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Thighpaulsandra

Tim Lewis (born 19 June 1958, Pontypridd), generally known by his stage name, Thighpaulsandra, is a Welsh experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist known mostly for performing on synthesizers and keyboards. As Tim Lewis, he began his career working with Julian Cope. A collaboration with Cope in 1993 followed, as the experimental duo Queen Elizabeth. This project completed just the two albums, Queen Elizabeth (ESP Records 1994) and Elizabeth Vagina (Head Heritage 1997), each containing extremely long spacey tracks of between 20–47 minutes in duration. In 1997, former Cope guitarist Mike Mooney invited Lewis to fill for the departing Kate Radley on a Spiritualized tour, where he remained until early 2008. In 1999 he also became a member of the experimental band Coil. He has subsequently released several solo albums. He currently also performs and records with Massimo Pupillo (of Italian band Zu) and UUUU, a band also featuring Valentina Magaletti and Graham Lewis and Matthew Sims both of Wire.

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When I only had one or two synthesisers you learn how to do everything on those things and you know them inside out. I think that's the best way to be with them.

Everything, Think, Thinking, Two, Way

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.

Juxtaposition, Pop, Pops, Style, Styles

I'm not a great fan of people who suddenly manage to pull out the whole track sounding perfect from a laptop. That doesn't feel like any kind of show to me.

Laptop, People, Perfect, Track

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

Attention, Change, Short, Song, Span, Thinking

My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.

Dad, Holiday, Holidays, Owned, School, Sent

I'm a bit of a hoarder, so I did tend to buy things and just hang on to them.

Bits, Buy, Hang, Hoarder, Tend, Things

There's a lot of people I know who have a lot of synthesisers and they don't really know anything about them, they know the specifications and everything, but they don't really get to know them.

Everything, Know, Knows, People, Specifications

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.

Like, Sit, Two, Worry, Write, Writing

Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.

Backing, Groups, Play, Rely, Track

I still use a lot of cut-ups, I physically cut-up pieces of paper and stick them all together on another piece of paper then I'll think, "Ah, that looks good," or shuffle them around a bit and then I'll photocopy it and then that's my lyrics.

Cutting, Lyrics, Photocopy, Thinking, Together, Use

Unless somebody's actually creating something and doing something spontaneous I wouldn't find it at all interesting, to watch or to create, so, I'm trying to make my solo shows something different altogether.

Creating, Interesting, Make, Trying

I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to watch TV and write things that people would say and now I tend to get it more out of books and from conversations with people I meet.

Book, Books, Conversations, People, Used, Writing

Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do.

Bubble, Concepts, People, School

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

Experiment, Ideas, Library, Sort, Stand, Use

I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got an idea in my head and then I'll pursue it 'til I get there.

Ideas, Improvise, People, Pursue, Saying

I tend to work in the mornings, then take a few hours off in the afternoon to walk the dog, and then come back and work in the evening. So, if I can remember my pre-dog walking music when I get back then that's fine, I'll kind of commit to those bits, but if I can't remember them I'll just move on to something else.

Bits, Dog, Evening, Morning, Move, Moving