Tomorrow Bird celebrates success
TOMORROW Bird have been awarded the Graham Steele Music Company Single of the Year award. The acoustic duo was given the award for their single What Comes Next, and was among acts such as Blondie tribute band Atomic Rapture and the Starlite Campbell Band.
The award is their fourth from GSMC, having received the award for best duo in both 2017 and 2018, and best single in 2020.
The duo were awarded best single last year for their song Not All Heroes Wear Capes, a charity single in aid of the NHS.
Formed in 2017, Tomorrow Bird is the collaboration of Simon Driscoll, frontman of Readingbased band Burnt Tomorrow, and Jen Bird, whose solo work has included two solo albums and work on the Xenoblade Chronicles franchise.
Tomorrow Bird said they “genuinely did not expect” the award.
“We worked really hard on this track, and it is a personal favourite of ours, so it meant the world to us to have it recognised in this way.”
“We can only thank each and every single person who voted for us.”
Other bands honoured by the awards included The Lost Trades,
who won album of the year, and Tu-Kay & Ryan, who won for best newcomer.
Tomorrow Bird congratulated their fellow winners, saying “what’s better than winning a GSMC music award? When your friends win one too.”
The duo also thanked the company’s director Graham Steel.
“We are also beyond thankful to the good people at GSMC, headed up by the legend that is Graham Steel.”
They said that work like Graham’s has given independent musicians “an online platform
to stay connected and keep performing.”
“We don’t know what we would have done without that.”
Wokingham-based Atomic Rapture were also among the winners of the annual awards, winning in the best cover/tribute category for their Blondie tribute act.
This is also their third time winning in the category, having won in 2019 and 2020.
Tomorrow Bird will be supporting The Christians at Sub89 on Friday, April 15.