Tim Ferguson

I’m happy to do cat portraiture too btw…

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:50:00 +0100

I’m happy to do cat portraiture too btw…

My local Brockley fox family complete with three cubs…

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:48:00 +0100

My local Brockley fox family complete with three cubs…

I was hired to shoot the first night of the Liverpool Sound City...

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:37:56 +0100

I was hired to shoot the first night of the Liverpool Sound City Festival for Bloom.fm last night. Such a good night. These are some of the shots that I live photo-blogged using my Canon 5D MKIII, an Eye-Fi SD card, my iPhone and Dropbox’s Camera Upload — BAM!

There are a bunch more shots on the Bloom.fm Facebook Page and will no doubt be more to follow once I get a chance to go through all the photos properly this weekend.

My work listening setup: Schiit Modi DAC » Schiit Magni...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:17:00 +0100

My work listening setup: Schiit Modi DAC » Schiit Magni headphone amplifier » Soundmagic HP100 headphones… Yes!

Just spotted what I thought must be Crispin Hellion...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:32:00 +0100

Just spotted what I thought must be Crispin Hellion Glover’s older brother in Kojak s04e02. Turns out it was his father Bruce Herbert Glover!

My daughter is 6 months old. I figured I needed to post one of...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:31:41 +0000

My daughter is 6 months old. I figured I needed to post one of my own photos ;)

Here’s my epic best albums (play)list for my Year In A Month:...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:28:00 +0000

Here’s my epic best albums (play)list for my Year In A Month: 2002. I made a playlist consisting of 1 track from each album. You should be able to listen to a lot of them here: http://toma.hk/p/hBi2222M or alternately I’ve made a Spotify playlist too

