Tim Cleaver

Bass player, singer and occasional guitarist from Melbourne, Australia. Also has recording/engineer credits. Associated with label 1867070. The only Fauves member without a middle name, Timothy was born to Peter and Margaret on the 13th of July 1964 at the Queen Victoria Hospital Melbourne. Tim is the oldest member of the group and the only one who did not attend Mt. Eliza High School. Rather, his parents scrimped and saved so that he might tread the exclusive swards of nearby Peninsula Grammar on which he excelled as a military cadet. Timothy was exposed to music from a young age. His father Peter owned the iconic Frankston music store Peter Cleaver Musical, where Ted would browse and regularly borrow popular LPs to take home. Timothy learnt guitar in his early teens, quickly outstripping his elder brother Adrian, from whom he received his first lessons. He soon became a regular on the Mornington Peninsula covers scene and was at one time part of a duo with Cameron Daddo the TV star, before Daddo broke up the duo citing an irreconcilable urge to be famous. Tim attended the School of Audio Engineering in St Kilda and soon made a name for himself as one of Melbourne’s premier live sound facilitators. It was in this capacity that he first met the Fauves and thereafter he served as the band’s front of house mixer from 1994 to 1999. Tim joined the band at the start of 2000 and is one of only a handful of people still playing the 5 string bass, an archaic baroque instrument now rarely used. Tim enjoys lamb shanks, drinking beer and dry white wine.