In magazines such as NME that celebrate indie rock music, outside locations such as fields and back gardens are often used to photograph bands, you may see a band sat on a wall or a gate. This helps to show the band as cool, quirky or down to earth. Images taken outside rather than a studio show the artists as down to earth. Typically British locations like pubs and cafes often also feature. The use of this, a look of pure quirkiness is, again, achieved, whilst the suggestion is that these bands are completely British and that the music of our great nation must be celebrated.

Images of artists on stage performing at a gig are also often used. Within these images, we see classic indie rock iconography, such as guitars, amps, drums, mics and the artists themselves ‘rocking’. This shows the artists in ther3e natural habitat and shows them doing what they are best at, performing. Again, the use of such locations creates a representation of the artists as cool, making the audience want to be like them and perform themselves. Images that are taken on stage of the artists performing are usually taken mid action, so a certain amount of the electricity and excitement of the performance is captured too, this causes the audience to perhaps feel that they are ‘there’, sharing in ‘the moment’.