Home page of Tom McRae, an alternative artist from Marlborough. Tom McRae is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, a Mercury and Brit nominee, who has made 8 studio albums to date.

Now in the real world, Tom performs the occasional show under the banner of The Some Dark Café - to carry on that spirit of solidarity and resilience in a world that gets darker by the day. But the world is not the news, and people are kinder and stronger than we are led to believe.

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Tom McRae then, a journeyman songwriter of no particular import, but one whose story is still perhaps worth telling; representing as it does the transition from the gone away world of paid for music, to an era where recorded music is now virtually worthless.

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Tom's Substack. MAILING LIST. Back to all posts. Night After Night. I’ve been thinking recently about Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips. I think about him from time to time, especially ahead of a tour. A thousand years ago I was playing the same festival as them, in Belgium somewhere. That the Lips were playing was a big deal for me.

Jul 31, 2024 · Tom's Substack. MAILING LIST. Back to all posts. A sky full of swifts... The sky is full of swifts. Okay not full of them, in truth there’s only a handful, but like the voices in my head when I wake nightly at 3am, they sound legion. The birds are getting ready to leave, heading back to Africa. Their flight formation has grown more ...

Tom McRae then, a journeyman songwriter of no particular import, but one whose story is still perhaps worth telling; representing as it does the transition from the gone away world of paid for music, to an era where recorded music is now virtually worthless.

I'll be posting the occasional thing here, essays, observations, snippets of my work in progress memoir, which you can read first if you sign up for the...