Press Kit
- Press Release: “Painfully Mainstream”
- Tom Bio
- Quote sheet
- Fact sheet
- Videos
- Photos
- Discography
- Album Notes: “Painfully Mainstream”
- Media contacts
Listen to the songs on Painfully Mainstream
| Use the player to listen to any of the tracks - * Click the double right arrow to move to the next track * Click the track name to see a scrolling list of all the tracks * Move your pointer outside the payer to see the flowers |
Watch Tom’s Videos From Painfully Mainstream
Song For The Painfully IndieScripted, planned, performed, shot and edited by Tom with a bit of help from family and friends. Click here to see this video in YouTube with comments and ratings |
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IndigoTom performing on all instruments and vocals and showing the colours in Indigo. The song is a love song written from the point of view of an emotionally-induced synaesthete (person with synaesthesia), who sees the colour indigo when feeling love. Click here to see this video in YouTube with comments and ratings |
For Media and Booking inquiries Contact:
UK: Lauren Berry, Left Field Media, Tel: 01737 831822 Email: lauren@leftfieldmedia.co.uk
US: Alan Lastufka, DFTBA Records, Tel: +1 815.315.0346 Email: alan@dftba.com
Press Release
Tom Milsom Goes “Painfully Mainstream” In His Second Album,
Blending Whimsy, Angst, And Post-Pop Exuberance
(23 November 2009)
YouTube star Tom Milsom takes listeners on a wide-ranging journey through post-pop musical genres, as he ponders issues as weighty as the survival of the planet and as urgent as whether he’ll get laid tonight… read more
What they’re saying
“It’s hard to write funny songs that are not moronic and then to deliver them with conviction—Tom Milsom is one of the few who can do it.” —Dave Dederer, guitarist and singer, The Presidents of the United States of America.
“Tom Milsom is one of the best songwriters of his generation. His songs are as smart as they are catchy.” —John Green, author of Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, and An Abundance of Katherines… read more
Bio
Tom Milsom grew up in a leafy village just south of London. But that’s only partly true.
Where he really grew up is on the Internet, which provided him the means to reach an international fan base. His first breakout hit, “The Internet Love Song” (2007) has been viewed nearly seven hundred thousand times on YouTube… read more
Fact Sheet
- Over two-and-a-half million views on YouTube
- 50% of record sales and internet views from the United States
- Played to over-capacity crowd at London’s Lumière (more than 300 attendees)
- Wrote lyrics for “I’ve Got Nothin” UK single (entered the charts at #36)
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Venues & Discography
Album Notes
Tom Milsom’s new album, ‘Painfully Mainstream’, skips from genre to genre, briefly settling on pop, folk and rock, and skipping through subtler shades of music, from post-rock to antifolk, from gypsy-punk to all-out thrash metal, but held under control and pinned together with Milsom’s unforced, uniquely British vocal style. read more
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