STRANGELAND COVER

From Alex Lake's website,


Very pleased to announce I’ve been working with Keane through 2011 on the photography for their forthcoming album ‘Strangeland’. This is the cover and the record is released on 7th May 2012.

A proper blog on this to follow in good time.

NEW PICS BY ALEX LAKE

From Alex Lake's blog,

In celebration of their debut gig I urge all you music lovers out there to head over to Mt Desolation’s website http://www.mtdesolationofficial.blogspot.com/ to download a free copy of their beautiful track ‘State Of Our Affairs’.

I will shortly be uploading some of my photos from the show and the goings on backstage so check back in a day or so.

Mt Desolation The Luminaire backstage, soundcheck, gig images…
Here are some portraits I took of Mt Desolation the other day. These were taken during a break in rehearsals for their debut gig at The Luminaire Club in London…

MT.DESOLATION

From Alex Lake's blog (click here if you want to check it out),

29.01.10

On Wednesday I hooked up once more with the guys from Mt. Desolation. We wandered about in the icy cold doing some portraits. It was baltic and I was cruel enough to get Tim to walk around in a shirt and I stole Jesse’s coat on the pretext that he looked better without it but the truth is I was bloody freezing.

Got some nice shots. Here’s one.

MT.DESOLATION

From Alex Lake's blog (click here if you want to check it out),

Here are a couple of photo’s from yesterday with Mt. Desolation. Song’s are shaping up nicely. Tom Hobden was in laying down some more fiddle tracks in the morning though most of the day was concerned with Jesse recording various vocal, bass and banjo parts. What next I thought? Is he gonna play the kitchen sink too? The nose flute?? Tim was often to be found in another room composing harmonies. The day and night ended with a meal in a nearby pub. Last I saw of Jesse he was tinkering away with a mandolin…

26.01.10

Spent another day in the studio yesterday with the guy’s from Mt. Desolation. Got some good pic’s - a couple of which I’ll upload later.

MT. DESOLATION

From Alex Lake's blog (click here if you want to check it out),

22.01.10

Today was spent in deepest darkest Sussex with the band British Sea Power. The band are finishing up their latest record so I went down to document them in the studio. Lovely bunch of guys and the afternoon finished up with scampi and chips down the local boozer. Nice.

Pic’s to follow…

22.01.10

Approaching the end of a hectic week but still two shoots to do by Sunday.

Monday was spent in the studio with Mt. Desolation. Very many fine musicians appear on this record with the core of the band being Tim and Jesse. I won’t say any more about it than that at this stage as I’m sure the band themselves should be the first to give you the inside story of what’s been going down in the studio. The songs I’ve heard thus far are fantastic though, choruses still lodged in my brain. It was great to see Tim rocking out in the vocal booth - Jesse’s turn next week I believe.

Watch this space for new Mt. Desolation photos and written tidbits as I’ll be back down in the studio in the coming days…

17.01.10

Tomorrow I’ll be hanging in the studio with good friends Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin who are working on a new music collaboration/album together - Mt. Desolation. All sorts of other contributors to the record including John Roderick of the Long Winters who I love so I’m pretty excited to hear what they’ve come up with. I’ll be taking my camera so stay tuned for photos from the day.

Tonight shall be mostly spent in the cinema eating popcorn and watching ‘The Road’…

YOU HAVEN'T TOLD ME ANYTHING

YAY! Here's one more song to the video section of Last fm. This one is amazing, just watch TTRJ and Jon Brion playing it and you'll fall in love with this special version.

If you want the songs or the vids, download it here. Thanks to RWlover.

YDSM - video, MP3

LITE - video, MP3

TITLT - video, MP3

TLAL - video, MP3

YHTMA - video, MP3

ALEX LAKE'S TIM PHOTOS AT BERLIN

Well, I forgot to post this long time ago when it came out so I think it's the chance now to post it at the lack of news of Timmy. Plus some of you, Tim fans, were asking me the link of the pics.

Here there are some of them to delight you and make you visit Mr. Lake's website here.