Tim Dry
In 1976, he relocated to London to train in mime and physical theatre with Desmond Jones and Lindsay Kemp (who tutored Kate Bush and David Bowie, amongst others).
After three years of intensive stage work (both in solo and duo shows, and as a member of Jones' company 'Silents') Dry, alongside fellow mime partner Barbie Wilde, formed SHOCK: a rock/mime/burlesque/music troupe with Robert Pereno, Carole Caplin, LA Richards and Sean Crawford.
The first SHOCK single on RCA Records, 'Angel Face', (co-produced by Rusty Egan from Visage and Richard James Burgess from Landscape) was a modest dance floor hit in clubs all over the UK and in New York.
Reduced to a four-piece ensemble after the abrupt departure of Robert and LA in June 1981, SHOCK released a second single, 'Dynamo Beat', on RCA, which again was a dance floor hit in UK clubs, but failed to chart nationwide.
In early 1982 Dry and Crawford left Shock to pursue their own vision of a combination of mime, visual image and music, creating a duo called Tik and Tok.
They appeared on 23 television shows, including The Royal Variety Performance in front of HRH Queen Elizabeth II and the cult music program The Tube, hosted by Jools Holland and Paula Yates.
Tik & Tok reformed briefly in 2005, creating a new album, Dream Orphans, in which Dry wrote, played and produced all the songs.
Dry is a photographic artist, whose subjects have included Mick Jagger, Steven Berkoff, composer Georg Kajanus, Mediæval Bæbes, writer Rupert Thomson and Joan Collins.
On stage he played the lead in Steven Berkoff's Harry's Christmas and Molière's School For Wives, Satan in Adam Redundant and The Lecturer in John Bowen's After The Rain.
Dry has a featured role in the feature-length movie Le Accelerator and he co-stars in the film short Pier Pressure released in late 2014.
Their song "Walking" was used as a motif in four episodes of the Channel 4 food and drink series Feast in 1997, which was directed by David Pritchard (of Rick Stein and Keith Floyd fame) and also starred television chef Jean-Christophe Novelli.
Dry is the author of two published books of memoirs:Falling Upwards – Scenes From A life and Continuum – The Star Wars Phenomenon As Experienced From The Inside.
