About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
Featuring eight Two Tone albums with new, extensive sleevenotes Art directed by Jerry Dammers Plus three Record Store Day releases Including previously unreleased Specials Dub Mixes on 10” vinyl Continuing the acclaimed 40 years of 2 Tone Records Following the…
From the forthcoming album, Zombie, released on Fri 7 August 2020 on Strangetown Records An incomparable world of bug-eyed, harmony-rich folk-pop-psych-alt-country-rock lies in wait for intrepid listeners as Wales’ best kept sonic secret, El Goodo, return with only their fourth album in a 20-year…
Doves are going on tour! An emotional homecoming at Manchester’s O2 Apollo, a return to London’s O2 Academy Brixton and a night at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom feature in the 13-date jaunt, with the band hitting the road in March and…
The magnetic musical force of Michael Robert Murphy dropped his debut solo single Out Of Sight, released via Rabbit Hole Records, mid covid which was a welcome relief to many mixing sumptuous overly catchy lyrics, the sort of chord structures…
The Mod revival period of the late 70’s going through to the mid 80’s helped many woman and man touch various tailor-made pieces of cloth in various changing colours including wearing bowling shoes, ten pin alleys were never as popular…
Currently sitting pretty at number 1 in the album charts with his name being mentioned in the same breath as Lennon and McCartney, Paul Weller has much to being proud of at this moment in time. One of his band…
Mixes various musical styles but with a firm stamp in the direction of The Cure, Slowdive and MBV, Bdrmm’s new longer player Bedroom released via Sonic Cathedral will wake you up from your slumber before reaching into your heart and…
The latest album Time To Dream But Never Seen released via Castles In Space by electronic keyboard wizard Keith Seatman delves into an often mysterious sound yet keeping an intriguing musical angle through the long player, the sort of release…
Just three weeks after revealing their first new music in eleven years, Doves break their silence on new album rumours by announcing that their fifth long player, The Universal Want, will be released on Fri 11 September 2020on Virgin EMI. Buoyed by refreshed chemistry, restless…
Like “Wild Bill Hicock arm-wrestling Davy Jones in the Jolly Roger” The Coral’s Paul Molloy releases the first single from his debut solo album Vignettes of dark humour, literary drama and unscreened soundtracks feature in the river-deep debut solo album from Paul Molloy,…