Tim Gane

Tim Gane (born 12 July 1964, Barking, Essex, England) is the leader of the rock band, Stereolab. Gane's musical influences are wide-ranging, and generally lie outside the rock mainstream: the krautrock of Neu! and Faust; the sunshine pop of Brian Wilson, Wendy & Bonnie and The Zombies; Brazilian bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim; soundtrack composers Ennio Morricone and Roy Budd; and classical composers such as Gustav Holst and Claude Debu... more

Tim Gane (born 12 July 1964, Barking, Essex, England) is the leader of the rock band, Stereolab. Gane's musical influences are wide-ranging, and generally lie outside the rock mainstream: the krautrock of Neu! and Faust; the sunshine pop of Brian Wilson, Wendy & Bonnie and The Zombies; Brazilian bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim; soundtrack composers Ennio Morricone and Roy Budd; and classical composers such as Gustav Holst and Claude Debussy. He is also one of very few to own a first pressing copy of experimental/'industrial' pioneers Nurse With Wound's Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella. He started his musical career as a purveyor of harsh noise under the alias Unkommuniti releasing self financed cassettes on Black Dwarf Wreckordings along with fellow Unkommuniti members Kallous Boys and other noise projects. Tim was a key member of McCarthy from 1985-1990. Turn On, Gane's side project with occasional Stereolab contributor and member of... less