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TSR Wise

About Me

A brief history of Tom...

Singer-songwriter, but not in the bad way. I'm currently living in Sweden's fifth largest city (that's right, look impressed) Linköping, and trying to find gigs here.

I like to play the rock guitar, but without a band it seems inappropriate, so I play the acoustic guitar instead. I would like to put a band together so I can play the rock guitar again though.

Former guitarist with Academy Morticians and Bullet of Diplomacy . In early 2008 thanks to the inspiration of my good friend and fantastic singer Teresa Stewart I finally moved from occasional backing vocalist to "singer" with the above-heard results.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/05/2007
Influences:
Bands that I like::

In no particular order...

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

Cathy Davey - Tales of Silversleeve - seek it out, you won't be disappointed.

Extreme - Nuno Bettencourt

and Faith No More, Bis, Children of Bodom, Rammstein, Skunk Anansie, Ultrasound, Tomahawk, Metlicca (you heard me), Pixies, Kiss, Echobelly, Simon Mastrantone, Manowar, Meatloaf, The Clash, Neil Young, Brian Wilson, Weezer, Lost Horizon, Opeth (we both love diminished stuff), System of a Down, Super Furry Animals, Guns N Roses, Frank Sidebottom, Echobelly, David Lee Roth, Radiohead (influence might be a bit strong), Racer X, Ford Pier, Flight of the Conchords ('uckin' with my shiii'), Nirvana (coming back to them lately, and about time too), Mr Big, Iron Maiden, The Feeling (yes, The Feeling, no shame in that)...


Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The Future Is Never Too Late/Unheralded v2

Here are 2 very different demos.  The first, The Future Is Never Too Late, is a relatively minimalist recording; 2 guitars, drums, bass, vocals, very quick to record and simple to mix, subsequently ac...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:22:00 GMT

Life After Life, Monsters Prowling In The Dark, Wondering Where The Minutes Went

In case you hadn't noticed I put three new songs up in the last week.They all just came to me at once, as often happens.  Song ideas are a bit like buses; red, 5 metres tall, those foldy down seats fo...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 07:20:00 GMT

Couple of new songs...

Managed to find some space amongst the boxes in our new flat to finish off a couple of demos I started before Christmas.  Seems like the flat has good solid walls, as noone has complained about the si...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:12:00 GMT

What Have You Got To Be Scared Of

The main riff of this goes back a long way, and an early typically unwieldy version got the Dan McKee treatment in the Bullet of Dimplomacy days - in fact major parts of the verse melod...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:20:00 GMT

Body Parts

Body Parts is the all-singing version of the instrumental "A Million Years of Bad Luck" I had up here before, with a load of drastic changes.  I think I've been working on this song for about 6 y...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:28:00 GMT

Birthday party gig

Last night I fulfilled a lifetime's ambition and played a gig to fourteen 8 and 9 year-olds at a birthday party.  It was an unrivalled success!  Having said that, once I'd finishe...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:56:00 GMT

"A Million Years of Bad Luck" demo...

...is possibly the last song Bullet of Diplomacy were learning before we split up.  In fact you could say it was the song that ended Bullet of Diplomacy!  It wasn't.  But trying to play...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:06:00 GMT

"Things are alright" demo

On Friday I finally got the Boss BR600 digital 8 track recorder I've been looking for since Christmas, and we had some intimate fun together this weekend.  Monica didn't get a look in.  "Thi...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:47:00 GMT

Paranoid and Sunburnt

I've realised I would be quite happy for my CD player to break with Skunk Anansie's first album lodged in it, and listen to nothing else, it's so good!  Everything on that album satisfies me, it'...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:20:00 GMT

Super Mario Brothers soundtrack

Yesterday I purchased the soundtrack to Mr Bob Hoskins' proudest cinematic achievement, Super Mario Brothers.  This is because it has an exclusive song from Extreme called 'Wh...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:46:00 GMT