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MYSTERIOUS: Tim smith - What They Never Told You

'We can reinvigorate the sport' – meet the UK's new time trialling boss

New Cycling Time Trials chair Tim Smith talks to Cycling Weekly about his plans to make a difference in the TT world

Cycling Weekly

'Continuing the modernisation of the sport' – all change for UK time trialling with new governing body chair and directors for 2026

An eventful CTT meeting saw new chair Tim Smith voted in, and numerous resignations

Cycling Weekly

“I think we met with his approval. If I find him haunting me, I’ll know I did something wrong”: Tim Smith left an unfinished Cardiacs album when he died. Five years on, his bandmates released the finished version of LSD

A brother who took over the band, a singer who struggled to keep the secret and a determination to do exactly what their late leader would have wanted led to the end of an 18-year journey

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Measles Reaches Clemson University as South Carolina Outbreak Explodes to 558 Cases, Worst in Nation

Clemson University confirms measles case as South Carolina outbreak explodes to 558 cases, worst in US. Nearly 98% of students vaccinated, but case emerges from Spartanburg County epidemic that doubled in one week. Contact tracing underway, 531 in quarantine statewide. Health officials warn outbreak will worsen before improving.

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"Someone spat at our saxophone player, so Tim kicked this guy in the mouth – absolutely perfectly in time to the music": A brief history of Cardiacs, the UK's most adored detested band

Cardiacs defied classification for decades, but new album LSD – finished five years after the death of creative lynchpin Tim Smith – was widely hailed as one of the best albums of 2025

Louder

Emma Corrin and Hunter Schafer lead cast of new horror movie

Emma Corrin, Hunter Schafer, Havana Rose Liu and Sophie Wilde are set to join the cast of Arkasha Stevenson and Tim Smith's upcoming horror movie.

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“There’s no such thing as coincidence. It’s about being in a flow state. Joining the band I tripped to as a teenager… it all makes sense”: Gong may have lost some humour and older songs, but Kavus Torabi says they’re still supernatural

Daevid Allen’s appointed replacement on keeping the spirituality alive without becoming overwhelmed, the respectful use of acid, and the late band leader’s similarity to Cardiacs’ Tim Smith

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Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

The Guardian - UK

I Thought I Had Seen Every Version Of A Movie Car Chase, But One Battle After Another's Climax Blew My Mind And Stressed Me Out

I was not prepared.

Cinemablend

“Brought back to life with tremendous care… instruments pop out that even diehard devotees may have previously missed”: Cardiacs’ On Land And In The Sea

The late, great Tim Smith’s prog-punk magnum opus returns on vinyl for the first time since 2007

Louder

“Sleep Token are big fans of what we did, and they’re the biggest rock band in the world right now. That means a lot”: From Oceansize to Biffy Clyro and now Cardiacs, Mike Vennart is one of the UK’s greatest under-the-radar guitar talents

With a style somewhere between shred, Slayer and Pavement, Mike Vennart has headlined some of the world’s biggest festivals, played with Dave Lombardo, and now he’s fronting his all-time favorite band. He attempts to make sense of the many twists and turns in his career

Guitar World

Cardiacs announce that their final album, LSD, will be released in September

The late Cardiacs frontman Tim Smith's final album has been completed by his brother Jim, Kavus Torabi, Mike Vennart and more...

Louder

Century-old mystery unmasked by volunteer divers

The mystery of what happened to the SS Nemesis over a century ago may soon be solved after four divers took the first images of the long-lost shipwreck.

AAP

British 24-hour Championship time trial to be ultra-riding legend Chris Hopkinson's last race, as a new organiser comes in

'Hoppo' will be hanging up his wheels after the event, which new organiser Tim Smith has big plans for

Cycling Weekly

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South London council raked in £1m from illegal low traffic zone

Lambeth council collected £1,080,580 from penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued to drivers who entered streets suddenly closed as part of the controversial West Dulwich LTN

The Independent UK

Low-traffic neighbourhood scheme ruled unlawful in landmark decision

The residents and businesses argued that the council had disregarded their concerns

Louder

“All the time he was ill, he had it in his head that he was going to finish it when he got home. He never made it home. I guess we owed it to him”: Tim Smith’s Cardiacs story will end with final album LSD

Members of the band who influenced Steven WIlson, Radiohead, Opeth, Andy Partridge and more explain what they did and why it mattered

The Guardian - UK

A Hutterite chicken butcher covered in blood … Tim Smith’s best photograph

‘The community had 11,000 chickens and every able-bodied person helped out during the two days of butchering’

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Married At First Sight’s Timothy Smith Announces That He Is *Checks Notes* Going Into Politics

Dinner parties at Parliament House are about to get interesting.

Louder

“The interesting thing about going mad is you don’t realise you are… I think I’d become unbearable to live with”: Kavus Torabi’s new solo album brought him back from insanity in an almost religious way

The Banishing is the triumphant result of Gong and Utopia Strong member’s mental battle, loss of his family, support from his friends and a “heroic dose of magic mushrooms”

The Independent UK

Harrods boss Mohamed al-Fayed was a bully says Jack Straw who rejected his application for citizenship

Tycoon accused of combining ‘most horrific parts of Jimmy Savile, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein’

What Hi-Fi?

15 best tracks from the 2000s to test your hi-fi system

Songs released between 2000 and 2009 that will put your system through the wringer...

Sports Illustrated

Connor Stalions Documentary Presents Dubious Case for Innocence of Sign-Stealing Activity at Michigan

The former Wolverines staffer says he did not break any rules and anything that did happen was on his own accord.

Pedestrian.tv

MAFS’ Lucinda Light Just Addressed Her Feud With Ex Timothy Smith In A Sneaky IG Comment

Silently thanking the nosy person who pushed Lucinda for an answer.

Louder

“Surely it’s the greatest psychedelic rock song ever recorded… It makes the whole God thing seem plausible!” Kavus Torabi’s Guide To Cardiacs

Gong and Knifeworld guitarist recalls his time in Tim Smith’s band via five of their songs chosen by Prog

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