I was so mad about moving schools and leaving all my friends, so I hadn’t participated in anything, but I got up there and performed a song I had just written, and immediately after, people suddenly wanted to talk to me, I got all this attention – especially from girls! It propelled me to keep going, and I started booking shows, open-mic nights in places like The Stone Pony in Asbury Park. But I was getting confident in my music, and wrote my first couple of songs, so I decided to perform at the eighth-grade talent show – and at that point, no one had really ever heard me even speak. The native New Yorker describes himself during those formidable middle school years as “a complete outcast”, further stating, “I didn’t talk to anyone for about two years. Miller kept to himself during school but his love of the music he fell in love with inspired him to take music lessons from a piano teacher who encouraged him to sing and ultimately write his own music. At the age of 12, his parents made the move to the suburbs and it was during the commute to school with his mother that he would be exposed to David Bowie, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac. The most thrilling thing about Tor Miller with the advantage of time is that he might well have found it.Glassnote Records artist Tor Miller started making music as an outlet for his frustrations and resentment towards having to move away from the life in Manhattan to New Jersey. There s a key moment in prior single Midnight when, with the backing vocals rising to a tumult behind him, Tor sings Calling out, calling out for something true. His music has soul, and his performance has a range, depth and scale. The ongoing glut of actually very good singer-songwriters will never become a fallow stable, but Tor has leap-frogged that pen and positioned himself comfortably on the outside, looking above and beyond its obvious limitations. It s a song I m hugely proud of.Īmbitious, then, but not misplaced.
I can hear it on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury as the weekend closes. I wanted it to sound like Bruce Springsteen covering Purple Rain (which he recently did, weirdly enough). I wanted Stampede to end on a what the hell happened there?! moment. Like many great albums do, the album closes on a beauty, and Tor s current favourite called Stampede.
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