Down to Oceanic Studios

I had quite an early start for me at least it was. I had to get to Pete Townshends studio in Richmond by 10:30 am and pick up Ben my assistant at a station along the way. We arrived at Oceanic and saw the rest of the worlds assembled press all drinking coffee, tea etc. It was all very civilised. This event was for the launch of Pete Townshend and Lawrence Ball's "The Method". It is a computerised way of making music. I cant go into to much detail here as it is reasonably complicated, but, it does seem like quite an amazing thing. There were so many journalists there that I am sure it is going to be very widely reported. We all sat an listened to Pete make his presentation with Lawrence. Then we all wandered outside. Pete then gave the photographers the chance to get a nice shot of him. I did shoot him at that time as well, but after all of the other photographers had finished I did an exclusive little shoot with Pete and Lawrence on there own.














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After leaving Oceanic, Ben and I headed back out of town to our offices. We stopped at the first fuel stop as we were low. I my phone rang and it was my brother in LA. Ben asked me if I wanted hm to fill the car up, so I said yes please and I carried on talking to my brother. Ben asked me if it was unleaded. Now also bear in mind that I had only had about an hours sleep the night before and I was on the phone as well. I said to Ben yes unleaded. Well, you can guess what is coming next. yes we headed out of the garage and got all of about 200 yards or metres whatever you prefer and that was it. The car stopped in the middle of the road. Ben and I looked at each other and then we realised what had happened. Oops We had unleaded fuel now in a diesel car. Not a good situation. This was my fault, not his, after all he did ask me what to put in the car and I did say unleaded. What a plonker eh!! So, after a few hours wait, the vehicle was recovered and taken back to my house. I then immediately jumped into another car and headed back into London, Chelsea to be precise. This was to shoot a party for a friend of mine. They have a clothing store on the Kings road and a few celebs were rolling up and they needed me to get some shots. Eventually got home pretty late and I was very tired. Needed sleep or i wont be operating very well tomorrow.