ION INDIE MAGAZINE September 2015, Volume 16 | Page 16

MM: What’s the funniest memory of the “Smokin’ Hot Tour”?
Tom: The amount of Harry Potter we have listened to on audio books is astounding!
MM: Do you have any brutally honest advice for up and coming bands?
Tom: Work way harder than you think you need to or should.
I think by now, whoever reads this interview will get the notion that I like these guys…and
they would be right. Keeping in mind that I spend an inordinate time in concert venues and
clubs photographing some of the biggest names in music (along with some of the “unsung
heroes” yet to be discovered) and additionally, due to my role as a Senior Photojournalist
for this publication, I am exposed to a LOT of music and am immersed in both the national
and local music scen