My photo show Wednesday!

Amy and I are putting up a photo show of our punk and rock photography this month, the opening party is this Wednesday. This is an open invitation to anyone that reads this blog to come down to the opening!

Details:
IN THE PIT!
Featuring the Rock Photography of Amy and Dan Halligan
Opening Party Wednesday, September 16th, 8-11pm
Seattle, WA

Amy and Dan Halligan have been photographing and writing about punk and rock bands for twenty years. In the 1990s they published the Northwest's largest music zine, 10 Things, and in the 2000s their photos and writing were featured in almost every issue of the alternative publication Tablet. Their photography has also been featured in publications like The Stranger, Maximum Rock'n'Roll, Blood & Thunder and Vice Magazine. The Halligan's latest photo show, at Ballard's Tigertail, features explosive live band photography of punk and rock bands. Shining the spotlight on both national and local music, the show includes bands like The Spits, The Fluid, The
Bronx, Go Like Hell, The Hot Rollers, Zero Down and The Briefs.

The opening party is from 8-11pm, Wednesday, September 16th. It promises to be a fun party featuring rock'n'roll drink specials and recorded music from the bands featured in the show, please stop by! Tigertail is located at 704 NW 65th Street in Ballard and has a full bar and food.

The show should be up for about a month. Bands featured include:
The Amazombies, Green River, The Whore Moans, Zero Down, The Spits, The Hollowpoints, The Freeze, The Fluid, The Bronx, The Briefs, Peelander Z, The Hot Rollers, Go Like Hell and The Gloryholes!

In The Pit

I want to go where the action is,
I want to fly through the urban blight.
I want to live like a shadow in the dark
and only move at night...

I get asked fairly often what kind of photography I shoot. The funny thing is I've never considered myself much of either a photographer or a writer, but more a documenter. I try to capture a moment, a feeling, what's going on, generally in punk and underground music, although the scope of stuff I obsessively document has definitely expanded far beyond punk music over the years to cover zines, pinball, classic arcade games, and other types of music and events. So when people ask that question about my photos, I usually say "In the pit photography." And really, that's what it is. I'm down there front and center as a music fan, not to take pictures, my camera just comes along for the ride. And I've broken quite a few cameras at shows, had them doused with beer, seen them go flying out of my hands from a fist or elbow of someone dancing by and probably have taken more than my share of bruises getting up to where I wanna be, where the action is...

A couple of these shots I think I've run before (maybe the 2nd and 4th ones), I just found the first one today, it's from a show in the early '90s at Rkcndy. I love the chaos and energy of the circle or slam pit, old school style, with people laughing, raging, and yet all rocking out together.

ps- Check out the dude's Joy Division tat in the first picture, that's awesome!