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  • Live Well For Less (TM v KK)

    Live Well For Less (TM v KK)

    Live Well For Less cover art

    The response to our single Live Well for Less with our friends Killer Kowalski has been amazing! I may have got the dates wrong on the release and put it out 2 months early but honestly I think it worked out for the best. If you haven’t heard it yet here’s some links to stream or download it:

    Don’t forget if you want to create your own remix, you can download the stems from here

    We had an amazing night at the single’s official launch night at The Library in Oxford with our friends from All Will Be Well. LWFL got it’s live debut and Tom from KK joined us on lead vocals. A big shout out to Old Man May and Manners for joining us as well. Here’s some photos from the night by the amazing Ian Hanham.

    Taken by Ian Hanham
    Taken by Ian Hanham
    Taken by Ian Hanham
    Taken by Ian Hanham
    Taken by Ian Hanham
    Taken by Ian Hanham
    Taken by Ian Hanham
    Taken by Ian Hanham

    In case you’re wondering, the cover art was made using a kind of janky mod I made of Streets of Rage Remake. I’m wondering whether or not I should make the mod available as a download. If you’re interested let me know.

  • A (belated) Happy New Year from TM!

    A (belated) Happy New Year from TM!

    Hello! Hope that you’ve been able to ease yourself in to 2024 ok so far.

    First of all, just in case you missed it, we released a remixed + remastered version of the acoustic Shed Session live session we recorded at The White House in Oxford back in March 2023. It was really great to be able to do some stripped back versions of TM songs with special guests Mila Todd, Octavia Freud and Emma Hunter. It will probably on streaming services at some point but for now you can download it for free from the TM bandcamp page by clicking here or clicking on the image below.

    Speaking of the Shed Sessions, make sure you subscribe to the Shed Treasures Podcast. Warren and I have some great guests already booked in for this year, showcasing some of the best acts from in and around Oxford.

    If you fancy some more TM style acoustic goodness, Dan and I are doing another acoustic gig at Florence Park Community Centre in Oxford on Friday 19th January alongside Paul Lodge and Helen Pearson. Check out the poster below:

    We’ve got some brand new tunes coming out soon which we CAN NOT WAIT to share with you so keep your eyes peeled on the TM socials for more info on that soon.

  • DJ Mix: Brewers Night Off Halloween Party mix (27th Oct 2023)

    DJ Mix: Brewers Night Off Halloween Party mix (27th Oct 2023)

    BNO Selfie Oct 23

    I have to say I bloody love DJing at the Tap Social Taproom! I’ve been lucky enough to play there a few times now and it’s always a fun place to play, with a great team and an open minded audience that are generally happy to listen to me play what I like and boogie along. A big thank you to Brewers’ Night Off team (aka DJ Bobby Demons and Brewer Bolger) for letting me join in again and to the Shut The Door Kru for showing me how it’s done! My mix was a little rough around the edges but still a fun set to do. Tracklisting below:

    • The Chemical Brothers – Loops of Fury
    • Adamski Feat. Seal – Killer
    • Felix da Housecat – Silver Screen Shower Scene [Emperor Norton]
    • Orbital – Satan (30 Something Years Later Mix)
    • TM – Missy vs Elastica (TM Edit)
    • Spanky Wilson – Sunshine of My Love (XS 2020 edit)
    • The Prodigy – The Way It Is [Sony]
    • Vincent Price – Voice-Over Session from Thriller
    • Aphex Twin – Run Jeremy’s Window Licker (X-Rated Lick)
    • Mekon feat. Roxanne Shanté – What’s Going On? [Wall of Sound]
    • Rage Against The Machine – Renegades (TM Stretch)
    • Wildchild – Renegade Master 98 (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix)
    • Noisia – Split The Atom
    • Marie Davidson – Work It (Soulwax Remix)
    • Riton – Let’s Stick Around (Feat. Jarvis Cocker)
    • Fred again.., Skrillex, Four Tet – Baby again..
    • Daft Punk – Technologic
    • Ne-Yo – Closer (StoneBridge Club Remix)
    • Mylo – Doctor Pressure (Dirty Radio Edit)
    • The Stone Roses – Fools Gold (Grooverider’s Mix)
    • Bicep vs Rui Da Silva – Touch My Glue (@Djjaycarpenter Mashup)
    • Tiger Mendoza – Battery
    • Tiga & Zyntherius – Blue Sunglasses (The Tom Middleton Cosmos Re-Edit)
    • TSHA Clementine Douglas – Dancing In The Shadows
    • David Holmes – Radio 7
  • TM collaborators – The Bandcamp Links

    TM collaborators – The Bandcamp Links

    Common People Band Pic
    L-R: Asher Dust, Helena Markou, Me, Half Decent, David Griffiths, Luke Allmond, Dan Clear

    As many of you know, I like to collaborate with many different people. I am eternally grateful to all of these people for giving up their time and their energy to help me with my TM tracks and they are pretty much all music makers in their own right (music which I had almost NOTHING to do with!) so as it’s Bandcamp Friday, I thought it would be a good time to get share some links to their music as well.

    I will say in advance that I will almost inevitably miss someone out so if I do, apologies in advance!

    Ok, I think that’s it for now. I’ll try and keep this list updated if I remember to.

  • Orion / Sandman – THANK YOU!

    Orion / Sandman – THANK YOU!

    When I started on this project in December 2021, I had absolutely zero expectations about what it would raise or achieve. If you want the long version of how the whole thing came about, you can read about it on the Orion / Sandman Bandcamp page and listen back to the interview I did with the folks at BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire but the short version is that it was a fairly stupid thing I put together with some amazing people in remembrance of a friend.

    Orion / Sandman came out on Friday 2nd December and to date has raised £220 for Katharine House Hospice in Banbury via donations on the bandcamp page and I know some people have donated directly to the hospice which is totally fair enough (and you can also do here). I know there’s a lot going in the world right now but I just want to say how much I appreciate all of the support it has received so far from everyone that has donated, downloaded, commented, retweeted, and featured the project in any way. I also want to say a particular thank you to Gabby and the rest of Dan’s family for all of their support as well.

    This project would not have been what it is without the support of all of the musicians that helped out. Please do yourself a favour and check them out via the links below:

    As of today, Orion / Sandman is 100% free to download – no email or donation required, just go here to download. I do still ask though that if you can, please continue to donate directly to Katharine House Hospice.

  • What’s in your Shed?

    What’s in your Shed?

    A good shed is a wondrous thing. That’s what I’m told anyway.

    A little while back Warren (who’s part of the amazing Cinema Under the Stairs crew) asked if TM would like to have a chat and do a little acoustic session as part of his Podcast “What’s in Your Shed”. As I’ve said many times before I am a guitarist at heart and I’ve played many an open mic in the past but it’s been quite some time since I’ve asked to do an actual Tiger Mendoza acoustic set so I immediately said yes. It would have been wrong to do it solo so I got Dan Clear involved as well (with his fancy jazz guitar no less!) and it was a great excuse to the acoustic session with Mila Todd we’ve been talking about for ages so we got her involved as well.

    We had a good rambling chat about all sorts of stuff and did acoustic versions of Prometheus Unbound, Unravel, Oppressor (with Mila on vocals) and a cheeky cover of Sebadoh’s On Fire. Warren’s shed really was an Aladin’s cave of cool stuff from action figures to records to a smoke machine! It really was a lovely evening.

    You can listen to the podcast below or your favourite podcast app here. A big than you to Warren, Steve on audio and Alex for taking the pictures.