( ( ( microwaves ) ) ) (2002) 02 Camera Bloody Camera
90 Day Men (2002) 01 I’ve Got Designs on You
Amon Tobin (2002) 02 Verbal (Feat. Mc Decimal R.)
And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead (2002) 11 Relative Ways
Andrew Broder (2002) 02 Drop Some Smooth Lyrics by Edan
Anti-Pop Consortium (2002) 04 Dead in Motion
Archer Prewitt (2002) 03 When I’m with You
Asa-Chang & Jungray — 2001 — 01 Hana
Ativin — 2001 — 03 Scissors
Atmosphere (2002) 02 The Bass and the Movement
Beck (2002) 02 Paper Tiger
Black Eyes (2002) 01 Some Boys
Blackalicious (2002) 16 Release (Feat. Saul Williams, Zach de la Rocha and Lyrics Born)
Boards of Canada (2002) 04 Gyroscope
Books, The (2002) 06 ThankYouBranch
Bright Calm Blue (2002) 04 A Tongue to Taste
Bright Eyes (2002) 03 False Advertising
Burnt by the Sun (2002) 04 Boston Tea-Bag Party
Cancer Conspiracy, The (2002) 03 Our Minds Active Nightlife
Check Engine (2002) 07 Don’t Make Friends with Salad
Chris Bowden (2002) 02 Crockers and Killers
Cobra Kai (2002) 01 Fragile
Coheed and Cambria (2002) 04 Everything Evil
Crime in Choir (2002) 02 Pictures in the Dictionary
Curl up and Die (2002) 05 Doctor Doom. A Man of Science, Doesn’t Believe in Jesus, Why the F#ck Do You
DJ Krush (2002) 02 Toki No Tabiji (Journey of Time) (Feat. Inden)
DJ Spooky (2002) 04 Asphalt (Tome II) (Feat. Carl Hancock Rux & Pauline Oliveros)
Daedelus (2002) 06 Muggle Born
Damien Jurado (2002) 02 Dancing
David Grubbs (2002) 06 Pinned to the Spot
Deerhoof (2002) 04 Punch Buggy Valves
Desaparecidos (2002) 06 The Happiest Place on Earth
Dilute (2002) 02 People
Doug Martsch (2002) 02 Dream
Dwayne Sodahberk (2002) 16 Beast OnOff, Pt. II
Edan ‎— 2002 — 10 Rapperfection (Feat. Mr. Lif)
El Guapo (2002) 06 Rhyme Scene, Rhyme Dream
El-P (2002) 12 Dr. Hellno and the Praying Mantus
Engine Down (2002) 08 Second of February
Epidemic, The (2002) 03 Every Single Melody is an Addition to the Scale
Esbjorn Svensson Trio (2002) 03 Strange Place for Snow
Examination of the… (2002) 08 Black Hairs… Black Eyes
Eyedea (2002) 02 Weird Side
Fenn O’Berg (2002) 03 Riding Again
Fieldwork (2002) 08 Horoscope
Fire Show, The (2002) 09 Magellan Was A Felon
Friend, Enemy - 2002 — 04 Cough Soft Cock Rock
Frog Eyes (2002) 03 Masticated Outboard Motors
From Monument to Masses (2002) 04 Clinical Features Of Rock Trauma
Fujiya & Miyagi (2002) 09 Diagrams
Gantz (2002) 04 La Prince Du Danemark
Garrison (2002) 05 Commit, Commit, Commit
Gloria Record, The (2002) 02 Good Morning, Providence
Good Life, The (2002) 04 O’Rourke’s, 120 A.M.
Hangedup (2002) 01 Kinetic Work
Hella (2002) 07 Cafeteria Bananas
Herbaliser, The (2002) 01 Something Wicked (Feat. Seaming To)
Hey Mercedes (2002) 02 Save a Life
Hidden Chord (2002) 03 The Unfrightened
Hot Hot Heat (2002) 09 Save us S.O.S.
Hot Rod Circuit (2002) 05 Now or Never
Hot Snakes (2002) 01 I Hate The Kids
Hrvatski (2002) 07 Marbles
I am Spoonbender (2002) 02 Remover-Installer
I, Robot (2002) 01 The Answer
Illogic (2002) 02 Got Lyrics
Isis (2002) 03 False Light
J-Live (2002) 07 One for the Griot
Jaga Jazzist (2002) 01 Kitty Wú
John Vanderslice (2002) 03 Underneath the Leaves
Karate (2002) 01 Original Spies
Kite Flying Society (2002) 02 This Picture was My Heart
Koufax (2002) 03 Social Life
Love Like… Electrocution (2002) 04 Das Plague (french for Germans)
Love Lost Not Forgotten (2002) 06 Happy to Be Alive
M. Ward (2002) 14 I’ll be Your Bird
Mates of State (2002) 03 Uber Legitimate
Matthew Shipp (2002) 07 The Root
Medeski, Martin & Wood (2002) 03 Your Name is Snake Anthony
Microphones, The (2002) 09 We’re Here to Listen
Minor Times, The (2002) 02 Lynch’s Blue Velvet
Minus the Bear (2002) 03 Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse
Mr. Lif (2002) 04 Live from the Plantation
Ms. John Soda (2002) 03 Go Check
Norman (2002) 05 Human Traffic
Notwist, The (2002) 04 Trashing Days
Oddjobs (2002) 04 Blue Collar Holler
Off Minor (2002) 02 My Recovery
Offwhyte (2002) 01 Ups
Orchid (2002) 16 Let’s Commodify Sexuality
Owen (2002) 04 The Ghost of What Should’ve Been
Oxes (2002) 02 Half Half & Half
Part Chimp (2002) 01 B1
Pedro the Lion (2002) 03 Penetration
Phantomsmasher (2002) 01 Bishop Hopping
Piebald (2002) 02 Just a Simple Plan
RJD2 (2002) 06 Ghostwriter
Racebannon (2002) 02 Flip n’ F#ck
Racionais MC’s (2002) 06 Estilo Cachorro
Red Animal War (2002) 03 Straight Lines for Construction Workers
Roots, The (2002) 08 The Seed (2.0) (Feat. Cody ChesnuTT)
Rumah Sakit (2002) 03 No One Likes a Grumpy Cripple
Sage Francis (2002) 03 Personal Journalist
Sleep (2002) 09 Reborn (Feat. Snafu & Sulfur)
Song of Zarathustra (2002) 09 Tame
Sonic Youth (2002) 03 Rain on Tin
Sweep the Leg Johnny (2002) 04 The Blizzard of ‘99
TTC (2002) 05 Pas D’armure (Feat. Dose One Hi-teck le Receleur)
Talib Kweli (2002) 03 Get by
Ten Grand (2002) 08 this isnt heaven, this sucks
Thee More Shallows (2002) 02 The 8th Ring of Hell
Themselves (2002) 03 Good People Check
Tujiko Noriko (2002) 06 Penguin
Twothirtyeight (2002) 01 The Hands of Men
Ugly Casanova (2002) 04 Hotcha Girls
Under Byen (2002) 01 Det Er Mig Der Holder Traeerne Sammen
Venetian Snares (2002) 01 A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick than Anything You Can Imagine
Weezer (2002) 07 Burndt Jamb
Whisper in the Noise, A (2002) 01 The Wall of You
Wilco — 2001 — 01 I am Trying to Break Your Heart
Wolves (2002) 01 (Nine)
Zegota (2002) 04 Thrones for the Worthy, Graves for the Rest
dalek (2002) 10 Forever Close My Eyes
mewithoutYou (2002) 06 Gentlemen
pAper chAse, the (2002) 07 A little plAce cAlled trust

