About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
Sheffields melodic heroes Longpigs came to the rescue of many love torn music fans in the late 90’s on the back the britpop fad, their exciting brand of pop guitar lullabies captured many fans including Supergrass, Echobelly and Radiohead who…
Hailing from Macclesfield, Marion who were signed to London records were firm favourites in and amongst the Britpop scene of the mid 90’s. The nucleus of the band consisted of frontman Jaime Harding, guitarists Phil Cunningham and Tony Grantham, bassist…
With a highly impressive back catalogue of highly sought after and rare material, Top Sounds Records have again broken through the clouds of mediocrity with a dazzling collection of previously unreleased gems from the Oak Records archives. Unearthed from long…
Aviator aka Pete Wilkinson is back with another stunning album entitled All You Haters release on 22ndJune 2020. On CD, Vinyl and Download. This is yet again a popular mix of luxurious acoustics, psychedelic sonic blasts, blissed out vocals all…
The latest release by Liam Gallagher is a bit of a subtle affair to what some might be used to hearing from one of the best voices of his generation. MTV Unplugged, released via Warner Records on 12th June, might…
If you’re a fan of garage psych bands The Living Brain will be right up your street. Featuring Ged Lynn of The Stairs fame, the band’s music bars a similar resemblance, but they have their own stamp on proceedings. Self…
With a stellar writing line up in Paul Drummond, Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage this chunky 328 page book, published by Anthology Editions, has a wealth of unseen pictures, documents and memorabilia making this collection a collectors dream come true…
Paul Weller releases his gorgeous new song “Village” on May 7th. “Village” is the second new track to be debuted from his hotly anticipated new album On Sunset, which released on June 19th (Polydor Records). “Village” is a dreamy and beautiful…
Hailing from Leeds, The New Mastersounds bring with their formidable career a life long love of the instrumental sound of The Meters, Booker T and the MG’s plus many of highly regarded funk bands from the 60’s and 70’s. Back…
Chiefly named the Godfather of Ska, Laurel Aitken skanked his way to the top the tree with his impressively masterful recordings that became hugely popular R&B bonanza hits in the 60’s going on to lead his field up until the…