On March 20th, Tymon played an inpromptu gig as support act for UK singer-songwriter Pete Doherty (The Libertines, Babyshambles) at Folkestone Lees Cliff Hall in Folkestone, Kent, England.

Susan de Muth (March 21st, 2009): "Last night Tymon supported Pete Docherty at Folkestone Lees Cliff Hall which was fun. Pete's young audience seemed to like Tymon's stuff a lot. A whole new generation to discover work new to them. The only problem was that, being Tymon, he didn't say who he was...just got up and did a  solo set with the violin and guitar then wandered off!  I'll send you something more detailed for your site laer if you like... got some pics but very bad lighting."

On Saturday August 2nd, 2008 Tymon headlined a special festival afternoon of folk and roots music at the Stockton Riverside Fringe Festival held at the Georgian Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees, England, UK. The completely free festival which ran from Wednesday 30th July to Sunday 3rd August also featured, among others, the Super Furry Animals, Happy Mondays, Paul Heaton (Beautiful South and Housemartins), John Power, British Sea Power and Clinic. Stockton Riverside Fringe Festival was organized by the Tees Music Alliance, with sponsorship and support from Stockton Borough Council and Arts Council England.

Susan de Muth - (August 11th, 2008): "The Stockton Riverside festival was good. A photographer called Susan Cockerill was there who has some fantastic pictures of Tymon and Joe from 2002 and took a lot last weekend at the festival. We stayed in the same hotel as the Happy Mondays and had a merry drink with Bez who is great company and a fabulous performer as we discovered afterwards at the gig... After the festival we had a few days in the border country between NE England and Scotland - the most remote part of the UK with no mobile phone reception which was odd! - just cycling round and chilling out..."

On Monday July 28th, 2008, Tymon took part in an epic 4-hour live concert peformance of Hal Willner’s Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys concert, held at the Barbican Hall in London, England. Artists featured on the night, included: Shane MacGowan, Chris Difford, Baby Gramps, actor Tim Robbins, Gavin Friday, The Langley Sisters, Richard Strange, Martin Carthy, Neil Hannon, cartoonist Ralph Steadman, Teddy Thompson, Kamila Thompson, Sandy Dillon, Julie Fowlis and band, Robyn Hitchcock, Suzanne Vega, Martha Wainwright, Kathryn Williams, Eliza Carthy, Norma Waterson, Rachel and Becky Unthank, Jenni Muldaur and house band: Kate St John (MD), Andy Newmark, Leo Abrahams, Rory McFarlane, Martyn Barker, Barry Reynolds and Roger Eno...

Songs played throughout the night included: "South Australia", "The Leaving of Liverpool", "Farewell Nancy", "Pinery Boy", "Boney was a Warrior", "Baltimore Whores", "Bully In The Alley", "Bay Of Biscay", "Good Ship Venus", "Johnny Leave Her", "Lowlands Low", "Caroline and Her Young Sailor", "Rolling Sea", "Sam's Gone Away", "Lowlands Away", "Cruel Ship's Captain", "Turkish Revelry", "Hog Eye Man", "Row the Boat Child", "Old Man of the Sea" and an improvised (due to Pete Doherty's non-appearance) "What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor".

Caroline van Oosten de Boer said this of Tymon's performance on the night (August 1st, 2008): "I have to say I was a little surprised. I didn't know who he was and he wasn't on the bill, I thought. I loved that he was really getting into the improvisation on "What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor" and I thought he suited the material really well."

Tymon's second show in Germany was as a headliner spot for the Woody Bash Festival at a venue called Hasenschaukel in Hamburg on July 12th. The following musicians/bands also be appeared at the fesitval: Amy Rude, Unreachables, La Grande Illusion, Tan Le Racoon, Boo Hoo, and Dirty Dishes.

Set-List: Beyond This Frontier, Indestructible, Oil, Guantanamo, The Wheel Of Life and Death, Pick Up The Pieces/ Ain’t Got No Home, We Dragged Ourselves, Cold Wind Blows, Legal Thief, Lose This Skin, (Unknown), Zugabe, (Unknown), and Time For Moving On.

