About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
“Jim’s been writing beautiful melodies for the best part of 30 years. His music is sophisticated, rich and utterly beguiling.” – Norman Blake, TEENAGE FANCLUB Jim McCulloch is a singer-songwriter from Glasgow in Scotland. From his beginnings with BMX Bandits…
When the phrase supergroup is mentioned the likes of 60’s bands such as Blind Faith including Eric Clapton and Steve Window, and The Dirty Mac, featuring Clapton, Keith Richards and John Lennon, might come to mind, with the latter collaboration…
The impassioned voice of Steve Elliss comes to life with a fresh new compilation of this early work with 60’s pop soul combo The Love Affair whilst a healthy dose of his solo years as Ellis plus his Steve Ellis…
The Love Affair were the much loved 60’s mod outfit that combined English tare away looks, big orchestrated time less numbers with an conquering lead singer in the guise of Steve Ellis. Having a rasping voice in a similar vein…
A second volume of the Scarred For Life books is certainly something to get your teeth into if you’re a fan of the likes of Grotbags scaring the living daylights out of you whilst she claimed to be all about…
The brainchild of Lee Mavers and his band The La’s have produced some of the very best music to come out of Liverpool, ever. Their debut album is the stuff of legend, recorded multiple times with various producers all of…
There are many luckless bands, artists and albums that have the label ‘should have been bigger’ wrapped around their product. The Action, Candy Opera, Forever Amber, Bradford, the endless list could on until the cows come home, slowly. One of…
Nottingham’s Rock City has been heralded the best venue in the country, having not visited all of the venues in the country I can’t make comment on that being true but what I can say is the venue is the…
During the last 8 months, Music Venue Trust and Crowdfunder have worked together to prevent the closure of hundreds of grassroots music venues. With no end to the crisis in sight, we are now refocusing that work to spotlight those…
Eoin Dolan, in proud association with Citóg Records will release It Is Good That We Dream on 27th November 2020. The compilation album will feature some of Dolan’s most memorable tracks to date including Superior Fiction, Heavenly Possessed and One…