Living a Lie

The Slutcracker

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We Need Answers

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Tim Key. With a String Quartet. On a Boat.

Vice: So how did you manage to get into Footlights without being a Cambridge student?

Tim Key:

Had you done any acting before that?

So that made you an expert?

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So you kind of did things in reverse. Panto is usually where old actors and comics go to die, but you got your start there.

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But how did you get round the fact that you weren’t actually a Cambridge student?

Did you show up for rehearsals going, “Oh God, just had a killer lecture”?

So what college did you say you were at? Weren’t you worried someone else in the group might be in the same one?

And no one rumbled you?

Never?

I imagine if you were a more disposable member it would have been an issue.

I’ve heard you don’t have much interest in records or music in general. What made you choose to put out a record?

So how have you ended up doing an album for the same label that released records by These New Puritans and Klaxons?

Is it like a greatest hits record?

The Slutcracker

I heard you buried the record?

What’s the slot method?

So no unnecessary digging?

So you didn’t actually bury it if there was an inch sticking out.

You buried the majority of it?

. is out in November on Angular Records. For more, visit timkey.co.uk.