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The Ural Winter is Coming…

tom — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:04:53 +0000

Copies of The Ural Winter are currently being posted to all who were involved in the project including everyone who was in the audience on the day the album was recorded.

Feedback from those who have received the album has been overwhelming. Thank you all for your kind, kind words.

If you haven’t received your copy yet, it is either on its way to you or in my “To do” which I am working through as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.

The album will be released in April.

Tom

The Ural Winter BBC preview

tom — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:36:49 +0000

Hi folks,

So, if you were at The Ural Winter album recordings last year you’ll be receiving a little something from me in the very near future. If you weren’t there you may have a little longer to wait, but hopefully not too much longer!

In the mean time here are a few kind words about the album by Stuart Bailie. He previewed the album’s title track on his show on Monday night and you hear that on the BBC iPlayer.

Thank you for your patience.

Much love,

Tom

Duke Special Support

tom — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:41:02 +0000

I’ll be playing a show with legend, Duke Special tonight at Sandino’s in Derry.

Come along!

Tom

Scratch My Music Performance at Oh Yeah

tom — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:10:33 +0000

Hi all! I’ll be performing at the latest Scratch My Music event in the Oh Yeah music centre on Gordon St tonight (Tuesday 12th April). The idea behind Scratch My Music is that songwriters/bands perform a selection of songs with an interview between each song to explore their song writing process. The guest interviewer on Tuesday will be one of my oldest and dearest friend, Rigsy O’Reilly (ATL). Questions will come also from the audience.

To say I’m nervous about this is an understatement but as with most things in life that terrify me, I think it’s best to embrace the challenge. With that in mind, if there are any of my songs you would like explored at the event, please email me and I’ll try to add them to the set list.

The event will be preceded by a Demo Doctor session, where young artists will have a chance to have their demos critiqued by a panel of industry professionals.

The event will take place in the Oh Yeah Cafe between 19.00 & 21.00. It’d be really nice to see some friendly faces.

Sunday Life Article

tom — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:54:08 +0000

Happy new year everyone. I hope y’all had a nice Christmas!

I received a nice mention in today’s Sunday Life in their Ones to Watch in 2011 feature.

Thank you kindly, Kim Kelly.

Tom

After Midnight with Joe Lindsay

tom — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:39:48 +0000

You can hear a preview of one of the tracks from my forthcoming album on BBC Radio Ulster’s After Midnight with Joe Lindsay. My good buddy Davy Matchett joined Joe on the show to discuss their highlights of 2010. Listen to the whole show, it’s awesome stuff and I’m somewhere around 1hour 41mins.

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

Hope you enjoy!

Tom

NINA NASTASIA SUPPORT

tom — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:07:18 +0000

I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be supporting the wonderful Nina Nastasia when she visits Belfast early next month. Like many of you, it was the late John Peel who brought her music into my life. The first of her songs I heard was That’s All There Is from The Blackened Air which Peel played on his show some time in the early 2000s. That album holds a high place in my top ten albums of all time (though as I write, I’m listening to her latest, Outlaster on shiny 180 gram vinyl and it’s right up there with her finest work).

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

Album Recording Documentary

tom — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:09:29 +0000

The very talented Mr Gregg Houston of Babysweetsessions.com came along on the day of the album recordings and filmed both the session. He’s made a rather special documentary about the project. You can watch it here:

Tom McShane: The Ural Winter Recordings

For those of you who were there, I hope this serves as a nice reminder of some of the fun we had that day. That having been said, Gregg’s made an excellent film and you certainly didn’t have to be there to enjoy it. Either way, it’s a taster, sotospeak, of the album to come!

Thank You…

tom — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:32:49 +0000

Yesterday was one of the best days of my life. Thank you to all who came, all who played and the Start Together team. You all made it so special.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

Tom

Tom McShane: Album Recording Sessions

tom — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:29:16 +0000

Tom McShane: Album Recording Sessions

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