 Born in Leeds, England, in 1959, Timms recorded her first solo album, "Hangahar" (an experimental improvised film score), at the age of 19 with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks in 1980.Prior to joining The Mekons in 1986 she was in a band called the She Hees.She has released several other solo albums, "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat" in 1988, "To the Land of Milk and Honey" in 1995, and a country album, "Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos", for Bloodshot Records in 1998.