Tim Mech is a Canadian rock guitarist and guitar technician for Elvis Costello. He is best known as a sometime collaborator with Rheostatics, for whom he was also a guitar tech for many years, starting around 1988. Starting around 1982, he is formerly associated with Ottawa punk rock bands such as Civil Terror, Snuff Maximus and Deep Six, Mech later moved back to Toronto, his home town, forming The Bookmen with Dave Bookman, and working with Rheostatics. Tim is credited on Rheostatics' record Whale Music and was featured in their video for Stolen Car.
He currently fronts his own band, Tim Mech's PEEP-SHOW, in which he plays the Weissenborn Hawaiian slide guitar and sings. He is also the principal songwriter for the band. "Tim Mech's PEEP-SHOW" made 2 records, "Cocktails" in 2001 and "Topless" in 2004. In addition, "PEEP-SHOW" was one of the winners of the Musician Magazine's "Best Unsigned Band Competition" in 1997. Tim was a featured guest musician on Canadian TV's "Mike Bullard Show", sitting with the house band. Tim joined Barenaked Ladies onstage playing the guitar solo (which he played on the original album version) for a live cover of Rheostatics' "Legal Age Life at Variety Store" for the 2007 Rheostatics tribute album The Secret Sessions.
Mech has been guitar tech for Bob Mould, The Tragically Hip, Bruce Cockburn and Barenaked Ladies. Since May 2011 he has been the guitar tech for Elvis Costello.