Paul Weller in full flight, UK tour, Autumn '82
Such an iconic shot from Twink, capturing that intense moment. Was it difficult for Paul to play like that? Well, it was mostly rhythm stuff, and in the early days him being influenced by Wilko Johnson's stuff. It was all about energy, there wasn't much attention paid to the detail of it, plus the noise of that Rickenbacker 303, they cut your head off with that almost chainsaw-like sound. And the gigs were so animated, a lot of leaping about and intense from the moment the first chord was struck. And that shot really catches the feeling of it.
Bruce Foxton, Gift front cover shoot outtake, London, February '82
We didn't devote much time to album photo shoots in those days, so while we were recording The Gift [1982], we just went up onto the roof of Air Studios in Oxford Street, and Twink took shots of us running on the spot. Did we have to do that sort of thing a lot? Not so much - most photos taken of us were just up against a wall or something, so this was a bit different! As it happened, though, Bruce [Foxton] actually went back up there the next day. He didn't feel ready for it the day before, he wanted to make sure he was wearing some decent clothes...
Rick Buckler, back of tour bus, UK, September '82
This was a typical scene in the back of the tour bus on our way to a gig, again taken by Twink as he was on the road with us. The other guys in the photo are Steve Nichol and Keith Thomas [brass players] from our band, and Joe, one of our security. It must have been a later tour because, by that time, we had graduated to more luxurious travel - a bus! In the early days it would have been a car, or a minibus at best.
Bingley Hall, Stafford, 1 October 1982
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