aaamusic | On 31, Dec 2010

An evening of Sound, Land & Skyscapes
at The Heavenly Social on Monday January 24th.
Doors 6pm – 12am
admission is free.

Featuring live music from –

The Tenebrous Liar
‘cursed, wretched souls, condemned to rock ‘n’ roll under pure white heat’ ROCK A ROLLA
‘Ballsy and brooding, primordial industrial rhythms and swelling psychedelic feedback’ NME
‘Feedback and distortion strewn, emotionally charged grungey soundscapes’ TIME OUT

Richard Warren
‘He has a genuine belief in the redemptive power of rock music, taking in gospel, protest folk and country soul. It feels like Alex Chilton passed through the studio on his way out of this world’ NME

Soulsavers dj set

and the opening of the first exhibition of scape photography by Steve Gullick

The evening has been curated by The Tenebrous Liar to celebrate the release of their new album ‘Run Run Run’ through TV records. Photographer Steve Gullick has created a set of land & skyscape photographs to visually match the intensity & mood of his band’s music, the atmosphere will be re-enforced by the spooky country blues sound of Richard Warren and a dj set from the notoriously moody Soulsavers.

Steve Gullick: Principled reprobate started taking band photographs for a friend’s fanzine in the late 1980s and was swiftly spotted and recruited by the then weekly music paper Sounds. Throughout the 1990’s he worked with the cream of musical talent, notably Nirvana & the US scene that became known as grunge & from the middle of the decade he worked extensively with British electronic punk band The Prodigy. This coincided with photographing the likes of Bjork, Neil Young, Beck & Jeff Buckley whilst working his way through competing music weeklies Melody Maker & NME as well as contributing to a host of international monthlies.

2002 saw Gullick create the seminal Careless Talk Cost Lives, an unashamedly underground publication conceived to run for twelve issues only, the image led magazine achieved it’s goal, in the process making cover stars of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s & Bright Eyes for the first time, as well as the more established Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. Gullick continues to follow his passion for music & photography, more recently you’ll have seen his work adorn releases by Richard Hawley, Foals & Beady Eye.

“From Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds through to Jack White via Kurt Cobain, Steve Gullick has photographed all the leading and most interesting figures of the last two decades of alternative music ” The Quietus

“THE PHOTOGRAPHY of Steve Gullick is unique. Graceful and forbidding in equal measure, it captures the essence of the maverick rockers to whom he’s drawn while resorting to none of the garish tricks and gimmicks that have become the staples of music photography. He’s in a tradition that goes back through Pennie Smith to Jim Marshall. Only he’s more doomy and punk” Mojo