All is calm and all is bright backstage at St Pancras Old Church as Izzie Yardley lays her guitar in its case and sits. “Matt’s audience is lovely,” she says, smiling. Inside the chapel, we can hear the buoyant mood…
“I don’t get anxiety on stage but I do get it before and after,” says Matt, his last live outing in London’s Kings Place in February a triumphant return to live playing following the release of his biographical Sky Arts…
“Who is Matt Deighton?” asks Squeeze’s Chris Difford at the start of Overshadowed before promptly answering his own question. “He’s the musical badger,” he says with a smirk. Badger? Does he mean Badger from The Wind In The Willows, that…
From the Mayor of London’s office come dubious missives promising a halt to the capital’s cultural drain, but that the office continues to oversee the closure of live venues across central London means that all musicians – and that means…
“People ask me, how the hell did you wangle a week in Abbey Road?” says Chris Sheehan over a coffee in the ‘canteen’ down the corridor from Studio 2. We’ve just witnessed Pat Dam Smyth put the finishing touches to…
‘If you have to kick against the pricks, must you mention them by name?’ asked John Osborne once upon a time. The answer, in this case, is No. There is not enough time to kick out against a confederacy of…
On entering the 100 Club’s dressing room you’re stopped in your tracks. You look around to take it all in. There’s a beaten up naugahyde sofa, a glass-fronted fridge, an arcade machine (that isn’t plugged in), at the room’s centre…
In 2015, with the alignment of three musical constellations that are Steve White (The Style Council, Paul Weller, The Who) Matt Deighton (Mother Earth, Brian Auger, Chris Difford, Paul Weller, Bill Fay) and Damon Minchella (Ocean Colour Scene, Richard Ashcroft),…
At the 229 Club in London’s West End, the brotherly love between Matt Deighton (Mother Earth, The Family Silver) and Chris Difford (Squeeze) was palpable, as was the outpouring of affection for them from an audience who knew only too…