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Tom Baxter
Acoustic / Folk / Rock

"Buy SKYBOUND now!"

LONDON,
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  7/17/2008
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   Tom Baxter: General Info
Member Since7/19/2006
Band Websitetombaxter.com
Band MembersBand Members:-
Tom Baxter
Songwriter, Vocals, Guitar, Production
Oli Langford
Violin, Arrangements, Right-hand Man
Che Albright (AKA Fishcake)
Drums, Percussion
Tom Fry
Double Bass
Danny Keane
Piano
Vashti Anna
BVs


1 - Night Like This:
tom's painting


2 - Skybound:
tom's painting


3 - Better:
tom's painting


4 - Tell Her Today:
tom's painting


5 - Miracle:
tom's painting


6 - Last Shot:
tom's painting


7 - Tragic:
tom's painting


8 - Half A Man:
tom's painting


9 - Icarus Wings:
tom's painting


10 - Light Me Up:
tom's painting


Influences
Sounds Liketom baxter
Record LabelSylvan Records
Type of LabelIndie





   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 18 2008 8:00P
Latitude Festival Suffolk
Jul 19 2008 8:00P
Nottingham Splendour Festival Nottingham
Jul 23 2008 8:00P
Galway Arts Festival Galway
Jul 26 2008 8:00P
Harrogate International Festival Harrogate
Aug 3 2008 8:00P
Theatre Annzee Ostende
Aug 9 2008 8:00P
Summer Sundae Leicester
Aug 15 2008 8:00P
Lowlands Festival Biddinghuizen
Aug 16 2008 8:00P
V Festival Chelmsford/Stafford tba
Aug 17 2008 8:00P
V Festival Chelmsford/Stafford
Sep 7 2008 8:00P
Sugar Hill Festival Liddington, Wiltshire
Sep 21 2008 8:00P
Sound Sanctuary Festival Tunbridge Wells

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   About Tom Baxter








Hey guys. Click here to get my new album 'Skybound' from my old friends at Townsend Records.





HEY EVERYONE. CLICK HERE FOR AN INCREDIBLE LIVE VERSION OF BETTER PERFORMED BY TOM FOR BBC RADIO 2 AT THEIR MUSIC CLUB LIVE EVENT AT LONDON'S O2 ARENA!

Check out my brother CHARLIE WINSTON's amazing album MAKE WAY
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You can get it from iTunes right HERE!!

Tom's Lost Voice - Recorded May 2008 [now fully recovered!]
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TOM BAXTER: VIDEOS


Official videos L - R: 'Tell Her Today' & 'Better'

 

Watch the Making of the BETTER Video HERE









When you multiply the power of Tom Baxter’s writing by the intensity of his performances, strange things happen. One night this summer, he was playing a gig in Ireland when a girl was so moved, she proposed to him.

Real songwriting will always make its presence felt, and that’s why it’s time for Tom Baxter to reach the massive audience he deserves. So the famous and newly reenergised Charisma label is proud to present the English singer-songwriter’s second album ‘Skybound’ as the first essential album of 2008.

‘Skybound, out on January 7, is a collection of ten extraordinarily powerful compositions, from which the unforgettable love song ‘Better’ will appear as a single on December 3. That follows its prestigious appearance on the soundtrack of the Simon Pegg/Dylan Moran comedy movie ‘Run, Fat Boy, Run,’ directed by David ‘Friends’ Schwimmer. It also comes on the heels of an extensive October tour of the UK and Ireland by one of the most acclaimed live performers of recent years.

‘Skybound’ is a worthy sequel to his 2004 debut ‘Feather and Stone,’ which built via word of mouth and his own irresistible live shows to impressive UK sales of some 70,000. Baxter co-produced the new album with Jeremy Stacey, known for his work with Nerina Pallot, Sheryl Crow, Roddy Frame and others.

But Tom didn’t just make ‘Skybound’ in the conventional sense. He truly exemplifies the phrase “creative ownership,” since he funded the recording of the album, for his own Sylvan label, by calling on his complementary talents as an accomplished artist.

During the making of the CD, he set about creating ten individual canvases as his own visual interpretation of each song. All ten canvases were sold to eager admirers, and once the album was finished, the artwork went on display in late May at the Richard Dennis Gallery in Kensington, west London.

“It was a way of being able to get the record to a bigger audience,” he explains. “I did it because (a) It funded the music, (b) I wanted to do some artwork and (c) because it all interlinked.” It’s an unusual multi-media template that Baxter intends to use again. He’s already working on a new art project, which will be tied to his next album. “It’s really been good for me, and it’s how I intend to continue in terms of music, because it keeps me fresh. One thing feeds off the other.”

A genuinely collectible first edition of a hardback book of Tom’s art, stories and personal background has just been completed and will be available on tour and at the Store section of www.tombaxter.co.uk

Even before you see Tom’s art, the songs paint a vivid canvas of their own. ‘Skybound’ was recorded at Stacey’s studio in Chelsea, where at the end of 2006, the ten basic tracks were recorded in a mere five days. The material plots an emotional expedition from adolescence to maturity, on such towering documents of love, passion, desperation and redemption as ‘Better,’ ‘Tell Her Today’ and the overpowering ‘Half A Man.’

