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Tim Ten Yen

The
Sensational
Singing Salaryman

About Me


Tim Ten Yen is the shy, sincere, sensational Singing Salaryman, performing his own karaoke pop songs for you.
Secretly playing live in London, Leeds, Telford, South Wales, Denmark and Iceland for the last two years, TTY has just got up the nerve to release a proper record...
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Tim Ten Yen album!
We are very excited to announce Pointy Records will be releasing
TTY’s debut album Everything Beautiful Reminds Me Of You on Monday 1st September.
A single Runaround Getaround will be released on Pointy's sister label Label Fandango a fortnight before on Monday 18th August, to get everyone ready for Tim Ten Yen!
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Tim Ten Yen interviewed on the BBC Asian Network!
On Tuesday 27th May, Tim Ten Yen was invited onto the Sonia Deol show to talk about the meaning of two of his songs: Sea Anemone and Mountain Country!
To listen again to the show (TTY is about 3/4 of the way in...), click here to open the BBC iplayer. (You will need either the latest version of Windows Media Player or Realplayer installed)
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Next Show:
Rock 'n' Roll Cabaret on Sunday 29th June at the Dublin Castle .
Onstage at 10:30pm sharp!
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Quotes:
"You're not being ironic are you" - John Brainlove - Brainlove Records
"Truly, the best songwriter of the last few years has come from an unlikely source" - David Tandy - Tiny Voices
"Tim Ten Yen is one of the greatest artists of our generation" - Chik Budo
"Tim Ten Yen is a corruption of every trad notion in the book" - Miwsig.com
"Tim Ten Yen is the new fucking madonna, but more fun ya know!" - Henrik
”You’ll find few things better the moment his record starts playing.” - Rocklouder
"I love you" - Galia - Psapp
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Videos:
'Your Love' directed by Daryl Chase
'Girl Number One' directed by Daryl Chase .
(assisted by Jake Jones & Ross Marshall ).
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Releases:
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/5/2005
Band Website: timtenyen.com " timtenyen.com
Band Members: Tim Ten Yen
(and the Sinister Cat )
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Influences: Bob Cilman
Billy Joel on Sesame Street The Challenger Shuttle Disaster in 1986Jean-Michel Jarre's 'Rendez-Vous Houston" concert on TV Simon and Garfunkel - 'Live in Central Park' double cassette Mr. Harris (my music teacher) Sony Walkman Andy Summers The first half of 'Chungking Express' David Lee Roth Paul Lillie Alex Patterson Chris de Burgh live at Wembley Arena Sunday 20th November 1988 Mark "Spike" Stent The Beatmasters Dave Doddington Julee Cruise Moby live E.T. Girls Daryl Chase
Chris Isaak
The Sky At Night
Fire alarms
Dogs
Joe Hollings
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Sounds Like: David Lee Roth and Billy Joel being chased down a frozen river by a tiger.
The tiger's just had his claws clipped, so his traction on the river isn't what he's used to.
David and Billy are equipped with spiked boots so they're making good progress.
It's night time.
The tiger hasn't eaten for 2 days.
It's made chase because David was poking it with a stick while it slept.
Billy was pleading with David to stop but the tiger does not know this and will not differentiate between the two men as 'prey'.
David Lee Roth is wearing next season's Prada.
Billy Joel is wearing a grey silk suit.
The ice is about to crack.

Check it out.

Record Label: Pointy
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Live review in The Fly magazine

Tim Ten Yen has no obvious peers in 2008, though in 1983 he'd have been in good company. This may work against him, but it leaves us mildly aroused. A dapper gentleman, TTY places keyboard on lap, sit...
Posted by Tim Ten Yen on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:50:00 PST

**NEW** - In conversation with Tim Ten Yen (02) - Iceland

Hello again...as promised, we have the photos of TTY's voyage to Iceland to play the 'Two Little Dogs' Christmas Special! This time, TTY kind of told us the story of the trip and ...
Posted by Tim Ten Yen on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:49:00 PST

In conversation with Tim Ten Yen (01)

Hello there! We at Team Ten Yen went round for an exclusive visit to Tim Ten Yen's writing studio (we'd been trying to formulate an excuse to go there for ages..finally striking double...
Posted by Tim Ten Yen on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:33:00 PST

Merry Christmas!!

Tim Ten Yen asked us to send you a special Christmas thank you for all your fantastic support in 2007!   If you've come to a show, if you bought the single, if you've just loved Tim Ten Yen - tha...
Posted by Tim Ten Yen on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:51:00 PST

Vote Tim Ten Yen!

TTY has been nominated for single of the year on the German equivalant of the John Peel show- DJ Jalal's POPSCENE! DJ Jalal is doing his round-up of the year, and has chosen 25 songs from which you ca...
Posted by Tim Ten Yen on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:17:00 PST

Review of Tim Ten Yens Oxjam show at Romfords "Bitter End"

http://www.myvillage.com/shoreditch/fe-arts_oxjam-essex-revi ew.htm...
Posted by Tim Ten Yen on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:50:00 PST

Review of Tim Ten Yen in Denmark

"When I got back downstairs to do a check, Martin came speeding towards me saying that Tim Ten Yen was getting ready to hit stage, so I decided to take my first break of the evening and watch his full...
Posted by Tim Ten Yen on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:49:00 PST

Leeds Festival Review

We return to the Alternative Stage for the Warp Music Visuals in the early hours of Sunday morning, and due to the late running one of those wonderful festival moments happens, as we stumble across Ti...
Posted by Tim Ten Yen on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:15:00 PST

Review of Tim Ten Yen at Tapestry Goes West

"&.we're startled out of The Crimson Moon by some distant karaoke& Tentatively poking our heads out through the Crimson canvas, gravity takes over and we drift back to the second stage, where we're so...
Posted by Tim Ten Yen on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:20:00 PST

Leeds Festival photographs

Tim Ten Yen has just authorised the uploading of a small handful of photographs, selected by himself, of his experience at Leeds Festival 2007. The photographs were taken by Team Ten Yen member David ...
Posted by Tim Ten Yen on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:15:00 PST