// latest NEWS
// A Christmas message from tom
Merry Christmas one and all!
I would like to send you all best wishes for a great Christmas and hope that 2012 is everything you want it to be - including a new album from me! Yes, thats right!
I am nearly there and appreciate, beyond words, your continued support. We will be recording in February and hope to have something for you all to listen to come the summer - it has been a long journey - but the end is in sight !
Have a lovely Christmas and marvellous New Year - TB.
// QUICK UPDATE - JULY 2011
Sorry been underground for a while - been recording/writing/traveling again - have a few little shows at the Slaughtered Lamb in Shoreditch over the coming months - but I am happy to say that have sold out already !
Promise there will be more soon - As always - thank you for your support and kind words. Enjoy the sunshine ! TB
// A message from Tom
Dear friends, I hope this last year has fared you well!
Before I blabber on further, please accept my invitation to listen to the title track of my forthcoming album, ‘GOLDEN’.
You just need to click here.
IMPORTANT: When you click you will be asked to submit your email details. DON’T PANIC! This is because EMI who presently manage my server cannot release your email details to me (for legal reasons). This is the last email they will send on my behalf, SO PLEASE… if you ever want to hear from me again, don’t be shy - submit your email.… thanks!
Well the days and hours have passed so quickly… and as I have wiled away my time in India, Spain, Paris and now Devon, I have often mused (as you probably have) if a 3rd Tom Baxter album will actually ever surface!
Creativity is a curious thing but while writing this letter I have to admit that I am slightly consoled by the book beside me, ‘War & Peace’ (by Tolstoy) in which its preface serves to remind us that it took him a healthy 5 years to write it…. Blimey!! Ok, well it is a masterpiece of 20th century literature, but it does, if nothing else, confirm that quality, is thankfully, remembered for quality not for not the time it takes to produce it.
So as I wave goodbye to another (brief) English summer I put pen to paper and take this opportunity to invite you to a series of small shows to showcase some of my new material. I'm going to be playing in Paris, London and Dublin, and it would be great to see you there! Check out the gigs page for more information.
During my time away I spent many months in India and later on traveled to the south of Spain to study flamenco guitar, I tried my hand at busking on the streets of Paris and more recently relocated to the South Devon coast to begin work on my new album.Ultimately the next record will be a reflection of this journey, paying homage to the guitar that became my most treasured companion along the way.
‘Golden' will be a soundtrack to my travels, a catalogue of memories and emotions that I collected as I went along and I hope the song attached gives you a snippet of how it inspired me.
I hope to see you soon at a concert but in the meantime I wish you all the best.
Tom Baxter.
(To read Tom's handwritten version, click here)
// BIOGRAPHY
// ABOUT TOM BAXTER
"I needed to recharge - physically and emotionally".
After years of writing, performing, promoting, touring and not to mention producing a book & 10 original pieces of art for his last album ‘Skybound’, Tom Baxter was ready for some time out.
"It was a great and exciting time, but by the end of it all, I felt I needed a break from music, London and my career". So off he went to India for the best part of a year.
"For the first few months I hardly touched the guitar but as the time went by it gradually became my closest ally again..."
"India is a fascinating country, so completely unfamiliar in so many ways, full of contradictions and challenges and it certainly made me see life from a different perspective, which is what I really needed. Ultimately I think everyone who goes traveling hopes that deep down that they might unravel a missing part of themselves, but after spending a fare share of time in ashrams and yoga retreats It wasn’t long before i realised that playing the guitar was my own sort of meditation. I bought an old 1970’s Enfield motorbike and drove through the Himalayas with my guitar strapped on the back – I felt like I was continuously in my own road movie… and at the end of each day, having traveled endless dusty roads, I’d brush myself down, exhausted, crack open my whiskey flask and sit there playing the guitar until I fell asleep."
On return Tom made his way down to the South of Spain for a few months to follow up his yen to study flamenco guitar and later wound up in Paris busking on the streets. On arriving back in the UK, he moved all his belongings to the south Devonshire coast where he now lives and is working on his 3rd album -‘GOLDEN’.
Tom is on track to release an EP later on in the year, with an album to follow in 2011. A preview of the title track ‘GOLDEN’ is available to listen to by joining the mailing list.
// GIGS
// UPCOMING gigs
SEPTEMBER 7TH 2011:
THE SLAUGHTERED LAMB, LONDON
OCTOBER 11TH 2011:
THE SLAUGHTERED LAMB, LONDON
NOVEMBER 9TH 2011:
THE SLAUGHTERED LAMB, LONDON
december 7TH 2011:
THE SLAUGHTERED LAMB, LONDON
// MAILING LIST
// JOIN NOW TO HEAR EXCLUSIVE NEW MUSIC
For a limited period we are offering members of the mailing list a chance to hear some of Tom's new music. Simply fill in your details below and you will receive a link to listen to the title track from Tom's forthcoming album, Golden.
Not only that, but by joining our mailing list you will keep up to date with all the latest news, tour dates and special offers. that must tempt you surely - go on, give it a try!
// CONTACT
// GET IN TOUCH
We always love people getting in touch, so if you' have any questions at all then don't hesitate to let us know.
If you have a question for Tom, have booking and/or general enquiries, contact:
team@tombaxter.com
We hope to hear from you soon.