Tanju (aka Tan Le Racoon) - July 23^rd, 2008: "My own experiences on the Festival as organizer as well as performer (as "Tan Le Racoon") are all positive. Everything ran smooth, the audience was awesome, the music was great. Honestly, we were pretty flattered by the excitement on the side of media, guests and musicians. Of course, having to keep everything running all day I did not have the time I wish I did to talk with each and everyone, but overall I did meet great people on the day, as a part of the performers we only knew by email. We did have good coverage, and I guess only two other happenings (another festival and a big gig) kept even more people from coming.

 "The audience was just great, most stayed all day, and did not -as expected- come and go for the various artists. They were curious to hear some new artists next to the ones they already knew. Also the mixture of music was enhancing this. Woody Guthrie's ghost might have been with us, as him being our patron influenced so many leftfield songwriters, and also "created" the political folk song. One preview called him the first punk-poet. Who am I to disagree…

"Tymon's gig was awesome. To some a revelation, to some others already gig of the year (so far). It was strange, as noone really knew what to expect. I had an idea, knowing the music he did throughout the years. But of course, his gig was also advertised with his connections with the Clash and being a member of The Mescaleros. We did some radio play (on our own radio show) with all kind of his different songs; this even made it more interesting what he was doing that night.

"When Tymon and his wife Susan arrived for soundcheck, I met two great, very nice people, obviously interested in what's going on and supporting independent ideas. Susan and I immediately thought we knew each other from the past (I used to live in London in the mid to late 80s) but just couldn't figure it out. They were very helpful in making me feel at ease with their easy going in these crucial hours before doors open (yes, we were nervous at this first festival).

"Tymon's show was set for 10pm and as we did not meet any delays at all during the day he went on stage in time. Throughout his set he changed between violin, guitar and also introduced his very own tetraharp. I don't want exaggerate but his set was "flaming", can you call it this? It was ripping; he was wild, funny, full of wit and with his energy blasting people away. The audience was taking this in as if they needed to make up for something they missed out for the last 20 years or so. Somehow everyone in the room knew something special was happening. You can say this is because Tymon was "there" witnessed the rock madness of the 70s, saw the Pistols at their first gig, etc, he done it all, and he does not have to prove anything anymore. But he was beyond any borders of rock n roll. And I guess that's what everyone liked about the set.

"Inbetween his show, I made a remark that I would love to hear Legal Thief, a track that is definitely my fave out his catalogue, and Tymon did not hesitate, remembered the chords (the track being written and recorded on piano) and played a great version of this on guitar. For the very first time, as he confessed later. He never played that song live before, and as it worked and it is also one of his favorites he will also consider to keep it in his live set. After this, he quickly changed back to violin and ripped straight into the "riff" (strange to use this word for violin) of "Lose This Skin", probably his most well known track. This was when everyone in the room had goosebumps. He finished his encores with the great "Time For Moving On", a very touching ending for his set and also for the whole evening. I had some tears in my eyes, sentimental me."

Susan de Muth - July 14^th, 2008: "The two gigs in Germany went well - particularly the 'Woody Bash' in Hamburg where the level of musicianship of everyone on the bill was really high despite (or perhaps because of) it being a small venue. The co-owner of Hasenschaukel, Tan, is quite visionary and pretty well connected and congratulations are due to him for putting such an ambitious project together with such success. The event went on from 5pm until the early hours.

"Tymon went on last after Amy Rude who is from Tuscan Arizona and a very gutsy and interesting singer-songwriter who plays great guitar.

"Also a finely tuned young Swedish band called the Unreachables played and a lovely young singer songwriter who goes out under the name of BooHoo whose stuff is a bit like a German version of Jeffrey Lewis. The audience were truly appreciative of all the music and seemed transfixed by Tymon's performance of around 50 minutes.

The tetraharp was the subject of much fascination, among audience and musicians alike.

"DJ Baby Doll (who looks just like the name suggests) then played some great music until the place reluctantly closed. Hasenschaukel (which means 'rabbit swing') is a really quirky venue and anyone going to Hamburg should check it out. It's in the red light district of San Pauli but couldn't be further removed from its sleazy location, decorated like a sort of DaDa dream in pink, green and gold. Also, fantastic food and hand-crocheted merchandise.

