I’m pleased to announce that the release of The Ural Winter is getting ever nearer and I’m going to be chatting to Stuart Bailie on The Late Show tonight, discussing my plans for the album.

Tune into Radio Ulster from 22.00!

Wishing y’all an amazing 2012,

Tom

You can listen here for the next seven days: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cl7cg

Hope you enjoy!

Tom

For me, having the chance to perform with Ms Nastasia is as big a deal as it would be to open for any of my other heroes and I’ll probably get seriously nervous and and more than a little starstruck. Considering the regard in which I hold her music, it seems somehow hard to believe that I’ll be in the same room as her, and that the room will be upstairs in Auntie Annies seems seriously surreal. My talents will look meagre and silly aside hers, but I don’t really care about that. Besides, most singers-who-wrtite-songs would be in the same boat.

I strongly recommend you come along. Artists of this calibre are few in number to begin with and to get to see one perform in such an intimate setting is a rare treat.

Oh by the way, I covered That’s All There Is for an ATL session back in 2007 which is still online over here.

NINA NASTASIA w/Tom McShane
Auntie Annies, Dublin Rd, Belfast
9th December
8.30pm
£9

So the day has finally arrived! My next album will be recorded today in two completely live sessions at 2pm & 7pm at the Oh Yeah Building, Belfast. To say I’m excited would be an understatement. This will the the culmination of so much hard work by a great many talented people:

Nick Fitzsimons: Drums
Marty Timlin: Upright Bass
Conor Scullion: Piano and Organ
Linley Hamilton: Trumpet
Angie McCrisken-O’Reilly: 1st Violin
Michael McMullan: 2nd Violin
Zarah Fleming: Cello
Ciara O’Neill: Vocals
Hornby: Guitar & Vocals
Amy McGarrigle: Vocals & Glockenspiel
Rich Dale: Vocals
Ben McAuley: Vocals

Rocky O’Reilly: Producer
Ben McAuley: Engineer
Barrett Lahey: Engineer
Lee McMahon: Monitors

Come along and help us make something special.

I hope you enjoy!

Tom

I also did a video interview with ATL’s Paul McClean which you can watch here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/atl/artists/tommcshane.shtml

I hope you enjoy!

Just a reminder that the recordings will take place at the Oh Yeah Building on 3rd July and you can attend either the 2pm session or the 7pm session. Tickets cost £9 which includes entry to your chosen session and advance purchase of the completed album which will be sent to you as soon as mixing, mastering and pressing are completed. You will be credited in the liner notes and your copy of the album will be personalised by me.

One more reminder, tickets for these events are strictly limited so get ‘em while you can!

Tom

Mr Eddie Mullan of Culture NI interviewed me recently regarding my upcoming Album Recording project.

He also recorded me playing a short acoustic session of two songs that will be on the album, “Flowers” and “The Ural Winter”.

You can read the article and download mp3s of the session tracks for free here.

Tom

In Association with Trans & Oh Yeah

This summer, Belfast based singer/songwriter Tom McShane & producer Rocky O’Reilly (Start Together Studio) throw open the doors and invite fans to witness first hand and take part in the creation of Tom’s next record. Fear not though; this will not be the repetitive and laboured process of endless over-dubs and recording trickery. This instead will be a dynamic and exciting live performance modelled on old school recording techniques of the ’50s & ’60s.

Two open-studio recording sessions will be held on July 3rd. During each of these sessions the album will be performed in its entirety with each song being performed only once per session. The best take of each song will be selected for the final cut of the record.

The recording will be facilitated by the Oh Yeah Music Centre, the creative hub at the heart of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter. Recording will take place across various rooms with Oh Yeah’s main exhibition/performance space becoming an extension of the Start Together studio space, also based in the Oh Yeah building.

Tickets for this event are strictly limited. The ticket price not only admits fans to one of the recording sessions for this special one-off event but also includes a pre-order of the finished album which will be mailed to them as soon as the album has been mixed, mastered and pressed. Each ticket holder will be credited in the liner notes and receive special individual copy that will display their name.

Become part of the discussion that shapes the development of this record by joining Tom’s mailing list to have your say in everything from album art to the album’s title and receive demo versions of the album’s tracks as pre-production progresses.

Oh Yeah Building, Gordon Street, Belfast

Saturday 3rd July 2010

Session One 14:00

Session Two 19:00

Ticket price per Session (inc. album pre-sale): £9

Tickets available through the Waterfront Box Office

Here’s a video of a new song entitled “Flowers” performed last week at my Dome show. I hope you enjoy! Thank you for the footage, Nick!

Tom