From the big screen to St Ives: The Soundtrack Band through Greg’s lens

A guitar, a Ghostbusters T-shirt and a screen full of cinema: this was never going to look like an ordinary band photograph.

On Saturday 17 October 2026, The Soundtrack Band performed at Nelson’s Head in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. UK Social Photography Professional member Greg was behind the camera, producing this collection of five photographs. From close-up portraits to a view through someone else’s phone, his images give us several ways into the same performance.

The people behind the cameras

Five frames from Greg

Explore the performance through five different perspectives. Every photograph is credited to Greg, a UKSP Professional member.

Greg

UKSP Professional member · Photography

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The band’s idea is a good match for anyone whose favourite film comes with a favourite song. Their official website describes live performances built around iconic movie soundtracks from the 1980s, paired with visuals. It is music with another layer to look at—and, for a photographer, another layer to work with.^[1]

Nelson’s Head brings a very different kind of character to the picture. The pub sits on Merryland, in the centre of St Ives, and its own website describes a welcoming local setting at the heart of the community. Huntingdonshire CAMRA records that it was formerly called the Three Tuns and notes its live-band programme. A town-centre pub with a little history feels a fitting setting for music that carries memories of its own.^[2][3]

Greg’s guitarist photograph has an almost ready-made film connection: that unmistakable Ghostbusters shirt. But the picture is about more than the reference. Blue and green light pick out the musician’s hair, hands and instrument, with the guitar cutting diagonally across the frame. In the drummer’s portrait, the microphone and drumsticks bring two parts of the performance into one close-up.

Then the approach changes. One singer is framed by broad rings of orange and blue, making the light part of the picture rather than simply something illuminating the subject. In another photograph, a phone screen becomes a small stage within the larger scene. The performer appears on that screen while hands, darkness and a bright green streak occupy the foreground. It is a lovely reminder that a gig can offer photographs beyond the obvious front-on view.

The photograph of the two vocalists brings the band’s music-and-movies idea together particularly clearly: microphones in the foreground, projected imagery behind, and blue light running through the scene. You cannot hear a photograph, but you can see the concentration, the interaction and the visual ingredients that make a live performance distinct.

For UKSP, this is the part worth celebrating: a Professional member making photographs in a real creative setting, and a band getting a visual record of its work. The opportunity is only the beginning; the choices behind the camera belong to the photographer. Thank you to Greg for these images, and to The Soundtrack Band for giving them such a colourful subject.

Explore the photographs above, then follow the band and venue links below to discover more. And next time you take a camera to live music, try looking beyond the singer at the microphone. There might be another story in a pair of hands, a reflection—or a phone held up in the light.