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Kevin Westenberg via Instagram

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photos by Kevin Westenberg x NME [X]

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photo by Kevin Westenberg

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Photo : Kevin Westenberg

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kevinwestenberg: ARCTIC MONKEYS. MOJO MAGAZINE Cover shoot. 'Unseen' Photo: ©Kevin Westenberg. Outtake from cover session taken on the roof of the Four Seasons Hotel. Lisbon, Portugal September 2, 2022. Lighting supplied by Ricardo Nascimento at Carapau Rental Studios and photo assist by Gonçalo Santos. My last shoot with these gents was a cracker and the subsequent posts have been my most viewed. This is the first unseen to be posted which is now 10 months later. The reason? They’re about to play 3 nights at London’s Emirates Stadium. June 16th, 17th, and 18th. Summer is heating up! I’ve lost touch so no idea how the last 10 months of their world tour has gone. Hope to catch up soon.

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Miami, Florida. May 31.1990.

Photo: ©Kevin Westenberg.

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Happy Birthday to Hole’s guitarist Eric Erlandson.

Born on this day in 1963.

Photo by Kevin Westenberg. Taken on March 12th, 1998.

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Pixies - Photo by Kevin Westenberg (1989)

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Lush photo by Kevin Westenberg

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Photo by Kevin Westenberg. January 1990, London.

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i don't even believe in recoil rumors anymore fr <- absolutely vibrating at the thought of new recoil mostly for the music partly for the promo photos of alan w greying hair

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PULP. 'His -n- Hers' album photo.

The Worx Studios. King’s Cross. London.

Shot: October 5, 1993.

Contact for print sales : kjwestenberg@hotmail.com

All Photos: ©Kevin Westenberg. All Rights Reserved.

From Kevin Westenberg's FB: HERE

PULP. Cover shot for ‘His-n-Hers’ album. Finally got around to creating a master version of this photograph. Back in 1993 in the heat and general chaos of the moment, there would have been one print made as part of all the original photo print choices made by the band and management. At that time, there was no way to have known that this image would be the one chosen to be illustrated for the cover of their upcoming album. This hero version all came about because Jarvis contacted me to ask if it can be used as part of their background visuals for the current tour, which is a great honour. Looking forward to seeing the now reformed PULP play all the hits at Finsbury Park for the first time in 25 years this Saturday July 1, 2023. Will be a great moment to remember as opposed to the drunken 90’s! This time I’ll be clean and sober.

The backstory: In the spirit of those times during the London of the 1990’s, I felt compelled to post a hot shot from one of my early photo sessions with Pulp. The story goes that this particular shoot was mainly for press. Out of the blue some months later I was told one of the shots was going to be used as the cover for the ‘His-n-Hers’ album. To be an Illustrated version by Philip Castle. The album was released on 18 April 1994 by Island Records. It proved to be the band's breakthrough album, reaching number nine on the UK Albums Chart, and was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize. In 1998, Q Magazine readers voted it the seventieth greatest album of all time, while it was placed at number 110 in the book Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums. Of course when the photos were taken, we all had no idea what a brilliant success the album would be so it’s a tad embarrassing in hindsight how primitive my contribution was. Technically, it’s just above beginner lighting. Hard light which was all I knew back then. Fortunately most everyone was young then so it kind of worked. The other reality of every situation in those inkie days was that speed was the main driving force of success. Keep it moving at any cost! It was only when that process went wrong, and it did spectacularly, that everything eventually changed for the better. The PR firm Savage & Best were behind both this commission and my initial shoot for ‘Intro-The Gift Recordings’, released in October of 1993 right about the time of this shoot. Between them, the press and all the bands of the era we all made a great team somehow, which burned brightly for just a short period and then flamed out. R.I.P. Steve Mackey. Photo: ©Kevin Westenberg.

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The Worx Studios / King’s Cross - London 

Photo by Kevin Westenberg

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📸: Kevin Westenberg

"GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. VOX MAGAZINE. Shoot date: OCTOBER.1.1996. Photo: Kevin Westenberg. I've always loved this moment. It's burned into my memory and fortunately, also onto film. It's looks deceptively calm as Brett had just played a stormer at Barrowlands for 2 hours of hot sweaty swagger and understandably I think he was bored at having to pose yet again for another photo session after this exhausting gig with someone backstage sticking a camera in his face that he also didn't know. This was Suede part deux on the road to promote their 'Coming Up' album, the one with that great Nick Knight album cover and 5 top 10 singles, 'Trash', 'Beautiful Ones', Saturday Night', 'Lazy' and 'Filmstar'. Bernard Butler had left the band by now, yet it was a great 2nd incarnation with the addition of then 17-year-old Richard Oakes. I had never met any of the Suede boys accept brief intros at various Britpop parties, gigs etc so when VoX magazine assigned me to cover them, I was all in. I was blown away by Brett's incredible stage energy. Proper Rock and Roll moment giving his all for the cause. Respect. The band were amazing at this point and here he looks the business. This was also their number 1 album that broke the band into a worldwide audience and got nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1997. A great frozen moment of the Britpop/Golden 90's in the U.K., True Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll star. Brett Anderson photographed in Glasgow on the night of October.1.1996."