Jon Hill

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Looking out of place in the front row since 2008.

Elizabeth Morris Innset and Paul Rains of the band Allo Darlin’, performing to friends and fans in the living room of an Oslo apartment. They are playing guitars in the corner of the room. The table in the middle of the room holds drinks cans, snacks, dips, and some flowers in a glass vase. People are sitting on stools around the edge of the room, and on the floor in front of the table.
A black and white photo of Tamsin Stephens, aka TTSSFU, on stage at Bedford Esquires. She is playing an electric guitar and singing into a microphone.
A black and white photo of John Lydon on stage at Cambridge Junction. He is holding a microphone in his left hand and its stand in his right as he sings with his head back and his eyes closed.
A composite image of photos taken at gigs in 2025, presented in an irregular but symmetric grid. The image contains pictures of Submotion Orchestra; Sleeper; Jeffrey Lewis; Nerina Pallot; Katey Brooks; Baxter Dury; She Drew The Gun; Amelia Coburn; The Beths; Doves; Prima Queen; Alan Sparhawk; Desperate Journalist; Coach Party; Hamish Hawk; Du Blonde; The Orchestra (For Now); Anna Erhard; Self Esteem; The Popguns; China Crisis; Picture Parlour; John Otway; C Duncan; Honeyglaze; lilo; Betty Taylor; Allo Darlin'; Skunk Anansie; Young Knives; Low Girl; Little Comets; Bambara; Men Without Hats; WH Lung; Heartworms; Erika Vikman; Luke Sital-Singh; Paul Goodwin; The Boy Least Likely To; The Stanleys; She's In Parties; This Is The Kit; Chuck Prophet; Black Country, New Road; The Lottery Winners; John Grant; Morganway; Chartreuse; Joan As Police Woman; Oi Va Voi; and Nell Mescal.
A black and white photo of Wendy Pickles from the band The Popguns, on stage at The Lexington, London. She has raised her palms to the crowd as she sings into her microphone at the front of the stage.
A black and white photo of Heartworms, the stage name of Jojo Orme, performing at Scala in London. She is pictured in silhouette, holding an electric guitar with bright lighting behind her.
A set of five original Christmas cards, hand-drawn by HappyToast.
A black and white photo of Henry Dartnall and The House of Lords from the band Young Knives, on stage at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK. The brothers are both playing guitars and leaning in to sing into the same microphone. A bright stage light is shining over The House of Lords’ left shoulder.
A black and white photo of Sarah Cosgrove from the band Low Girl, on stage at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK. She is playing a bass guitar and standing in front of an illuminated “Portland” sign.
A black and white photo of Katie Lloyd, Robert Lally, and Thom Rylance of the band The Lottery Winners, on stage at Cambridge Junction. Lally and Rylance are embracing at the front of the stage as Lloyd, smiling, looks on in the background.
A black and white photo of singer-songwriter Du Blonde on stage at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK. Their right hand is raised, and their left hand is holding the neck of an electric guitar.
A black and white photo of Katherine Parlour from the band Picture Parlour, on stage at The Lexington, London. Backlit with stage lighting, she is playing an electric guitar and leaning into a microphone to sing.
A black and white photo of Katie Dillon from the band She’s In Parties, on stage at The Lexington, London. She is standing behind a Korg keyboard with her arms outstretched and singing into a microphone.
A black and white photo of (L-R) Kayla Smart, Sophie Patrick, and Claire Chittick of the Australian band Betty Taylor, on stage at The Grace in London. All three are playing electric guitars.
A black and white photo of Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon from the band lilo, on stage at The Blue Moon, Cambridge. They are standing side by side, playing guitars and singing into stand microphones.
A black and white photograph of Jo Bevan and Simon Drowner of the band Desperate Journalist, on stage at The Lexington, London. Simon is in the background, playing a bass guitar. Jo is in the foreground, leaning away from the microphone that she’s singing into.
A black and white photo of the artist Lynks on stage at Cambridge Junction with their two dancers. They are dressed - in their own words - as a gimp-yeti-tennis player.
Malka Kovalenko of the band Blue Cinema, on stage at Cambridge Junction as part of the Shiny New Model festival.
A framed Allo Darlin’ 2025 tour poster, hanging on a wall.
A black and white photo of Elizabeth Morris Innset from the band Allo Darlin’, on stage at EartH Hall, Hackney, London. She is playing an electric guitar and singing into a microphone on a stand.
A black and white photo of Elizabeth Morris Innsett and Bill Botting from the band Allo Darlin’, on stage at The Old Cold Store, Nottingham, UK. Elizabeth is away from her microphone, dancing while playing the ukulele. Bill is to her left, playing the bass guitar.
A black and white photo of Kathryn Williams on stage at Cambridge Junction, UK. She is behind a music stand, playing an acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone.
Finland’s Erika Vikman on stage at The Garage in London, UK. She is singing into the microphone that she holds in her right hand, while wreathed in stage smoke and bathed in yellow light.
A black and white photo of the band Sleeper on stage at Electric Ballroom, Camden, London. Jon Stewart and Louise Wener are front of stage, playing guitar and singing, respectively. Andy Maclure is visible in the background, playing drums.
A black and white photo of Elizabeth Stokes of NZ band The Beths, on stage at the Roundhouse, London. She is leaning forward to sing into a microphone as she plays her electric guitar. An Orange-branded amplifier is visible in the background.
A black and white photo of Georgia Ellery, from the band Black Country, New Road, on stage at Cambridge Corn Exchange. She is playing an acoustic guitar, singing into a microphone, and looking up into the crowd.
A black and white photo of singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot on stage at Storeys Field Centre, Cambridge, UK. She is seated, playing an electric piano and singing into a microphone.
