In 1979 TIM DRY alongside fellow mime partner Barbie Wilde, formed a burlesque/mime/theatre/dance troupe called SHOCK with Robert Pereno, Carole Caplin, LA Richards and Sean Crawford. SHOCK performed extensively in the burgeoning New Romantic club scene in London in the early 1980s. The first SHOCK single on RCA Records, ‘Angel Face’, (co-produced by Rusty Egan from VISAGE and Richard Burgess from LANDSCAPE) was a modest dance floor hit in clubs all over the UK and in New York. SHOCK continued to play at the Blitz Club, The Venue, the Playboy Club, The Embassy Club, The Lyceum, and ‘The People’s Palace’ performance at the Rainbow Theatre. They supported Gary Numan for three nights at his ‘Farewell’ concerts at Wembley Arena in April 1981. Reduced to a four-piece ensemble after the abrupt departure of Robert and LA in June 1981, SHOCK released a second single, ‘Dynamo Beat’, on RCA, which again was a dance floor hit in UK clubs, but failed to chart nationwide.
In early 1982 Tim and Sean left Shock to pursue their own vision of a combination of mime, visual image and music, creating a duo called TIK AND TOK. Signed to Indie label Survival Records, they released 5 singles and an album ‘Intolerance’ in the UK, Europe and Japan. Their second single ‘Cool Running’ reached No.69 in the UK Top 70 (see ‘The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles).
In 1982, Tik and Tok were cast as featured creatures in two roles each in ‘Star Wars Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi’. The same year also saw them appear in the cult Horror/Sci Fi film, ‘Xtro’. Tim played ‘The Alien’ and Sean played ‘The Action Man’.
Tik and Tok supported Duran Duran on their sell-out UK tour of 1982 and Gary Numan on his comeback UK ‘Warriors’ tour in 1983. They appeared on 23 TV shows, including ‘The Royal Variety Performance’ in front of HRH Queen Elizabeth and the cult music program, ‘The Tube’, hosted by Jools Holland and Paula Yates.
Tik & Tok reformed briefly in 2005, creating a new album, ‘Dream Orphans’, in which Tim wrote, played and produced all the songs. Tim and Sean appear regularly at ‘Star Wars’ autograph conventions worldwide.
Tim acted in more than 90 TV Commercials in the UK and Europe. He had featured roles in the US-UK co-production of the TV series ‘The 10th Kingdom’, in films such as ‘Soup’, ‘Death Wish III’, ‘Revolution’ and ‘Decadence’, and UK TV shows including ‘The Bill’, ‘Eastenders’, ‘Casualty’, ‘Dempsey and Makepeace’, ‘Goodbye Mr Steadman’ and ‘Father Ted’. On stage he played the lead in Steven Berkoff’s ‘Harry’s Christmas’ and Molière’s ‘School For Wives’.
In 1996, alongside singer-songwriter Georg Kajanus from the band SAILOR, he co-created the poetic/techno music duo called NOIR. Their song ‘Walking’ was used as a motif in four episodes of the Channel 4 food and drink series ‘FEAST’ in 1997, which was directed by David Pritchard (of Rick Stein and Keith Floyd fame) and also starred TV chef Jean-Christophe Novelli. Noir also presented ‘Feast’ and wrote the theme tune. The video for the ‘Walking’ single, released on Koch Records in the UK, was shown on ‘Top Of The Pops 2’ and ‘Live and Kicking’. Their self-produced album, ‘Strange Desire’, was re-released by Angel Air Records in 2007.
Tim is currently collaborating with guitarist Mo Blackford (LIGOTAGE and NASA) under the name TIMANDMO, creating music that can best be described as ‘Organic Electronica’.
*DISCOGRAPHY*
SHOCK
Singles:
‘Angel Face’. b/w ‘R.E.R.B’. RCA Records 1980.
‘Dynamo Beat’. b/w ‘Dream Games’.RCA Records 1981.
TIK AND TOK
Singles:
• ‘Summer In The City’. b/w ‘Crisis’. Survival Records 1982.
• ‘Cool Running’. b/w ‘Vile Bodies’. Survival Records 1983.
• ‘Screen Me, I’m Yours’. b/w ‘Dangerous and Unafraid’. Survival Records 1984.
• ‘Everything Will Change’. b/w ‘Cracking Up’. Survival Records 1984.
• ‘Higher Ground’. b/w ‘Down From The Sky’. Survival Records 1984.
• Albums:
• ‘Intolerance’. Survival Records 1984.
• ‘Dream Orphans’. Self-Released 2007.
• EPs:
• Tik & Tok EP (2004) Rephlex label.
• ‘Slightly Deranged’ EP (2006) Self-released.
• ‘Intolerance Xtras’ EP (2006) Self-released.
• ‘Vintage Lo-Fi ‘EP (2006) Self-released.
• COMPILATIONS:
• Survival Dance Report SUR LP 007. ‘Summer In The City’ and ‘Cool Running’. 1983
• The Art Of Survival LP SUR LP OO9 ‘Screen Me, I’m Yours’ and ‘Higher Ground’. 1984.
• Jet Set - Sounds Of Lust & Luxury CD 0927 454422. ‘Crisis’. 2002
• DJ-Kicks: Chicken Lips CD K7155CD. ‘Crisis’. 2003
• Intergalactic Sunrise (XL Version) PR-009. ‘Cool Running’. 2006
THE WANG BROTHERS
Single:
‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ (George Harrison) b/w ‘Wango!’ (co-writer). Communiqué Records 1985.
BEKI BONDAGE (co-writer)
Singles:
‘Don’t Turn Away’ b/w ‘Hard To Get’. Communiqué Records 1985.
‘Out Of The Darkness’. b/w ‘You Got It Made’. Communiqué Records 1985.
NASA (co-writer)
Album:‘Insha - Allah’. Sire Records 1990.
‘Burning Gold’.
NOIR
Single:
‘Walking’. Koch Records 1997.
Album:
‘Strange Desire’. Angel Air Records 2007.
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