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Tom McShane

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General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Folk / Indie

    Location Belfast, Un

    Profile Views: 54563

    Last Login: 2/27/2013

    Member Since 7/6/2005

    Website www.tommcshane.co.uk

    Record Label Third Bar

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Tom McShane is a musician/songwriter from a small coastal village near Belfast in Northern Ireland. Although regularly compared to lo-fi trailblazers, Will Oldham Bill Callahan and Elliot Smith, the fact that he was raised on a strict diet of Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison and Johnny Cash is perhaps as telling. The groundwork for his unique brand of melancholia was laid in "Songs are Sad", a low fi, home recorded mini album. In 2006, Northern Irish indie-synth-pop duo, Oppenheimer took Tom's music to an international audience when their cover of Tom's lo-fi anthem, Don't Call Me featured on their eponymous Bar/None Records debut. In 2007 Tom signed to fledgling San Francisco based indie label, Penny who released the "Departures" mini album, Tom's official Debut. In November & December of that year Tom toured the US Pacific coast to promote the record. In 2008 Tom built apon the success of "Departures" with his highly acclaimed single "Fighter" along with further touring in Ireland in 2008 and a second tour of the USA in 2009. 2010 saw Tom challenge convention with an innovative recording project. Inspired by those great recordings from the days before overdubs and multitracking, Tom assembled and rehearsed a 13 piece band and in two live sessions recorded his entire full length debut in the presence of a live audience. The album will be released in 2011. Tom has performed with Holly Golightly, Arab Strap, Malcolm Middleton, White Hinterland, Nad Navillus (Songs: Ohia), Hal, Fionn Regan to name but a few.

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  • Influences

    Leonard Cohen, Yo La Tengo, Televison, Cat Power, Johnny Cash, Charles Mingus, Sparklehorse, Violent Femmes, Nina Nastasia, The Velvet Underground, Daniel Johnston, Van Morrison, Beat Happening, Belle and Sebastian, Pixies, Smog, Stars, the short stories of Guy De Maupassant and the cinema of Orson Welles.

  • Sounds Like

    "Tom is in the company of those meta-sad acts that have graced the Domino label, like Bill Callahan, Elliot Smith and Will Oldham… a steady voice in a landscape of shrill amateurs." Stuart Bailie - Oh Yeah

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  1. Tom McShane

    ...forget his performance of The Crystal Ship. It was spine tinglingly great. My thoughts are with his family.

  2. Tom McShane

    I went to see Manzarek in Dublin c.1999. He was touring a one man show, just him & his keyboard. He was a great raconteur. I'll never...

  3. Tom McShane

    I fell in love with a band for the 1st time when I was 11. That band was The Doors. Deeply saddened by Ray Manzarek's passing.

  4. Tom McShane

    Or indeed a bit of Van. http://t.co/GbSbFVoyMV

  5. Tom McShane

    Nothing quite like a bit of Chopin of an evening. http://t.co/3Rf0SQ4iiz

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