The first 5 tracks from the new album now available for download on my Music page.

Shoeshine Boy
Falling Down
If I Could Hold Her In My Arms
Runaway Blues
Without Tears

can now be downloaded as an introduction to "As Eden Lay In Darkness" due to be released later this year.


I would describe myself as a contemporary singer songwriter and poet from Edinburgh. I’ve been writing songs for longer than I care to remember although I’ve only really been performing for the last few years. I originally decided to record my first CD, birthmarked, as a way of documenting my songs and I’ve now produced another solo CD, The Journeyman. My music also features on three collaborative works; Companions, War On War and The Harbour At Symi as well as Speaking In Tongues with The Travelling Waverlies, a group of singer-songwriters and poets. I'm currently at the initial stages of starting another CD with the working title As Eden Lay In Darkness, which I hope will turn out to be a Tom Fairnie and The Snakes CD. 

If you wish to purchase a CD then please go to my music page and you'll find the store there. If you'd like to contact me then please email info@tomfairnie.com. If you'd like to leave me a comment or message then there's a guestbook just below the "News" section on this page. I look forward to hearing from you!

Updated September 2008

The first 6 tracks from the new album now available for download on my Music page. Shoeshine Boy, Falling Down, If I Could Hold Her In My Arms, Runaway Blues, Without Tears and Welcome The Morn can now be downloaded as an introduction to "As Eden Lay In Darkness" due to be released later this year.

This is an exciting time for me as I embark on a tour of Germany (with a gig in the Netherlands thrown in for good measure), start releasing tracks from the new album for download and take part in a few Festivals across Scotland.

The tour will be me and the band appearing as The Tom Fairnie Group (an evolution of The Snakes) comprising myself, Mark Barnett, Karen Dietz and Jane Fairnie. We're playing in Apeldoorn in The Netherlands on 18th Sept then driving to Germany for gigs in Wiesbaden (19th), Freidrichsdorf (20th) and Venne (21st).

Just before we go we play the Taybank Songwriters Festival in Dunkeld (6th Sept), and the Edinburgh Songwriters Festival at the Pleasance (14th Sept). Then when we get back we've got the Pitlochry Autumn Festival in October (17th).

Back in March this year we rented a beautiful house just outside Dunkeld and spent a week with excellent friends and musicians recording a new album. I've been persuaded to start releasing tracks as they're finished for download so have the first one on sale here - see the Music page! It's called "Shoeshine Boy" and is about the death of Hank Williams who is one of my musical influences. Watch out for more tracks to be released very soon!