Sylvester Stallone on Kojak (s03e03). Who loves ya baby?

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:00:00 +0000

Sylvester Stallone on Kojak (s03e03). Who loves ya baby?

Sneak peek: An evening of improv feat. Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu),...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:19:00 +0000

Sneak peek: An evening of improv feat. Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), Eugene S. Robinson (Oxbow), the Dead Shanties with live painting and some meticulously crafted proto math rock by Dead Days Beyond Help. More on The405 soon…

Unknown Mortal Orchestra live at Cargo this evening. The rest...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:36:00 +0000

Unknown Mortal Orchestra live at Cargo this evening. The rest are up on The 405.

P.S. I think I’m giving up on this gig photography thing… I’ve had a good run

So here’s the culmination of my Year In A Month: 2001. I...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:14:00 +0000

So here’s the culmination of my Year In A Month: 2001. I was clearly very much into screamo and hardcore at the time, but there’s something for every discerning ear ;)

I made a playlist consisting of 1 track from each album. You should be able to listen to most of them here: http://toma.hk/p/WXO2222M or alternately on Spotify

Aesop Rock (2001) Labor Days
Air (2001) 10 000 Hz Legend
Alison Ranger (2001) Alison Ranger CDep
An Albatross (2001) Eat Lightning, Shit Thunder
Anniversary, The (2001) Vagrant Records, Another Year on the Streets (Compilation)
Anti-Pop Consortium (2001) Shopping Carts Crashing
Aphex Twin (2001) drukqs
Arkangel (2001) Dead Man Walking
As Friends Rust (2001) Eleven Songs
Azure Ray (2001) Azure Ray
Backstabbers Inc. (2001) While You Were Sleeping CDep
Beauty Pill (2001) The Cigarette Girl from the Future CDep
Beta Band, The (2001) Hot Shots II
Beulah (2001) The Coast is Never Clear
Blenderhead (2001) Figureheads on the Forefront of Pop Culture
Brand New (2001) Your Favourite Weapon
Buck 65 (2001) Man Overboard
Built to Spill (2001) Ancient Melodies of the Future
Buried Inside (2001) Suspect Symmetry
Burnt by the Sun (2001) Burnt by the Sun CDep
Califone (2001) Roomsound
Candiria (2001) 300 Percent Density
Caural (2001) Paint CDep
Church Universal and Triumphant, The (2001) Sounds of American Doomsday Cults, Vol. XIV 12”
Circulatory System (2001) Circulatory System
Converge (2001) Jane Doe
Cornelius (2001) Point
Countervail (2001) In the Event of an Unscheduled Landing CDep
Craig’s Brother (2001) Lost at Sea
Cursive (2001) Burst and Bloom CDep
Damien Jurado (2001) Four Songs CDep
Danielson Famile (2001) Fetch the Compass Kids
Dashboard Confessional (2001) The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
David Sandström (2001) Om Det Inte Händer Nåt Innan Imorgon Så Kommer Jag
Del Rey (2001) Speak it Not Aloud
Dilute (2001) The Gypsy Valentine Curve
Disflex.6 (2001) Hot Season EP
Drowningman (2001) Still Loves You CDep
End, The (2001) Transfer Trachea Reverberations from Point: False Omniscient
eNVY (2001) All the Footprints You’ve Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Every Time I Die (2001) Last Night in Town
Eyedea & Abilities (2001) First Born
Fantômas (2001) The Director’s Cut
Four Tet (2001) Pause
Frodus (2001) And We Washed Our Weapons into the Sea
Further Seems Forever (2001) The Moon is Down
H2O (2001) Go!
Hangedup (2001) Hangedup
Hayden (2001) Skyscraper National Park
