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Jul 17, 2015 · The film wonderfully documents, through archival footage, following the band on a semi-disastrous UK tour (where they find out about show cancellations from the audience), and interviews with...
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Oct 24, 2014 · From left: Sally Timms, Rico Bell, Mitch Flacco (a so-called “deputy” band member, on floor), Steve Goulding and Jon Langford of the Mekons. Frank Swider/Music Box Films. By Rob Tannenbaum....
Apr 16, 2015 · Brit-punk siren on her band’s new documentary and longevity. Revenge of the Mekons, a jubilant biopic on what could arguably be the longest-running of all bands that emerged in the British...
Born in Leeds, in 1959, Timms recorded her first solo album, Hangahar (an experimental improvised film score), at the age of 19 with Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks in 1980. Prior to joining The Mekons in 1986 she was in a band called the She Hees.
Dec 20, 2015 · Sally Timms is a musician who is best known as one of the members of The Mekons, a band that started out as one of the pivotal English punk rock bands back in 1977. She joined the band in 1986 and has also had success as a solo artist. I always loved The Mekons.
The band was now augmented by vocalist Sally Timms, violinist Susie Honeyman, ex-Damned member Lu Edmonds, accordionist/vocalist Rico Bell (a.k.a. Eric Bellis), and former The Rumour drummer Steve Goulding.
The record is the first of Timms' solo work to be released in America. Timms' voice is of course also one of the most beloved features of the Mekons, the onetime British punk band whose geographic center of gravity has shifted in recent years to Chicago.
