
Tim Lawrence - 6MS Mix
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trocknroll
Genre: Ambient
Date of Set: Unknown
Filesize: 75.00 MB
Total Downloads: 1
Biography of Tim Lawrence
I was born in Ealing, West London, in 1967, and grew up in Winnersh, five miles outside of Reading, where my Dad, who escaped Nazi Germany on one of the last kindertransport, got his first job as an English teacher. I studied in Manchester between 1986 and 1990, and then returned to London, where I worked as a journalist for four years. In between times my Dad and Mum died. During 1993, while I was working at BBC Newsnight, I realised I needed a change of scene and direction. I ended up travelling to New York to take a doctorate in English Literature and I completed my studies at Sussex University in 1999. Since then I have lived and worked in London.
Here's how I divide my time. I hang out with my big daughter, four-year-old Carlotta (known as 'Carlotta the Rotter'), my newborn daughter, Ilaria (sometimes called 'Silly Illy'), my wife, Enrica (who I met at Columbia Uni in New York), and my friends (who occasionally come out to dance, but who prefer to meet up for dinner). I write books, articles and liner notes, and through a strange turn of events my writing led me to help put on parties with David Mancuso in London (the first one was held in June 2003). For my day job, I lead the Music Culture: Theory and Production degree at the University of East London, which is based in Docklands.
I have lived near Old Street, in east London, for the last seven years, and although friends tell me 'You must live in Crouch End', or 'You must come to Richmond', it's not going to happen even if they offer to cook every night. I like living in the city; I believe in living in the city. If we do end up moving because, for instance, it's almost impossible to give a kid a decent education in the centre of the London once she turns eleven years old without going private, we'll go to Rome (where Enrica grew up) or New York (my spiritual home).