Hella (2001) Leather Diamond EP CDr
Hey Mercedes (2001) Everynight Fire Works
Hi-Tek (2001) Hi-Teknology
Hood (2001) Cold house
Hope Conspiracy, The (2001) File 03 CDep
Hopesfall (2001) No Wings to Speak of… CDep
Hot Cross (2001) A New Set of Lungs CDep
Hot Water Music (2001) Never Ender (Compilation)
Isis (2001) Celestial + SGNL>5 CDep
J-Live (2001) True School Revival CDep
Jaga Jazzist (2001) A Livingroom Hush
Jeff Mangum (2001) Orange Twin Field Works (Vol. I)
Jim O’Rourke (2001) I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4
Jim O’Rourke (2001) Insignificance
Jimmy Eat World (2001) Bleed American
John Vanderslice (2001) Time Travel is Lonely
Joshua Fit for Battle (2001) To Bring Our Own End 12”
Kaada (2001) Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time
kaki.o.badi (2001) We Kill Ourselves with Compassion
Karate (2001) Cancel Sing CDep
Kings of Convenience (2001) Quiet is the New Loud
Kite Flying Society (2001) Kite Flying Society, Pink CDep
Knut (2001) Challenger
Lali Puna (2001) Scary World Theory
Locust, The (2001) Flight of the Wounded Locust
M. Ward (2001) End of Amnesia
Majority Rule (2001) Interviews with David Frost
Microphones, The (2001) The Glow Pt 2
Minus (2001) Jesus Christ Bobby
Minus the Bear (2001) This is What I Know About Being Gigantic CDep
Mixmaster Mike (2001) Spin Psycle
Mouse on Mars (2001) Idiology
Nathaniel Merriweather (2001) Mike Patton & Dan the Automator are Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady
North of America (2001) This is Dance Floor Numerology
Now, the (2001) the Now CDep
Onry Ozzborn (2001) Alone
Owen (2001) Owen
Owls (2001) Owls
Panoply Academy, the (2001) No Dead Time
pAper chAse, the (2001) young bodies heAl quickly, you know
pg.99 (2001) Document #7 CDep
pg.99 (2001) Document #8
Pillar (2001) Everyone is as Terrified as You are
Pinback (2001) Blue Screen Life
Plan, The (2001) Only these Movements Remain
Playing Enemy (2001) Caesarean
Prefuse 73 (2001) Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
Puente Celeste (2001) Pasando El Mar
Pullman (2001) Viewfinder
Radiohead (2001) Amnesiac (B-Sides)
Red Animal War (2001) Breaking in an Angel
Red Light Sting, The (2001) Rub ‘em Down, Rub ‘em Out CDep
Roots Manuva (2001) Run Come Save Me
Saul Williams (2001) Amethyst Rock Star
Sharks Keep Moving (2001) Pause and Clause CDep
Shipping News (2001) Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company
Sixtoo (2001) Duration
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (2001) Grand Opening and Closing
Small Brown Bike (2001) Dead Reckoning
Snacktruck (2001) Demo I CDep
Spirit that Guides us, The (2001) The Sand, the Barrier
Spring Heel Jack (2001) Masses
Stairwell (2001) The Sounds of Change
Stephen Malkmus (2001) Stephen Malkmus
Suffering and the Hideous Thieves (2001) Real Panic Formed
Sufjan Stevens (2001) Enjoy Your Rabbit
Taken (2001) And They Slept
Techno Animal (2001) Brotherhood of the Bomb
This Machine Kills (2001) Death in the Audobon Ballroom
Thomas Feiner & Anywhen (2001) The Opiates
Tora! Tora! Torrance! (2001) Get into It
Tortoise (2001) Standards
Unwed Sailor (2001) The Faithful Anchor
Vandermark 5 (2001) Acoustic Machine
Venetian Snares (2001) Doll Doll Doll
Vidablue, The (2001) The Comprehensive List of Everyone… 12”
Vincent Gallo (2001) When
Wolves (2001) 4 Song Demo CS
Yage (2001) The Human Head Too Strong for Itself CDep
Yaphet Kotto (2001) Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love