A black and white photo of Reid Bateh of the band Bambara, on stage at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK. Reid is at the front of the stage with his bandmates behind him. His right arm is raised as he sings into the microphone that he holds in his left hand.
A black and white photo of Kate Stables and Jamie Whitby-Coles of This Is The Kit, on stage at Storeys Field Centre, Cambridge, UK. Jamie is playing the drums at the back of the stage. Kate is at the front of the stage, playing a banjo and standing on one leg.
A black and white photo of Ivan Doroschuk of Men Without Hats on stage at The Garage, London, UK. He is moving toward the front of the stage while singing into the microphone that he’s carrying on its stand.
A black and white photo of Alan Sparhawk on stage at The Junction, Cambridge, UK. He is shirtless, playing the guitar that’s strapped over his left shoulder, and singing into a microphone.
A black and white photo of Joan Wasser, aka Joan As Police Woman, on stage at Cambridge Junction, UK. Joan is standing as she sings into a microphone and plays one of her two keyboards.
A black and white photo of Nell Mescal on stage at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK. Nell is holding her microphone stand with her left hand and her mic in her right as she stands in front of a plectrum-shaped sign reading “The Portland”.
A black and white photo of Paul Goodwin on stage with his band at The Blue Moon, Cambridge, UK. Paul is playing an electric guitar and singing into a microphone.
A photo of the Allo Darlin’ LP Bright Nights playing on a turntable with its sleeve propped up behind it.
A black and white photo of Jof Owen, Pete Hobbs, and Amanda Applewood of the band The Boy Least Likely To, on stage at Bush Hall, London. All three are singing into microphones; Pete is also playing an acoustic guitar.
A black and white photo of Christopher “C” Duncan on stage at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK. He is playing a keyboard and singing into a microphone amid smoke and spotlights.
A black and white photo of Kristin McFadden, of the band Prima Queen, on stage at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK. She is smiling as she sings into a microphone and plays her electric guitar.
A black and white photo of the band Oi Va Voi on stage at Cambridge Junction.
A black and white photo of Middlesbrough singer-songwriter Amelia Coburn on stage at The Blue Moon in Cambridge, UK. She is playing a ukulele and glancing stage right in between lines.
A black and white photo of Jeffrey Lewis and Valerie Marchesi on stage at Storey’s Field Centre, Cambridge, UK. Lewis is in the foreground, playing an acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone. Marchesi is in the background, playing a bass guitar.
A black and white photo of Katey Brooks performing at Cambridge Junction. Katey is seated as she plays an electric guitar and sings into a microphone on a boom stand.
A black and white photo of Jess Eastwood and Steph Norris from the band Coach Party, on stage at Bedford Esquires. Jess is in the foreground, singing into a microphone with her bass hanging from its strap. Steph is in the background, with her head down over her guitar.
A black and white photo of SJ Mortimer, of the band Morganway, singing on stage at Omeara, London. The stand for the microphone that she’s holding in her right hand is decorated with feathers.
The character Berk from the children's TV series Trap Door, with his friends Drutt and Boni.
A black and white photo of Rebecca Lucy Taylor - Self Esteem - on stage at The Duke Of York’s Theatre, London. Rebecca is centre stage, singing into a microphone with her left arm in the air. She is also sandwiched between two inflatable tube men.
A black and white photo of Baxter Dury performing at Cambridge Junction. Baxter has left his microphone stand and is singing at the front of the stage, while holding the cable across his chest.
A black and white photo of Skin, the lead singer of the band Skunk Anansie, on stage at Cambridge Corn Exchange. She is singing into the microphone that she holds in her right hand, while her left arm is raised in the air.
A black and white photo of Elizabeth and Bill from Allo Darlin’ on stage at Gebäude 9, Cologne, Germany. Between shafts of stage lighting, Elizabeth is singing and playing a ukulele while Bill, in the background, plays bass.
A black and white photo of Robert Coles, of the band Little Comets. He is standing in front of a spotlight and playing an electric guitar, in a pause between vocals.
A black and white photo of singer-songwriter Anna Erhard on stage at MASH in Cambridge, UK. She is singing into a microphone while holding a tambourine in both hands.
A black and white photograph of Ruby Wood and Simon Beddoe of the band Submotion Orchestra, on stage at Storeys Field Centre, Cambridge, UK. Beddoe is standing in the background, playing a trumpet being a synthesiser. Wood is in the foreground, holding a microphone on its stand in both hands.
A black and white photograph of Chuck Prophet playing guitar on stage at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK.
A black and white photo of Louisa Roach and Anna Donnigan of She Drew The Gun on stage at Esquires, Bedford, UK. Louisa is standing centre stage singling into a microphone while Anna is being her, holding a bass guitar.
A high-contrast black and white photo of Anouska Sokolow from the band Honeyglaze on stage at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK. Lit brightly from her left, she is playing a rectangular electric guitar and singing into a microphone on its stand.
A photo of Joseph Evans, the lead singer of Manchester band WH Lung, taking a well-deserved break between songs. He is on the stage of The Portland Arms in Cambridge, UK. His left hand holds his microphone stand as he looks down and to his right.
A black and white photograph of Luke Sital-Singh on stage at The Portland Arms, Cambridge. He is playing a keyboard and singing into a microphone. On the wall behind him is an illuminated sign that reads “The Portland”.
A photo of Hamish Hawk on stage at KOKO, London. He is in silhouette, singing into a microphone in front of lighting that rakes from the top left to the bottom right.
Du Blonde - aka Beth Jeans Houghton - and guitarist Cortney Dixon on stage at Scala in London.
Brighton band Congratulations on stage at Bedford Esquires during the Ceremony 4.5 one-day festival.