In Photos: Arctic Monkeys @ Wembley Arena, London

Oh I'm such a pedant - I think it was Wembley Arena, not Wembley Staduim. Even so, I'm amazed that little band from Sheffield I heard on John Peel's show a few years ago are headlining such a big venue.

there were more guys in Arctic Monkeys than Alex Turner - 8 out of 9 photos of him a along, may as well have been called In Photos: Alex Turner @ Wmbly Stadium.

You can't see the rest of the band, you can't see the stage, you can't even see any stage lightly hardly, you can't see the audience, you can't get any sense of scale, the photographs have pretty much no context and could have been taken in a studio.

There is nothing which says "live music" about any of those photos.

I shot this show for DiS. You might think it's easy to turn up in the pit and expect to walk away with great shots and sometimes it is. Problem with Wembley Arena is the stage is very high. The pit was very narrow and there were very few angles to even get a clear shot of Alex (we could only see him from the top of his legs upwards!). I couldn't see the stage or the rest of the band, otherwise I'd have photographed them! The bassist played in total darkness and you can't use flash. These shots might look bright, but the light levels were hideously low and the constant strobes meant another photographer left with one, yes one useable shot. As for getting the crowd in the shot well that's physically impossible without a stage invasion. A wide shot of the stage would have shown loads of amps with tiny heads popping out over them...pointless as we could hardly actually see the stage! Cheers, Neil