About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
It’s hard to fathom The Yardbirds have been around for 60 years. Their material from the 1960’s still sounds as fresh, progressive, and hard hitting as it did when originally released. Original copies of their 7” singles are often hard…
DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL REVEALS DISTRICT X LINE UP DJ SETS, LIVE PODCASTS, COMEDY AND MORE Packed District X line up announced, with DJ sets from The Blackout, Nova Twins, Zoe London, Daniel P Carter, Wargasm, Alyx Holcombe and more Live podcasts…
Following a run of outstanding and acclaimed singles, on 26 May Sunday Best recordings will release Version Girl, Rhoda Dakar’s first album in five years. Version Girl’s title is derived from Dandy Livingstone’s ‘Version Girl’, a song partly used as…
blur will release their first album in 8 years, titled The Ballad of Darren and comprising 10 new tracks, on 21st July on Parlophone. First track ‘The Narcissist’ is out now, watch visualiser here: Produced by James Ford and recorded at Studio 13, London and Devon, The Ballad…
Corduroy Men of The Cloth New mini-album recorded to mark the 30th Anniversary of the band’s debut album out 14 July Recorded last year to mark the 30th Anniversary of their debut Dad Man Cat – and 1993’s follow up,…
The second instalment in dazzling vinyl reissues from Demon Music Group of Ocean Colour Scenes albums dating 1999-2003 see’s One From The Modern, Mechanical Wonder and North Atlantic Drift given a new lease of life. Each of the albums comes…
The Peter Pan of broadcasting, Gary Crowley, has a rich history of releasing sensational compilations featuring bands that have graced the tapestry of 40 odd years of being at the forefront of everything hip and happening whilst spinning vinyl to…
Pulling a couple of paragraphs from the dictionary concerning the word Magic; ‘the power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces’, ‘having or apparently having supernatural powers’, ‘wonderful; exciting’. With these fortune teller thoughts in mind the…
#DL20 8-11 JUNE 2023 DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL SELLS OUT IN RECORD TIME 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT BECOMES HOTTEST TICKET IN HISTORY OF THE FESTIVAL Download Festival 2023 breaks record this summer with weekend, day and camping tickets now completely sold out…
With the universe still reverberating from the mental and emotional effects of Covid/lockdowns, similar struggles of the soul and mind experienced via wars and rumours of wars plus social media battles that rage on in the palm of our hands,…