"Sunday we were kicked out of our hotel at a very cruel hour but were lucky enough to find a bar which has its own fake beach strewn with comfortable mattresses called Strond San Pauli overlooking the busy port of Hamburg. Again, highly recommended."

- 11 photos of Tymon's performance at the Woody Bash Festival can be viewed in PHOTO GALLERY - 2 section. A podcast extract of Hamburger Abendblatt's 'Episode 41 - Im Todestaxi mit Woody Guthrie' featuring Tymon performing "Lose This Skin" (and talking about Woody Guthie) is featured above. Two videos of the Wild At Heart club show courtesy of Matze from Drunk'n'Roll are featured on the VIDEO page. Thank you Tanju for his excellent review and assistance, Boo Hoo for his assistance, http://mainstage.de/ and Chrissie for the use of two photos, www.myspace.com/maschine54 for the use of nine photos, www.iloveilive.de and www.abendblatt.de (German newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt) for the iLIVE podcast (Episode 41 - Im Todestaxi mit Woody Guthrie - Christian Dittloff and Felix Pace) extract, Susan and Pascal Briggs. I appreciate everyone's kind help and assistance with providing coverage of this event for the fan site, thank you very much.

Tymon played a gig at the Wild at Heart club on Weiner St. (Weiner Str. 20) in Berlin, Germany on July 11th, 2008 (8pm). Support included Berlin punk/folk musician Pascal Briggs. For video from the night, visit the "Video" page.

Susan de Muth (July 14th, 2008): "The Berlin gig at 'Wild at Heart' on the Friday night was well attended by young punks, curious kids and older people who were probably Clash fans, and, much to Tymon's surprise, his long-lost friend Ralfe who played bass guitar on 'Hollowed Out' and was one of the 'Fools' along with Richard Dudanski. Berlin is quite a scene these days - or at least Kreuzberg where 'Wild at Heart' is - a bit like London in the 1970s, full of idiosyncratic dressers and squats and alternative living projects. We were fascinated to see people living in brightly painted wooden trailers right in the heart of the city in woodlands shared with rescued animals! In the park near the venue, we found lots of people having impromptu parties (without being told off by the authorities as they would be here in England) and walking and cycling despite the fading light. In England people take dogs for a walk - in Berlin it seems people take their bottle of beer for a stroll in the park on a Friday night before heading out for the rest of the evening! 'Wild at Heart' is quite a hardcore venue run by a great bunch of people (thanks Uli, Lea…) who also have a veggie restaurant next door."

Pascal Briggs (July 2008): "I'm glad someone captured these moments. It meant a lot to me. I was very impressed by Tymon. Him and Susan are lovely people and I will stay in touch."

Tymon recently played a solo show as part of an informal evening at London's legendary Filthy MacNasty's Whiskey Cafe on March 20th, 2008. The Joe Strummer-related night was hosted by Johnny Green, who wrote the excellent Clash book 'Riot of our Own'. Tymon played several songs he wrote with Joe, and also played some of his own new songs which haven't been played in years.

Tymon (August 2008): "I enjoyed Filthy's where I did a show that was more or less like I would have done back in 1974 when I was living in Chippenham Road. Most of the people there were totally unaware of those songs; most of them had never been recorded or even performed for a really long time. It was interesting to play them thirty-four years on".

"The Filthy's gig was a one-off solo session featuring songs from the period 1970 - 1977. These included:

"Tymon also performed an improvisation on the violin resembling one he did in the studio while the Clash were recording 'Combat Rock', Joe started shouting 'Rock the Casbah' in response to the tunes Tymon was creating and that's how that song came about. Johnny Green and Pat Gilbert read passages from their books about the Clash and then Tymon did a bit of a trip down memory lane playing songs from the 70's associated with the period when Joe lived in the same squat and, as Tymon told the audience, 'Joe was my roadie' at the time! Tymon also played the blue acoustic guitar that he taught Joe to play guitar on."

Tymon Dogg & The Quikening took part in a Benefit gig for the restoration of the unique floating underground venue called the Mindsweeper on November 16th at ‘Climate of Change’ located at 235 -241 Union Street, London SE1 OLR. The Benefit gig was organized to raise funds towards the £10,000 needed to restore the ‘Mindsweeper’ to its former glory, which suffered a lot of fire damage in September this year. Other featured on the night included Glassglue, Saddam and the Lookalikes, cabaret acts including the Greatest Ever Dada Show, and several others. The following reviews of this event are by Lana Sim and Merrill Aldighieri...

