The guy who always makes it rain

10.06.10

For the first conditions in 23 years and feeling equitable a little discombobulated. “It’s very uncanny to be walking about with my shirt not tucked in and philosophical of excuses like ‘The dog ate my homework’,” he smiles. “I’m 12 again, walking through the door, with all that quiver and tumultuous emotions you’re dealing with at that podium in your life. They come flooding redress back – and I love moments like that, because they’re moments you paroxysm on. That’s what you want out of life and art: you want things that stop by at you in a rush; so this flash of emotion stays with you.” It’s a excellent vignette encompassing the trademarks of Tom’s songs: introspective effect, a bit dark, lightened with some gentle disposition and realistic optimistic. The singer-songwriter, nominated scarcely a decade ago for the Mercury Prize and as Brit Furnish Best Newcomer, has returned to Thomas Mills Intoxicated School in Framlingham to talk to GCSE media studies pupils about the music bustle and the dilemma of illegal file-sharing. “You won’t be aware who I am,” he tells the . It’s been viewed 107,000 times. In the old days, if those clicks had meant album sales, you’d have grossed more than £1million. Today, everyone clicking on the clip is getting the music for free. Tom explains how Coca-Cola might pay YouTube millions for its advert on the errand-boy. After the video-sharing company takes its cut, the magnitude will go to big-hitters such as Coldplay. Tom’s last share: 26p. “I am not successful to get my guitar-shaped swimming collection any day soon.”

Source: East Anglian Daily Times