2010 Summer Blast

Wind. Rain. Cold.. ah who gives  a shit. I got to see an incredible line up from behind the scenes and shooting, and I ain’t got one complaint about the weather.

Keith Dean and DJ Sina kept the crowd busy between sets, and did an incredible job. I can’t explain how hilarious it is to be on stage watching thousands of Newfie’s fist pump. Haha.

Antics Feat. a bitta Live ‘N Direct got it kicked off!

Of course the DJ to the rescue for their set, DJ Sina rockin’ the house!

The kids asked for it, and they got it! Rocket Rocket Ship

Major swoonage over here for The Playdates, check them out on myspace!!

Girlicious came along to get me a self image complex. I kid, they are super rad chicks who happen to be ridiculously hot and have incredible bods. Not jealous at all.

‘ Lil Jon got me freakin’ dancing, thus embarrassing my little bro.

Meanwhile in the Hits FM tent Jeff Lewis had his hands full….

Jay Sean is a combo of everything I didn’t know about him, haha including he’s british. Who knew.

I was SO excited for Marianas Trench. After meeting the guys during CMW and shooting their Massey Hall performance I couldn’t wait until people here in Newfoundland got to experience this LIVE! They did NOT disappoint!

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The best part of the whole show though was you – the fans! Keep supporting these artists so they can keep coming back, not to mention keep on listening to Hits Fm! Big thanks to Sure Fire Entertainment and SRO for letting me be a big part of this show!!!

Tara Oram – George Street Fest

Tara is the cutest person in the entire world. Seriously, besides being stunning she has incredible interactions with her fans and was a joy to shoot!

George Street Festival – Night Three!

I started to realize that people were going to think I had a problem when I was the only person in the crowd who admitted she had been to the last three nights of George Street Festival, by the time it’s all said and done I will have spent five straight nights on George Street. Saturday night was Newfie night, and spirits were high as three incredible acts were playing, At Ships End (a band I have a biased towards because they hire me and I’ve been in their music videos haha), the one and only Rex Goudie and the legendary Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers.

It made me super proud to see him on this stage again, after all it was where I first saw him perform all those years ago. I like to think Liam was a nice addition, haha.

And then time for Buddy Wasisname and the other fellers… who had my friends actually CRYING from laughing so hard.

April Wine – George Street Fest

I popped down for a few songs of April Wine’s set on Night 2 at George Street festival, what a crowd! The energy levels were a lot more drunk than last night, but the numbers were there! Tomorrow, Night 3! At Ships End, Rex Goudie and Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers – see you all there!!

Our Lady Peace – George Street Festival

Last night I was able to shoot Our Lady Peace for the first time in my career, and even though there was no front pit access – we had the WHOLE show to shoot. After enduring another member of the media act totally out of line as he thought it was his given ‘right’ as a photographer to be allowed three songs from front and center, I decided to take the fact we got the entire show to shoot and started climbing through the crowd to get a different perspective than those too stubborn to accept the rules It’s 100% an honor and privilege for me to be able to shoot bands, especially one as iconic as Our Lady Peace. Shout out to my friend Rich who spends his days capturing the OLP guys on camera, who made sure everything was good on my end! (You may remember him as the dashing man who got screeched in on stage, haha)

Incredible set list, mind blowing performance – and I even teared up a little during ‘Somewhere out there’ and ’4 AM’ The Novaks opened with a great set, but I found the drummer was the funnest to shoot.. every thing else was kind of statuesque, shot after shot. You can check out MORE of the Our Lady Peace set and the Novaks set in photos on Live ‘N Loud in a little while

I LOVE the next two shots, the first one because Rich had to dive into a puffins arse for a kiss and you can see Raine perfectly in the background laughin’ and taking it all in, and the second because it’s such a bro moment haha. They have a film feeling to them, reallyy digging it

Tom Cochrane

I have no idea why Tom Cochrane was not on the blog before this… here’s one from the Canada day show on George Street.

On an island in the sunnn…. (Weezer)

We’ll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can’t control my brain

Thursday, July 22nd at approx. 9:15, Weezer took to the stage at Mile One Center in St. John’s, Newfoundland. At that very moment, my heart grew 3 sizes and my eyes filled with tears. Yep, I love Weezer. Growing up there was a local band ‘Nice Guy Eddie’ and they were known for their Weezer covers (along with great originals too), me and my girls would be front and center dancing and singing along every show. Fortunately, one of them managed to make it to front row so it brought me back. As soon as the bass growled the opening to Hash Pipe I was blown away, completing yet again another dream and crossing another off the old bucket list. These, along with a tale of the show and a BUNCH more photos will be up on LNL soon! I’ll send y’all the link soon as they are. Thanks to Live ‘N Loud for making me the happiest photographer in the world

Salmon Festival

I’ve only been to Salmon Festival twice, this year being my second time and it held it’s reputation of being an incredible epic time. I want to give a big shout out and thanks to Brad Michaels at Hits FM for helping getting the ball rolling on me shooting Salmon Fest, and to Rhodie Smith for awesome production and helpin’ a girl out with a little extra patience in me running back and forth all day.

