My ten favourite photoshoots:

WWO at TBMC.

Ruth Negga for Oedipus Loves You.
One of the jobs you just mush on to, I wasn’t expecting much for a Mad Hatter.
Ruth was lovely and so beautiful. I always end up with grungy cockstars.

The Saw Doctors

Beth Orton

Ham Sandwich recording ‘Words’; Podge arrived straight from the airport with beer goggles and pervert trousers.

Fight Like Apes, Tisch Premieres, May 07.
This pic got into the Irish Times!

Colm Lynch Cover Shoot, Smithfield, January 07
Colm and I shivered our buttskis off sloping around Smithfield for this HP shoot in late January. It was my first cover, published two days after my grandfather passed away and so holds a special fondness.

The Immediate at Home

I miss this band so much. I got into them pretty late, after this summer shoot in Malahide, 2006. One night soon there’ll be a drunken post lamenting their departure.

Laura Izibor Backstage at Crawdaddy, July 2007
I’ve worked with Laura three times this year and can’t get her songs out of my head for days after. This photo was taken two minutes before going on-stage to record her live EP.