P.S. I’m considering taking every other month off, to soak & revel in the findings from the previous month …should also take the pressure off a little!

This man is the boss. ‘Wolf Man’ Werner Freund by...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:24:00 +0000

This man is the boss. ‘Wolf Man’ Werner Freund by Lisi Niesner.

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. Another one for the list...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:14:21 +0000

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. Another one for the list of places to visit… For now it’ll have to be via Google Images

The snowy view from Tower Bridge this afternoon. Apparently...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:39:57 +0000

The snowy view from Tower Bridge this afternoon. Apparently Tumblr excels at viewing panoramas now (about time someone took up the gauntlet!). What you think?

Somewhere in the remote North of Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang,...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:41:00 +0000

Somewhere in the remote North of Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang, China. I’m note sure exactly how I ended up here the other day, but I did… For a sense of perspective, click through and zoom out!!

There is no good / bad year for music

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:27:00 +0000

I really believe that. If someone feels that a particular year isn’t very ‘good’ for music — I’d say they have issues clouding their exposure and or appreciation of what’s out there.

In the back of my mind I’ve had this niggle: Why do albums from 2001 keep popping into my head and flooding my noggin with happy feelings? What happened to the other years? Why did 2001 stand out? Doesn’t this break my theory?

This week whilst thinking about my year-in-a-month challenge, I stumbled onto an answer, which in retrospect seems blindingly obvious: 2001 was my first full year in London after having lived my entire life in the musically starved and physically isolated tip of Africa.

In London I could actually see the bands I adored play live! In London I could hear and buy pretty much any album I was interested in. In London they had this thing called broadband — unlimited and uncapped access to the Internet. And let’s not kid ourselves — In London I had Napster (shut down in July 2001) and Audiogalaxy (a vastly superior service IMO)…

In 2001 I gobbled up and digested or spat out vast amounts of music. I had the thirst. 2001 wasn’t any greater or worse than others. I was just super focussed, fresh faced and eager to consume the entire world.

THAT’s why it still stands out for me today. Perhaps at the end of this exercise I’ll have further (albeit subjective) data to support my theory… But until then I’ll stop with the rambling and take more photos!

A year of music... Each month!

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:43:00 +0000

I’ve tasked myself with the challenge of only listening to albums that came out in 2001 during the month of January, culminating in a top albums of year list, along with a mixtape or playlist containing a single track from each of the albums that made my list.

In February I’ll move on to 2002, March - 2003, April - 2004 etc… up until November with 2011. Then, in December I’ll switch back to 2013 and brush up on this year’s releases. I spent most of December 2012 brushing up on 2012 albums anyway hence me starting from 2001.

