Driven by his love of German cabaret and French chansons, Tom taught himself the accordion in the late 1990s, and immediately started to compose songs in a style best described as “gypsy vaudeville”. In 1998, together with French guitarist Sebastien Guerreau, he formed the band Fantasmagoria, with whom he has travelled extensively through Europe, playing in over 13 countries in the last 8 years, and becoming a cult favourite among the cognoscenti of the international busking festival circuit. At the start of 2008, he left his adopted home in France, to return to the UK to concentrate on his London band The Bohemianauts, and was asked to join Alejandro Toledo and The Magic Tombolinos.