Tom Smith (musician)

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Tom Smith (2018)
Tom Smith (2018)
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Tom Smith (born April 29, 1981 in Northampton , United Kingdom ; actually Thomas Michael Henry Smith) is an English musician , songwriter and front man of the indie band Editors .

Career

Tom Smith was born on April 29, 1981 in Northampton. He grew up in Stroud (near Bristol ), where his parents work as teachers. As a child he first played the trumpet and later the guitar. While studying music technology at Staffordshire University in Stafford , Smith met the other founding members of the Editors. During his studies, Smith worked in a call center (together with Editors bassist Russell Leetch). The band settled in Birmingham . Meanwhile, Smith lives with the former BBC Radio 1 presenter Edith Bowman in North London . The couple have two sons and have been married since December 2013.

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Tom Smith, Serengeti Festival '14

As the front man for the Editors, Smith plays guitar and piano / synthesizer . His voice is baritone , and since the Editors album In This Light and on This Evening (2009) he has occasionally sung in falsetto . According to a comparison by the Mirror newspaper , Tom Smith has the largest vocal range among British singers at 4.75 octaves.

In 2008 he contributed a cover of the Prefab Sprout title Bonny to a British benefit CD . In November 2011 he released the Christmas album Funny Looking Angels with Andy Burrows (formerly Razorlight ) . For individual tracks he also worked as a singer or songwriter with other bands: For the track Executive , released in 2009, he was a guest singer with the English band Cicada . In 2010 he worked with Tired Pony for The Good Book , followed by Joshua with The Japanese Popstars and The Call with Raized by Wolves in 2011, The Lovers with Indochine in 2012 and a collaboration with Casper ( Lux Lisbon , released 2013). In 2014 he took over the chorus of the single Singing Man from Magnus and continued working with Andy Burrows on his song Watch Me Fall Again . Further publications are to follow in 2018/19. Tom Smith also occasionally performs live solo, for example in 2012 on the PIAS Nites label night .

Tom Smith performing 2014

When performing live, Tom Smith stands out for his sweeping gestures, his stage presence is compared to Ian Curtis from Joy Division , Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode or Bono from U2 . Jürgen Pelzin wrote in the WAZ : "The baritone voice of Tom Smith remains unique in its art of wrestling listeners." Smith's melodies and texts are generally regarded as melancholy to gloomy. Although personal thoughts flow into the compositions, Smith regularly emphasizes, his texts should not be understood as biographical diary entries. Since the editors were reorganized in the album The Weight of Your Love (2013), he has been writing more and more about the subject of love, which he previously did not dare to approach. There was sometimes harsh criticism for this in the record reviews, as Jan Kühnemünd puts it in the music blog on Zeit Online : "[Certainly] one hundred and twenty-four times barks, calls, complains and whispers [Tom Smith] about love, and you almost never want to translate that as love rather than war, naivety, baseness. The listener is really pissed off after the sixteenth love at the latest. ”In contrast, the online music magazine Whiskey Soda says:“ The greatest moments [...] manifest themselves [...] in moments of lyrically heightened emotionality, which are brought to bear with appealing motifs will. ”For the sixth album VI OLENCE (2018) Kai Butterweck speaks on laut.de of“ coldness poured into music ”and Marcel Anders from Deutschlandfunk describes“ texts that reflect the zeitgeist - a world full of fear, hate and uncertainty that causes lethargy, annoyance and the search for familial, interpersonal security. "

Others

In 2011, Tom Smith ran the London Marathon (42.195 km in 4 hours, 15 minutes) with bandmate Russell Leetch for the benefit of the Oxfam charity . They raised £ 5,465 in donations . In 2013 he participated as a spokesman for the "Xfm's Fund for War Child " campaign

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: Germany - Austria
  2. ↑ Local newspaper Stroud ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated October 12, 2005. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk
  3. ↑ a b c The Guardian, June 22, 2007
  4. ↑ Biography ( Memento from January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ The Daily Mail, March 25, 2013
  6. ↑ Daily Record, December 26, 2013
  7. ↑ Mirror: Richard Beech, Patrick Scott: Which singer has the best vocal range in the UK, September 26, 2014, accessed September 26, 2014
  8. ↑ Prefab Sprout "Bonny" Samples in Tom Smith "Bonny" on WhoSampled.com
  9. ↑ Strictly Confidential website ( memento of the original from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 19, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.strictly-confidential.net
  10. ↑ Tracklist on discogs.com
  11. ↑ www.rap.de from August 12, 2013, quoting the Spex magazine from August 14, 2013, accessed on August 19, 2013
  12. ^ Homepage Andy Burrows
  13. ^ Former Razorlight / We Are Scientists member Andy Burrows has created an album with best-selling author Matt Haig - NME . In: NME . August 8, 2018 ( nme.com [accessed October 10, 2018]).
  14. ^ The Guardian, November 28, 2005, accessed July 11, 2013
  15. ↑ Stadiums beckon as Editors head for top . In: Metro Newspaper UK . ( metro.news [accessed October 10, 2018]).
  16. ↑ WAZ / Der Westen from June 20, 2013, accessed on July 11, 2013
  17. ↑ Video ZDF Aspects: The New Beginning of the Pop Band “The Editors” (July 5, 2013, 11 p.m., 4:31 min.)  In the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 11, 2014.
  18. ^ MTV , July 5, 2013, accessed on July 11, 2013
  19. ↑ bi fm / 92.9 FM Bilbao on YouTube , published July 11, 2013, accessed July 11, 2013
  20. ↑ Aargauer Zeitung of July 9, 2013, accessed on July 11, 2013
  21. ↑ JIM on YouTube , published July 7, 2013, accessed July 10, 2013
  22. ^ Zeit Online from July 1, 2013, accessed on July 10, 2013
  23. ↑ Whiskey Soda ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 10, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whiskey-soda.de
  24. ↑ Through the middle to the top. In: laut.de . ( laut.de [accessed October 10, 2018]).
  25. ↑ New album by the editors - Brutal guitars for love and friendship . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed October 10, 2018]).
  26. ↑ Gigwise.com, April 18, 2011, accessed July 11, 2013
  27. ↑ Xfm's Fund for War Child ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , created June 16, 2013, accessed July 17, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.xfm.co.uk

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SURNAME Smith, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Thomas Michael Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English musician and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Northampton , UK