Tim Rogers

“I remember getting a call from Tony Mott, a Sydney-based photographer who said he’d be taking photographs of Ray Davies (The Kinks). Tony wanted me to pretend I was his assistant ’cause he wanted to get a photo of me with Ray. I thought ‘yeah, why not’, sounded like a good idea. When Tony and I turned up to meet Ray he was pretty cantankerous. I then remember sitting in Ray’s dressing room with Tony, and Ray bursting in with this ‘I know who you’re trying to look like’ gaze. I think he had me sussed. He came over and keeps eyeing me and pours this little glass of Brokenwood Cricketpitch and starts drinking. Then his manager runs in and looks at me and said ‘I know who you’re trying to look like’. They had this bottle of wine and offered me and Tony some. It’s a beautiful label. I went to the Brokenwood Cricketpitch winery a half a year after and managed to drink some more of the old bitch and loved the hell out of it.”