Short Biography
Silhouette is the vision and work of a passionate Northern Irish songstress - Shauna Tohill.
Her main focus is to inspire, touch and mend the hearts of anyone who is drawn in to listen. Silhouettes music is a breath of fresh air combining different and unusual musical elements and instrumentation - drawn from Tohill’s eclectic taste and experiences. It is high energy alternative pop rock laced with flavours of darkness, hope and desire. It MUST be experienced!!
Silhouette are making waves rapidly. Not only was Shauna was a guest vocalist for Snow Patrol on their most recent European tour but after stunning audiences at a support show in Dublin with One Republic - they have now confirmed support for the fantastic Blondie on her Irish tour this month.
Silhouette have also landed support for Jake Bugg at Belsonic Festival, 2 slots for V-Festival 2013, a slot at the Kendal Calling Festival and even playing Indiependence Festival!
More information can be found on social networks and website - www.silhouetteofficial.com
Current Live Line-up
Electric Guitar - Andrew Black
Drum Kit - Connor Burnside
Synth, Violin, Piano - Rachael Boyd
Piano, Bass, Guitar & Vocals - Shauna Tohill
Other Musicians (depending on shows)
Double Bass/Bass - John Conway
Cello - Zarah Fleming
http://chordblossom.com/livereviews/transmit-silhouette-5th-june-2013
Heya Ladies and Gents!
We have now released our music video for ‘Toss It Up’! It was so much fun to shoot and now here it is to watch and enjoy!!
http://youtu.be/WC7O8n1Pgy8
Please feel free to share!
A big thank you to Darren Lee and all at Maverick Renegade, all of the Silhouette musicians (Connor Burnside, Rachael Boyd, John Conway, George Muldrew, Andrew Black, Zarah Fleming, Eimhear Tohill) and everyone else who appeared in the video (Green Pastures Church, Ballymena, Green Pastures Dance Group & my friends in the party scene).
Love you all!
Shauna xo
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We played at the BBC Academy - fringe to BBC One Big Weekend and here you can view the videos, comments and pictures from the show!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e4gwrz/acts/a5gbj5
Feel free to share and enjoy!
Shauna xo
Hey Guys!
So we can now announce some of our big news in the coming months!
1. We have confirmed support for the wonderful Blondie in Dublin, Olympia Theatre on 25th June 2013 followed by Belfast, Waterfront Hall on the 26th June! So excited!!
2. We play this years Hype Youth Festival in Longford on the 25th May – its going to be really fun so get your tickets.
3. We have announced our N.I Tour dates in June, tickets are available from all usual outlets. See Events Page!
4. ‘Can’t Keep Up EP’ will be released on 31st May in ROI and 3rd June in UK – available to pre-order now on iTunes HERE!
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cant-keep-up-extended-play-ep/id639554342
5. We have 2 new music videos on the way for 2 tracks on the EP – Toss it Up and Put the Silence on Hold AND we will be featuring on Balcony TV very soon too! We also have BBC Introducing videos up from our appearance at the BBC Academy – follow this link:
Running Against the Wall : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8LnHVushSY&list=UUZtDUmC3W7j25XHZWFT_XgQ&index=17
Can’t Keep Up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA5a6mBlr4s&list=UUZtDUmC3W7j25XHZWFT_XgQ&index=13
6. Glasgowbury Festival confirmed for the 19th July 2013, on stage at 9:45pm!
Any comments, feel free to share, always like to know what your thinking and please let anyone else know who you feel would like to know more about Silhouette!
Love,
Shauna xo
Hey Guys,
Just leaving Berlin and found this last night – thought I’d share it with you all! Ahhh! So cool!
http://silhouetteofficial.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/our-feature-in-german.jpg
We had such a lovely time here in Berlin and we hope to be back again very soon (maybe July… Maybe Autumn… We will see!)! Thank you to all who came to see us at the English Theatre, Berlin last night! It was such a wonderful night with wonderful people! :)
Now back to Northern Ireland to play at the BBC Introducing One Big Weekend Fringe with SOAK and Girls Names! <3
Shauna xo
HELLO WORLD!!!
We have been working really hard in what seems like quietness over the last couple of months but finally, we are in preparation stages to release the new EP aptly named as the ‘Can’t Keep Up EP’ as well as other bits and pieces.
Release…
RubyWorks are going to be releasing the record digitially and you can pre-order your copy now for only £2.45 on iTunes.
Radio and Press
This week, the lovely CityBeat, Emma Fitzpatrick has made ‘Can’t Keep Up EP’ her Record of the week and we have a great EP review and write by Edwin McFee on Culture NI too.
Videos…
We have been working FLATOUT this week filming videos for 2 of the the 5 songs on the EP with Darren Lee, Maverick Renegade Productions - they all were great fun and will look great, as he is a genius! Some images on the website (www.silhouetteofficial.com) We also have a lovely girl working on some animation for the new Can’t Keep Up 2013 Remix!
Dates…
To co-incide with the release, we have also confirmed a number of Northern Irish, UK festivals and German dates, please take a look at our EVENTS page for more details – and spread the word if you can!!
We have performed a few unannounced shows this month for charity. One in Newtownards for CLIC Sargent and one in Belfast for Doctors without Borders, both great causes, please go check them out and donate if you can!
Other News…
A few weeks back, I got together with Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol), David C Clements, SOAK and Eimear & Ryan (Wonder Villians) to write a song for a TEDx event, which took place in Stormount, Belfast. We did it and the single was recorded and released via Universal Records digitally under the name of Gary Lightbody and the Assembly. You can check out the song on iTunes and YouTube - song is titled 'This is All That I ask of You'.
Love,
Shauna xo
Performing at the wonderful Glasgowbury Festival in Draperstown.
Main Stage at 9:45pm
A youth festival in Derry/Londonderry in Nerve Centre. Times to be announced.
Playing at the wonderful Indiependence Festival in Cork this year! Stage and Times TBC.
Part 1 of V-Festival. Futures Stage. Times TBC...
Part of the fantastic Other Voices Festival
In The Round Show as part of Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival with Mige Ure and Peter McVeigh.