Five Minutes With Kane Hibberd

First album I bought with  my own money was… It was Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, with my own hard earned cash on cassette. I felt like it was my first foray into being able to choose what I wanted to listen to rather than my parent's radio stations and records. I still listen to that record. I bought it on CD and actually I have got that record on every format apart from digital: CD, tape and vinyl. I don't know what that says about me personally, apart from that I am supporting Bon Jovi's cocaine habit.

Album I'm loving right now is… I have been listening to a band called Make Do And Mend and their album is called Everything You Ever Love. It's the perfect mix of inspiration and emo sadness. It's a rollercoaster. 

My favourite party album is…The Bronx's self-titled second album. It's an album you can trash a house to. It makes you want to jump around and generally destroy things.

My favourite comedown album is… After I have finished trashing the house I would put on Dummy by Portishead. There's not too much you say about it. It's an album you can lie back to and think about all the things you shouldn't have done from the previous night. It's a classic really. 

First gig I ever attended was…I grew up in the country so my first gig involved a Christian youth group outing and we went to see some band that I couldn't even tell you who it was. The only reason I remember it was because they threw CDs out into the crowd and that made my day. So it was a random, unnamed Christian band who I don't think were even playing originals. After that though it was Metallica on their Black Album tour in '91. There weren't many gigs in the country so in the few years between those gigs I was able to figure it out a bit more.

Weirdest gig experience
I've ever had… Fletcher from the band Pennywise at Soundwave 2011 was totally wasted and he got up on stage with The Bronx and started smashing up stuff. Then he smashed a bottle on the foldback and pulled up his shirt and started cutting his stomach on stage while people in the audience were just freaking out, going, “What the fuck is happening?” Apparently that wasn't the first time he had done it. After he had finished they took him to hospital, he got on a plane and flew home. It was a very surreal experience. 

The biggest non-musical [non-photography] influences on me have been…I love Hollywood, I love movies. I've never really been influenced by photographers. I am more influenced by movies and that's where I get my ideas for lighting. Also the quality of cable TV coming out of America: The Wire, Breaking Bad, Game Of Thrones. I love those big budget shows. 

The coolest person I ever met…That's an easy one – Dave Grohl. He just walked in the room and he's like that guy you want to hang around and go take him to meet your mates because he is such a nice guy. You could go have a beer with him and introduce him to people, there was no arrogance about him. He was just a nice, gentle soul. 

The biggest celebrity crush I've ever had is...I think it was Winnie Cooper [Danica McKellar] from The Wonder Years. I saw a clip the other day and I didn't realise how young she was, so when I look at it now it's like, 'Oh my god'. I mean she was like 11 or 12 or something when that first started so maybe it was the slightly older Winnie Cooper. That should keep me out of jail. 

If I could hang out in any time and place in history it'd be… The time would be the '70s, I reckon. I figure that's when rock'n'roll became more dangerous. Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and the rest of that movement came in. You could have long hair and wear flared jeans and no one would look twice at you – you can't do that anymore. The place would be the UK with all those bands coming out of there. America didn't get there as quickly.

If I wasn't a photographer I'd be…I'd like to be making movies. It's almost the same as being a photographer, I suppose. Failing that, maybe a simpler job like labouring. I could go to work and make some money and then finish for the day and be none the wiser about how all these creative things are made. I could just enjoy them and not worry about how they happen.