This session, shot for Uncut magazine, was a laugh. The chaps were fed up with doing band photo sessions. They were already shooting something for another magazine in Holborn Studios in London. They weren’t doing much press, and their office didn’t want to do anything for Uncut as well. But, as my old mother used to say, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Since I knew them and their team I said to Jonesy, Editor of Uncut, leave it to me. I got on to their PR and suggested I do a few minutes with each band member in Studio 10 while they’re on their way to Studio 1, just down the corridor, and have each member for just five minutes. Eventually, we went ahead, each of them was wheeled in one at a time and I photographed them all individually, quick as you like, and then worked on painstakingly comping them together to get a single portrait the old-fashioned way, on the enlarger like we did in the pre-digital days. It actually works nicely because you can focus on each member in turn. I love the photographs of Thom in his duffle coat, very mysterious, isolated, “leave me alone”.