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.