2011

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TIM AND FRAN HEALY TOGETHER!

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A fan-filmed video, showing Travis frontman Fran Healy performing Everybody's Changing at his fundraising show in Berlin on Monday, at which Tim was a special guest.

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TIM PIC!

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T + J DRUMS

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Hello!

After spending most of this year writing, rehearsing, chopping and changing, we are finally recording our new album. In fact, thanks to all the time spent on pre-production we're getting through recording very quickly (so far...) and things are sounding very exciting indeed.

We started with a week in Sussex with a new producer, plus our faithful assistant engineer Tom 'The Chief' Hough, prepping a few last details and working through a couple of very new songs. To double up our work-rate, the other Tom (the one who does the singing) and I set up in a shed and tinkered with vocal ideas. And in the evenings there was occasionally time for a walk to the pub for some local ales and a game of Toad In The Hole as the last of the light summer evenings gave way to autumn.

To begin recording properly, we decamped to London for an intense two weeks that featured a LOT of drumming, a fair bit of piano-mangling, a sprinkling of bass and singing and a huge number of salt beef sandwiches. We're now moving back down to Sussex with 16 songs well underway, and we can't wait to piece the rest of it together. Things are sounding really, really great.

Anyway, while we're getting on with that we're going to try and keep you updated with news, photos and videos from the studio and elsewhere. It's going to be a very exciting few weeks for us, and we hope to share some of that with you.

Lots of love,

Tim, Tom, Richard and Jesse

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TIM: 5 SONGS I LIKE

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Hello! Here are five things I'm enjoying at the moment.
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1 The War On Drugs - Baby Missiles

Utterly brilliant song with a fantastic sound. My next ten demos are probably just going to be inferior copies of this…



2 Lana Del Rey - Video Games

Again, lovely song, lovely sound. Very dark and intense.



3 ABBA - The Name Of The Game

Let's be honest, we take these songs for granted. We've heard them too many times. Just listen to this with your headphones on. There is no dead wood - every single moment is filled with a catchy melody or sound. Like virtually all their songs, it's a masterclass in pop songwriting.



Speaking of ABBA reminds me of this classic Erasure pastiche from their Abba-esque era:



4 Fleetwood Mac live

Check out this performance of Go Your Own Way. Just amazing.



5 JBM

Jesse B Marchant supported Mt. Desolation on a few dates in the USA last year. I got a sneak preview of a new recording of his last week, and it truly blew me away. Sadly, of course, I can't post that song here because the new record's not out yet….but in the meantime keep listening to his first record, Not Even In July.

http://www.jbm-music.com/