MY TWO TOMS

Having met on a film shoot in Newport in 2001, Tom Cops and Tom Stubbs formed My Two Toms, writing instrumental songs for guitar, banjo and ukelele and self-releasing their first two albums: Field Recordings and Two (re-released in 2006 on the Mole In the Ground label).
They take inspiration from rural American culture, but without following a grand folk tradition, which is what gives the unique sense of melody and interplay between their two instruments.
Who We Were And What We Meant By It is the third and most recent album by My Two Toms, and their first for seven years. On some of the songs they are joined by friends Matt Jones and Kate Wright of Crescent and Movietone, who add subtle bass, drum and piano parts, and Fran ois Marry, who played trumpet on the dramatic Finding Old Things. In turn, as part of the Bristol music community, the Toms have featured on recordings by Crescent, Movietone, Fran ois & the Atlas Mountains, I Know I Have No Collar, Ray Rumours, Bucky and The Lonely Ponies.
The originality and accessibility of My Two Toms' material has won them many fans with the musicians that they have played with; They have supported artists as diverse as Kimya Dawson, Mirah, Herman Dune, Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, Nina Nastasia, Movietone, Crescent, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Little Wings, Nancy Elizabeth, Chatham County Line and Jeffrey Lewis. As well as playing shows in the UK, they have been on 2 tours of the American midwest with Charlie Parr.