Thomas White News
JUNE 2008: THOMAS WHITE SHOWS
1: The Boiler Room, Guildford
2: The Louisiana, Bristol
3: Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
4: The Glee Club (Studio) Birmingham
5: Little Civic, Wolverhampton
6: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
8: The Musician, Leicester
10: The Cellars, Portsmouth
BRAKES SHOW
6 July: Doctor Loft 05:00, Castello d’Empuries - Empuriabrava (Girona) Spain
EAMON HAMILTON SHOWS
11 July: 2000 Trees Festival, Cheltenham
3 Aug: Kendal Calling, Kendal
Thomas White News
Visit his Myspace for a homemade video for The Runaround, taken from his upcoming I Dream Of Black LP. You can also play new song Devil In A Trojan Horse, live on Marc Riley’s Brain Surgery back in April: Thomas White Myspace
His first solo outing, I Dream Of Black, is a home crafted dream-scape of whirring synths, psych-guitar, and the instantly recognisable vocal. With the self-imposed remit of “making a cohesive record without going anywhere near a studio”, he set himself up with a Tascam 4-Track tape recorder and began brainstorming. Inspiration is derived from a myriad of different sources including The Dandy Warhols, RTX, Broadcast, Money Mark, Clearlake and The Wicker Man. Amid ambient electro-acoustica and playful surf ‘wig-outs’, the single The Runaround sees Thomas “channeling Courtney Taylor-Taylor circa 1998″, while the albums’ “only love song” Starry Nite 2 conjures up The Beach Boys at their beatific best. Starry Nite 3 splices Robert Wyatt’s early seventies recordings with the dusty beats of Money Mark, and closer Wartime Love/Solar Collapse imagines the sound of a solar implosion as heard from earth.
More Brakes Festival appearances to be announced shortly…