Lana Sim:"This was a benefit gig for the Mindsweeper floating venue that was set ablaze in the late summer. Tymon headed the bill with a slimmed down line-up consisting of the rythmn section: Jasper and Alex T on drums and percussion and Muz on bass. Coupled withan unpretentious PA system the result was banging raw power! A good sized crowd also enjoyed a set from the weird and wonderful Glassglue (Beefheart-esque band) and an amazing outburst of 1920s DaDa strangeness from the Greatest ever Dada Show (performance). Camden Macdonald's alter-ego, Saddam, played with his performance/music band, Saddam and the Lookalikes who were hilariously entertaining. DJs Noise provided an eclectic and original set to wind up a great night at the dark end of the street. The event raised around £800 for the Mindsweeper restoration project which cheered up Camden and his shipmates no end."

Merrill Aldighieri: "At the Mindsweep Benefit it was a very different kind of night. The space was open and more like a party. There were 2 floors with a multi-media projection installation in the basement by Exploding Cinema. I also showed some of my animations there. On the main floor, a collection of comical sexy women invited the crowd to try various delicious drinks to raise money for the boat repairs, and this went on in between most of the main acts. The teqnical set up of the show was more improvised and this was a bit trying for me, but I perservered. The drummer of the Quikening even said he was enjoying himself better at this performance because the set up was closer together and his drumkit was more comfortable. He was smiling ear to ear every time I looked at him. Tymon gave a powerful and inspired performance both nights. He is full of witty and comic thoughts, sly comments, historical footnotes. Tymon's girlfriend Susan de Muth put on a great cabaret act based on some text from the Dadaists she translated from an original french text. There was a troupe of four fantastic actors (2 women, 2 men) plus Susan, who started the show with a strange apparition as a looming balloon head. The group was well rehearsed and used the space well, creating an instant theatre in the round with a huge circle of red tube lights laid out on the audience floor. One of the other highlights of the show was from The Mindsweeper's captain, Camden MacDonald, who had a tight rock n roll band called Saddam & the Lookalikes. Their songs were hilarious political satire and I was laughing too hard to film much of their set."

Tymon Dogg & The Quikening headlined the first day of the 19th Annual Hastings Free Beach Concert in Hastings, East Sussex, England on Saturday the 4th of August 2007 at 8pm. The Quikening line up for the Hastings Beach Concert show was slightly different to the previous Big Green Gathering gig. For this show the band consisted of: Tymon, Muz MacHattie (bass), Simon Shaw (guitar), Jo Brookes (keyboards), and as yet unknown drummer named Simon. Susan de Muth of the official Tymon Dogg website had this to say about the show:

“It was another great gig, which left half the audience baffled by what was going on - especially when Tymon put his violin on the floor and started playing it as though he was sawing it to bits.”

Other bands/artists to play on the Saturday will be Mushty, DJ Funky Monkey Grooves, Lucky Strike, Noise Pilots, and King Size Slim. The beach concert is held each year to raise money for the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Visit www.hastingsbeachconcert.org/ for more information.

Tymon Dogg & The Quikening played the Big Green Gathering Festival held at Mendip Hills in Somerset, England on August 2nd and 3rd, 2007. The Quikening line-up for shows included seven musicians: Tymon, Simon Shaw (guitar), Jo Brookes (keyboards), Muz MacHattie (bass), Jasper (drums), Sarah Anderson (violin) and Alex Thomas (additional percussion). Chris from MAPMUSIC said this about the shows:

"The whole band just took off and it was like they were riding this huge wave all together and it just got more and more intense... the audience were blown away and so were we from MAP - so much so that we left the festival and drove the 250 miles to Hastings where Tymon was headlining the Party on the Beach the next night."

The Big Green Gathering is an annual 5 day camping event which has grown out of the original Green Gatherings of the 1980's and the Green Fields of Glastonbury Music. For information regarding the Big Green Gathering Festival visit - www.big-green-gathering.com/ - Pics from this show can now be seen here on the fan site in the "PHOTO GALLERY" section.

