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

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

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

Come along!

Tom

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

Mr Matt Hazley, the man responsible for the ace podcast series, Imprintthisonyourmind, now invites you the first Imprint gig. Join myself, the wonderful Isobel Anderson and the excellent Farriers for tunes and such at the Black Box Cafe, Hill St Belfast from 8pm this Saturday. Admission is free.

If you missed my Imprint session from last year you can check it out here.

See you there!

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

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!

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