Josh Pearson is one of my favourite artists. He used to be in a band called Lift To Experience which produced one classic album, ‘The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads’. For a while Josh simply disappeared.

Josh T Pearson Full Gig at The Windmill, Brixton, December 2009 from Conor Masterson on Vimeo.

Josh T Pearson at The Windmill, Brixton, December 2009.

Almost the entire gig here bar a few memory card changes.

Lush new songs. Wonderful stuff, reverb heavy cascading notes with Andy Young on drums the drummer from Lift to Experience!

And a hat. In fact there were two hats.

I will be recreating this photograph on Sunday the 7th of December 2008 outside the ‘Fun Factory’ in 1907 celebrating the fact that the area and indeed the Clockwork Studios is still a vibrant creative community.

I shot this for The Sunday Times, they were producing an Abbey Road Special magazine.

We had a wee tour bus with about 20 extras and the crew and we drove all over London to previously scouted locations to shoot different versions of how to cross the road safely whilst wearing fancy dress…

We didn’t shoot on Abbey Road itself by the way, it was more of a tribute to the original.

Fun fact: Michelle is in there wearing a wedding dress 6 months before we were married! (It wasn’t her dress so thats ok, isn’t it?)

Abbey Road Tv Ad for The Sunday Times from Conor Masterson on Vimeo.

TV ad I shot for The Sunday Times.

Photography and production by Conor Masterson
Agency Clemmow Hornby Inge & Partners
Creative Director Mickey Tudor

Aired September 2009

We casted a lot of extras who travelled across London with us on a coach recreating the famous Beatles cover on a variety of crossroads. (We steered clear of the actual Abbey Road crossing!)

All of the portraits were made in May and June 2009 and we manged to shoot 247 people in 5 locations including Ruskin Park, Southwell Road, my back yard(!) and outside Loughborough Junction itself.