Who was (or possibly still is) Tilted Tim?
Recorded and issued in 1992, Fate Has Made a Mess of My
Jeans is the only album thus far from
Tilted Tim. Sadly there’s very little I can tell you about Tim, apart from that
he was based in North Harrow, and that his main business seems to have been
software publishing.
Fate Has Made a Mess of My Jeans contains 13 tracks of keyboard-led oddness with the
eponymous Tim handling synth, drum machine and vocals, accompanied on occasion
by his friends Superstar Bob Green (acoustic and bass guitars), Andy Hewitt
(quantised piano), Adam Shea (‘twiddly guitar’) and Dave ‘Spiggy’ Miller
(electric guitar and ‘sha-la-las’). Try to imagine something somewhere between early, Irene and Mavis-period Blancmange and the wonderful Mavin James and you'll get the idea. The late Andy Hewitt who was, for many
years, closely involved with community radio station Radio Harrow, produced the
whole thing. In February 2009 Radio Harrow named their new editing suite the Andy
Hewitt Media Suite in his memory.
In 1993 Exposed
magazine issued a compilation CD featuring the album’s opening track Hi, I’m
Tilted. And that’s all I’ve got! If anyone knows anything else about Tim please do let me know. For
those interested or intrigued enough you can find the whole album at the wonderful
Mr Weird and Wacky: one of that blog's followers, Harvey Gold, doctored the sleeve image (above) to make it more usable. The's a copy for sale on Discogs as I type this if you really need it!
For now here are a couple of my favourite tracks from the
album, Z17 and My New Career.
Enjoy!
Got ahold of the record and eventually the man himself after seeing it on Mr Weird and etc.
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I always wondered about Tilted Tim (and everyone else off the EXPOSED comp CD). I really liked it at the time (and still listen to it occasionally now). From what I could tell - and Discog confirms it - virtually everyone did......um, not much after the CD came out. Thanks for the link to the TT album, though. I look forward to listening to it. :)
ReplyDeleteI always wondered about Tilted Tim (and everyone else off the EXPOSED comp CD). I really liked it at the time (and still listen to it occasionally now). From what I could tell - and Discog confirms it - virtually everyone did......um, not much after the CD came out. Thanks for the link to the TT album, though. I look forward to listening to it. :)
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