Tymon Dogg & The Quikening played London's The Rhythm Factory on March 1st, 2007. The gig was voted “gig of the day” by the British newspaper Metro. Support acts included: THE OLD STREET MUSICAL UNION, PRIVATE LIVES, DJ's "THE CAMDEN SLAGS", and poetry by TIM CUMMING. A review of this gig by Lana Sym follows:

"An amazing set from an amazing band! The ever original Tymon Dogg and his new band the Quikening came on near midnight and there was an immediate shift of energy and intensity in the venue. People stopped talking and moved forward nearer the stage, craning their necks to see what was going on as Tymon started the show on all fours crouched over the 'pyramid' harp whose strange unearthreal tones floated above the crowd. Then he jumped to his feet and started belting out 'we dragged ourselves'. The band sounded really tight, Sasha on drums did a great job of keeping everything together. Simon Shaw's lead guitar was as deft, responsive and solid as ever. Joe on keyboards was just grinning and dancing through the whole set, his enjoyment completely obvious. 19 year-old Muz on bass guitar was so focused he often had his eyes shut, looking round in surprise at where he was when he opened them again, he'd got so lost in the sounds. At recent gigs, talented young violinist Sarah Anderson has been joining Tymon on stage, adding depth and texture to the band's sound. Sarah has a luminous stage presence, a versatile and intelligent musician. She and Tymon did one song on just the two violins 'Beyond this Frontier' accompanied by Tymons' new Indian electronic tamboura box that he got in Southall. Completely mesmerising. Tymon himself was on top form, strong and strident voiced most of the time, sometimes caressing the words with a moving emotional intensity. The material was a solid mix of well known songs from the past - including a rip-roaring rendition of 'Lose this Skin' – and newly crafted songs like the high velocity political onslaught 'Guantanamo'. Tymon gave masterly performances on the violin, Spanish guitar, 'pyramid' harp and then astonished everyone by taking up an electric guitar and giving it a good thrashing to his 1972 song 'Sick as a Dog' (apparently one of Joe Strummer's favourites by Tymon). The Quikening just get better and better. Can't wait to see what they come up with next."

Tymon Dogg and The Quikening played a sold-out show on December 16 at VENUE M in Hastings. Tymon also appeared on stage with band Rumiko Jr. From Stu Huggert's (DIZZYTIGER) January 7th, 2006 blog:

"Rumiko Jr played a vibrant set, culminating in a double guest spot from Alfie on harmonica, and Step on fiddle, for 'We Get Lost'. Step stayed up there for his headlining set, as Tymon Dogg & The Quickening (who I think were the aforementioned Sacha; Muz, once of The Heaters, on bass; and Simon Shaw - who'd played earlier with Jonathan - on guitar)."

Tymon played a charity event on Saturday the 18th of November at the White Rock Hotel in Hastings, East Sussex, England. Tymon Dogg, Claire Hamill and other singer song writers, will gave performances in aid of The Victoria Project in Guatemala. The Victoria Project is a very important charity that raises money to send poor Guatemalans to university to learn to be primary school teachers. They then return to their villages to teach. Claire Hamill said of Tymon's performance:

“Tymon was his usual amazing self! Many people there had never seen him perform before and were completely blown away by his passion and ability. He made many new fans that night. He first played on his own and opened the set with one of his songs on guitar playing in a Spanish style. Then he sang "Something To Prove" and things started to take off. When you see him play for the first time it's awesome! No one plays violin like that. He finished the evening accompanying singer/songwriter Jonathan Martin. It was a great evening and we raised £361.”

Apparently Tymon gave an impromptu performance at the Revolver pub in Hastings, filling in for Rumiko Jr's Dean Adams. From Stu Huggert's (DIZZYTIGER) July 19, 2006 blog:

"Meanwhile, Dean had begun his second set, but part-way through his voice started cracking with the heat (Dean - "My voice is getting really low"; Step - "That's 'cos you're playing so-lo"), so Step moved across to give him a break by performing a couple of his own strum-heavy agit-folk songs, which made people grin. It was only when the two musicians swapped places again that Step revealed the extent of his inebriation, by commenting that he thought he'd been playing the gig shirtless, and was glad now to see that it was Dean who was undressed after all, and that he'd been wearing his own shirt all the time (it was confusing then, too)."

