Tom Martin

I was going over all my old blog posts and I realized that I've posted blogs from nearly all the UK festivals that I shot last summer apart from Kendal Calling. Which is silly becasue Kendal is always the highlight of the summer for me. For the last couple of years I've been in charge of running the staff photographers for the festival organizers and running the live online gallery (which you can see HERE!) as well as covering it for NME. So I've picked out 50 of my favourite shots from 2011 and re-edited most of them - I don't mind saying that sometimes when your in the middle of the lake district struggling to get content online asap your edits don't always get the time that they deserve. Anyway I thought people might like seeing some warm summery shots after the horrendous winter weather....

The Cribs mainstage crowd.

View from the Green Room.

KC institution Craig Charles wrapping up the last night with his Funk Soul show.

The awesome Chapman Family on the Calling Out Stage.

Site decor

Site Dinosaur.

Chase & Staus.

Chase & Status crowd.

Chase & Status

Summer Camp.

Cat Women and .. erm... Flower Woman?

Blondie crowd.

Blondie from a million miles away.

Craig Charles relaxing lakeside.

House Of Pain.

House of Pain.

Campsite.

The Cribs.

The Cribs.

Setting up.

Building the Real Ale bar.

Middleman.

Polar passion.

Superbestfriendsclub.

Employee of the month.

Frankie & The Heartstrings

Slamboree

Slamboree

Fire

Tassles 

Boone 

Mainstage in the daylight.

Erm some sort of flowerbull?

Hannah Trigwell.

Hannah Trigwell & Band.

Happy lady.

Charlatans acoustic set.

Tim and crowd.

Middleman

Lee Mavers secret gig.

Lee Mavers fans

People and people and people

Not sure what/who these are? Inscect-robots of some sort. Why not.

Frank Turner lakeside session.

Frank Turner signing.

Frank Turner fan.

The Spirit Of John.

Kieron O'Malley trying to bribe the stage manager with whiskey.

The Spirit Of John. Good times.

Kendal Calling 2011.