Occasionally paid musician, long-term unpaid satirist, paid-up internet junkie: in polite company as Tim Fatchen; impolite company as Flying Tadpole. A quick sampling of both is on the youtube link, and you can always switch the sound off and watch the pictures.
Here are the main music links, with a lot of FAWM and 5090 components. Tim Fatchen links are quieter music, Flying Tadpole links are rabid.
http://www.myspace.com/timfatchen
http://www.myspace.com/flyingtadpole2
http://www.reverbnation.com/timfatchen
http://www.reverbnation.com/flyingtadpole
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This 2010 FAWM has been difficult for me, and there's no way the collection of songs is any sort of a cohesive album.
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27/28 Feb
If anyone is still following this:
I will probably bounce out a couple more off-the-cuffs and possibly Riding for the Mountains before the chop descends. Then I'm off air until March 5--after the memorial service--then I'll try to comment more until i disappear 17th March or so. But when I last looked, I'd already made 260+ comments and most of those analytical, not one-liners. Nowhere near Errol but nothing to be sneered at, so my conscience is as clear as it normally gets (which is pretty murky)
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7 feb 10
There has been a death in the family, sad but not unexpected and not particularly tragic, but I'm probably not fully functioning until almost the end of February. I'll try to listen and comment still, but it'll be even more disjointed than it was.
[And we're still desperately renovating a flat]
So don't expect to see anything up for weeks yet.
20 Feb 10
The apartment is repainted, refitted, cleaned, so that is finally out of the way.
The funeral was ten days ago, but I'm now practising for a memorial service (probably, large) for March 4th.
Possibly I can churn something out in the coming week but I'm devoid of any creative impulse right now.
Midnight 22 Feb: 6 days left. 9 songs to go. Should be a doddle.not... Time for another 3 impros I think...
Evening 24 Feb: 4 days, 6 songs left to do; I've got a collab that exists as a rough, The Garden Shed From Hell lyrics but no music, One More Step as lyric and sketched music, Telephone Billpay as lyrics no music, so that's 4 I could legitimately put up locked, I need two more tonight then I can clean up the others and (pantpantpant) make it...
AM 25 Feb...and Arthritis, as an achey instrumental. Arthritis is what I've got, lotsa fish oil and glucosamine and paracetamol and when my hands really complain I remind them "Use it or lose it". The rough of Quitter Talk collab is up, and Devin is working on the music for The Garden Shed From Hell!.
PM 25 Feb Devin through giving up sleep has the Garden Shed From Hell up and running. One More Step needs to be sung but otherwise done. Telephone Billpay still needs music. I discovered I put together a whole rough of a song Riding for the Mountains and forgot it, so that'll spring up as numebr 14 before the 28th. Yay!
PM 26 Feb. Just One More Step no up, how appropriate, developed ukulele music for Telephone Billpay, that's up. One more to go, I''m exhausted already.
OK, collab with HeavyHedonist "31" reasons to slit your wrists song is up, I found it really difficult because Ive actually got 46 reasons to do so...
If anyone is still following this:
I will probably bounce out a couple more off-the-cuffs and possibly Riding for the Mountains before the chop descends. Then I'm off air until after March 4 and the memorial service, then I'll try to comment more until i disappear 17th March or so. But when I last looked, I'd already made 260+ comments and most of those analytical, not one-liners. Nowhere near Errol but nothing to be sneered at, so my conscience is as clear as it normally gets (which is pretty murky)
6 march 2010. OK, although we're now through the funeral season, I'm tired and shot and won't be around much till April. For those I haven't got to, I plead circumstances and give apologies. Next year will be better. Thank you for the comments and interchange too.