Tom Cunliffe – Howl & Whisper
Tom describes himself as a story-singer of moonlit folk songs. A little bit
raucous Irish
ballads, a little bit grim outlaw country, a little bit swinging protest songs.
Music for midnight drunks and, the brokenhearted.
Used to dragging his guitar through back alleys and bars, he found himself at Auckland’s Wine Cellar singing songs and drinking whiskey with some damn fine musicians and incredible humans. It was after one of these shows that plans were hatched to travel to Lyttelton to record Tom’s songs with Ben Edwards.
One morning last June a ragged bunch of St Kevin’s regulars: Tom, Dave Khan, Will Wood, Tom Landon-Lane and Steve Huf piled into a plane and headed off for the freezing cold cliffs of Lyttelton Harbour. Ten days later they had twelve songs. Ten months later we have an album, it’s called “Howl and Whisper”.