[MXD Networking @ SPOT 2025] Meet Tom Phillips

Name: Tom Phillips

Company: Atomiser

Title: Co-founder

Based in: London

Can you tell us a bit about the company’s history and its roster?

We started 2 years ago organising singular music & film events in London, and so far have organised over 25 sold out or nearly sold out shows and have grown an active following of 3000+ in this time. We’ve built many relationships with local, acclaimed and international artists and curated line ups that have brought us to the attention of organisations such as Young, 4AD, Nina Protocol and Qu Junktions. Our events have been featured by The Wire and Timeout Magazine. We’re currently planning on organising events beyond London, in the wider UK as well as abroad, and starting a sub project that will function as a music workshop series and record label.

And can you tell us a bit about the acts you personally work with at this moment?

We work a lot with our friends in London – emerging artists like Sydenham High Road, Mimiko, Most Things, Josiane Pozi. This is an exciting scene of interesting alternative music that feels both unpredictable yet unpretentious. We also work a lot with Qu Junktions and their artists, as well as many Copenhagan based artists via our friends at Escho.

What was the moment you decided you wanted to work with music?

The moment I dropped out of mainstream education, at around 16 years old.

Which acts are you looking forward to seeing this year at SPOT?

Our friends Fine and Elias Rønnenfelt, as well as all the artists we have no familiarity with – looking forward to discovering new things.

Best show you’ve ever seen hands down? 

There are many but probably Charles Hayward (of This Heat) the second time we booked him for Atomiser. It was at a day festival, he played 8th I think, and everyone went crazy. It was a very primal and spiritual moment of collective vitality and lots of fun