Tom McRae

TOM MCRAE

British singer-songwriter Tom McRae has determinedly risen to the highest ranks in the genre in recent years. His self-titled debut album (2000) was nominated for the Mercury Prize, a Q Magazine Award and a Brit Award and all subsequent albums were all met with praise. Together with his band 'The Standing Band' he has built up a fantastic live reputation in recent years. He is known for taking his audience on a journey with a show that never bores, peppered with his modest but infectious humor.

This year, McRae will tour solo for the first time with the album 'From The Lowlands'. However, it will not make the experience any less enjoyable: with a voice that goes straight to the heart and a number of new, strong songs, Tom McRae once again shows us his craftsmanship as a songwriter and singer.

LOVE LIKE BIRDS

Love Like Birds is the brainchild of Elke De Mey, a 25-year-old from Ghent blessed with a warm, dreamy voice. It gives her bedroom folk an attractively intimate character. On her self-recorded, self-titled debut EP, Elke dresses her dark, honest and wonderfully naive songs with subtle arrangements, provided by producer duo Jinte Deprez (Balthazar) and Gertjan Van Hellemont (Douglas Firs, The Bony King of Nowhere). A few months ago at the Boomtown festival in a completely sold out Handelsbeurs Club, now as support for great gentleman Tom McRae...