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Tom Hickox is a British singer/songwriter and composer. He is the son of the conductor Richard Hickox[1] and Frances Sheldon-Williams,[2] and he is the great grandson of the painters Inglis Sheldon-Williams and Ina Sheldon-Williams.

As a solo artist, he has released two studio albums, War, Peace and Diplomacy[3] and Monsters in the Deep.[4]

In 2020 he was commissioned by the BBC to write a piece, No Human is an Island, for their Culture in Quarantine programme in collaboration with The Chineke! Orchestra.[5]

War, Peace and Diplomacy

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War, Peace and Diplomacy was released on March 10, 2014 on Fierce Panda Records, and Hickox became the first artist from that label to appear on British music TV programme Later with Jools.[6]

The album was recorded at Yellow Arch Studios in Sheffield, and co-produced by Hickox and Colin Elliot. It features a slide guitar solo on Out of the Warzone[7] by Richard Hawley.

Tracklisting

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  1. The Angel of the North
  2. The Pretty Pride of Russia
  3. Out of the Warzone
  4. Your Baby Was Asleep
  5. White Roses Red
  6. Let Me Be Your Lover
  7. A Normal Boy
  8. The Lisbon Maru
  9. Good Night

The Lisbon Maru tells the story of a British soldier who survived the torpedoing of a Japanese POW ship. Hickox appears playing the song in a documentary, The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, that China selected as its representative at the 97th Academy Awards in the best international feature film category.[8]

A version of Good Night was used to score a commercial[9] for Dr Martens featuring Agnyess Deyn. The success of the film inspired the opening segment of Rihanna and Calvin Harris' video for We Found Love[10] in which Deyn also features. The Pretty Pride of Russia was then used to score another commercial for Dr Martens[11] featuring Alice Dellal.

Monsters in the Deep

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Monsters in the Deep was released on March 31, 2017 on Family Tree Records in partnership with Warner Chappell Music.

The album was co-produced by Hickox and long time collaborator Chris Hill, and was recorded in the private Richmond studio of British songwriter Terry Britten: State of the Ark Studios.

Tracklisting

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  1. Man of Anatomy
  2. Istanbul
  3. The Plough
  4. The Dubbing Artist
  5. The Fanfare
  6. Korean Girl in a Waiting Room
  7. Perseus and Lampedusa
  8. Monsters in the Deep
  9. Collect all the Empties
  10. Mannequin Heart

The Dubbing Artist tells the story of Irina Margareta Nistor, who found huge fame in her native Romania in the 1980's dubbing banned American and British movies into Romanian during the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.[12] Hickox performed the song in Bucharest as part of her 60th birthday celebrations.[13]

Composition

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As composer, he scored the feature documentary Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey,[14] and has scored the following short films:

References

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  1. ^ Millington, Barry (2008-11-25). "Richard Hickox". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  2. ^ "Fran Hickox obituary". www.thetimes.com. 2023-04-19. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  3. ^ "Tom Hickox, War, Peace & Diplomacy, review". The Telegraph. 2014-03-14. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  4. ^ Davies, Hannah J. (2017-04-13). "Tom Hickox: Monsters in the Deep review – baroque, operatic songwriting". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  5. ^ "BBC Arts - Culture in Quarantine, Filmed in Lockdown, No Human Is An Island". BBC. 2020-07-20. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  6. ^ "BBC Two - Later... with Jools Holland, Series 44, Episode 3". BBC. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  7. ^ "Tom Hickox â€" War Peace and Diplomacy - Rock Club UK". therockclubuk.com. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  8. ^ Brzeski, Patrick (2024-09-30). "Oscars: China Picks WWII Doc 'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru' for International Feature Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  9. ^ Nika, Colleen (2011-08-15). "Doc Martens' Fall 2011 'Firsts' Campaign Premieres Alongside Iconic Neil Young Images". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  10. ^ Cragg, Michael (2011-10-23). "Rihanna: a very British music video". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  11. ^ "Alice Dellal for Dr. Martens – exclusive film". ELLE. 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  12. ^ Gillet, Kit (2014-12-25). "The voice that brought Hollywood films to communist Romania's TV screens". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  13. ^ "Irina Margareta Nistor și-a serbat ziua ca-n filme". www.eva.ro. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  14. ^ György-Kessler, Marta; Penny, Adam (2014-11-14), Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey (Documentary, Biography, History), Esther Fallon, Susannah Harker, Villads Vestergaard, Connected Pictures, retrieved 2024-10-02
  15. ^ Briggs, Ashley (2012-09-01), The Search for Inspiration Gone (Short, Drama), Yuliya Fytsaylo, Michael Grinter, Charlie MacGechan, retrieved 2024-10-02
  16. ^ Chaplin, Andrew (2016-06-18), 1500 Words (Short, Comedy), Michael Smiley, Marcus Garvey, Eri Jackson, retrieved 2024-10-02
  17. ^ "WINNERS | NYC Indie Film Fest". Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  18. ^ Taylor, Paul (2015-03-21), FestEvil (Short, Comedy, Horror), Daniel Abelson, Ben Clark, Tim Dann, retrieved 2024-10-02
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