An evening with Tom McRae

Even though I visit tons of concerts, I rarely write anything about them. This will be an exception. The British singer-songwriter Tom McRae visited Gothenburg for the first time ever this evening, a welcome exception to the kind of concerts I usually attend.

I sat on the first row, a few meters from The Man, and got goose bumps as he opened the evening alone on stage with no instruments at all, singing “Mermaid Blues” a capella!

Tom McRae leading the Hotel Café band.

Tom is hosting the Hotel Café Tour which includes several aspiring singer-songwriters going on tour together. They got one thing in common, they’re all a bunch of dark composers. One of them was introduced as “he will likely write the soundtrack to your suicide”. So of course they were all good.