here you go mate, try this’ and pressed into my hand a small yellow packet. It was a roll of the famous Kodak Recording film 2475. These days not many people know what that was. It was a surveillance film usually used by police or spies. It had the advantage of being base rated (sensitivity) at 1000 asa running up to 4000 asa by push processing which meant you could shoot in very low light. It also had a grain structure like no other film and at 4000 looked like a welder had spattered molten silver across the picture whilst flicking the ash from 20 Capstan Full Strength onto it. Not only that but most of the detail would be missing. I thought it was a mysterious and wonderful thing and was rather over enthusiastic about its properties. Someone asked me if I’d like to do the inside sleeve photo for Deaf School's first album ‘Second Honeymoon’. I knew they were playing The Metro Club near Matthew Street in Liverpool where the original Cavern Club had been, and with the help of some friends I came up with a plan to produce a truly iconic photograph. I couldn’t get the shot standing in the audience because the venue was so small and crowded so I had to stand at the back. I got there early before the public and figured out where to stand, I checked the lighting. The show began, the noise in this brick lined-cavern was incredible, the heat, the sweat literally dripping down the walls, I felt I was experiencing what it must have been like to see The Beatles in the Cavern Club in the 60’s. So Deaf School do their encore, the crowd are cheering and shouting and as pre-arranged, the house lights are thrown on and the band turn with their backs to the audience and look to me. I hastily shoot maybe five frames, I’m sweating so much I can’t see. Next day I nervously go about processing the film, I carefully read the instructions. In the dark I wind the precious film onto a spool and process it. Then I wash and dry it. Then I look at it. Oh horror! Everything is wrong, under exposed, fogged, most frames are out of focus and some have camera shake. Miserably I sat at my desk with the empty yellow packet in front of me, wondering where I had gone wrong, then the expiry date caught my eye. Damn it! Thanks Reg! It was five years out of date. There was one frame, one solitary frame that just met quality control and it did end up on the sleeve and whilst it's not great work, grainy and lacking in detail, it certainly showed the atmosphere. Working on the files now I can honestly say I wouldn’t have the faintest idea how to reproduce this effect digitally.

Oh, the album is still great, go buy it!

You are welcome to go and download them but they are not for commercial use without permission and the copyright is strictly ©montyrakusen , [email protected]  please request a link.

Memory and help: John Coombes

https://www.discogs.com/Deaf-School-2nd-Honeymoon/release/2529447

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Deaf School at the Pentagon Suite

Some time in 1975 I shot just these few pictures of the band at a club just off Bold Street in Liverpool. The band look amazing, full of excitement and the music was great! It looks like it was very smoky in there, and there was condensation on the lens and I met my photographic nemesis in the form of the sum total of the lighting being one huge spot light. It was very dramatic but not conducive to well exposed photographs! Not just that but I was experimenting with ‘pushing’ film, I’d get a 125asa film and rate it at 500asa and modify the processing time to compensate. This produced the huge grain you see with contrast and it enabled me to shoot in very dark places. The downside of this was there was no great exposure latitude in the shots, if they were under exposed there was simply nothing left on the film. Its only my new digital techniques that have brought these pictures back to life.

You are welcome to go and download them but they are not for commercial use without permission and the copyright is strictly ©montyrakusen , [email protected]  please request a link.

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Deaf School win The Melody Maker Rock and Folk Competition 1975

The 28th of June 1975 was an exciting day for us at Liverpool College of Art because the art school band, Deaf School, won the Melody Maker Rock and Folk Competition and I was there to document it! We all got on a bus and drove down the M1 to The Roundhouse in London to support them. I was still at Art College so the photography was a bit of fun more than anything but my dear photography tutor, Reg Cox, his words were ringing in my ears ‘Get close if you can Monty’ and I did, and its something I still do today. It was such an exciting night with this huge pop band of my friends and its eclectic original music and the performance and then they won! It has been a labour of love scanning and digitising these film negatives which have not seen the light of day for 45 years. I have developed some photoshop techniques to enhance them. Looking at them now I see that what I lacked in technical ability and exposure control, I made up for in composition and drama! You are welcome to go and download them but they are not for commercial use without permission and the copyright is strictly ©montyrakusen , [email protected]  please request a link. The story of the day is well told in The Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party by Paul Du Noyer Link: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-Hd5AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT49&lpg=PT49&dq=Melody+Maker+rock+and+folk+contest+1975&source=bl&ots=C6Kjui6Nm6&sig=ACfU3U02MS_DpVn01p8dfmRSgr26i-JUOA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY5cviv9bpAhXQa8AKHV3YAJMQ6AEwDnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=Melody%20Maker%20rock%20and%20folk%20contest%201975&f=false