Neil Thomson
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Neil Thomson - A Musical Journey

Various songs documenting my musical past are freely available to download below and cover the period 1990 to 2005. I have always enjoyed working within different musical styles and although my music has been firmly folk and acoustic based for the last 10 years or so, my earlier influences were very much more rock, funk, blues and electric in style. I think it's very important for a musician to explore different medium's, it's what being a musician is all about! You will certainly notice the difference in styles, happy listening!

These two songs are examples of my more recent work. I have quite a lot of new songs which I will be posting on the site very shortly. I am coming back round to a more bluesy influence combined with acoustic fingerpicking style on the guitar. This is possibly due to my current over exposure to a number of blues musicians in the local pub!@ Click below to listen

Shore Crab CD

These are various songs resulting from a callaboration with my friend, Poet and Harmonica player Gerry Cambridge around 2002 and 2005. All the songs are based on poems written by traditional poets such as William Souter or Robert Louis Stevenson and by poems written by Gerry. I have set them to music and the result is sung and performed on the unique combination of bouzouki and Harmonica. In 2005 we recorded some of these songs at Watercolour Music Ardgour in the Morven peninsula. 'The Tryst' and 'Song' are poems by Perthshire Poet William Souter and 'Thought of Snow' and 'Madam Fi Fi's Farewell' are poems written by Gerry Cambridge. When time permits we still play together and we have more new forthcoming songs and tune sets to add here. Please click below to listen.

These songs all featured on my CD 'Common Ground' recorded at Watercolour Music, Ardgour in the Morven peninsula and released in 2001. They represent my first foray's into the world of songwriting in folk and acoustic music which I gradually moved into from 1997 onwards. 'The Nature of Burns' is a poem by Gerry Cambridge which has been set to music by myself. The Bonne Wee Well' is a poem by Paisley and Glasgow Weaving Poet Hugh MacDonald which has been set to music by myself. 'The Highland Soldier' is a Scots Traditional Song. Please click below to listen.

 

This collection of songs was written, performed and recorded in various places in Glasgow with a group of scary individuals between 1990 and 1996. Please click below to listen.

Press Reviews

Support for Gillian Frames New Voices Commision at the Britannia, Panopticon Music Hall, Celtic Connections Festival Jan 2004. " No such hostile responses for either of the sets in last night's programme. Gerry Cambridge (moothie) and Neil Thomson ( vocals/guitar), offered up an opening selection of gentle, often whimsical songs that occasionally jigged about but most often harked back to poetic reflections ( some of them penned by Cambridge ). His The Thought of Snow - with music by Thomson - had a curlicue of Incredible String Band-ishness to it that was utterly engaging, while a doggone ditty about canines, Banjo Blues, was witty'n'nifty enough to make cat-lovers howl in appreciation". The Glasgow Herald. click to see review

Review of First demo CD, 'What Fools Do' in 1999. ".. What Fools Do, the year in the making debut album from Paisley Singer/ Songwriter Neil Thomson is a welcome alternative. Its 10 tracks of gentle and evocative folky listening, are more akin to a leisurely rural run, Thomson investing the whole with a James Taylor-esque peaceful assurance". The List Magazine

Review of second CD, " People of the Past". ' A talent that deserves hearing.. ' Traditional Music Maker.
 
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