Sally Timms (born 29 November 1959 in Leeds, England) is a singer and songwriter. Events 1777 - San Jose California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Leeds ( is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both Timms is best known for her long involvement with the Mekons whom she joined in 1985. The Mekons are a British rock band Formed in the late 1970s they are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British Punk rock [1]
She recorded her first solo album, Hangahar (an experimental improvised film score), at the age of nineteen with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks in 1980. This musician is not to be confused with the 1970s singer Peter Shelley. Buzzcocks are an English Punk rock band formed in Manchester in 1975 [1] Prior to joining the Mekons she was in a band called the She Hees. [1] She has released several other solo CDs, 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. Her latest solo recording "In the World of Him" was released in 2004 on Touch and Go Records.
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. The 6ths is a band created by Stephin Merritt, also the prime mover behind The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes. Marc Almond (born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond on 9 July, 1957 in Southport, Lancashire, (now in the county of Merseyside Andre Williams (born Zephire Andre Williams in Bessemer, Alabama, on November 1, 1936) is an American R&B and 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. Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York -born Brooklyn-based Architect, Landscape architect Kathy Acker (née Karen Alexander) ( 18 April 1947 - 30 November 1997) was an American experimental Novelist, 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". 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.
Her musical style is often placed under the genre of alternative country. Alternative country is a term used to describe a number of Country music subgenres that tend to differ from mainstream or pop country music
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Discography
- 1980 - Hangahar
- 1988 - Somebody's Rockin' My Dreamboat
- 1995 - It Says Here
- 1995 - To the Land of Milk and Honey
- 1997 - "Cowboy Sally"
- 1999 - Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos
- 2000 - Songs of False Hope and High Values (with Jon Langford)
- 2004 - In the World of Him
Trivia
- 'Horses', which appears on both Somebody's Rockin' My Dreamboat and Songs of False Hope and High Values, has been covered twice by Will Oldham. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Jon Langford is a Welsh-born musician and artist who is based in Chicago. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " See also Cover version Covered is used in reference to a musical recording presented under the guise of a false title and artist Will Oldham, aka Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (born 24 December 1970 in Louisville Kentucky) is an American Singer, Songwriter, He first performed it under the Palace Songs moniker, and later as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Lost Blues and Other Songs by Palace Music is a compilation of singles rarities and live tracks recorded by Will Oldham under various permutations of the Palace Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music is the name of an album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.
See also
She was once married to Fred Armisen a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Wee Hairy Beasties are a children's music group comprised of Jon Langford, Sally Timms, Kelly Hogan, and Devil in a Woodpile. They later divorced.
References
- ^ a b c Sally Timms at All Music Guide
External links
- Sally Timms page at Club Mekon
- Sally Timms collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
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