Support for Gillian Frames New Voices Commision at the Britannia, Panopticon Music Hall, Celtic Connections Festival Jan 2004.
Glasgow Herald. click here to see review
" 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".

Review of First demo CD, 'What Fools Do' in 1999 . The List Magazine ".. 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".

East Kilbride Arts Centre, Friday 19th April 2002, Reviewed by Acoustic Affair Music Promoter Peter MacCalman.
Neil Thomson then took the stage. This show is part of a 20 date, tour of Scotland that he has recently embarked upon and will not finish until September. The tour is designed to promote his third album Common Ground. His music is an interesting mix of the traditonal communicative elements of folk music mixed with his own personal, contemporary style of writing. His lyrics define his work, the song and melody becoming a vehicle for the spoken word. Partly inspired by poets and writers of the past, he also incorporates issues, stories and universal subjects of mankind, such as nature, to create songs that are designed to entertain and educate at the same time.
 
Tonight he was on excellent form, grabbing the audience attention from his opening notes. Particularly notable from Common Ground were his performances of "Death Valley". Here, his usual style mixed with Americana overtones stirring up up the images of dust and heat the title suggests.  Notable from his earlier work was "Distant Sun", during the course of which we are transported by word and song to Jamaica. Leaving us with a rendition of the comic song "The Old Armchair", the appreciative crowd filtered out of the theatre full of smiles from this perfectly suited parting shot.