About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
The Jam’s classic love song, English Rose, will be the first single from Paul Weller’s hotly anticipated album “An Orchestrated Songbook”. An exquisite reworking, recorded with the hugely talented BBC Symphony Orchestra and award winning arranger Jules Buckley, the track is available…
The Beatles Get Back period is full of interest. The band had long since ditched their matching suits and the screaming crowds at their concerts instead the band turned into a masterfully sharp studio band, the likes of Brian Wilson…
Fans of Joy Division and New Order will be overly joyed to see a reissue of the long since out of print Kevin Cummins book Juvenes which was originally published in 2007. This new edition features previously unseen contact sheets…
The legendary Spike Island gathering held at Widnes, Cheshire on May 27th 1990 featuring a bevy of DJ’s in support of, at the time, world dominating headliners The Stone Roses, has been spoken of time and time again sometimes in…
In The Crowd – The Jam Snapped! 40th Anniversary Edition Pre-Sale Launches Friday 1 October 2021 Book Released January 2022 ‘In The Crowd’ has been long out of print and with the discovery of new and unseen photos of the…
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of this Iconic film available to Pre order October 4th 2021 limited to just 1000 copies Worldwide, this book gets the full Coattails treatment. Contributors include: Danny Boyle, irvine Welsh, Andrew Macdonald, Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd,…
LP011 ‘The La’s Live 1986 – 1987’ Heavyweight Black Vinyl LP Released by Eighties Vinyl Records in Collaboration with The Viper Label. The La’s live 1986-87 manages to capture the band’s original ethos and attitude. Side one contains Liverpool ‘live’…
Following the huge acclaim (see below) earlier this year for Matt Berry’s eighth studio album The Blue Elephant, on 26th November Acid Jazz Records will release Gather Up, a box set encompassing the singular musical adventures this extraordinary musician has…
The Small Faces were the mouth watering four piece who emerged out of London with a charming swagger other bands struggled to attain, the band’s music lit up the hit parade holding a firm place in fans hearts at the…
Scorcha! Skins, Suedes and Style From The Streets 1967-1973 by Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson and Mark Baxter, with a foreword by Madness front man Suggs. If the title, the authors or Suggs doesn’t excite you, maybe think again. Anderson is the…