Bio

In short: Music for midnight drunks and the brokenhearted.

Longer: In 2011 Tom Cunliffe released a collection of early songs called Red Leather Blues, written in the dark, recorded in a corner of his bedroom and sent out into the world with all the confidence of a bemused baby ferret venturing out of his hole for the first time.

It wasn’t long after that he started to take things a little more seriously and since moving from Wellington up to Auckland, managed to share the stage with the likes of Wagons, Hopetoun Brown, Will Wood, Bernie Griffen, Skyscraper Stan and Holly Arrowsmith.

Tom has played big old festivals like the Auckland Folk Festival and the Southern Fork Americana Fest.

You can only play so many shows at the Wine Cellar before you find yourself singing songs and drinking whiskey with some damn fine musicians and incredible humans.

It was probably after a Gunslinger’s Ball or a Rogue Stage road trip that plans were hatched to travel down to Lyttelton to record with Ben Edwards.

Ten days later he had twelve songs.
Ten months later he had an album, it’s called Howl and Whisper.

Get your wallets ready.

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