Sussex Sounds: Tim Vine’s secret music archive

I get a tip off that the comedian from the BBC series ‘Not Going Out’, the man who won the award for best joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2010, and who sells-out stand-up tours across the UK is visiting a Lower Beeding music studio.

This may seem like a tenuous link for a Sussex Sounds story, but I leave the office on a whim.

On my arrival there is the man himself, Tim Vine, hanging out, listening to one of his original tracks with music producer Graham Noon at the mixing desk in Eversfield Studio.

“I’ve always loved just making up songs and dreaming of pop stardom,” says Tim. He points to Graham, “We constantly say, we’re going to get one big hit in there eventually.”

Tim and Graham laugh, they’ve clearly been on this sporadic journey to chart topping success for quite some time, but it has all been in good fun.

“I met Graham when he was 18-years-old. He was an engineer in a studio in Yule and I was keen on being a pop star.

“18 myself, I turned up with my little Casio keyboard, he rolled his eyes, then I sat down and we recorded some songs and I took it away on a cassette - that’s how long ago it was, we’re talking about 1984, 85.”

His hopes and aspirations to become the next pop sensation may have never come to fruition, but Tim’s following success as a nationally acclaimed comedian has still given him the opportunity to dabble in music.

“Even when I ended up doing