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ABOUT THE HAND
LUKE
PABS
PHIL
TIM
BEAST FROM THE EAST
LUKE'S WORLD OF CHILLI
PABS KICKS BUTT
PHIL'S WORLD OF BUCKFAST
WHAT'S IN TIM'S BAG
WHO WE'VE PLAYED WITH
PLACES WE'VE PLAYED
VENUES WE'VE PLAYED

Name
Tim; Lolo;

Role In Big Hand?
Songwriter, singer, guitarist, hat wearer

Favourite venue / stage?
Knockengorroch mainstage

Biggest musical influences?
My Dad, Big Henry's Soul Cats - my soul (surprise!) covers band before The Hand, The Kneeling Sheep (first group, with Luke), Tom Waits, Manu Chao, Queen, Desmond Dekker, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, David Bowie, The Stone Roses

No 1. place to live in the world?
The French Pyrenees

Pick a song that you play to get yourself fired up?
Santaria by Sublime

Pick a song that you play to relax?
Untitled 3 (!) by Sigur Ros

In the film of your life, what song would play over the closing credits?
Tablula Rasa by Arvo Part

What can you cook?
Anything involving bread (ideally toasted ciabatta with tomatoes anchovies, garlic, olive oil, basil and lots of black pepper)

Do aliens exist?
Yes, but they're probably steering well clear (though I'm fairly sure most insects arrived on a meteorite)

Beatles vs the Stones?
Early 60's the Stones, late 60's the Beatles

Most treasured possession?
Memory

List 5 things you'd take if stranded on a desert islan?d
guitar, coffee maker, hammock, monkey helper, jet pack

If attempting to set a world record, how much of which particular foodstuff could you consume in one sitting?
Sushi - at least 100 of those little rolls

Do you have any bizarre fears?
Sea anenomies getting you by the finger and dissolving the whole of you slowly

Do you consider any particular animal to be evil?
Sharks

Restaurant of choice?
The Outsider in Edinburgh if I'm feeling extravagent, the Mosque if I'm counting pennies

Do you have any secret inventions that will revolutionise the world?
Tissue paper earplugs

Hero?
Herman Hesse

Things that make you go hmmmm?
People in all their wonderful ordinary strangeness

If you could time travel, when would you go to?
1969 (summer of revolution and love), or 30 AD (just to check)

What do you believe in?
The human potential for good

Favourite thing to do when it's sunny?
Tripping out in a festival field to some reggae

Favourite thing to do when it's raining?
Be in a wooden sauna by a lake, drinking beer

What song do you wish you had written?
Stand By Me

What would have written as your epitaph on your tombstone?
'See you on the other side', or 'You always said I was lazy'

One thing about you everyone should know?
In the Simpsons, when someone asks Homer what he's thinking, and they show the inside of his head and there's him in a hammock or something, singing some ridiculous song - well, works for me too

1st record you bought?
Rocking All Over The World by Status Quo

Most frightening film?
Jaws

What does Zorbic mean to you?
It was inspired by Zorba the Greek. Partly due to the piece of music, as with all our songs we try to have this folky element, so that while it can go down a strom on a dancefloor, it can also be played intimately, round the fire or something, and shared like that. Also, the character in the book is above all passionate about life, in all its glory and sorrow, in love with music, women, wine, romance, fate, without irony or cynicism, with a kind of noble flawed heart, and these are things the music aspires to

Who would be in your 'supergroup'?
John Frusciante on lead guitar, Manu Chao on Rythmn guitar, Aston 'family man' Barrett on Bass; Carlton Barrett on drums'; Sam Cooke singing; Lisa Fischer backing singer; Louis Armstrong on Trumpet, Dr John on Keys, Roby Lakatos on violin

Best Big Hand gig?
Knockengorroch 2007

Favourite Big Hand song?
Calling of the Light Brigade

Strangest band momen?t
Playing the Bristol amphitheatre for the Rat Race, when after a 10 second countdown to our first song, the entire crowd (i.e. the racers) ran away as fast as they could. Or in a similar way, Box Wars at Studio 24, after the countdown, the whole crowd, with cardboard armour and weapons, launched at each other (in a nice way)

Funniest on-stage moment?
(Same as Phil) - Luke skating around on his back determined to keep the bass going but not being able to get up, surrounded by the bemused childs of North Berwick?

Favourite tipple?
Firestoker Ale

If you started your own religion, what would be the commandments, and what would your church be like?
Love others more than yourself (you get what you give). Church would be built as a huge treehouse deep in the forest, and would be zero gravity inside, with vibrational light stimulation machines and projection screens to show the evolution of the universe speeded up and other such things to trip you out, with a nice array of psychedelics on offer

Best Trait?
Knowing my own mind

Worst Trait?
being stubborn (almost the same thing)

How would you best describe the fall of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers from the heights of Blood Sugar?
the decline of the Roman empire in reverse