Sally Timms

Singer + Songwriter + Musician

Female

Born Nov 29, 1959

Age 53

Sally Timms is an English singer and songwriter. Timms is best known for her long involvement with the Mekons whom she joined in 1985. She recorded her first solo album, Hangahar, at the age of nineteen with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks in 1980. Prior… Read More

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Fred Armisen
Married 1998 - 2004

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'Ancient & Modern: 1911 2011' Spin Magazine (Blog)
Google News - Sep 15, 2011

'... year 1911 on their 26th album dovetails nicely with the New Americana wave, though these veterans get grittier than any of those new jacks, whether it's the title track's salty sea shanty or the music-hall slink of the Sally Timms-sung "Geeshie'
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Brooklyn Musician Is Newton Stewart Bound Galloway Today
Google News - Aug 30, 2011

'In late 90s Chicago, Mills rose to prominence through collaborations with Mekons Jon Langford and Sally Timms, and on bills with acts like Steve Earle, Wilco, Neko Case and My Morning Jacket. Over the next decade, Mills travelled constantly throughout'
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Music Review; Celebrating A Twisted, Elegant Versifier
NYTimes - Aug 08, 2011

'Dan Zanes started ''''Shelebration!,'''' a concert tribute to Shel Silverstein on Saturday night at SummerStage, with ''''You''re Always Welcome at Our House.'''' It''s a smiley, bouncy song that could be a children''s ditty except that it''s about serial murder, with a new victim in each verse. It was a canny choice that pulled together some of the many'
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Google News - Jul 29, 2011

'Terry Adams, Laurie Anderson, Bobby Bare Jr., Pat Dailey, Gary Lucas, Duke McVinnie, Janine Nichols, Melvin Van Peebles, Kembra Pfahler, Shilpa Ray, Lou Reed, Roswell Rudd, Annabella Sciorra, Sally Timms, Martha Wainwright, Chloe Webb, Dan Zanes,'
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1959 Birth Born on November 29, 1959.

TWENTIES

1980 20 Years Old 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. … Read More

1988 28 Years Old 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.

THIRTIES

1995 35 Years Old … 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. … Read More

1998 38 Years Old She was married to musician and comedian Fred Armisen from 1998 to 2004.

FORTIES

2004 44 Years Old Her latest solo recording "In the World of Him" was released in 2004 on Touch and Go Records.

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