Purple morning glory flowers Tom performing live with guitar under blue stage light
Naarm / Melbourne, Australia

Tom Di Bella

Multidisciplinary artist with a love for rhythm, words and the raw power of the voice. Musician, poet, playwright, performer.

01 — WHO'S ABOARD
About
Who, why, where.
Portrait of Tom Di Bella standing among tree ferns

Tom Di Bella is a genre-blurring musician and poetic storyteller moving between acoustic hip hop, psychedelic folk, and neo-soul. Everything is created in real time in the room: a loop station captures his love of harmony and beatboxing drives the music with percussive force. Groove and soulful vocals build the garden where his mind-bending lyricism blooms.

A dyslexic poet, Tom brings a curious, theatrical relationship to language and meaning to everything he makes. Sprinkles of improvisation blend with pre-made pieces to create authentic moments that resonate long after the last loop fades.

His art has travelled from friends' living rooms to Burning Man, from international theatre tours in China to Alex and Allyson Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM). Tom is a Director of Junkyard Beats and co-writer/performer of JUNKLANDIA, nominated for Best Kids Show at Melbourne Fringe. Last Stop on the Thought Train is his debut solo show.

Tom performing spoken word at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
"

Very powerful.

— Alex Grey, on Tom's poetry at CoSM

Tom performing at The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
Burning Man '15 Burning Man '17 Burning Seed '18 Afrika Burn '26 CoSM China Tour Melbourne Fringe Adelaide Fringe
02 — SIGNAL
Music
Solo, groups, soundscapes, loops
Flow & Tell album cover — painting by Ophelia May of Tom playing guitar, graphic design by Tom
Out now · Single
Flow & Tell

Tom's first release on Spotify. Cover art is a painting by Ophelia May, with graphic design by Tom.

Listen on Spotify ↗
Journey to the Centres — Tom's home studio in purple light with chakra symbols overlaid
Out now · Soundscape
Journey to the Centres

A soundscape composed for The Antarean Pyramid, an installation by Nathan Starchild.

Listen on SoundCloud ↗
Supervibe group photo with hand-drawn graffiti logo, photo by Max Roux
Live project
Supervibe

An improvised music group Tom plays with. Supervibe played a 90s covers set at The Town in 2024 — the graffiti logo is Tom's own work.

Photo — Max Roux

Dive Deep EP cover — Amy Be and Tom Di Bella playing guitar together outdoors
Out now · EP with Amy Be
Dive Deep

An EP written and produced by Tom, with Amy Be bringing the vocals and lyrics. Tom features on every track with a rap verse; Kobe B on percussion.

Amy Be — vocals, lyrics · Tom Di Bella — production, music, rap verses · Kobe B — percussion

Listen on Spotify ↗
Sweet Art — hand-drawn graffiti album artwork
Coming soon · Debut album
Sweet Art

Tom's debut album — hip hop, live looping and beatbox. Artwork hand-drawn by Tom.

From Rain to Rainbows album cover — Tom playing guitar at 16
In progress · Early works
From Rain to Rainbows

The earliest songs Tom ever wrote — captured here at 16, guitar in hand, before Junkyard Beats, before the loops. A collection of where it all started.

Song artwork
Bloom artwork Bloom
Bee the Flower artwork, from the Lovelorn EP
Upcoming EP
Lovelorn

Artwork shown is for the song "Bee the Flower". Cover art to come.

03 — ON STAGE
Shows
Creations, and starring in.
ONE-WAY TICKET
Last Stop on the Thought Train poster Creation · Solo Show
Last Stop on the Thought Train

A live-looping poetic journey through the mind and Self. Soulful vocals, surreal spoken word, music, and comedy. Revel in the relatability, vanish into the vulnerability.

Built live from loops, beatbox and voice, the show follows Tom's own journey through the highs and lows: mental health and addiction, depression and elation, and the revelations that arrive somewhere in between. It doesn't dodge the hard parts, and it doesn't stay there either. The laughs are as honest as the rest of it.

Watch on YouTube ↗
Artwork from the show
Fail Yeah artwork Fail Yeah
Mycelium Metamorphasis artwork Mycelium Metamorphasis
Silent / Listen artwork Silent / Listen
JUNKLANDIA performers in a cardboard boat surrounded by plastic bags Creation · Kids Show
JUNKLANDIA

Siblings from the faraway planet JUNKLANDIA embark on a mission to Earth to teach the earthlings the Junklandian ways of music and creative recycling. A spectacle of drumming, dance, circus and comedy, told in a language of gibberish and rhythm so it reaches any age or nationality. It ends with a JUNK Orchestra — every audience member handed a recycled instrument to build a one-of-a-kind junkyard band. Co-written and performed with Junkyard Beats; toured Naarm / Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe, with a nomination for Best Kids Show at Melbourne Fringe.

