Tom Phillips

Articles and Media

TNT in the studio

My dear brother Lawrie – what with his degree and London media career, definitely the ‘white sheep’ of the family – was very kind and filmed and edited this video of our album recording!

Strummers and Dreamers – Cambridge 105

The wonderful Les Ray hosted TNT on his show shortly after our release – click here for the recording

TNT – redefining identity through Music

In Prison, I met a man who wanted more than anything to become a musician. So on a busted old guitar, over 18 months, I taught him music and songwriting, with the wonderful result that he wrote over thirty of his own songs and came to view his incarceration as a rather good artists retreat, as well as changing a lot of the ways he thought and felt about his life. As well as a ten track album, we recorded a charity single under the name TnT (Tats n’Tom) which is still on Spotify if you fancy clicking here!

TNT – early promo

The lovely Charlie Amos, at the time a film student, was kind enough to shoot and edit this Promo for us at the time – click here for the video link!

Podcast Interview with Cath Brew of ‘Drawn to a deeper story’

Drawn to a deeper story
Cath’s amazing business

Awash with talent: Former prisoner’s soap art finds its way to Cambridge

Tommy Lumby, a Cambridge based reporter, was kind enough to take the time to interview me for the local papers

Video Project with Stretch Digital

The amazing charity Stretch Digital works in prisons to help people inside make sense of their lives through video storytelling. This was my story.

The Gates of Peterborough Ebook

This is the story from my perspective of the piece that ended up winning the 2016 Koestler Arts platinum prize for sculpture, and how it came to be created. (link in progress!)