Tom Hickox is a British singer-songwriter and music composer. He is the son of Richard Hickox [1] and Frances Sheldon-Williams. [2]
A solo artist, he has released three studio albums: War, Peace and Diplomacy [3] , Monsters in the Deep [4] , and The Orchestra of Stories [5] .
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. [6]
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 Holland . [7]
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" by Richard Hawley. [8]
"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. [9]
A version of "Good Night" was used to score a commercial for Dr Martens featuring Agnyess Deyn. [10] The success of the film inspired the opening segment of Rihanna and Calvin Harris' video for "We Found Love", in which Deyn also features. [11] "The Pretty Pride of Russia" was then used to score another commercial for Dr Martens featuring Alice Dellal. [12]
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.
"The Dubbing Artist" tells the story of Irina Margareta Nistor, who found huge fame in her native Romania in the 1980s dubbing banned American and British movies into Romanian during the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. [13] Hickox performed the song in Bucharest as part of her 60th birthday celebrations. [14]
The Orchestra of Stories was released on April 25, 2025 on Family Tree Records.
The album was produced by Hickox, and recorded in a multitude of studios including Air Studios. It features the Chineke! Orchestra and Onyx Brass.
As composer, he scored the feature documentary Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey, [15] and has scored the following short films:
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