Sally Timms

Sally Timms
Born 29 November 1959
Leeds, England
Genres Alternative country
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments Vocals
Associated acts The Mekons

Sally Timms (born 29 November 1959) is an English singer and songwriter. Timms is best known for her long involvement with The Mekons whom she joined in 1985.[1][2][3][4][5]

Career

Born in Leeds, England, in 1959,[1][6] Sally Timms recorded her first solo album, Hangahar (an experimental improvised film score), at the age of 19 with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks in 1980.[1] Prior to joining The Mekons in 1986 she was in a band called the She Hees.[1][7] She has released several other solo albums, Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat in 1988, To the Land of Milk and Honey in 1995, and a country album, Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos, for Bloodshot Records in 1998.[8][9][10] Her latest solo recording In the World of Him was released in 2004 on Touch and Go Records.[8][9][11][12]

Timms sang "Give me Back my Dreams" on The Sixths' Hyacinths and Thistles and has recorded with Marc Almond, The Aluminum Group, Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Show, the Sadies, Andre Williams and A Grape Dope. She participated in Vito Acconci's Theater Project for a Rock Band as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 1995 and also performed with Kathy Acker in her lesbian pirate operetta Pussy, King of the Pirates at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and elsewhere.[6][13] Timms sang several songs on The Executioner's Last Songs CDs, which raised funds for the Illinois Moratorium Against the Death Penalty, and participated in Jon Langford's multi-media performance project The Executioner's Last Songs.[14] She occasionally writes crude broadsheets on pop culture and recently directed a Christmas pirate panto Catfish Girl and her adventures amongst mermaids and pyrates at the Hideout Bar in Chicago.[15]

Her musical style is often placed under the genre of alternative country.[15]

She was married to musician and comedian Fred Armisen from 1998 to 2004.[16][17]

Discography

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Sally Timms at Allmusic
  2. ↑ The New York Times
  3. ↑ The New York Times
  4. ↑ LA Weekly
  5. ↑ The Los Angeles Times
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Wallenfeldt, Jeff "the Mekons" in Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 September 2013
  7. ↑ Grow, Kory (2007) "Five Mekons Records That Make Jon Langford and Sally Timms Proud to be Mekons", CMJ New Music Monthly, August–September 2007, pp. 10–11. Retrieved 16 September 2013
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Sally Timms at Touch & Go Records. Retrieved 16 September 2013
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Murphy, Matthew (2004) "Sally Timms In the World of Him", Pitchfork Media, 3 October 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2013
  10. ↑ Sandlin, Michael (1999) "Sally Timms Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos", Pitchfork Media, 16 November 1999. Retrieved 16 September 2013
  11. ↑ Milner, Greg (1999) "Reviews", Spin, December 1999. Retrieved 16 September 2013
  12. ↑ Soults, Franklin (1999) "Sally Timms Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos", CMJ New Music Monthly, December 1999. Retrieved 16 September 2013
  13. ↑ Obeja, Achy (1997) "'Pussy, King Of The Pirates' Awash In Sea Of Rock", Chicago Tribune, 21 September 1997. Retrieved 16 September 2013
  14. ↑ "The Executioner's Last Songs: Volumes 2 and 3", Billboard. Retrieved 16 September 2013
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Christmas Pyrate Panto", Time Out Chicago, 3 April 2005. Retrieved 16 September 2013
  16. ↑ The Los Angeles Times
  17. ↑ "Fred Armisen, Elisabeth Moss Marriage: Actor Admits He Was 'A Terrible Husband'", Huffington Post, 8 January 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013

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