About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
As other compilations might have the repeated treadmill of artists and exhausted ideas, Eddie Piller, the head honcho behind the continuingly explorative Acid Jazz record label that found the likes of The Brand New Heavies, Corduroy and many many more…
Graham Day The Master Of None; one of the founding fathers of the British garage rock movement returns to Countdown Records to release his debut solo album out 25 March. Countdown Records are proud to announce the return of Graham…
THE SPITFIRES announce their final album -‘PLAY FOR TODAY’ OUT 25 FEBRUARY, 2022. Album release to coincide with a farewell show at London’s Electric Ballroom. After four albums, including two number one UK National Vinyl and Indie Chart releases, hundreds…
1991 was the year Hubble Telescope launched, Big Arnie’s Terminator 2 arrived at cinemas and a bevy of exciting indie bands launched themselves into CD players, tape decks, record players and radio stations of music lovers all over the globe….
Whilst our world reverberates to sullen claxons from poisonous political ministers and legions of their venomous followers are blinkered to real afflictions of working class noblemen/women, tribes who follow an altogether groovier and sharper than ever Pastor called Paul Weller…
Cover photo © Steve Gullick About 15 years after punk had shaken up the music world, in the space before Nirvana and Britpop, the British music scene was infatuated with shy lullaby shoegazers, fake Europeans and ecstasy rave-trash. Five young…
Celebrating a 10 year stint at the groovy Acid Jazz label is no mean feat for the multi-talented Matt Berry. Time has flown by with moments of pop brilliance as well as a few surprises in tow which are now…
In and around the northern quarters of Manchester have been many names associated with its cultural movements including Peter Hook, Mani, Tony Wilson, even John Cooper Clarke. Names that might not trip off the tongue as easily as the aforenoted…
The latest in the hugely successful ‘C’ series, riffing on the original ‘C86’ cassette. Follows previous best-selling collections C86 (2014), C87 (2016), C88 (2017), C89 (2018) and C90 (2020). 59 tracks charting the ongoing rise to dominance of the independent…
Demon are proud to present the first ever Dodgy box set: The A&M Years, covering the bands classic period in the 1990s. BUY LINK: http://smarturl.it/DodgyBoxSet This box set of 8CDs features 128 tracks, including the three classic studio albums The Dodgy Album, Homegrownand Free…