The music icons captured by Scots amateur photographers
There's a moment in the pseudo-documentary Rude Boy where leather-clad fans of The Clash are filmed queuing at the Glasgow Apollo - scruffy, grinning and making some questionable two-fingered gestures to the camera.
For Chris Brickley, this is the sort of material that transports him back to some of the most memorable gigs of his life in Scotland from the late 1970s and 80s. Not professionally-shot images of artists enthralling fans on stage, but the messier snapshots of crowds, fashions and venues - many of which are no longer in operation.Image captionHe intends to self-publish a book of some 2,000 amateur shots of concerts across Scotland from 1974 to 1990, from high profile artists to memorabilia, ticket stubs and backroom gigs.
"I wanted to do something that's a lot of work, but that people would like," he said."It's not just an exercise in navel-gazing, it's important to our culture. "Music used to be so democratic - people could just pitch up and go to gigs. Things cost so much more these days."The ones I like the most are the crowd shots where you're right in front - you not only see the band, you see the backdrop. People's hair, split ends and leather jackets."
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