Tim Cumming

London

Associate Editor and freelance feature writer at shots

Associate Editor & Freelance Features Writer at Freelance

Poet, film maker, music writer, painter About the poetry: https://t.co/9OfT9PAhUA

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Articles

Raising the bar with Kem Suraphongchai

1 week ago | magazine.shots.net | Tim Cumming

Tell us about the origins of ADFEST, and how it has grown and developed since the first edition, in 1998? It all started back in 1994, when my father, Vinit Suraphongchai, was invited to be on a jury at Cannes. He came back with the realisation that the general standard in Asia was not high and we were copying too much of the western culture. He strongly felt there was room for something similar, but adapted to and catered for the Asian region, which is so rich in cultural diversity.
PHC is raising the roof

1 week ago | magazine.shots.net | Tim Cumming

Melbourne-based director, John Stewart, is most sought after for his music videos and spots that draw from the urban sub-cultures of Australia and elsewhere that few others are able to convincingly bring before the camera.
Songlines Encounters, King's Place review - West African and Anatolian magic

3 weeks ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

Songlines Encounters is your round the world ticket to great world music and performances, a chance to travel widely in music and culture without the burden of check-ins, passport control, flight delays, or transfers.
Lucy Farrell, Catherine MacLellan, The Green Note review - sublime frequencies

3 weeks ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

Lucy Farrell, one quarter of the brilliant, award-winning Anglo-Scots band Furrow Collective, and a solo artist whose stunning debut album, We Are Only Sound, was released in 2023, divides her time between the UK – she’s a native of Kent – and Prince Edward Island, a musically rich parcel of land off Canada’s eastern seaboard. The island is home to the other half of this sublime folk-acoustic double bill, Juno Award-winning songwriter Catherine MacLellan.
Lucy Farrell & Catherine MacLellan, The Green Note review

3 weeks ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

Lucy Farrell, one quarter of the brilliant, award-winning Anglo-Scots band Furrow Collective, and a solo artist whose stunning debut album, We Are Only Sound, was released in 2023, divides her time between the UK – she’s a native of Kent – and Prince Edward Island, a musically rich parcel of land off Canada’s eastern seaboard. The island is home to the other half of this sublime folk-acoustic double bill, Juno Award-winning songwriter Catherine MacLellan.
Review | Songlines

3 weeks ago | songlines.co.uk | Tim Cumming

Rating: ★★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: tartine de clous Label: Okraina Records June/2025 The 11 songs on this superbly performed set are drawn from something many of us have handled in our lives: an old shoebox. Inside the box were tapes of now long-lost singers, singing traditional songs of love and war, life and death. Songs from the Vendée department on France’s western seaboard.
Slade in Flame. Review for the Arts Desk

3 weeks ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

Over the years Slade in Flame has been hailed as one of the greatest rock movies (albeit rarely seen or screened), up there with That’ll Be The Day or Performance. Like those films, it has grittiness and realism running through it liked barbed wire through a stick of Blackpool rock. It’s raw and dark; very dark. Not Glam at all.
Felt Better Alive. Album review for the arts desk

4 weeks ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

Following on from an impressive set with the Libertines – last year’s No 1 album All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade – Peter Doherty returns to the fray with his first solo album in nine years. In youth renowned for opiates, crack and chaos, and for cholesterol over alcohol in middle age (he’s now 46), the songs on Felt Better Alive come across as swiftly taken snapshots developed in a musical dark room.
Turnstone. Album review by Tim Cumming

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

For lovers of British folk from the 1970s on, Peter Knight is a potent force – renowned for his years with Steeleye Span, in their 1970s heyday and from 1980 through to 2013’s classic set written with Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith. The first iteration of his band Gigspanner was as a trio, releasing four albums between 2009 and 2017, while the big band version has released a live set and a studio album, 2020’s Natural Invention.
The struggle to sustain sustainability

2 months ago | magazine.shots.net | Tim Cumming

Just a few years ago, sustainability was advertising’s No. 1 chart-topper, leading industry conversations as it emerged from the remote viewing platform of the pandemic. This shift fuelled a drive toward more sustainable productions and messaging, with brands entering the space to advertise their wares – and to wear their hearts on a visible sleeve as green champions, if not greenwashing ones.