About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
In The Crowd – The Jam Snapped! 40th Anniversary Edition Pre-Sale Launches Friday 1 October 2021 Book Released January 2022 ‘In The Crowd’ has been long out of print and with the discovery of new and unseen photos of the…
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of this Iconic film available to Pre order October 4th 2021 limited to just 1000 copies Worldwide, this book gets the full Coattails treatment. Contributors include: Danny Boyle, irvine Welsh, Andrew Macdonald, Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd,…
LP011 ‘The La’s Live 1986 – 1987’ Heavyweight Black Vinyl LP Released by Eighties Vinyl Records in Collaboration with The Viper Label. The La’s live 1986-87 manages to capture the band’s original ethos and attitude. Side one contains Liverpool ‘live’…
Following the huge acclaim (see below) earlier this year for Matt Berry’s eighth studio album The Blue Elephant, on 26th November Acid Jazz Records will release Gather Up, a box set encompassing the singular musical adventures this extraordinary musician has…
The Small Faces were the mouth watering four piece who emerged out of London with a charming swagger other bands struggled to attain, the band’s music lit up the hit parade holding a firm place in fans hearts at the…
Scorcha! Skins, Suedes and Style From The Streets 1967-1973 by Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson and Mark Baxter, with a foreword by Madness front man Suggs. If the title, the authors or Suggs doesn’t excite you, maybe think again. Anderson is the…
If you were sober enough in mid 1996 you might not have been able to avoid the flurry of fever pitched excitement for Manchester’s Oasis as they headlined their own Spike Island at the vast and lavish lawns of Knebworth,…
Back in the early 80’s it was hard to find a singer / songwriter who didn’t have a brightly coloured electric keyboard strapped to their midrift, the art of playing the guitar in the good old fashioned way, even those…
COMING SOON: THE STONE ROSES – WHERE ANGELS PLAY – SPIKE ISLAND 27 MAY 1990 Andy Phillips’ forthcoming photozine release with Hanging Around Books features images of The Stone Roses captured before and during the band’s iconic Spike Island appearance…
Scorcha! Skins, Suedes and Style fromthe Streets 1967-1973 By Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson and Mark Baxter Foreword by Suggs Published 9th September Preorder HERE “I thought it was a great cultural movement, the music, the look, they’re things that have shaped…