A Joe Strummer tribute gig in Granada, Spain took place on August 20th, 2003. Tymon played on stage in a band called The Amigos, whose line-up consisted of: MICK JONES, TYMON DOGG, RICHARD DUDANSKI, JEM FINNER, TOM LARDNER and JULIAN HERNANDEZ. A review of the memorial show by Jesús Arias follows:

“Something To Prove” - Tymon Dogg goes to the mike with his violin and sings. He’s really wild playing and one of the best musicians I’ve ever seen on stage. He deserves a great record for himself. I understand why Joe admired him so much and was always ready to produce him and to bring him to The Mescaleros. “Mondo Bongo” - It’s Tymon again. A lot of people start asking: “Where can I get The Mescaleros’ records? I want to buy them right now!!! This is really great”. “Planxty John Mellor” - Really moving. Tymon Dogg composed this song for Joe after a feeling he had about him. He wanted to write a song as a present for Joe. It was last year, months before Joe died. Tymon asks people to listen to him. He dedicates the song to Lucy. It’s a great, sad moment. “Lose This Skin” - The great Tymon Dogg’s number. The arc of his violin is almost completely destroyed. He plays really wild, emotional, and spontaneous. He’s living music, he’s breathing music. One recommendation: don’t ever miss a Tymon Dogg’s concert. He’s one of the greatest musicians of the world. Believe me. He’s a sort of Paganini mixed with Scottish and Irish tradition."

An MP3 of "Planxty John Mellor" is featured below, and also a clip of "Johnny Appleseed" shot by Jesús Arias from the tribute night. Image provided by Don J Whistance's site.

Joe Strummer's first proper band The 101'ers reunited for a tribute concert to remember the punk legend on Sunday, 20th April 2003. The 101ers played for the first time in 32 years, since the group's split in 1976. This gig was the launch of the Strummerville charity. Tymon performed a number of songs, including: "Indestructible", "Lose this skin" and "Mondo Bongo".

The following text has been translated (rather poorly) from Spanish. This review was written by Juan Jesús García, and features on the www.buscamusica.org site (Image by Juan Jesús García):

"Tymon Dogg: Statovarius Tymon Dogg is a British musician related to the history of the tasted punk after to have recorded and for The Clash from the disc ' Sandinistá. Tymon also put its violin to the service of recently disappeared Joe Strummer in its last band The Mescaleros. Like all those of its surroundings, apparently they have between its habitual destinies the city of Granada. And this way it burst in into a concert of the new formation of the ex--Country Dogs, the one that includes to ex- 1001`s Richard Dudansky and who is called Dogs Of Paradyse, Richard and Tom had been 25 years without touching together. The American Tom Lardner, visible face of the group, is the sufficiently eclectic thing like so that any musical embroider to his around without problems, although it is a violinista school punk. Tymon is an expert in putting under a third degree to its violin according to the rules of manual of the punk the edition of 75, instrument that ended the battered arc, exhausted, with the despeluchado arc but without requesting dead time. Tymon uses it like electrical guitar, violin or as arrived contrabass player the case, makes speak him, moan or scream if it is necessary, using technical and positions that never will study in a conservatory."

Tymon played an impromptu show with Joe Strummer early in 1999 at a memorial concert for Marwood Chesterton aka " Mole" - the original bass player from the 101ers - at Acklam Hall in West London. Tymon remebers the night (Strummersite Interview 2003):

"I arrived at the event [in Acklam Hall, West London] quite late, with a violin in my hand and suddenly someone said 'Hey Tymon!' and it was Joe. I asked him if he was going to do some songs and he said no, I haven't got a guitar, I just came to be here. I said to him, let's get a guitar and we'll go on stage and do something, a Woody Guthrie tune or even if we have to, make one up. And there were also a couple of the other members of the 101ers there that night, and then we found a drummer. Joe wasn't a man to turn down a challenge! He located a guitar. Next thing we're on stage."

