About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
The great music photographers include David Bailey, Pennie Smith and Gered Mankowitz who have had the maybe daunting task of capturing moments in time of legendary artists whether it be on a live stage, in private settings, recording studios or…
Announce new coloured vinyl LP reissues of the 2009 Remasters available from 9 Oct on Parlophone Records Limited edition 180g heavyweight UK & German studio albums each with illustrated booklet Following the recent announcement of Kraftwerk’s 3-D The Catalogue (Dolby…
London, published by FUEL, 3 September 2020 Distributed by Thames & Hudson / D.A.P., is Patrick Keiller’s highly imaginative psychogeographic journey through (and history of) London, as undertaken by an unnamed narrator and his companion, Robinson. The unseen pair complete…
Acid Jazz top dog Eddie Piller is well known for embracing Mod from a young age. His record label were branded as the new mods back in the early 1990 and indeed it is this era along with earlier and…
A LILY (aka James Vella) has announced details of his fifth album release, Sleep Through the Storm. Out on 16 October 2020 on limited edition cassette and digitally, the new album will be his first for London/Dorset imprint Bytes. “The Storm” in the title, Vella…
Released back in 1973 Goats Head Soup might be considered by some as The Rolling Stones waving goodbye to their golden period and settling down into stadium rock comfort, Fast forward to this 2020 release and the album settles into…
Currently sitting pretty in the top ten of the album charts Jamie Webster has become one of the shooting stars of the recent music scene what with appearing all over Liverpool FC’s title winning escapades his freshly released new album…
When there’s talk of heavyweight artists little come so close to achieving this hallowed accolade than the dynamite soul singer Solomon Burke. His Atlantic material is a part of the very best soul back catalogue you can get your hands…
One of the many shining lights of the 1960’s soul, jazz and blues scene was the outstanding vocalist Esther Phillips and her recordings on Lenox, Atlantic and Roulette records. Released via Soul Music Records a subsidiary of Cherry Records a…
TODAY (2.30pm) Doves will release the beautiful Cathedrals Of The Mind from their upcoming album, The Universal Want. Filling and breaking hearts, the achingly vulnerable voice of singer, Jimi Goodwin meets the valley-deep atmospherics cultivated by band mates, Andy and Jez Williams, sweeping with delicate grace in breathtaking murmurations….