Tom McShane

The Ural Winter Now Streaming on Hot Press & AU!

tom — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:48:56 +0000

As the release of The Ural Winter draws nearer, Hot Press & AU Magazines are helping to get the word out by streaming the album on their respective websites.

From today you can listen to The Ural Winter in its intirity, for a limited period on both these sites:

http://www.hotpress.com/Tom-McShane/news/LISTEN-New-Tom-McShane-album/8901060.html?new_layout=1

http://iheartau.com/2012/05/ni-exclusive-stream-the-new-album-from-tom-mcshane/

I hope you all enjoy. The album will be released next month. More new on that will follow soon…

Tom

Record Store Day 2012

tom — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:54:52 +0000

In celebration of Record Store Day 2012 (Saturday 21st April) I’ll be playing at a special event hosted by Oh Yeah Belfast.

Here is the full line up:

LIVE:
Tom McShane
https://www.facebook.com/tommcshanemusic
Sad City
https://www.facebook.com/MusicBySadCity
Sketch Nine
https://www.facebook.com/I.Am.SketchNine
Third Man Theme
https://www.facebook.com/thirdmantheme
Kiani
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Katrina-OKane-Kiani/251597304856062?sk=wall

DJ Sets:
Belfast Music Club
https://www.facebook.com/groups/9870418647/
AU
https://www.facebook.com/aumagazine
Monkphat
https://www.facebook.com/parsleymonkphat
Tw!tch
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Twitch-Belfast/131958096899224
One
https://www.facebook.com/oneelectronica?ref=ts
Timmy Stewart
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001435157073

Nina Nastasia Support

tom — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:26:56 +0000

I am VERY pleased to announce that I will be supporting the wonderful Nina Nastasia at her forthcoming show at Whelans in Dublin. The show is on 3rd April and tickets are on sale now.

Back in 2010 I was booked to support Nina when she was due to tour her incredible Outlaster album. I wrote a little about it on my blog back then; tommcshane.co.uk/2010/11/02/nina-nastasia-support

Unfortunately that tour was not to be but I feel very lucky to have a second opportunity to perform with Nina.

Hopefully see you there,

Tom

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 Late Show, BBC Radio Ulster Tonight!

tom — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:47:09 +0000

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

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

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

Two Live Reviews

tom — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:08:48 +0000

Here are a couple of nice reviews of a show I played I few weeks ago at the launch of the wonderful Morning Claws’ (ex Cutaways) debut single.

Here’s a BBC review for ATL by William Johnston.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/atl/review_specific399872.shtml
“Like a more melancholy, late night Richard Hawley, McShane shares his gift of story telling and character creation”.

And here’s a Redeemer Central review by Leah Gallant.
http://www.redeemercentral.com/the_collective/article/in_the_city_morning_claws/
“Even dreamier and maybe even sadder [than] Death Cab for Cutie… Tom’s voice is not unlike Ben Gibbard’s but still unique”.

Thank you both so much for your kind, kind words.

Tom

Record Store Day In-Store at Head Belfast Saturday 16th April

tom — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:26:39 +0000

From Head/AU…

HEAD Records (Best Irish Independent Store 2011) in association with AU presents:

RECORD STORE DAY!

Head invites you all to come and celebrate Record Store Day with us. We’ll be selling limited edition vinyl from 9am and in the afternoon some of the most exciting bands and DJs that the city has to offer will be taking over the store from 12:00-5:30pm

THE ANSWER (ACOUSTIC SET)
SEA PINKS
THIRD MAN THEME
TOM MCSHANE
MORNING CLAWS
CHARLES HURTS

In between each band we’ll have VINYL ONLY DJ SETS from:

SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER
JONNY TIERNAN (AU)
JOE LINDSAY
LYNDON STEPHENS
KENNY MURDOCH

This is not to be missed, so make sure to get yourself down early!

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.