Tinklers

The Tinklers are a duo from Baltimore, Charles Brohawn and Chris Mason. They have been active since 1979, inspired by seeing Half Japanese in concert. Their sound has been described as "not a rock sound at all: it's a type of non-sound: originally Erector Set instruments would be pulled across the floor or shaken for noises to add accompaniment to a capella renditions of their songs. The personae of little kids, playing with rubber band guitars and shoehorn marimbas. Shyly, they played under the tables. This wasn't a pretension: Charles loathes live performances. They would use complicated charts as a mode of composition and as illustrations, attempting to explain the whole universe by dividing it into scary and not-scary things. Personal development would be diagrammed as the nexusses of mom, dad, school, tv."

While The Tinklers have not disbanded, since 1993 the band has released only one full-length album, Slowpoke, and made a few other compilation appearances. Live performances are infrequent.

Links to Peel
Peel gave heavy airplay to the band's LP Casserole and was also impressed by Slowpoke: however, it appears this interest faded in the 2000s (due no doubt to lack of new material).

Festive Fifty Entries

 * NoneJohn Peel's The Tinklers - Turn The Screw On The Crank

Sessions

 * None

Other Shows Played

 * 04 April 1990: Turn The Screw On The Crank (album - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 05 April 1990: Juvenile Delinquency (album - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 12 April 1990: Ghost Dance Song (album - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 02 May 1990: 'Don't Put Your Finger In The Fan (LP-Casserole)' (Shimmy Disc)
 * 14 May 1990: Simple Song Of Simple Faith (album - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 19 May 1990 (BFBS): 'Turn The Screw On The Crank (LP-Casserole)' (Shimmy Disc)
 * 21 May 1990: 'Magazine (LP-Casserole)' (Shimmy Disc)
 * 23 May 1990: Tree Song (LP - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 29 May 1990: Home By The River (album - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 31 May 1990: Hokey Pokey (album - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 05 June 1990: 'The Future, Dinosaurs Are Better (v/a album - What Else Do You Do?: A Compilation Of Quiet Music)' (Shimmy Disc)
 * 06 June 1990: Mom Cooks Inside, Dad Cooks Outside (album - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 11 June 1990: Workin' Together United We Are One (LP - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 14 June 1990: Black Dog, Friendly Dog (album - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 19 June 1990: The Future, Dinosaurs Are Better (v/a album - What Else Do You Do?: A Compilation Of Quiet Music) Shimmy Disc
 * 12 January 1991: 'Turn The Screw On The Crank (LP-Casserole)' (Shimmy Disc)
 * 12 August 1991 (Radio Bremen): Trees Like To Rot In The Forest (LP - Saplings) Shimmy Disc
 * 24 April 1993: 'James Brown (split 7 inch with Lungfish-Working Holiday (February))' (Simple Machines)
 * 01 October 1993: ‘Hank Greenberg And Jackie Robinson (CD –Crash)’ (Shimmy Disc)
 * 08 October 1993 (BFBS): 'Sticking With You (CD-Crash)' (Shimmy Disc)
 * 22 October 1993 (BFBS): Hank Greenberg And Jackie Robinson (album - Crash) Shimmy Disc
 * 29 October 1993: ‘Foreign Exchange Student (LP – Crash)’ (Shimmy Disc)
 * 17 September 1993: Born Again (album - Crash) Shimmy Disc
 * 06 November 1993 (BFBS): 'Foreign Exchange Student (album - Crash)' (Shimmy Disc)
 * 07 August 1997: Turn The Screw On The Crank (album - Casserole) Shimmy Disc
 * 04 March 1998: Trees Like To Rot In The Forest (LP – Saplings) Shimmy Disc
 * 10 February 1999: 'Omi (CD-Slowpoke)' (Serious)
 * 11 February 1999 (Radio Mafia): 'Omi (CD-Slowpoke)' (Serious)
 * 14 February 1999 (BFBS): 'Omi (CD-Slowpoke)' (Serious)
 * 18 February 1999 (Radio Eins): Omi (album - Slowpoke) Serious