Tomorrow evening I’ll be playing a solo set in support of my very good friends, Kitty and the Can Openers who’ll be launching their excellent debut EP. Also performing will be Joe Echo (AKA Ciaran Gribbon, formerly of Leya).Â
See you there!
Tom
Tonight, Tom will be performing with New York singer/songwriter Nell Bryden in the Black Box in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter. Doors open at 8pm and admission is a very reasonable £6.
Hi Folks,
Just to let you know I’ll be playing a show in Belfast tonight with an awesome Portland band called White Hinterland.
The gig will take place in Auntie Annies Porter House on the Dublin Rd in Belfast. Doors are at 9pm and it’s £5
Please check these folks out, they really are something very special.
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See you tonight!
Tom
Another review of Fighter is now online at the ace The Devil has the Best Tuna Blog:
BOXING CLEVER:Â Tom McShane
Genre: Indie / Alternative
From: Belfast, Northern Ireland United Kingdom
Tom Mcshane is a singer songwriter from Northern Ireland who takes you on a tour of his emotions with his heart firmly pinned to his sleeve. Like a mellow, melancholic David Ford or Will Oldham if he’d been brought up on the streets of Belfast instead of Kentucky Tom reaches right into your chest tugging at your heart and leaving you breathless. Such honesty is rare in a scene that emphasises style and fashion over passion and should be treasured by anyone with a passion for music.
Tom has recently released a single, ‘Fighter’, a lo-fi tale of a son following his boxing father into the ring. ‘Fighter’ was released as a split 7″ single with fellow Belfastians, the altogether more mainstream sounding indie pop trio Escape Act (of which more tomorrow).
If you’ve grown tired of run of the mill singer songwriters like David Gray then Tom McShane has arrived to restore your faith.
Thank you kindly, sir!
Tom
A brief but very kind review of Fighter appears in the single review section of Subba-cultcha.com;Â
TOM MCSHANE – FIGHTER – PENNY DISTRIBUTION
Slow burning lament, touched with melancholy and exploding into falsetto when the emotion calls for it, a touching song from an artist with a pure soul…
Jeremy Chick, Subba-cultcha.com, July 2008
Thanks, Jeremy!
TomÂ
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be performing at the Stendal Festival on Saturday 16th August along side the likes of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., David Kitt and a host of others. For the full line-up check out www.stendhalfestival.com.Â
Tom
I especially like the title! 
Two tracks from our stripped back performance at the AU Magazine show at the CQAF have been included in the NVTV broadcast of the concert. Also featured are the awesome And So I Watch You From Afar and, one of my personal absolute favourite new bands, the Benjamins. I blogged about it at the time and you can read that post here.
Tom
TOM MCSHANE
‘FIGHTER’ (Penny Distribution)
Spot of lo-fi alt country from Northern Ireland, anyone? Tom McShane channels the likes of Uncle Tupelo and Smog on this great track, which eloquently tells the story of a boxer’s inner conflict. Only deep martial drums resonate beneath McShane’s timeless voice for much of the track, with a simple but devastatingly effective little guitar lick cropping up every now and then too. An extremely promising taster.
Stephen Errity // Hot Press // Volume 32, Issue 13 // 16th July 2008
Thanks Stephen!
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
