Full songs, best quality I could find. Closest to the actual order played I could figure out. (I was not there, second hand info can be wrong).
If you’d rather watch them on you tube I have made a handy playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EA983B982F763855
Uncertainty

Catsongs II (Livia Deliberated)

Catsongs III (Livia Lives)

Alex Day - No Sacrifice (Tom helps a bit near the end)

Springsong

Pophyrophobia

Indigo

Summersong

Jake’s Song

Song For The Painfully Indie

They

Wintersong

Animals

Autumnsong

Eyelashes ( Encore with Alex Day)

Tom Milsom’s new album, ‘Painfully Mainstream’, skips from genre to genre, briefly settling on pop, folk and rock, and skipping through subtler shades of music, from post-rock to antifolk, from gypsy-punk to all-out thrash metal, but held under control and pinned together with Milsom’s unforced, uniquely British vocal style.

The backbone of the album consists of four songs named after seasons, ‘Autumnsong’ being a nine-minute post-rock epic reminiscent of Mogwai or Explosions In The Sky, while ‘Wintersong’ is a Pink Floyd tinged closer to an album that ends almost impossibly differently to how it started.

The album title is clearly a joke, but subtler than you might imagine. Hidden amongst this unusual album are nuggets of instrumentation not out of place on many records you hear every day on the radio – it’s not the techniques Milsom uses that are unusual; it’s how he hangs them together that makes this record something completely unique. It’s as though, in his search for a fitting medium to express himself, he sets off on a journey through music and comes up with something at once like everyone else, and like nobody other than himself.
credits
released 01 December 2009
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tags: acoustic electronic experimental indie pop London
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Tom’s personal blogpost about it:

AN ALBUM! AN ALBUM!
Now guys, I don’t want to alarm you, but I’ve done something pretty freakin’ huge:

he’s a sexy bitch. Ooh such a sexy bitch.
That’s right! Painfully Mainstream, my second album, is on general release from today on DFTBA records! It’s got ten wonderful lovely songs on, including favourites such as Indigo, Porphyrophobia, Song For The Painfully Indie, Autumnsong, and MANY MORE!
We’re looking to get a page up soon where you can stream the songs and listen to them, in a try-before-you-buy situation, but heck, if you have my first album, there’s a chance you’ll want to buy it straight away, so I ain’t gonna stop ya. You can get the physical copy by clicking here, or be taken to the iTunes store by clicking here.
It’s been two years since I first began recording songs on my computer, without ever having the inclination to release an album. That I did and many people love it to this day and still listen to it regularly astonishes me and makes me very happy. Now, two years later, I’ve consciously tried to make music that’s as exciting, gleeful and listenable as it possibly can be. All I can hope for is that you love this one too. And I really hope you do. Obviously. GO BUY IT NOW KTHX
Tom
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THIS POST WAS WRITTEN BY TOMMYF ON DECEMBER 1, 2009

Concept art for Painfully Mainstream, Alan:
Working on Milsom’s cover art. =)

“hexachordal commented on this picture: OCT. 6TH
I’m thinking HelveticaLight, lower case, no borders for the text. We can really date this to 2009 if we try! :D:D:D “

I still haven’t found the blog where I got this one:

I THINK it was the preorder page for the album, which is long gone.
Edit: It’s still on the TMtunes page as well.