Tom McShane to Support Malcolm Middleton
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in gigs, news | No Comments »Tom will perform at the March Bacchanal mini-festival in Belfast. The festival’s aim is to showcase Belfast talent and the festival guest is Arab Strap legend, Malcolm Middleton.   Mr Middleton will perform a show in the Black Box on 22nd March ...
Departures Review
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Reviews, news, releases | No Comments »A rather complimentary review of Departures appears on the Captain Obvious blog. Check it out! Thanks, Captain!
Podcast News
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized, news | No Comments »Two interesting podcasts featuring Tom have been brought to our attention. The first is Russell David’s wonderful San Francisco based Simple Musik Podcast. Guide featured in his SMP 078 Podcast, “Recovering with New Musicâ€. You can check out this, and ...
Astral Weeks Revisited
Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in gigs, news | No Comments »Tom will be performing at Astral Weeks Revisited at the Out to Lunch Festival. The event has been organized by the folks at Oh Yeah to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of the much acclaimed Van Morrison album. The entire ...
“No McShane, No Gain”
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 Posted in Reviews, news, releases | No Comments »Not our words, but those of Hotpress magazine's Colin Carberry in the title of his Hit the North column this week. In a round up of recent releases from Northern Irish acts, Colin makes some very favourable remarks about the Departures ...
Songs are Sad Free Download!
Friday, November 23rd, 2007 Posted in downloads, news, releases | No Comments »Tom’s first album, the self-released “Songs are Sad†is available for free download over at Penny Distribution.The album contains live favourites Song for M and Towards the Sun as well as Don’t Call Me which was covered by Oppenheimer on ...
US West Coast Tour 2007
Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Posted in gigs, news | No Comments »We are very please to announce that Tom will be touring the US Pacific Coast in November and December to support the release of Departures. The tour kicks off on Saturday 24th November at the Yet Wah in San Rafael, ...
Departures Out NOW!
Monday, October 29th, 2007 Posted in news, releases | No Comments »Tom’s US debut is released today through San Francisco based label, Penny Distribution. The six track mini-album is available from all good digital music sites including itunes.com, emusic.com, napster.com and rhapsody.com, or you can buy a good old fashioned CD ...
New Website Launched!
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted in news | No Comments »Welcome to the new look tommcshane.co.uk. We hope you like the look and enjoy the tunes and videos! In addition to this site you can get further info over at Tom's myspaceand read Tom’s blog.
Tom on Culture Northen Ireland
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in Reviews, news | No Comments »There's an interview with Tom over at culturenorthernireland.org. It's a great piece writen by James Gracey. We were greatly ammused by the use of the term "introspective detective"!