Next for me to work on is getting my Creative section up and running, so I will be tinkering with it the next few days so don't worry if you see anything funky there.

Now here are some of my favourites from Virgin Festival, enjoy the photo-blog and the rest of the photos can be seen at:

http://www.neildomingues.com/photos/bands

Bloc Party

Bloc Party

Silversun Pickups

Lights

The Kooks

The Kooks

Wintersleep and The Pigeon Detectives

The Pigeon Detectives

The Pigeon Detectives @ Virgin Festival

Oasis @ Virgin Festival

Sons and Daughters @ Virgin Festival

Many web sites where you post your music, like MySpace for example, let you post photos with your tracks and so many people use the one photo for all tracks, which is boring. Boring reduces interest value.

If it's a photo for your Press Kit or EPK, I recommend that unless you have a great photo, get a portrait photo done by a professional photographer. It could be the classic head and shoulders, or you doing something. You should at least have one clasic shot because it says you are mature and professional and you treat your music career as your business.

Shots for Facebook like this one, which my daughter took of me playing in Montego Bay

in Jamaica are fun shots, but not good enough quality for professional use.

If you are going to use shots in relation to a song or for an Album cover, make sure they are relevant, if it's a song about a beach, like my song Muriwai Beach, then show a photo of Muriwai Beach. When I record my album Greenhouse, I have a photo of me holding a very large chunk of ice in my hand at Franz Joseph Glacier. The glacier is melting away with global warming and fits nicely with the title song which is also called Greenhouse. You can hear it at Music Forte.

If you don't have a performance video, then video slide shows are a great way to add your songs to sites like Youtube. This one was done for me by my friend Noel of Powershows. In this case he supplied the images from his photo library.

There are lots of plug ins for websites like Photo Bucket which I use on my MySpace page. It lets you have some fun and easily put up a slide show. Photos add interest to your web page, especially a slide show, which attracts attention. It also helps people connect with you and feel like they know you a little. It makes them want to come back, or leave a comment, its about developing a relationship.

Even if you don't need them now, take them anyway, you will find good uses for them. Take a camera to your gig and even if you don't have anyone you know there, someone will take it for you.