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"These are photos from the frontline, photos that tell you everything about performance and rock ‘n’ roll, that capture the coiled snake energy of the form. Cormac understands the power of performance and is deeply immersed in the sound and fury. Without that understanding you have snapshots, but with it you have art and danger.[…] Only someone steeped in the dark stuff, obsessed with the dark energy and full of the dark matter can do this."

John Robb, Journalist, Author, Songwriter, TV pundit
"White powdery skin against eternal dark. It’s Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke – the shot is angled and close up and he looks reptilian.[…] [The artists] all perform in limbo, protruding from the thick black soup of dark. [The] subjects are plucked out, isolated, abducted from the band that is their powerhouse. Motion and sequence stop dead in frozen moments. Figgis traps a snap of vision that is to the performer’s overall appearance what a snip of sound wave is to their tune."
John Flemming, Irish Times
“One can almost feel the tension and emotion dripping from these pages; if you can remember that feeling that you experienced, the first or best times you saw a band or an artist that moved you, set your spine tingling and the hairs on the back of your neck on end, that’s what Figgis brings to his photography. Some of these remind me of the best (and worst) of war photography-they are simply that alive and intuitive that you can’t help but be moved by them.”
Joe Whyte, Vive Le Rock Magazine


“Some of the most beautiful pieces in the book are the audience captures and the artists interactions with the fans. The energy from these images is electric and allows the viewer to feel a part of the event, highlighting Figgis’s ability to sense what is important and documenting it.”
Hels Millington, Louder Than War


“I was at some of the gigs featured in this debut photography collection, but having spent time with Cormac’s incredible book, I wish I had attended more. Cormac’s got an eye, he can take a photo, he lives and breathes music and performance and he has an innate ability to know when to press the shutter.”
Paul McDermott, The GOO
PLEASE NOTE: The photographs shown below are not wholly representative of what is contained within the book SHOT FROM ALL SIDES.

The Stooges

Sex Pistols

Huren

The Dwarves

The Things

The Casualties

The Dickies

Killing Joke

Noble Savages

Sinead O'Connor

Fontaines DC

Jon Spencer

Pete Doherty

The Selecter

Unloved

Spandau Ballet

Lydia Lunch

The Adicts

Interrobang?!

The Residents

Nouvelle Vague

Siouxsie Sioux

Cock Sparrer

Cock Sparrer

The Strike

The Skids

Al Green

HR

The Membranes

Konono No.1

Bad Manners

Bell X1

Bettye Lavette

Boss Volenti

Brian James Gang

The Buzzcocks

Caribou

The Charlatans

Charles Hayward

Cluster

Colleen Caffeine

Steve Ignorant

Paranoid Visions

Forgotten Rebels

Flipper

Cro Mags

The Cravats

CSS

The Cult

The Damned

Deerhoof

Toy Dolls

Devo

Department S

The Dirtbombs

DRI

The Drones

Eagles Of Death Metal

Erasure

The Fall

Field Music

Gallon Drunk

Gang Of Four

GBH

Grinderman

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine

Hazel O'Connor

Health

Jarvis Cocker

Jay Reatard

Jesus and Mary Chain

Jim Jones Revue

Julian Cope

The Kills

Lluther

Manu Chao

MDC

Menace

Misfits

Motorhead

Napalm Death

Nashville Pussy

New Model Army

Neville Staple

New York Dolls

Paranoid Visions w/ TV Smith

Paranoid Visions

Paranoid Visions

Peter Hook and the Light

PiL

Peter Murphy

The Pogues

Primal Scream

Gavin Friday

The Radiators From Space

Slaughter and the Dogs

The Slits

Sonic Youth

The Specials

The Stooges

The Stooges

Swans

Throbbing Gristle

Tinariwen

TV Smith

UK Subs

UK Subs

Vice Squad

Wilko Johnson

Norman Watt-Roy

WIre

X-Ray Spex

Yeasayer

The Creepshow

Brian Jonestown Massacre

The Beat

Rocket From The Tombs

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