Tim Fletcher
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Timothy "Tim" Fletcher is an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 musician who was the vocalist
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

 and guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

ist for Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

-based band The Stills
The Stills
The Stills were a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 2000. The band consists of Tim Fletcher , Dave Hamelin , Olivier Corbeil , and Liam O'Neil , Gregory Paquet .-History:The band members have known each other since the age of...

, who have since broken up. Born in Canada to English parents, Fletcher met his future band-mates at the age of 12 before forming The Stills in 2000. Along with a number of The Stills, he previously played in an early incarnation of the band Chinatown
Chinatown (Band)
Chinatown is a francophone pop band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.According to Philippe Fehmiu who worked at Radio-Canada, "The story behind Chinatown is linked, not so much to the movie of the same name starring Jack Nicholson, but to the The Stills, an anglophone band from Montreal that...

, and was also a member of heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Amentum.

Fletcher and Dave Hamelin
Dave Hamelin
Dave Hamelin is a vocalist and guitarist for Canadian rock band The Stills. The principal songwriter and lyricist for the band made the move up from behind the kit after guitarist Greg Paquet left the band in 2005.-References:...

 are the principal songwriters in the band. On the band's first album, Logic Will Break Your Heart
Logic Will Break Your Heart
Logic Will Break Your Heart is the debut album by the Montreal-based indie rock band The Stills. The album was released in North America on October 21, 2003, and in the UK on February 23, 2004...

, Fletcher was the lead singer. However, when Greg Paquet left the band and former drummer Hamelin took up lead guitar, Fletcher took something of a backseat on the second record, Without Feathers
Without Feathers (album)
-UK edition:-Personnel:The Stills*Olivier Corbeil — bass guitar, cowbell*Tim Fletcher — vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar*Dave Hamelin — vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, percussion, additional recording, mixing...

. He returned to lead vocalist duties for the third album, Oceans Will Rise
Oceans Will Rise
Oceans Will Rise is the third and most recent album by Montreal band The Stills, released August 19, 2008.In late 2007, Toronto-based record label Arts & Crafts signed the band to a worldwide recording deal...

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