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"beautiful...real fine... made a great record of it too.  Hope we meet somewhere sometime" David Crosby

"...like Eddie Vedder covering Nick Drake" XFM

"it's a beauty" 6 Radio

Buy "Me and the Sun"
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/me-and-the-sun-single/id907522111

"The lyrics have that fine and all-too-rarely genuine air of being lived in. Moriarty's husky, hushed voice emphasises this quality superbly..."

“accomplished”

"Magnificent voice" Janice Long, BBC Radio 2

“special song”

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Lyrics below

We’re just talking you and I
Laughing and crying under this desert sky
I say this violence, it comes to no good
This anger hurts more than it ever should

Peace elusive at its best like the falling rain
Thinking about the things we’ve done
Just me and the sun

We are talking like old friends
He’s seen so much the stories never end
He says this violence…it comes to no good
This anger hurts more than it ever should

Peace is fragile like the ocean that we dance upon
Finding hope where these is none
Just me and the sun

Peace is fleeting like the snow that we breath upon
Staring at what’s lost and won
Just me and the sun

Just me and the sun


Me and the Sun

A new song about my home suburb, will be released as part of a double A side single soon on Metal Postcard Records.

Maylands, you're on your way, a sunlit day, hangs before us.
Maylands, the lion roars, the swallows soar, the milk gets poured so

Stand in line, it's breakfast time, as trains roll by the Midland line.

Maylands, you'll have your day, your lands of May, are getting nearer.
may long, the gun shop run, we will be armed, to the teeth

Stand in line, it's breakfast time, as trains roll by the Midland line.



Maylands

Us Against The World

Taken from Izzi's Visions EP, 'It Wasn't Love' is a sublime love-not-love song, drawing a clear line between love and lust. Support at Radio 2 comes from Jamie Cullum, and 6Music from Tom Robinson..

It Wasn't Love

R2 Magazine - Four stars - "Exceptional songs"
Maverick Magazine - Four stars - "A great first album"
Janice Long, BBC Radio 2 - "Absolutely brilliant"

Liberation is the debut album by Smoke Feathers, recorded at Vale Studios in Worcestershire. Produced and mixed by Smoke Feathers and Chris D'Adda. Recorded and engineered by Chris D'Adda. Mastered by Tim Debney at Fluid Mastering. All songs written by Matt Falloon, except Faint Heart and The Wheel written by Matt Falloon and Cyrus Shahrad. Playing on this album: Matt Falloon (vocals/guitar), Stu Thoy (bass/vocals), Paul Everest (drums/percussion) and Cyrus Shahrad (piano/organ). Album officially released in March 2012 on Delta Creek Records. For more information, please visit http://smokefeathers.blogspot.com. 

Liberation Theology

Introducing the new EP from Tom Moriarty - Snapshots of Reality.

'Finding a Better Way' is the lead single from the EP and has already received support from radio up and down the country including BBC Radio 2.

"For fans of Ben Harper, Ray LaMontagne and Jack Johnson" 4 STARS - Guitarist Magazine.


Tom Moriarty is a British born singer/songwriter. Based in London, he recently released a critically acclaimed debut album entitled "Fire in the Doll's House" attracting praise in the industry and the press. 

"The protest singer has a pulse again." - Sunday Times

"Magnificent voice." - Janice Long, BBC2

"A gruff voice and thoughtful, classic roots rock should earn him a bevy of fans." 4 STARS - Q Magazine

"A pearl amongst the oysters." - Rob Elms, BBC London

"Song-writing with a conscience, and Moriarty's message stands up to the quality of his music"  Skiddle

"Tom Moriarty is on the road the musical greatness" - Stereoboard

"Comparisons to acts such as Newton Faulkner, Ray Lamontagne, Eddie Vedder and even Bruce Springsteen are obvious, but Moriarty has a unique sound of his own" - Total Guitar

Tom Moriarty - Finding a Better Way

Tom Moriarty is a British singer-songwriter described by the Press Association as being a “rare talent” and who's voice has been described as having the soul of Ray Lamontagne and the rage of Eddie Vedder.  Tom just puts it down to “cigarettes, alcohol and pain.”
 
He released his critically acclaimed debut album in 2012 entitled "Fire in the Doll's House", with one single making the Radio 2 playlist and national spot plays for other tracks.  It was awarded 4 stars by Q mag, Guitarist, Maverick and OK magazine, "..a gruff voice and thoughtful, classic roots rock" 4 stars, Q magazine.  He was also written up in the Sunday Times culture section who, picking up on the substance within his lyrics as well as the accomplished musicianship, proclaimed “the protest singer has a pulse again.” 
 
This was followed by an EP in 2013 entitled "Snapshots of Reality” which Modern Rock Review described as a “pristine EP of modern folk” and a “collection of musical gems deserving high recognition and acclaim.” 
 
In 2015 Tom released his second album “The Road” attracting positive reviews from industry writers and folk rock royalty alike.  On hearing the lead single from the album “Me and the Sun” David Crosby commented,  “That’s beautiful…real fine, made a good record of it too. Hope I meet you somewhere sometime.” The Press Association proclaimed that the “10 songs on the album are uniformly excellent” and that Tom is a “performer of rare talent. 9/10”. Maverick magazine said “An excellent new album.  Classy stuff. 4 stars”  FolkRadio.com commented, “I love this album.  A very welcome return.”  
 
He released his third album “The Shore” in December 2017.  A solo performance recorded live in a small chapel in a tiny mountain village, it is a collection of songs mostly written since leaving London in the Spring of 2016 to live in the mountains in France.  “London has changed a lot, its soul is being sold. It was getting too hard to breathe.”  

The album was well received, “a noble intensity held within his rough-hewn vocals.” R&R magazine, “it’s a joy to discover Tom Moriarty” Acoustic Magazine, “underlaying his songs is a captivating intrinsic beauty” Acoustic Magazine, “With a sound recalling Ray Lamontagne and John Martyn his songwriting more than stands up to peers past and present.” Strangebrew.
 
Tom is currently recording a new album to be released in May 2020.

With a strong track record and critical acclaim, and growing recognition, Tom Moriarty is establishing himself a reputation as one of the finest British singer-songwriters to emerge in recent times. 
 
See website for further details at www.tommoriarty.co.uk

Tom Moriarty - Finding a Better Way

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