Music page for Thomas C Mccallum Glasgow based singer and musician

My music

Thomas C McCallum
Music

Making music and coping with a degeneritive disease

I have completed my 2nd album "On Any Other Day"

Released 21st September

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Biography

Growing up in 80s Glasgow there was a phenomenal music scene.... listening to bands like the Blue Nile, Orange juice and Aztec Camera only served to fuel my creativity

By day I am a gardener but the rest of the time I write record and work on my music, the early days I started like most folk in a covers band working towards performing in some grassroots venues like The cathouse. Fury Murry's and the target bar.

Fronting bands such as Distant Daze, Bonafide, Company of strangers and more recently Strangetouch I found that singing covers were not enough for me so I set about learning how to write.

Taking influences from all the music I love I have taught myself to transfer my feelings and thoughts into words and music, I have been lucky enough to perform on some of Glasgow's top stages from the Kings Theatre to The Glasgow Hydro, The first male soloist to perform on the Hydro stage.

One of my proudest achievements was performing in the People make Glasgow video and live performance at the opening ceremony of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth games, a capacity crowd of 65 thousand on the night and an estimated worldwide TV audience of 1.5 billion adding Amy MacDonald and Rod Stewart to my CV as co-performers was quite a thing.

In 2017 I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease this has had a major impact on my guitar playing but I am undaunted and will be continuing with the production of our album.

With help from The Foundry Music lab and the production skills of Producer Sandy Jones i have almost completed my 2nd album which has taken me much longer than i anticipated however we are almost there.