WATCH: Tom Lowman - 'Mine is a Selfish Dream'

Debuting yesterday, here's a new live video from Tom Lowman, a singer-songwriter from Winchester. As the name of the track suggests, Mine is a Selfish Dream is about "trying to have everything all at once, and the inevitable failures that result from such an approach", which sounds pretty relatable, and it's taken from Tom's upcoming Live & Lost EP out this Good Friday. The video shows off the strength of Tom's voice, and I'm pretty fond of session type videos performed on electric guitars! Tom is yet another artist I have Sofar Sounds Oxford to thank for introducing me to, as he played one of the first Sofar Oxford gigs I went to around two years ago. Probably the loveliest venue of all the shows I've been to, in Worcester College Chapel.

If you're in the Winchester area, Tom plays a hometown show with Harry Pane on May 4th (tickets and info.)

WATCH: Tom Lowman - 'Blue State'

"The world is going mad, perhaps it always was..." Yet another discovery from Sofar Sounds in Oxford, Tom Lowman recently released a pretty topical new track and video, Blue State, from his upcoming debut album Tales from the Wrong Side of History. Of the track, Tom says "it's a song about disillusionment, and a general sense that things are sliding in an increasingly negative direction." Agreed...

Tom launches his album at two shows in London and his hometown Winchester on 27th July and 13th August, and before that he's also supporting at a Tigmus show with Daisy Chute in London on 21st July (tickets £4 here.)

LIVE: Sofar Sounds at Worcester College Chapel (18/3/15)

A few days ago I went to this month’s Oxford Sofar Sounds, events that I’ve been photographing recently. It was hosted at Worcester College Chapel, with Tom Lowman, Gill Sandell, CoCo and the Butterfields and Emily Barker performing. It was once more a superb evening of live music, if a little less intimate than normal - but a beautiful venue regardless. You can find some of my photos from the evening in the second half of the album on SS Oxford’s Facebook here.

The highlight of the evening for me was folk hip-hop band CoCo and the Butterfields. Having heard them practicing outside before the show I was looking forward to their set, and when they rocked up on stage with violin, guitar, double bass, banjo, saxophone and a beatboxer.. my high hopes were ready to be realised. They played a really fun set and the audience seemed to enjoy it, particularly their opening track, a cover of Gym Class Heroes’ Cupid’s Chokehold. They’re touring across the UK in April/May, dates here, I implore you to take a listen!