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Liverpool's Tom Cartledge looks like he should be fronting a McFly tribute act, but sounds like Bright Eyes,
The Auteurs and The Longpigs rolled into one angry dark hearted package. With just an acoustic guitar Cartledge stabs and
pounds his guitar as he rattles through an all too brief set. At 19, with 2 albums already behind him and a 3rd on the way,
Cartledge is one to look out for, but you feel for the potential to be fully realized he needs to find a band who can bring
his songs to life
Alex McCann- HMV Live Review
Norwich indie punkstas THE PISTOLAS have won the indierock catagory of the Diesel-U-Music demo competition for 2005.
Over 800 entries flooded in from around the country and after much head-scratching in a top secret location in the West End
of London representatives of Xfm, NME, Sanctuary Management and fierce panda batted the best 16 demos around until the Pistolas
emerged the least bloodied. Close-but-no-cigar awards went to Tom Cartledge, Circlesound,
Envy & Other Sins, Fraction, The Fratellis, Kalev, The Main Ones, MOT, Olympus Mons, Out With Mummy, The Race, The Reverse,
The Slides, Tramps Corner and Twofold.
Diesel-U-Music Runner-Up 2005
'Tom Cartledge is an example of a songwriter who has everything going for him. His simplistic, melodic acoustic songs
are just brilliantly written both musically and lyrically. His voice can be heart warming yet haunting. Tom takes pride in
his songs and we can see why, they are just damn fantastic'.... www.chromiumrecords.co.uk
'Tom Cartledge'-A Soulful Journey through Heart-wrenching meloncholia'.... Icon radio
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