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Tom Williams & The Boat

Tom Williams & The Boat are a 6 piece anti-folk band from Tunbridge Wells, and have been described as 'Bob Dylan meets Lightspeed Champion/ Eugene McGuinness with the lyrical style of Regina Spektor orWin Butler'.

Members

Tom Williams - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, vocals
Ant Vicary - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Geri Holton - violins, saxophone, backing vocals
Josh Taylor - bass
Chris Stewart - piano
Dave Richardson - drums

Progress

Hailing from the town of Tunbridge Wells, the work of Tom Williams & The Boat is a natural progression from Tom’s solo work, with the addition of drums, bass, violins, guitars, mouth organs and pianos. The band have played many of their early gigs at theTunbridge Wells
Forum.

The band have earned a constantly growing fan-base through supporting bands such as The Wombats, Frank Turner, Good Books, Jack Penate, Air Traffic, Chris T-T, Jeremy Warmsley,Emmy the Great, Tokyo Police Cluband Laura Marling.

The band have released 4 EPs so far in since late 2007 with over 20 tracks; The Penguin EP in October 2007, The February EP in February 2008 , the Got Fuel EP in August 2008, and most recently the Doing My Best EP in february 2009. They have gained continued support from the BBC KentIntroducing team, as well as Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 2, BBC
6 Music, and Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1.

In May 2008 Tom Williams & The Boat were picked by a panel of Radio 1 DJs to be one of two Kent bands to play the station's own festival 'One Big Weekend' in Mote Park, Maidstone, on the BBC Introducing Stage.

Huw Stephens has recently asked the band to come to BBC's Maida Vale Studios to record their first session for Radio 1. The band recorded their session on September 3 in the legendary studio 4. The session was broadcast on Huw Stephens shows on BBC Radio 1 on October 15, on his 9-10pm and 12am-2am shows.

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