I was at the Palladium Theatre on Tuesday night to watch Mick Fleetwood’s tribute concert for Peter Green, where he was joined on stage by a plethora of rock stars from both sides of the Atlantic. After a few of the early tunes, as I was fortunate enough to have an Access All Areas pass, I made my way to a row of empty seats four rows from the stage and who should I meet there but the legendary rock photographer and former colleague Ross Halfin who was shooting the whole show for Mick. We had a brief chance to catch up during the breaks between songs and find out what each other had been doing for the last fourteen years and he asked me when I had stopped shooting live gigs, which was after this lot in 2006. Watching him shooting Pete Townsend windmilling away twenty feet in front of us I was almost nostalgic for the days when I travelled around the world shooting musicians, particularly as today’s cameras would cope so much better with the light conditions, but although it was great while it lasted, I really don’t think I’d be enjoying it as much if I was still out there in my ‘stage blacks’ with three Nikons round my neck….