The following review of this show is courtesy of musician/writer Mark Turauskis:

"In the early nineties I was up at the Cambridge Festival and had managed to secure a much sought after spot in the festival club tent. Whilst killing some time I bumped into Tymon and Rory Macleod who were chatting. Tymon was a bit fed up because he had not arrived early enough to secure a slot at the festival. I was happy to share my four numbers with him – it would be good fun and I was looking forward to hearing him play again. I did two numbers, he did a solo song and then we did one together. We got a fantastic reception and I got a paid booking out of it for the festival the following year. I wanted them to book us both – but, unfortunately, they would only pay for me solo."

Excerpt from Richard Strange's book "Strange: Punks and Drunks and Flicks and Kicks" published by Andre Deutsch in May 2002:

"That August, 1982, I returned to do the Edinburgh festival with a ragbag of acts. There was myself and Rene, Mick Jones and Kerry Bell from The Event Group, a singer/violist called Tymon Dogg, Oscar McLennan, a Scottish stand-up (then fall over) comedian, and a Goth-punk poetess named Joolz. We sold the gig as The Strange Dog Event and got a good venue, The Masonic Lodge in the centre of town. We had a fairly early show, around 7.30, and were finished by 9.30, and so consequently were able to devote the rest of the evening and the night to the more important business of getting totally wired. We did pretty good business and got rapturous reviews and had a week-long party. The Klaxons drove up to join us and were on their very worst behaviour. I believe they all slept in the same car every night. I am glad to say I didn't join them. The performers all stayed in a flat we had rented for the week and it was seriously squalid. We used to meet up at parties to which we had not been invited, and insured by our behaviour once there that there would be many more parties to which we would not be invited.We arrived back in London at the beginning of September like so much broken merchandise." An email I received from Richard Strange on November 21: "I think we did a week of "Cabaret Futura " nights at the Masonic Lodge in Edinburgh. The Bill was myself, performance artists The Event Group, a dance troupe called Pulse, the stand-up comedian Oscar McLennan, and Tymon. I seem to remember him being a very enthusiastic performer, sawing away at an electric violin and haranguing the audience with a very physical in-your-face delivery."

June Peters recalls the Froebel College gig:

"I was studying at Roehampton Institute (then Froebel college). My much-loved friend Pete set up a folk club in the bar. It had a makeshift wooden stage. We heard Tymon do a floor spot in a Putney Pub. Never having seen or heard him before, we booked him on the spot to do an evening at our club - fee paid on door-money and a percentage of the bar. My three memories of the evening were these: 1. The evening was electric, 2. Pete hunched over the bar counting out the pennies and halfpennies that were our percentage for Tymon, and 3. Overhearing a discussion at the end of the evening - long haired music student talking to an equally long haired Tymon - 'Did you know that when you stamped on the left plank and then the right, the sound that came out was E sharp and then G?'"

Tymon (Timon) was part of the BBC's Sounds Of The 70's programme with Curved Air on February 22nd, 1971. The following bands/musicians also featured over the course of the month: Lindisfarne (1st), Savoy Brown, Roy Young Band (2nd), Steeleye Span, Dando Shaft (4th), Clark-Hutchinson, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express (5th), Roy Harper, Trees (8th), Slade, Walrus (9th), Hard Meat (11th), If, Egg (12th), Wishbone Ash, Mythica (15th), Cat Stevens, Magna Carta (16th), Pink Fairies, Cochise (18th), Colosseum (19th), Quatermass, Savoy Brown (23rd), Steeleye Span, Shirley Kent (25th), Mogul Thrash (26th).

The following dates Tymon (Timon) played as support act to The Moody Blues. Trapeze were also a supporting act:

• December 5th - Odeon Theatre, Manchester (UK)
• December 6th - Odeon Theatre, Newcastle (UK)
• December 7th - Usher Hall Edinburgh (UK)
• December 11th - Colston Hall, Bristol (UK)
• December 12th - Royal Albert Hall, London (UK)
• December 13th - Gaumont Theatre, Southampton (UK)
• December 14th - Odeon Theatre, Birmingham (UK)
• December 27th - BBC Radio Concert.

Songs performed during select shows, included: "Seagull", "I Am Not Important," "Is There A Life After Birth?," "The Eye In The Pond," "And Now She Says She's Young," and a cover of Joni Mitchell's "Chelsea Morning."