We had the pleasure of having Janette Slack – a woman of many musical talents – over to shoot yesterday. Beautiful, bubbly and speaking at a million miles a minute, we’d been talking for three hours before we even shot a single frame. A little snippet from her MySpace (where you should listen to her kick ass tracks), as well as some behind the scenes photos and a video Janette made for her video blog (see her YouTube account here)…

Hair & make-up by Sammm Agnew.

In a very short space of time, Janette Slack has established herself as one of the hottest artists around. Based in London, her sound is rooted in electro, house and breaks which she delivers with an infectious energy.

This year alone, Janette’s played Global Gathering, rocked clubs from Australia to Croatia, been featured in The Observer, presented for Channel V (Asia’s MTV equivalent), appeared in multi-page fashion shoots, and featured a guest mix and interview on Radio 1. Most excitingly she’s returned to the studio, and come up trumps with her new single for Air Recordings, ‘Take It/’Around The Block’.

One of dance music’s most charismatic young figures – London clubbers will be familiar with her turning up to gigs on her infamous roller-skates – Janette is a breath of fresh air in the somewhat character-less vacuum of the current club scene (you can still find Doug ‘Scratch’ Pray’s short film about her online).

A resident for both Air at Cargo and fetish event, Torture Garden, she’s renowned for her energetic, electro-filled DJ sets that defy even the most pigeon-hole obsessed muso. Musically, her productions circle the same waters.

Yesterday was lovely. Vicky (seen in these posts) came over with Sammm again. Except this time she brought Abz. Abz used to be in 5ive. I can’t really remember much about them, except the phrase “everybody get up”, so it didn’t mean much to me. I don’t really photograph men much (as I’ve discussed before) so it was great to have Abz over in the studio and just have a play around. Top guy, top couple, just wonderful, and all topped off with the lovely Sammm’s make-up and a helping hand from C. Such a lovely day getting the creative juices flowing. Here’s some behind the scenes photos (some taken by C).

Yesterday was a long long day. In the morning we had a shoot for the L’Oreal Colour Trophy Competition. Straight after that we had two models, one being airbrushed white, another black. Twelve hours and almost a thousand frames later we were all ready to pretty much collapse. Here’s some out-takes that Christopher took as we were working in the morning.

My mama has been visiting the last few days. We’ve been spoiling her with lots of delicious dinners and wine, yum yum. In between slobbing around with Mama I’ve been manically editing the final images for Gay Times. Apparently the layout is done and now I just have to wait for it to hit the shelves! Super excited. I left my camera at a party on Sunday by accident, got it back today and found some more behind the scenes photos: