IN 1988, NME sent me to Birmingham to do a shoot with some of the emerging bands of something called Hardcore.

I found myself in a pub off New Street with some very amiable, quiet people. I was immediately confused. I had four bands to photograph and there were six musicians.

I made notes. It seemed that if you were the drummer in one band, then you were the singer in another. If bass was your game in Band A, then you were obviously the guitarist in Band C.

Things became a little clearer when it was established that there was only one member of Carcass present.

We spent a couple of hours among the monochrome 60s landscape of Brum city centre, with various combinations of personnel populating the pictures.

One of these combinations turned out to be Napalm Death. The photo turned up on the cover of NME.