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

Slade in Flame. Review for the Arts Desk

3 days 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

5 days 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

4 weeks 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

1 month 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.
Debut set from Lush singer’s new trio

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

I saw the Miki Berenyi Trio play a warmly received sold out set at the Lexington last autumn, at which many of the songs now coming out on Tripla ("three" in Hungarian) had their live previews, alongside a few from the Lush years – the likes of “Kiss Chase” and “Ladykillers” – and Piroshka, the four-piece that emerged briefly from the ashes of the 2016 Lush reunion.
Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station - Arcadia

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

It’s been 14 years since Alison Krauss and Union Station released an album – 2011’s Paper Aeroplane. The world’s shed a few skins since then, and little resembles the way it was. The ten songs on their new album, Arcadia, recorded in studios across Nashville, are tied up in that cat’s cradle of time, of the past and how it is remembered. “The stories of the past are told in this music,” Krauss has written.
Review | Songlines

2 months ago | songlines.co.uk | Tim Cumming

Top of the World Rating: ★★★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: Jim Ghedi Label: Basin Rock April/2025 There’s no contemporary singer quite like Jim Ghedi. In his otherworldly voice, with its underlay of drone mechanics, I hear trace elements of John Jacob Niles, a Banshee’s spectral cry and a sharp wind through the crannies of an old house in the middle of nowhere.
All the colours of the spectrum: embracing neurodiversity in adland

2 months ago | shots.net | Tim Cumming

Do we want to feel unique, or do we want to be normal? Years ago, in middle school, a teacher asked our class, ‘Who here thinks they are like everyone else?’. It was important for me to feel I was like everyone else, because I wasn’t, I was very shy, often zoning out. I didn’t want to be lonely, so I put up my hand. I was the only one. Then teacher asked, “Who here thinks they are special?” Everyone else put up their hands. I wanted to put up mine up.
James of all trades: how ADHD can power versatility

2 months ago | shots.net | Tim Cumming

All over the planet, biodiversity is encouraged, its benefits seen as universal – because without it we would lack the healthy ecosystems that sustain our lives as well as every other kind of life of earth, whether that’s plant or animal, or the mediums in which they live and thrive. Neurodiversity is similarly crucial to our lives as human beings, and acknowledging that diversity is as important as encouraging biodiversity in nature.
Josienne Clarke, Across The Evening Sky, Kings Place review

2 months ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

On the first date of a 17-concert tour that had its preview at Celtic Connections in January, Across the Evening Sky begins with the liminal, predatory dangers of associating in any way with the sly “Reynardine”, with Matt Robinson on piano and electronic keyboards and Alec Bowman-Clarke’s bass evoking the twilit murk of the magical faerie song, recorded by Sandy on Fairport’s Liege & Lief.