#michael spencer jones

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"Another shot taken the day after the Definitely Maybe shoot of Liam chilling out in Bonehead's back yard - Stratford Avenue, Manchester." Michael Spencer Jones

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Mick Jagger by Michael Spencer Jones, 1969.

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Definitely Maybe's album cover by Michael Spencer Jones Derry Girls publicity image by Adam Lawrence

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Michael Spencer Jones

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You toured extensively with the band. Is there anything about touring with a rock band in the ‘90s that people might find surprising?

MSP: It’s great fun, there is a great sense of freedom. But I think what people would find surprising is that [the band] were under a lot of pressure. I can remember being with Liam, we were in London and we’d been out the previous two nights and I just wanted to go home to bed, I was absolutely shattered, and Liam said, ‘It’s alright for you, I’ve got to walk on stage and perform for 8,000 people.’

And suddenly you start to understand the kind of pressure these people are under.

People tend to see this glamorous surface of it, but you know, can you imagine if you’re not feeling your best or your feeling tired and suddenly you’ve got to get your act together to perform in front of 10, 15, 20,000 people that’s a big commitment, it’s a lot of psychological pressure. Of course, it’s a great job, but there is a lot pressure in that because if you don’t perform you’re going to let a lot of people down. And I don’t think people quite understand… There is a tendency to over-glamourise that pop lifestyle. A lot of these bands work really hard, in the studio, very professional output really. They knew how to party but they knew how to work. They are artists first and foremost. My overriding impression with Oasis is a good vibe, and there was a lot humour.

Do you think it was that family bond between Liam and Noel that made the band so successful?

MSP: Absolutely, yes. I can remember when I first started working with them and someone pointed out that this a band with two brothers in it so it’s not going to be, it’s going to create a dynamic in and of itself. And the fact that there was that sibling friction, and that just made it right. Most of it was good humour, only occasionally would it get a bit heated. But there was always that element there that created that dynamic. With any artist, it’s that fault line that creates humanness. It’s about humanity at the end of the day.

The thing with Oasis, they were like the ‘anti-role model’. The music of course, the minute you listen to the music, you become a part of that world for sure.

ICON interview with Michael Spencer Jones, photographer of Oasis (1993-1998)

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The Shape of Water will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on November 26 via The Criterion Collection. Greg Ruth designed the cover art for the 2017 Academy Award-winning romantic fairy tale.

Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) directs from a script he co-wrote with Vanessa Taylor (Divergent). Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Doug Jones star.

The Shape of Water is been digitally mastered in 4K, supervised by del Toro, with HDR and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

A conversation between Guillermo del Toro and filmmaker David Lowery (new)

A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times - Documentary on the film’s production design, cast, special effects, and score

Anatomy of a Scene: Prologue

Anatomy of a Scene: The Dance

Interview with illustrator James Jean

2017 Masterclass on the film’s technical aspects with Guillermo del Toro, director of photography Dan Laustsen, visual effects supervisors Shane Mahan and Dennis Berardi, costume designer Luis Sequeira, and production designer Paul D. Austerberry

Trailers

Booklet with essay by film critic Carlos Aguilar

Cinema’s great modern mythmaker Guillermo del Toro uses the hallmarks of classic horror and fantasy to tell a strange and sublime fable about outsiderhood, connection, and love’s transcendence. An ineffably touching Sally Hawkins plays Elisa, a mute janitor at a top-secret government laboratory who finds herself drawn to the facility’s newest research subject: a humanoid amphibian—for whom she is soon risking everything, amid the stifling conformity of 1960s America.

Pre-order The Shape of Water.

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THE SHAPE OF WATER 2017

Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love, it humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.

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The Shape of Water | 2017

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Production designer: Paul D. Austerberry / Set decorator: Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau and Jeff Poulis

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The only music photographer who was allowed full access throughout the imperial phase of Oasis’ career was Michael Spencer Jones who followed the iconic band from 1993, he was with them at Knebworth in 1996, and accompanied them on tours up until 1998.

From studio recording sessions, to all the backstage action in the dressing rooms and front row areas, he gained unique, intimate insight into all aspects of the band’s life...

Noel Gallagher was working with the Inspiral Carpets when he met Spencer Jones. The first photo session with Oasis was at Out Of the Blue Studios in Manchester. “I walked into the studio,” he says. “They called it a studio, it was more like a rehearsal room. They were demoing ‘Shakermaker’ with Noel playing slide guitar. I realised that it takes an unusual amount of confidence and creative freedom not to care what people think”.

Most of the pictures taken were black and white. Once the processing was complete, he took the prints down to show the band. “They were pretty impressed, and that was instrumental in securing the gig I got with them..."

The intricate relationship between Noel and Liam was key to the band’s dynamic. The public perception was that they were always falling out, even when they got on well. “They did have a strong sibling relationship,” Spencer Jones explains. “It created an interesting creative dynamic that you wouldn’t get with other bands.”

“It was a creative rivalry amongst other rivalries, it went back to childhood, and Bonehead was the mediator. Noel has said that the creative dynamic also became the very thing that ended the band. When you look at any kind of artist or bands, there is always a fault line running through that personality, whether it’s Picasso or John Lennon”.

Inside The Explosive Rise of Oasis With Michael Spencer Jones | Clash Magazine | 5 November 2019

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Guillermo del Toro’s romantic fantasy ‘The Shape Of Water’ opened in select theaters this week 5 years ago. 🌊💕🛀

“𝙼𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚏 𝚏𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢? 𝙷𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢, 𝚑𝚎'𝚍 𝚋𝚎 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚎.”