The biggest thank-you’s go to two bands specifically, Classified (especially J-Bru and IV for putting up with my nonsense all weekend) and the Faber Drive guys for being constantly supportive of me and my career. I love all y’all!

Don’t forget to check all these shots out on the Uber Fantastic, super amazing http://www.livenloudmagazine.com

Tomorrow? This girl is shooting…. W E E Z E R!!!!!!!!!!!

Matt Hornell and the Diamond Minds kicked it off!

Then, Sloan came and won my heart.

Then Doc Walker gave us a bit of Country

One of my favorite performers to work with – Classified!

Up next were my boys in Faber Drive!

Watching Matt Good with a few friends from side stage really set the mood of the day for me, really freakin’ awesome.

Then the headliners Three Days Grace just came and rocked the effin’ faces off us all.

As for the rest of the photos – check them out on my website, under each bands name! http://www.sandraleephotography.net

Win Tickets To 2010 Summer Blast Concert in Torbay, NL!

On August 6th a huge concert is coming to Torbay! I mean big. You haven’t heard? What rock have you been hiding under?!!? The line up includes Lil Jon, Marianas Trench, Jay Sean, Girlicious, The Playdates, TDK and RocketRocketShip! Seriously awesome line up brought to you by Hits Fm and Molson Canadian!

Here’s the best part! Sure Fire Entertainment gave me (Sandra-Lee Photography) a pair of tickets to give away to this incredible event! I’ll be shooting the show that day and have paired up with Sure Fire Ent and SRO for shows before – now I get to share that with you guys! My readers, my clients, my fans, family and friends!!!

So, what do you have to do? First off this is a TWITTER CONTEST! So if you’re not signed up, sign up at http://www.twitter.com … I’ll wait for you.

Are you back? Good!! Here’s the rest of the details!!!

OK so you until Monday, July 12th at 5pm (Newfoundland time) to enter and win yourself a pair of tickets to the Summer Blast Concert here in Newfoundland with acts like Lil’ Jon, Marianas Trench, Jay Sean, Girlicious, TDK, The Playdates and RocketRocket Ship!

1!- Follow me and Sure Fire Entertainment on twitter!: @frontrowlady and @surefireent

2! – Tell us in 140 characters or less why we should give you 2 tickets to see Summer Blast concert on August 6th in Upper Three Corner Pond on Bauline Drive, Torbay! Be creative! Are you a HUGE FAN of Marianas Trench? Do you dream about Lil’ Jon at night? SHOW US how big of a fan you REALLY are! How BAD do you want these awesome tickets?

3! – Your tweet MUST include: the hashtag #nlsummerblast and tweet at us in the tweet @frontrowlady and @surefireent before 5pm Monday (again this is NEWFOUNDLAND TIME! no entries will be accepted after this time) If you’re new to twitter here’s a sample tweet:

I should get tix to #nlsummerblast because I have a HUGE Lil Jon tattoo!! @frontrowlady @surefireent

Feel free to show us the photo in the tweet of your Lil Jon tattoo or a photo of your room COVERED in Girlicious posters! Whatever reason you think you deserve these tickets -SHOW US! And again, BE CREATIVE!

4! – We will announce the winner Monday night, the most creative tweet wins!

RULES:

1) You have to join twitter to enter!

2) You CANNOT sell these tickets! they must be used by you and your name will be on them! the winner will be contacted with details! So scalpers are not welcomed!

3) You can only enter once, so there’s no need to spam your friends with your entry, but feel free to tweet the info and spread the word to your friends! It’d be helpful to use the #nlsummerblast hashtag so we can keep track of you telling people about the event!

Now, here’s the BEST PART! If you can help us get 1000 early bird tickets sold by Sunday…. ANOTHER ACT WILL BE ADDED!!! Who will that act be? Help us get to 1000 early bird tickets sold by Sunday and you’ll find out!! So tweet at your friends, tell them on facebook!! Who will it be?

Karl Wolf @ Club One

Karl Wolf made his way back to Newfoundland for the third time to headline a dance party, along with opening acts Smooth Poet, Antics and Live ‘N Direct with DJ Sina DJ’n for the opening acts and between sets.

Karl’s always a rad guy, puts on a good show for his audience, stays and signs autographs until the last kid has gone home… but has a no white front lights rule. Which blows. Especially when the venue is not alerted before hand and there’s absolutely no front lighting of any kind besides the rare occasion the trackspots lit him up for a micro second. So everything was lit from the sides… with that gaudy yellow cast.

My boyfriend is a lighting tech/nerd… and I think it rubs off on me.

I’m shutting up now.

Don’t forget to check out Sure Fire Entertainments next show; The Summer Blast Concert with Lil Jon, Marianas Trench, Jay Sean and Girlicious