Author Archives: Matt Mead

About Matt Mead

Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
Download Festival 2022 preview

Download Festival 2022 preview

Download is the UK’s leading rock and metal music festival and takes place at its Donington Park home in Derby each year. Download Festival 2021 has been rescheduled to take place from 10 – 12 June 2022 From hard hitting…

REVIEW: Jonny Trunk: The A-Z of Music Shop Bags 1940’s - 1990

REVIEW: Jonny Trunk: The A-Z of Music Shop Bags 1940’s – 1990

Continuing heartwarming archive chronicles in the same hallowed tradition that accompanied previous coveted releases; sweet wrapper sugar rush Wrappers Delight, Sainsbury’s exemplary Own Brand and automobile dream Auto Erotica, Jonny Trunk has unleashed another prized nugget of fantabulous research, stunning…

NEWS: Tony Briggs book Behind The Scene

NEWS: Tony Briggs book Behind The Scene

The 90’s work of Ocean Colour Scene comes hand in hand with the sensational work of photographer Tony Briggs. When you look at one of their albums sleeves you are immediately drawn to the iconic depiction of the band in…

REVIEW: Richard Davis Madchester years 89-91 book

REVIEW: Richard Davis Madchester years 89-91 book

The Madchester years were full of colour, vibrance and youthful energy. Being 15 in 1990 I was abit too young to enjoy gigs taking place in 1989, although I was an avid listener of the music but didn’t fully embrace…

LIVE REVIEW: Paul Weller Leicester De Montford Hall 9.4.22

LIVE REVIEW: Paul Weller Leicester De Montford Hall 9.4.22

Presently reams of choral also rans rant and rave without intensity, eloquence, or direction, with an appetite to cash in on lukewarm squalid humdrum material, there can be little doubt regarding the longevity, ingenuity  and razor-sharp inventiveness of Mr Paul…