Tom Waits

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To gain access to the theatre to see Tom Waits you needed to produce photo id and the original credit card used to buy the tickets, this was an attempt to stop the selling on of tickets for the show on e-bay etc. It worked very well as far as I could see. The security staff were very prominant in their attempts at stopping anyone trying to take images during the show.

As there was no way I could have smuggled my SLR into the show I had to resort to my wifes digi camera, and knowing full well in advance it wasn't made for the job and that everything was going to be blurred, I thought I'd have a go anyway. So this image and the next one are two of the resultant images I was quite happy with in the end.

In retrospect, I'm pleased my shots came out blurred, as it fits in better with the Tom Waits philosophy regarding his music, live performance and life in general. As an example the three different t-shirt designs available for purchase were of oil patterns left by leaking cars photographed by Tom Waits. There's no glaring message saying this is a Tom Waits T-shirt, only a very small description on the back barely visible to the naked eye.