The Box Show cast on stage in a theatre Starring in
The Box Show

Four quirky misfits turn everyday junk — wheelie bins, kitchen scraps, plastic bags — into an electrifying symphony of beats and rhythm. An abandoned kitchen becomes a drum set, plastic bags turn into instruments, and the human body becomes a sound machine. The cast speak in "Rhythmish", a playful language of rhythm and gibberish, so it lands with any age or nationality. Directed by Nigel Turner-Carroll, written by Oded Prior and Nigel Turner-Carroll. Critics' Pick at Sydney Fringe 2018, Best of Kids and Family at Adelaide Fringe 2026, and nominated for Best Kids Show at Edinburgh Fringe 2025.

Tour dates
Junkyard Beats logo Performance group turning JUNK into FUNK
Junkyard Beats

An award-winning Australian ensemble turning ordinary junk into extraordinary funk. Founded by Oded Prior in Sydney in 2015 as a street show, the group now performs in major theatres, festivals, schools and events across Australia and internationally — including tours of China, Dubai and Edinburgh. The work blends drumming, body percussion, dance, junk percussion, circus and hilarious skits, alongside workshops that turn buckets into drums and bottles into shakers.

Tom wearing a Junkyard Beats recycling cap

Tom is one of the Directors of Junkyard Beats, steering the group's shows, sound and direction.

junkyardbeats.com ↗
04 — REELS
Videos
Performance footage and behind the scenes.
05 — HAND DRAWN
Design
Logos, lettering and stickers.
Observations — hand-lettered illustrated poem written for Tom's father's 70th birthday
Observations
Hand-lettered poem · written for his father's 70th
CREATE — hand-drawn lettering, Tom's word for 2026
Create
Word for 2026
Starchild Art graffiti logo — rainbow lettering on splattered black background
Starchild Art
Logo & sticker design for Nathan Starchild
Junkyard Beats logo — green and yellow graffiti lettering with recycling symbols holding drumsticks
Junkyard Beats
Group logo & lettering
Ouch — a cracked heart in blues, greens and purples with the word OUCH across it
Ouch
Breakup season
Babadoof graffiti lettering in rainbow colours
Babadoof
Crew logo · Afrika Burn 2026
AFREEKA graffiti lettering with patterned letterforms
Afreeka
A free Ka — the free soul, from Kemet
Lettering · made at Afrika Burn 2026
Sweet Art graffiti lettering artwork
Sweet Art
Album artwork & lettering
Supervibe graffiti logo over band photo
Supervibe
Band logo & cover design · Photo by Max Roux
06 — CARBON COPY
Typewrite Now
Spontaneous pop-up poetry at festivals and events — typed on the spot.
No. 001
Pleasure
No. 002
Sensitive
No. 003
Connection
No. 004
Finding the One
07 — NOW BOARDING
Performances
Where the train is headed, and where it's been.
Upcoming
Dates
Event
Where
Status
The Box Show — QLD Tour
Queensland
Boarding
Red Dust x Junkyard Beats — NT Tour
Northern Territory
Boarding
Past
Dates
Event
Where
Season
Antarean Pyramid
Afrika Burn Festival · with Nathan Starchild
2026
The Box Show — National Australia Tour
Junkyard Beats
2026
Last Stop on the Thought Train
The General Havelock Hotel & The Mercury
Adelaide Fringe 2026
The Box Show — China Tour
Junkyard Beats
2025
Roving — Junkyard Beats
Strawberry Fields Festival
2023, 2024, 2025
Red Dust Tour
Northern Territory
2024 & 2025
Last Stop on the Thought Train
Trainscendence
Melbourne Fringe 2025
Tom Di Bella — Live Set
Tanglewood Festival
Tanglewood 25
Bohemian Beatbox & Bars
Whoops A Daisy Festival
2024
Supervibe — 90s Covers Set
The Town
The Town 2024
Performance Art with Culture Jam
Tanglewood Festival
Tanglewood 2024
JUNKLANDIA — Victoria Tour
Junkyard Beats
2023
Roving Performance — "Art Critics" with Culture Jam
Dragon Dreaming Festival
2023
JUNKLANDIA
Melbourne Fringe
Melbourne Fringe 2023
Opening Ceremony — Junkyard Beats
Dragon Dreaming Festival
2022
Beats Alive — QLD Tour
Junkyard Beats
2019
Moon Base Installation
Burning Seed Festival · with Nathan Starchild
2018
Poetry Performance
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, New York
2018
Pleiadian Oasis
Burning Man Festival · with Nathan Starchild
2017
Stargazers Anonymous
Burning Man Festival · with Nathan Starchild
2015
08 — GET IN TOUCH
Contact
Bookings, collaborations and commissions.
Tom standing arms outstretched in a canola field Tom mid-movement on stage under green and purple light Tom framing the camera with his hands under red stage light