The term "covers band" may conjure up images of naffness but Whole Lotta Led make the point of being Led Zeppelin soundalikes, not lookalikes. They give you a 2-hour experience of a Zeppelin concert without any silly wigs or oversized flares. And jolly good they are too, not just because they play the songs so well, but because they clearly love doing it.

I was at their concert in the Strathpeffer Pavilion last night to photograph the local support act, Catching Amy, but I'd asked Whole Lotta Led in advance if it would be okay to stay and photograph their set too, which they kindly agreed to let me do. This was the first concert I've photographed for several years so I wanted to have a go for practice, as well as giving the Mk3 a proper test in a low-light environment.

Here are my two favourite pictures from the night:

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And here's a quick selection of others that grabbed my attention:

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I'd suggested to the North Star that I could get a picture of some local folks at the concert, and on the night I decided to amp that up a bit by getting about 30 of them and both bands as well. If I was to do the same thing again I'd go for a more creative set-up and probably make the bands more prominent (they're at the back in this photo) but what I'm really trying to get to grips with nowadays is working quickly so that's what I did. Getting two bands and a big group of concert-goers all in one place at the same time was a decent achievement in itself, although unfortunately we didn't have the Whole Lotta Led guitarist as in true rock-and-roll fashion he'd wandered off and nobody knew where he was.

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