Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Start the Bus, Bristol (18/02/2010)

Just a quick little post to stick up a photo or two of the undeniably entertaining Cymbals Eat Guitars.

Was a really fun little gig. Pretty brutal on the ears, but with all the smile inducing antics on display I didn’t particularly care. At £2.50 for the night, it’s the only ticket I’ve got recently that can compete with The Antlers on the price to enjoyment ratio front, but it didn’t quite reach the giddy highs of that night for me. Still… fun fun band.

Photography wise the lighting was abysmal, and my position in the crowd was hardly ideal, but as you may notice, I had a new camera and lens combination to deal with whatever was thrown at me. I’ve spent a stupid quantity of money and moved over to a Canon kit; the lack of future potential in Pentax was freaking me out a little. I’m sure I’ll do some sort of camera comparison in an upcoming post. The lens was a borrowed Sigma 30mm f1.4, which I’m currently adoring in a similar way to my previously unbeatable Pentax-M 50mm f1.7: Newsflash – auto focus and metering can actually be useful!