‘Better,’ in particular, has already reached across the Atlantic. The song found its way to David Schwimmer from the live recordings Baxter made of his shows at the Amadeus Centre in west London last autumn. “Via my manager it got to David, he put it into the film and it stayed there,” he says.

If Tom’s songs are new to you, the craft of writing them has been his life. He was born in Suffolk, but his early years were spent in Cornwall. “My mum and dad were both musicians as well, they did the ‘60s folk circuit for years,” he remembers. After lots of temporary homes, they eventually bought a rundown hotel business in the Suffolk town of Bungay called the Kings Head, and there he spent the rest of his teenage years.

“They worked really hard at doing it all up and innovating a really creative place. It was essentially a hotel, but out the back we had an old-fashioned ballroom and a nightclub beneath it called ’Charlie’s Bar.’ That became a really popular place to hang out.” His brother Charlie learned the drums, Tom learned the guitar and by the time they were in their early teens, they’d put a band together.

When he was 19, Tom moved to London to go to music college, which turned out to be more about scuzzy outskirts than buzzy metropolis. While his mates began to get jobs, cars and lives, he was gigging hard and banging away at locked industry doors. But it was the start of the process of developing from mere musician into fully-rounded songwriter. “I did lots of different things to pay the rent, and as hard as it was, I avoided getting a proper job because I knew I might just get stuck in it.”

He was playing covers in the front bar at the Bedford in Balham, south London, when the tide turned back in favour of singer-songwriters. As he started to introduce his own material, a groundswell began that’s been bubbling up ever since. ‘Feather and Stone’ set the tone, and now ‘Skybound’ delivers on its promise. Witness it live, and you’re part of the rare experience of an audience totally captivated by what they’re watching. If a pin dropped, you’d hear it.

“I definitely feel there’s a real rapport now with the audience, I think that’s because I’m very at peace with performing and making the music,” says Tom. “I try to go into a zen-like state when I’m performing, because it’s important for me to realise that everybody has the potential to be affected by music. As an artist, that’s my aim. I just want to write more cracking tunes.”

The first edition hardback volume of Tom Baxter’s art, plus limited edition prints, and information on his music, tour dates and tickets, are all at www.tombaxter.co.uk




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Nina-Rae Saunders





Jul 19 2008 11:26 AM

lovely music
x
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Jul 18 2008 3:22 PM

Trekstock ♥'s Tom Baxter
Elly


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Jul 17 2008 3:55 AM

Hi Tom,
thanks for the add and your friendship in myspace.
Pretty good music and a pretty good voice.
Cheers from Germany
Elly :)
Alma duo





Jul 17 2008 2:44 AM

Ciao, grazie per l'add....complimenti bellissimi brani!!
FEEMO





Jul 16 2008 3:10 PM

hey :) i met you with my friend at cornbury - we got a lovely photo! you were amazing, really enjoyed it! take care x
The V Team





Jul 16 2008 10:58 AM

Anyone off to V Festival?
or wanting to go?

Add the V team
x
Rosie





Jul 15 2008 4:09 AM

Thanks for blowing me away at oxegen, i was in the front row completly mesmerised by you,no doubt you were the highlight of my weekend, thanks so much sending you much love x x x x x x
MANU





Jul 14 2008 6:28 AM

thanx for adding me Tom!
Helena





Jul 14 2008 6:16 AM

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Jul 14 2008 4:54 AM

"Better" is one of the best songs ever!!! You're great!!!
Sarah Russell





Jul 13 2008 6:12 PM

Thank you so much.
Love... Sarah
Vera





Jul 13 2008 2:54 PM

many thanks,
intense and precious songs!
cheers
Maybe Tomorrow





Jul 13 2008 12:01 PM

awesome at T in the Park on Saturday....well done old bean!
SANDIE//TRASH





Jul 11 2008 2:16 PM

//TRASH KISS//
silentlyricist





Jul 11 2008 11:56 AM

Hello,

Stopping by wishing you a good weekend.Great songs.

Cheers
~Antoinette
Dougie





Jul 9 2008 11:34 AM

I thought you were the best act at Cornbury this year. Very impressive set that made the rain more than bearable. I look forward to watching you at V Festival now.

All the best.
RYAN





Jul 9 2008 2:37 AM

Hey Tom it must be about time to come back up to glasgow, seems like ages since oran mor, c'mon you can do it, even a sneaky gig at tuts?
Princess





Jul 8 2008 1:12 PM

Thanks for adding me Tom! I love Miracle :-)Have a great evening!
.MariaSlovakova.(sounds)





Jul 8 2008 5:18 AM

aloha from the Goddington Ward beach club. Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington. have Baxters beetroot keeping me go today. xxx
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Jul 6 2008 3:03 PM

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Jul 5 2008 3:26 AM

Thanks for supporting us! How u doing today? x
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