Tom McShane

Fighter/God Says Out Today!

My new single, Fighter is released through Penny Distribution today on limited edition split seven inch vinyl along with God Says by Escape Act. You can pick up a copy of the vinyl today here or from the following stores:

Tower Records - Dublin
Road Records - Dublin
Freebird Records - Dublin
City Discs - Dublin
Plugd Records - Cork
Savin Music Centre - Limerick

Back Beat Records Belfast
Rough Trade - Talbot Road, London
Jumbo - St. Johns Centre, Leeds
Avalanche - Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
Sister Ray - Berwick Street, London
Rough Trade East - Brick Lane, London
Avalanche - Dundas Street, Glasgow
Reflex - Nun Street, Newcastle
Spillers - The Hayes, Cardiff

You can get a digital version of the single from Itunes, Rapsody and all good download sites.

I hope you enjoy!

Tom

Fighter on Simplemuzik Podcast

Russell David featured “Fighter” & “Promise Me” on his Simplemuzik Podcast Episode 095. This episode, entitled “The Good Fight” centres around the thematic common ground between “Fighter”, “Out of Tune Confessional” by Julius Caesar and the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Please check out Russell’s Podcast.

Holly Golightly Support: Thursday 19th June!

I’m very pleased to announce that my band and I will be supporting the awesome Holly Golightly next Thursday evening at Auntie Annies Porter House in Belfast. I’m a big fan of Ms Golightly so this show will be a massive thrill for me. 

I literally cannot wait!

Tom

Free Downloads (Part Three of Three): Promise Me (ATL Acoustic Session)

Hi Folks, 

The third and final of the Fighter pre-release free download tracks is now available over on my myspace page. This week it’s an acoustic version of Promise Me recorded live in session from Across the Line on BBC Radio Ulster. As with the previous tracks, it will be available for one week only.

 It’s been brought to my attention that non-myspace users can’t download music from the site, if this applies to you, you can download the track from pennydistribution.com. 

I hope you’ve all enjoyed the tracks released in weeks one and two and I hope your appetites are whetted for the single release on 23^rd June. More exciting news on that to come.

 ‘Til then,  

Tom

BBC Radio One Session Broadcast: Wednesday 4th June

My band and I were in the BBC’s Blackstaff House on Monday to record three completely live tracks for Rory McConnell’s “BBC Introducing…” show. The session will be broadcast on the show on Wednesday 4th June.

For more details on the recording of the session and more photographs you can check out my livejournal.

Thanks for reading!

Tom  �

Free Downloads (Part Two of Three): “Slim Slow Slider”

Hey folks, 

So, my cover of “That’s All There Is” by Nina Nastasia is no longer available for download, but do not fret as quite simply, that’s not all there is. We’re now into the second week of our free download releases in the run up to the Launch of the “Fighter” single. For the next week you, dear friends, will be able to download a cover of Van Morrison’s “Slim Slow Slider” recorded live at the Astral Weeks Revisited concert at the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast on January 5th. 

It was a wonderful event which I was very proud to be a part of. Astral Weeks is a remarkable album and Van Morrison is an exceptional creative figure whose music has enriched my days from a very early age. The evening was a celebration of the 40^th Anniversary of the album and this track, my small tribute to a true legend. 

Of all the songs on Astral Weeks, “Slim Slow Slider” is perhaps the odd man out. In contrast to the free flowing, almost stream of consciousness approach of many of the songs, it has four short, compact verses. I think it was this that attracted me. In spite of its limited word count, it conveys untold emotional depth. And that’s the style of writing I aspire to: maximum narrative and depth in as few lines as possible. 

Mr Gerry Bannon worked the front of house mix on the night and Rocky, Ben & Barrett at Start Together recorded the show and did the post production. 

As before, I hope you all enjoy my rendition. You can download it now from my Myspace music player.   

Tom  

Free Downloads (Part One of Three): “That’s All There Is”

In the run up to the release of Fighter/God Says (the upcoming split seven inch single I’ll be releasing with Escape Act) I’m going to be giving away some free music. For the next three weeks I’ll be making three session/live tracks available for free download through my Myspace music player, each only available for one week. Each track includes includes full color artwork, lyrics and track notes.

This week it’s a cover version of Nina Nastasia’s “That’s All There Is” from her wonderful “The Blackened Air” album. To any fellow Nina Nastasia fans out there, I really hope I haven’t butchered it!

This track was recorded for the BBC’s Across the Line show in January of this year, a couple of weeks before the Fighter recording sessions at Start Together. The BBC session was produced by Paul McClean and engineered by Ciaran Tracey. 

Download it now from my Myspace. 

Tom 

Fighter 7″ Single Pre-Order and Free Download Tracks

Hi folks,

I’m very excited to announce that my new single “Fighter” will be release on limited edition 7 inch vinyl on 23rd June. It’s available for pre-order from today from this site.

It’s being released through Penny Distribution and it’s a split double A side single with “God Says” by Escape Act on the flipside.

The single costs £3.50 including P&P for sales within the UK and Ireland and £4.50 for the rest of world.

If you order now you can download a zip file containing digital copies of “Fighter” & “God Says” as well as two free studio tracks, Promise Me by yours truly and “Everyone Got Shot” by Escape Act. You can listen to “Fighter” and “Promise Me” on my myspace page. The vinyl single will be posted to you on 23rd June.

Thanks for reading,
Tom

On the Radio, Uh Oh!

Hi folks, I’ll be appearing on the Livewire show on Belfast’s Feile FM radio station on Saturday 10th May (or “tomorrow” as I am currently calling it). I’ll be performing a live acoustic session and for those of you who missed the ATL Podcast, we’ll also be previewing the forthcoming single, Fighter. As well as this, there’ll be some chit and presumably more than a little chat. Indeed, I believe that you, the listener can even phone in and ask questions. Awesome.  

For those of you living outside Northern Ireland, you can simply click the Listen Live tab on their home page. The show starts at 12noon GMT.

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend, folks!

Tom

Tom @ the 9th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

Tom has ust confirmed a date at Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival. He’ll be performing tomorrow evening (6th May 2008) at the Northern Visions Television studios on Donegall Street along side And So I Watch You From Afar and Pixie Saytar. The performance will be recorded for future broadcast.