Drumming, writing, stomping around London taking pictures of daft things.
Music
Right now - Sophie Hunger and Talking Heads.
Movies
Ferris Buellers Day Off and Amadeus, and most things in between. Most recently seen: Anvil (terrifying), Iron Man (hysterical), The Pianist (brutal), Once (brill), District 9 (original), Son Of Rambow (funny), Bringing Out The Dead (tough) and Charlie Wilson's War (peculiar).
Television
Waybuloo.
Books
Currently reading The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes. Recently: One Train Later (Andy Summers), The Rum Diary (Hunter S. Thompson), Explorers Of The New Century (Magnus Mills), The Maintenance of Headway (Magnus Mills), Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis), Number9Dream (David Mitchell), Torture The Artist (Joey Goebel), Strip Tease (Carl Hiaasen), Black Swan Green (David Mitchell), Cloud Atlas (ditto), Talking It Over (Julian Barnes), The House Of Sleep (Jonathan Coe), My Word Is My Bond (Roger Moore), Lucky You (Carl Hiaasen), Kill Your Friends (John Niven), I Wouldn't Start From Here (Andrew Mueller), Sin In The Second City (Karen Abbott), The Brain-Dead Megaphone (George Saunders), The LA Diaries (James Brown), Me And Mickie James (Drew Gummerson), Pavel and I (Dan Vyleta), Bowie Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy (Tony Visconti), Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks), The Exception (Christian Jungersen), A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving).
Heroes
Stewart Copeland, Miles Hunt, Stephen Fry, Dave Grohl (as a drummer), Woody Allen, Richmal Crompton, Adam Ant, David Niven, Sue Townsend, Graham Coxon, Guy Garvey...
About me: Writer and musician. Currently drumming for Fink. Have played with: Frankie, who will miss mary...?, Prankster, Anamorphic, Stickman, others.
Have written for: 2DoBeforeIDie (www.2dobeforeidie.com), myself...
Have just published a highly exciting novel concerning, among other things, the early-nineties indie heyday: THE ALTERNATIVE HERO via Jonathan Cape in the UK and Knopf in the USA.
Next one: DEATH OF AN UNSIGNED BAND, emerges July 2010, telling the story of a deperately poor, unsigned band who sell their soul to the devil...
Who I'd like to meet: Richmal Crompton, Guy Garvey and Pete Doherty. The former to tell her how brilliant the Just William books were, the middle to have a pint with, the latter to give him a good kicking.
filmed by hideyuki katsumata who also filmed promo animation of Little dragon (fortune) from Sweden.
we have a gig of SOUNDCRASH as support act for Ninja tunes artists on on 3rd Oct at KOKO in London. we will play at first after 9PM. Please come to see if you like our music
Hey Tim! I'm radiant thanks for asking, and dead happy to have remade your (e)quaintance
I still look back on those sessions with a smile- work was rarely such fun, and such a pleasure. Happy to see you are still doing what you love, and with good friends too, that's pretty special. Hope to catch a gig sometime, but I get out even less these days!
Back at Monto Water Rats, Thursday 16th July, supporing a massive band from South Africa, Cassette Should be a great night, lots of quality bands Get there early to catch all our set! Hope to see you there
I went to see Elbow recently - one of the best concerts I've ever seen. A brilliant opening where they all come onto the stage with trumpets for Starlings. It was fab.
Great drums on Fink songs! Love it!