If this goes as well as I hope, I’ll be doing the same in January 2014, but starting with 1990. This let’s me do my 2014 catch-up in December again.

Pretty neat eh?

Since my entire collection has been well organised and digital for many years, it was very easy to do a simple search for all my 2001 albums. I then whittled down a shortlist of albums I either recalled as being ‘brilliant’, or stuff I wanted to brush up on, transcoded them from FLAC (lossless) to M4A (lossy) and copied them onto my iPhone - taking up a whopping 20GB. This not-so-shortlist consists of a whopping 328 albums! I’m using Last.fm’s shiny new Scrobbler app to listen to and love everything as I go — ‘cos if it doesn’t scrobble, it doesn’t count!

That’s obviously A LOT to get through. Works out to roughly 11 albums or ±8 hours of music listening a day! I have no illusions about keeping that sort of pace up, so I’m brutally culling albums as I listen. I.E. If I’m not feeling something it’s straight on to the next one! Saying that, I totally plan on basking in the good ‘uns.

There are of course some caveats: I’m not going to completely ignore new releases, and I’m also going to be brushing up on some stuff for upcoming gigs etc. along the way too.

Wish me luck. I’ll let you know how it goes!

Here are my top albums of 2012 in no particular order, but I...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:27:00 +0000

Here are my top albums of 2012 in no particular order, but I have at least selected my favourite tracks from each album: Feat. Aesop Rock, Ametsub, Anais Mitchell, B. Fleischmann, The Real Blockhead, Busdriver, Converge, Damien Jurado, Dan Deacon, Deerhoof, DJ Format, Dose One, Dr. Dog, El-P, Felix, Gaslamp Killer, Gonjasufi, Grasscut, Hanne Hukkelberg, Icarus, Islands, Ka, Kink Gong, Metz, mewithoutYou, Open Mike Eagle, P.O.S., Pepe Deluxe, Pinback, Plants and Animals, PS I Love You, Serengeti, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Tenniscoats, Turing Machine, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Woodpecker Wooliams, Xiu Xiu, Yellow Ostrich and Zammuto

P.S. Icarus’ Fake Fish Distribution and Kink Gong’s Electronic World (Avril 2012) aren’t unfortunately on Spotify. Look them up!

My Top 20 of 2012 Starring Aesop Rock, Deerhoof, The Gaslamp...

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:11:00 +0000

My Top 20 of 2012

Starring Aesop Rock, Deerhoof, The Gaslamp Killer, Plants and Animals, Open Mike Eagle, Zammuto, Icarus, DJ Format, Xiu Xiu and A Whisper in the Noise…

P.S. I’m working on a mix of my top 2012 albums - should be ready early next year. Just whittling out the last couple tracks, then the mixing!

Top 10 Gigs of 2012 (out of 41) 01 Damien Jurado at The...

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:01:36 +0000

Top 10 Gigs of 2012 (out of 41)
01 Damien Jurado at The Enterprise (2012.01.23)
02 Hayden at Bush Hall (2012.12.05)
03 Refused at The Forum (2012.08.13)
04 Kink Gong live at Cafe OTO (2012.07.20)
05 Bonnie “Prince” Billy at Hackney Empire (2012.01.25)
06 The Revival Hour at Village Underground (2012.11.29)
07 Nina Nastasia at The Macbeth (2012.04.02)
08 Zammuto at Birthdays (2012.11.30)
09 Xiu Xiu at Rich Mix (2012.03.16)
10 Jeff Mangum ATP at Butlin’s (2012.03.09)

Honourable Mentions (Chronological Order)
Icarus at Cafe OTO (2012.01.20)
Tim Hecker at St Giles-in-the-Fields Church (2012.02.06)
Anaïs Mitchell at Westminster Reference Library (2012.02.15)
Damien Jurado at Cargo (2012.03.12)