Words On The Floor is the debut album by singer-songwriter Tommy Reilly

Tommy Reilly (Scottish musician)

Tommy Reilly is a Scottish singer–songwriter from Torrance, East Dunbartonshire. He gained recognition after winning the Channel 4 TV show Orange unsignedAct. Shortly after, Reilly's first single "Gimme A Call" reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart in its first week of release. Reilly...

, released on September 21, 2009. Produced by the Grammy and Brit Award-winning Bernard Butler

Bernard Butler

Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician and record producer. He first emerged in the early Britpop era with Suede. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation, as well as one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists...

, and recorded in Edwyn Collins's

Edwyn Collins

Edwyn Stephen Collins is an Ivor Novello Award winning Scottish musician, playing mostly electric guitar-driven pop. Collins formed the musical group Nu-Sonics in 1976, which later became Orange Juice...

 studio. There were three tracks offered on iTunes only for pre-ordering the album.

Track listing

1. Grab Me By The Collar
2. Jackets
3. Dials
4. Kick The Covers
5. Words On The Floor
6. Tell Me So
7. Minds On Other Things
8. Having No-One
9. Just Like The Weather
10. Gimme A Call
11. Entertaining Thoughts
12. I Don't Like Coffee (Hidden Track)
13. Cards On The Table (Offered for Pre-Order Only on iTunes)
14. Torrance (Offered for Pre-Order Only on iTunes)
15. Gimme A Call (Demo) (Offered for Pre-Order Only on iTunes)

Tour

During the summer, Reilly played at several festivals including a headlining spot on the T Break Stage at T In The Park

T in the Park

T in the Park is a major British music festival that has been held annually since 1994. It is named after its main sponsor, the brewing company Tennents. It was originally held at Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire but since 1997 has been held at a disused airfield in Balado, Kinross-shire...

. He then went on to tour the UK that autumn.

He also played various gigs in Scotland including a sell out show at Glasgow ABC as well as Homecoming at the SECC

Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre

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.

Credits

• Musicians
  • Tommy Reilly
    Tommy Reilly (Scottish musician)
    Tommy Reilly is a Scottish singer–songwriter from Torrance, East Dunbartonshire. He gained recognition after winning the Channel 4 TV show Orange unsignedAct. Shortly after, Reilly's first single "Gimme A Call" reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart in its first week of release. Reilly...
    
     – vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
    
    , Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
    
    s, Keyboard
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
    
    
  • Makoto Sakamoto – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
    
    , Percussion
  • Bernard Butler
    Bernard Butler
    Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician and record producer. He first emerged in the early Britpop era with Suede. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation, as well as one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists...
    
     – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
    
    
  • Scott Neilson
    Scott Neilson
    Scott Steven Neilson is a footballer who plays for Crawley Town as a right winger. He comes from a footballing family being the grandson of Cliff Jones and great-grandson of Ivor Jones, both former Welsh internationals....
    
     - bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
    
     (Track 3)
  • Ian Burdge – Cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
    
     (Tracks 8 & 11)
• Additional personnel
  • Bernard Butler – production
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
    
    , engineering
    Audio engineering
    An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
    
    
  • Chris Potter
    Chris Potter (producer)
    Chris Potter is a British music producer and mixer, most famous for his work as long-term collaborator and producer of The Verve and Richard Ashcroft....
    
    – Mastering