Ed Sprake
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One time DJ, ex-guitarist (I really don’t deserve that title any more), currently improving ukulele player, lover of great music, regardless of genre.
Not too bad with words and pretty damned handy with pictures.
Rarely seen at gigs without a camera in hand, but often seen having a dance regardless.
I regularly seek out the weird and wonderful ends of various spectra of music, and thoroughly enjoy dissolving my brain in the slightly distorted, broken and bleeding edges, where boundaries are broken, and rules are disobeyed.
Somehow I manage to fit all this in around my wife, two children and a proper job. In this mix, sanity is definitely optional.
Many fingers, many pies…
Articles by Ed Sprake
ArcTanGent #5 – Converge ArcTanGent, Arc Stage, Bristol, 18.08.2017 Photos by Ed Sprake
A highly engaging, densely packed thirteen and a half minutes of variable intensity mayhem.
Amps for Equality is a non-profit collective of musicians working on charity projects to support LGBT+ and gender equality worldwide, founded in the wake of the recent wave of anti-LGBT violence in Chechnya. Ed Sprake caught up with founding member Javier Wallis to dig into the motivations behind this project and the support shown throughout the wider musical community.
Alpha Male Tea Party 'Health' Album Launchwith Body Hound Buyers Club, Liverpool, 23.06.2017 Photos by Ed Sprake Please do not use the photos without the photographer’s permission.
Unpredictable malice, driving, insistent riffs and unorthodox harmonies. An enthralling listen from start to finish.
Membranes with Brix & The Extricated, Evil Blizzard, The Nightingales, Dub Sex, The Blinders and The Empty Page The O2 Ritz, Manchester, 29.04.2017 Photos by Ed Sprake
ZAYK at Double Four Records Double Four Records, Glossop, 26.04.2017 Photos by Ed Sprake
Refreshingly original, hugely cathartic and absolutely more than worth your time.
Big Business, Whores. and Under The Star and Garter, Manchester, 02.04.2017 Photos by Ed Sprake
Anthrax: Among The Living Tour with by The Raven Age Academy 1, Manchester, 14.02.2017 Photos by Ed Sprake
Duke Garwood with Kreol Lovecall and Nev Cottee The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 12.02.2017 Photos by Ed Sprake
This is an exceptional collection of photographs showing the highs and the lows, the dry and the wet, the pre, post and during gig emotions experienced by that strange and eclectic thing, the festival crowd.
Grey Lantern Presents MUMS' Album Launch with Lake of Snakes, Super Luxury and Grey Hairs Islington Mill, Salford, 21.10.2016 Photos by Ed Sprake
Wandering from melancholy to slightly angular and discordant to uplifting, the Hollowhead EP provides an engaging, emotional journey you can’t help but listen to.
ArcTanGent 2016: Thursday highlights ArcTanGent Festival 2016 Photos by Magda Wrzeszcz and Ed Sprake
These Roots Know No Boundaries builds on a quality live experience and elevates itself to something distinctly more than their first release. This is a highly refined, well thought out melodic journey and one that distinctly deserves exploring. By Ed Sprake
Unrelentingly intense and full of titanic riffs, Land Of Giants is decibel rich, ridiculously noisy, bass heavy without a bass player, crunchier than rocks on your morning cereal and absolutely doused in love from Mums. By Ed Sprake
ArcTanGent 2016: the festival, the people ArcTanGent Festival 2016 Photos by Ed Sprake and Magda Wrzeszcz
ArcTanGent 2016: American Football Arc stage, ArcTanGent Festival 2016 Photos by Ed Sprake and Magda Wrzeszcz
ArcTanGent 2016: Godspeed You! Black Emperor Arc stage, ArcTanGent Festival 2016 Photos by Magda Wrzeszcz and Ed Sprake
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