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Lupe Fiasco at Tripod last night.

Great gig, and I’m really happy with the shots.
He has a great stage presence and did not stop moving around, which is both a blessing and a curse for photographers.

A lot of the time, I’d only just get a chance to focus on him before he started jumping around again, and plenty of my shots were blurred by him moving, but I would have had a much harder time getting a good few different angles in the allowed three songs, if he had stayed in the one spot the whole time.

They turned out well anyway, though I’m still kind of shocked I managed to take 360 shots in three songs.

And my favourite of the show:

As usual, there’s more on flickr

After posting my shots of the Coronas at the NSMA UCD heat, here’s the student bands from the night.

Jerome’s Law:

Read on for the rest of the bands

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For all the people arriving here while searching for Gran Casino (after they won the UCD Battle of the Bands last night and were interviewed on Phantom FM this morning), here’s them playing the UCD B&L (Business & Legal) Ball last month.

As usual, there’s more after the jump and on flickr.

If you’re new here you’ll have missed the previous Gran Casino-related posts here, here and here.

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The Coronas headlined the National Student Music Awards Dublin Heat in UCD on Thursday night.

I’ll have photos of the competing student bands soon, as, I imagine, will Nay.

More shots after the jump, and on flickr

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