Interview from the-raft.com:

Timmy the Terror - Guitar player...

What is your favourite track to play live?

I think maybe 'Dirty Life' because I think it is a song that translates well live into a dancey, feisty, dirty song and crowd reaction has been really good in Europe to that song.

What is your background?

I guess I started to play guitar when I was little kid because my brother played guitar real mean and I really looked up to him. I also got into DJing at a young age and that shot me into the electronic stuff as well as the Hip Hop world. Growing up in California in the nineties influenced me but also the electronic stuff coming out of the U.K like the MoWax label, DJ Food, Coldcut and Ninja Tune stuff which I always tried to get my hands on as quickly as I could. That worked really well when I was playing my sets with all the American Hip Hop stuff from the early nineties.

Does it feel quite natural to be playing live in London?

Yeah I love it, all my heroes are from the British Pop and Rock scene and it is just inevitable that as Americans finding out about Punk age. I was really inspired to find out more and when I am here in London I am always looking at the people and the scene to try and find out what drives the music scene and why Britain is always at the forefront of cool.

I've been told to ask you where the name Ima Robot came from.

Well when we first started the band we did these amazing marathon sessions trying to put together a demo because as soon as we had meet we knew that we had to do something together and do it straight away. When we were in that session which was just fuelled by weed and 40 oz's we started making jokes because we where together for so long in the studio at any one time, so the name came from some totally un funny inside joke that had us floored and dying with laughter. We also sat up for nights coming up with names...

Do you remember any of those names?

Yeah, we had Climax Face (Laughter) also The Window Club which I really liked but all these like intellectual names that if we had gone with this band probably would not have been the same. Not that the name makes the band but the music makes the name and those names would have been made into garbage. I know image is not everything but it does help because it reminds you of who you are!

I’M A Robot is somehow stoned and very immature and present in stage and life because there’s a lot of maturity musically. I think it’s a compliment because as a band, we’re in the beginning stage and figuring out who we really are even though we have already captured a complete, a concentric and actual idea as our first record of who we are. But that we’re still growing is a miracle to me in that we’re still in our infancy stages, which is really motivating. I think it’s just a group of guys who kind of grew up with and maintained the idea that renegade thoughts, ideas and actions in the artistic world in music, film or art or whatever is important. That it is actually important to the sustaining of life to go against what we have been taught and what we know to be untrue but what represents the masses. It’s not like we don’t give a fuck cause we do, but in the way that we don’t care what you think as long as you know that we do care about what we’re doing. We’re doing it not for other people, we’re doing it to uphold a concept that was kind of branded with us.