Back In NY

We're finally back in NY after our Over The Moon Tour! The tour was a smashing success and has led to all sorts of exciting new things happening, all of which shall be revealed with the goodness of time :)

For now, it's time for reflection. So much was going on in the months leading up to the tour, and the tour itself was so crazy, that I haven't had a chance to think about anything that has happened recently. Let alone keep a tour journal....   

.... a tour journal you say? 

What a fab idea!

We shall begin shortly.

Tour Update!!!

Whew! With all the preparations for our tour I haven't had a chance to update recently.  Here it is, the Over The Moon Tour! 

June 16th: Hughes House Show, Philadelphia, PA

June 17th: The Copy Cat, Baltimore, MD

June 18th: The Sprout, Richmond, VA

June 19th: The Garage, Charlottesville, VA

June 20th: The Bywater, Asheville, NC

June 21st: Depalma’s, Athens, GA

June 22nd: The Crash Pad, Chattanooga, TN

June 24th: The Springwater, Nashville, TN

June 25th: MOTR Pub, Cincinnati, OH

June 26th: TerrorBlurr House Show, Cleveland, OH

June 27th: Woodruff’s, Ann Arbor, MI

June 29th: The Nines, Ithaca, NY

June 30th: Elf Parlor, North Adams, MA

We're already on our fourth day! Sitting in a coffee show in Richmond, VA today watching the rain. Tonight we head over to Charlottesville to play The Garage, then on to Asheville, NC tomorrow. Updates to follow...

Loudvine Writeup!

Thanks Loudvine.com for the sweet writeup! I got teary. ALSO! Tour dates are set for the second half of June and shall be posted shortly... TIMATIM FITFIT – THE WORLD OF CARBON New EP by Brooklyn's Timatim Fitfit is out! Brooklyn, NYC The web keeps opening up all sorts of musical opportunities. Discovering cool, new things;  it is like a scavenger hunt that can end with quite a thrill. Case in point, the pleasure I get  from playing Timatim Fitfit’s ep! Call it whatever you like… baroque, folksy, intriguing,  whimsical, fun. But one thing is certain, I am fired up that this music has made its way into my life.

Royal Albert Hall Revue @ Knitting Factory etc.

What a week...

Last Tuesday (the 10th?) Timatim Fitfit played Pete's Candy Store with an extra spicy drum kit complete with a battered bucket, glass of beer, and dented music stand - but no cymbals! Or is the king of rhythm and made it work... once he had nothing to play but pieces of a motorcycle and still made it happen...

On Friday night Abi and I accompanied Barry at the Goodbye Blue Monday premiere of his project Trust Fall. It was amazing, to see a rowdy friday night room full of people become absorbed in songs they'd never heard before... This was a very special evening.

Saturday we played in the backyard of an amazing Art/Music happening hosted by James "Jumbo" Walsh who runs a Queens arts collective by the name of Quarc. Wow, the bands that night were incredible. To name a few: Juviley, Luke Folger, and The Forms.

Then on Tuesday we played the Knitting Factory's Royal Albert Hall Revue in celebration of Bob Dylan's birthday... which was really fun and hilarious! It was a dream to play the Knitting Factory, however afterward I was approached by one of the other bands who were convinced I actually hated Dylan... which I think means our show was a success :)

 Check out our take on Maggie's Farm:

Help Us Go On Tour! The Kickstarter Project Has Begun....

We're trying to raise funds to send Timatim Fitfit on the road for two weeks this June. Any and all donations come with lovely gift items and a lifetime of gratitude from everyone in the band!

Footage From Pete's Candy Store On YouTube

No How is up on YouTube, lovely footage courtesy of Diana Paz Takagi! Thanks lady!

Knocks From The Underground Review!

This is my favorite review of all time, excepting that they got my last name wrong, but what's in a name...

 ;-)

http://www.knocksfromtheunderground.com/ny-bands/2011/5/2/timatim-fitfit.html

words by Sam Houghton

From the high-decibel wails of Tim Cuff’s vocal chords, it sounds as if at one point in his life he had wandered the mean streets of Russia, drinking heavily and composing theatrical numbers in his head. But somewhere along the line the locals failed to appreciate his sounds, so his muse turned towards sad themes and cheap drink with a joking front.

Back in Brooklyn on the stage front and behind his keyboard, Cuff’s persona seems like the village clown, tanked on booze, tattooed with mocking smiles and howling in his erratic but trained voice. Live and recorded, the music he composes as Timatim Fitfit, his five-piece band, his muse transcends into a sort of goofy Russian opera. The band has a traditional folk vibe with soft drums and the main leads coming from Cuff’s piano and a very Fiddler on the Roof fiddle. But underneath this goofy front is a genuine sadness, like Cuff understands the life of the vagabonding bard, a sort of sensitive village drunkard in some late Irish Novel. The genuineness gives the band a dynamic that sets them apart from a mere Cake cover band and into one with form and a solid point. The best songs Timatim Fitfit has to offer are “All The World of Carbon” and “No How.” It is important to mention that in the background of “All The World of Carbon” there is a backing vocal that brings the music to an almost trendy new level. It has strong traces of Fleet Foxes and is delightful to the ears.

AIDS Walk Benefit This Thursday!

We're going to be opening for some awesome bands this Thursday at Crash Mansion at the AIDS Walk Benefit! Big thanks to Sally Hall for the invite, let's make some $ for the cause! (Also, there's a free vodka bar.... added bonus!)

Check out details here:
AIDS Walk Benefit April 14th @ Crash Mansion

Timatim Fitfit @ Pete's Candy Store

My band's gonna be playing Pete's Candy Store in BK this Thursday at 9pm.

I hear the beer is sweeeet there...

No How Is Dancing

A fine man named Daniel Schwarz has created an interactive dance performance to my song No How. But that's not all ... in his words: "I built this street organ kind of thing ... Everyone in the audience could play it and control with it the song speed and in that way the visuals and the movement of the dancer." How fucking awesome is that? You can see pictures of the organ and his other works at the link below.

AXIOM.3 - No How from Daniel Schwarz on Vimeo.

Hektor Elizabeth Sandalwood

Our new roomy ... we found him set aside and balding in a junk store ... no squirrel deserves such a fate.

Here's Mirror getting acquainted with her new buddy.

This year's holiday tale

Found this in my girlfriend's basement - a christmas story!