As with any great Top 10 List popping up in December 2011 / January 2012, I Shoot Reno’s Top 10 Photo Galleries of 2011 will count down, from 10 to 1, our most highly revered photo galleries published throughout the year.
“There have been a lot of great times I’ve shared with the city of Reno and its fine people since relocating here in 2010, and I feel that the experiences I’ve been lucky enough to capture and share with the world are well represented here in terms of good times and once-in-a-lifetime moments shared by those brave enough to leave the comfort of home and experience the world’s biggest little city for all it has to offer.” -Brian Ball ~ Founder, I Shoot Reno
#10: Mayday @ Knitting Factory Concert House
As the first group to open for Tech N9ne on the All 6’s and 7’s tour, Mayday performed well beyond any and all expectations. Definitely a group worth checking out!
#9: Trashion Show: Everyday to Obscure @ The Alley, Sparks, NV
One of the first galleries published on IShootReno.com, Trashion Show: Everyday to Obscure at The Alley in Sparks was a super-fun shoot comprised of scantily clad women adorned with the finest of recycled items, strutting their stuff and generating donations for several worthy causes.
#8: Praying for Greater Portland + Spacehunter @ Tonic Lounge
Praying for Greater Portland aka Clint Sleeper was the first shoot for IShootReno.com, and actually took place before the site was erected in April. Clint wields a cellphone modulator like no other and deserves your attention for his experimental prowess alone.
#7: Beats Antique @ Grand Sierra Resort
What’s better than modern day America’s finest live electro / world / dubstep group fronted by an obscenely gorgeous belly dancer? When her friend joins in the fun and the stage is bombarded by costumed characters who enact a full on murder montage and finish, exhausted, in a lifeless bloody massacre … in celebration of Friday the 13th.
#6: Neko Case @ Knitting Factory Concert House
Two words: Neko F—ing Case. She’s in-replicable; made of one part hellfire and another holy water. An always-evolving, red headed musical tornado that is having her way with rural and suburban communities alike, all across the world.
#5: Toots & The Maytals @ Knitting Factory Concert House
There are men and there are legends. Toots is, I can proudly say, both. With a decorated career in reggae music which spans 50 (or more?) years, this is one artist I deeply appreciate coming through Reno for a performance at The Knit.
#4: Y La Bamba @ Knitting Factory Concert House
I’ll be the first to admit that 2011 was a year of amazing headlining acts coming through Reno, but what many might not know is that the opening acts put on just as good, if not better, performances at times. Y La Bamba might not have shown up Neko Case in an on-stage battle, but they did garner more page views on IShootReno.com. Great music too, Y La Bamba. Keep it up!
#3: Reverend Horton Heat @ The Alley
The Rev. Eat steak, eat steak, eat a big ‘ol steer, eat steak eat steak do we have one here? Rockabilly never sounded so good and this blazing summertime performance is one for the record books.
#2: Tech N9ne @ Knitting Factory Concert House
What a crazy show Tech N9ne puts on! I can safely say that I will be among those attending another Tech N9ne show here in Reno (hopefully in 2012) and this indie rap / hip-hop artist is showing mainstream music a thing or two about die hard fandom. Take notes world, this is how you do it.
#1: Swingin’ Utters @ The Alley
Who took #1? Swingin’ Utters, that’s who! There was more blood, spit and sweat on the floor of this show than I’d care to mention, and what we didn’t take with us in our heads (or hearts), we took with us on the bottom of our boots on the way through The Alley and out into Victorian Square. What a great band, what a great venue. What a great city, Sparks!
Well there it is. Our first and finest Top 10 list to grace the bytes of the internet. Here’s looking forward to the many more memories to be made in 2012!
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