Tom Harrison is a Brisbane-based soloist musician who performs covers and originals in various music venues and pubs throughout Brisbane. Combining his love of folk, blues and pop music, his sound is akin to some of the American greats like Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Neil Young. Tom Harrison is carving out a name for himself on the music scene with his gravely drawl and powerful range, and dynamic performances that drip with energy combining his love for 50’s dance rock such as Elvis and Chuck Berry with a splash of electric soul from the 60’s & 70’s (Creedence, Beatles) all the way to modern rockers like Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys. With passion and energy he always delivers a strong performance and commitment to his audience with engagement and banter. He has over a decade of experience performing solo and fronting his band Hugo Stranger and the Rattlers who have performed at multiple festivals throughout Qld and their debut album ‘Against The Tide’ featured two songs on the 4zzz hot 100.Their latest single ‘Leaders’ spent 3 weeks on the Amrap chart at #3.
The first taste of his upcoming EP ‘Old Growth’ is the trail blazing ‘How Long’. It tells the tale of a couple who’ve been travelling a long time, and starting to question when and how to return to normalcy. Tom Harrison elaborates “Do you accept the inevitable fate of returning to a normal life working a nine to five, or stay on the highway chasing the next thrill? It's not easy. Travelling is everyone's dream, however when you’ve done it for a year you start to feel like maybe you're meant to be somewhere else, meant to buy a house and live that 9 to 5 style life.Its also about our mortality, ‘How Long’ have we got, we tend to think we’re running out of time or that we have less than we actually do, struggling to live in the moment because there's something else we’re apparently supposed to be doing.”
