Gin Soldiers are the culmination of four brothers in alms heralding from Peterborough with a shared appreciation of music, musing, culture, and literature. Encamped firmly in their favourite somnambulent 12-4am slot, experiences shared, character traits, and loves won and lost reign high in their lyrical discourse.

Their songs are created in acoustic format by Tommy Short, but are not full orchestrated as the final product until his 3 comrades stamp their personalities, rhythm and soul over the initial foundations. The band's dedication for what they do means that they travel from the likes of Sheffield, Leeds and London in order to rehearse in close proximity of a family friend's shed that they have captured and called their own.

The band's everyday influences range from fashion, graphics, the arts, British culture, red wine, coffee, epicurean experience, foreign influences through travel, language and laughter. Always wishing to avoid the inevitable cliché, they do not take themselves too seriously and try to express the mundane and esoteric in equal measure. With an insouciant shrug to current trends, and whatever may be cool this week, they do what they do and enjoy it. For themselves, and hopefully for you.

Too ineffectual, too intellectual, they realise that they can't please every critic so they just get on with what they hold dear to them - their music.

They hope you enjoy it; they certainly do.

Reviews:
Art & Soul Magazine
"Tom's set is utterly brilliant. He stands up in front of us and cautiously, almost apologetically, delivers songs of a quality you will not hear anywhere. He doesn't put a foot wrong throughout the forty or so minutes he plays. And i don't mean vocally, or instrumentally, although both those statements would also be true. But musically. Tom's songs contain enough hooks to capture and contain the listener's attention, whilst maintaining the unpredictability required to avoid accusations of being trite.
Every songs shines as brilliantly as his sunburst Les Paul, and with a vocal that is both note and tone perfect throughout and seems to fit the music like a glove. It is a mystery as to why he has only been a vocalist for the last three or four months. In set-closer "She Don't Love Me" he has an indie anthem fit any major league stage in the country.
Earlier this year we saw Tom deliver a similar set as warm-up act for The Courteeners at The Met Lounge, a band containing one of the big current indie songwriting talents in Liam Fray. It is not hard to imagine Tom making the next step up to Fray's level in the not too distant future. Indeed, it would be an injustice if he didn't."