About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
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…
Tele Novella will release their new album Merlynn Belle on February 5, 2021, their first with Kill Rock Stars. It is a collection that respites in country, meshed with a sentimental indie-folk shimmer. The band have just unveiled their dreamy…
Charming and intriguing, Heavenly Records, the independent record label that emerged in the early 90’s has now been going strong for 30 plus years. Founded by the spring haired Jeff Barrett he has helped introduce many an iconic band to…
The forever infectious sights and sounds of Supergrass are brought bang up to date with their sharp new live album Live On Other Planets. Recorded on their whirlwind reunion tour at the start of 2020 the band sounds as fluid…