Matt Henshaw Recommends ... Savanna Bones

Sorry I've been overdue a recommendation for a little short while now, so here' we go with some noisy rockin' cataclysmic dirty blues - Savanna Bones. These top chaps invited me to play at their hometown show and blew me away, live and on the cooly stamed brown card CDs they give out, for nothing, and there's some top notch stuff on their.

When people generally encounter two piece blues they tend to opt for the lazy journalist comparisons of The White Stripes and The Black Keys, and yes, whilst they are often relevant touching stones, there's a whole lot more going on here. Elements of lots of modern rock bands go into the pot, I hear elements of recent Arctic Monkeys, a little 22-20s, occasional bits of The Hives and The Dead 60s, and there's a lot of proper fuzzy old blues influence in their too.

Adam Paddy on guitar drinks from the same poisoned chalice as Disraeli Gears era Eric Clapton, whilst Robbie pounds the drums like John Bonham, with a loud full fat soaring ride cymbal and stomping bass, whilst all the time searching for lyrical plateaus left on a Wildean cutting room floor.

Personal highlight from their set was the unyet recorded Crooked Little Beast, it's a corker but hopefully they'll get some more of their other tunes online soon, tales of psychopaths, serial killers, fire, light, loudness and darkness, it's all in there, it's all good and it's all Savanna Bones. Catch them live when they get themselves together for a showdown, it'll stay yer !

Blues & Soul,
MHx


PS. here's one of my bluesy rockin' efforts you all should know ...

August ! One month 'till Birthday celebrations ...

Apologies for the lack of blogs through July. Hopefully I can step it up a gear through August.

I've been very busy of late, even to the point that I've been bed-ridden for the first 3 days of this week, exhausted ! 7 months of the year down and three musical projects up and running ...
Matt Henshaw
The B-Boy Soul Experience from Matt Henshaw & ReggiiMental
& Satsuma Elephants
don't forget to 'Like' up everything on facebook ...

Speaking of which, I've just joined that monolith of the cyber world myself, I don't really know what I'm getting myself in for but I'd appreciate your friendship over there, warms the cockles does that tiny little 'Like' button ... but I've promised myself not to get toooooo engrossed in it ... that is very much a possibility ... and it's an easy way to share pics ...

Like this one ... my new Page profile pic ... Live @ The London Palladium ... hope you 'Like' it ... don't worry I'll get bored of that soon enough ...



And don't forget BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS - Friday 6th September @ The Venue, Derby - Be there or be extremely right angled !!

Oh, and if you've missed the setlist posts, I always put mine up on here SetList.fm/Matt-Henshaw-13d00551.html ... check what songs I'm playing, it's different everytime I hit the stage, planning is for chumps ... although, I think that's why I failed a lot of my Art GCSE bits ... nevermind !

My Birthday Party (Friday 6th September) ...

Good evening blog dwellers,

I'll make it quick to start the ball rolling on my birthday celebrations in which. And my apologies too, for not blogging as much as I'd like.

Friday 6th September @ The Venue in Derby. Get it in the diary, book your train/coach/plane tickets now ... FREE Parking opposite on Abbey Street, buses all day every day and an evening of great music, to be announced. Friday 6th September @ The Venue, Derby



Exciting times too sorting out the Matt Henshaw vinyl, The B-Boy Soul from Matt Henshaw & ReggiiMental going out there too (a few high powered meetings in London later) and Satsuma Elephants waiting on the next big festival experience @ Y-Not Festival (Allotment Stage, Saturday @ noon) and getting out there on the music scene ... so, lots going on.

With Love & Birthday Cheer,
Matt Henshaw.

PS. launching Satsuma Elephants proper ... Stay Tuned ...

The Brown Lion, Birmingham setlist ...

Greetings web dwellers,

A pleasant night in Birmingham was had by all, by all means. So much so that I'm going to make the trip over the Brum twice more this week. Tonight I'll be at the Actress & Bishop with Muthafunk in the Funk Realm. It's gonna be funkay ... and Thursday night on Hockley Street. I am a child of the East but all the West Midlands love I am receiving at the moment is certainly warming the cockles. The week will be capped by Party in the Park in Birmingham again and then Godiva Festival in Coventry net week ... trailing the Warwickshire Festival circuit and Satsuma Elephants all over the Staffordshire airwaves ! Woop !

Here's the tunes I did last night, great little hootenany at the Brown Lion, some excellent musicians joining me for impromptu jams ...
It Ain't Easy
707
Dutch Courage
I've Had Tears
Naughty Girls
25 Miles
Gimme Some More
Tin Soldier
... cracking stuff. Thanks Andy, Lukasz, Andy, Sam, Sam, Chris, Ste, Sean, Tim, Kalik, Lisa, Andy and everyone that was down, jamming and/or otherwise.

Here's a poster for Sunday's shindig, if you're a Brummie, a Black Country rambler or just nearby then make sure you come down for some funkaliscious good times ...



And some videos for your listening and viewing pleasure ...

New Matt Henshaw YouTube Channel ...

Saturday ! Saturday ! Saturday, Saturday !

Sorry, went all a bit Elton John there for a second ... just writing to let you know about my new YouTube Channel design ... you can find looooooooooads of vids on there, Matt Henshaw, ReggiiMental, MuthaFunk, Satsuma Elephants, Censored ... it's all gravy, and it's all mighty fine good gravy !

On the right hand side you can see a bunch of links to YouTube channels I'd highly recommend, including Khan Academy, The Zeitgeist Movement, W3schools, Lee Camp, Satsuma Elephants and more ... I'm sure you'll be hooked up to the world wide web for hours, and who knows you might learn a thing or two ...

Thanks to Charlie Evans Design for all the artwork on there and across my social networks, you can find links to all of them in the About section on the YouTube profile ...

Subscribe, comment, favourite and Like everything you watch, it's all for a good cause ... you wouldn't want me to stop doing what I love now would you?

Here's the latest video from my channel ... have yourself a psychedelic rock out ...

Satsuma Elephts videos ...

Hola gang !

Just a quick one today ... thought you might be up for watching a few Satsuma Elephants videos ! There's new ones popping up online all the time and you're gonna be hearing a lot more new songs over the summer ... stay tuned SatsumaElephants.com

Satsuma Elephants @ Pepper Rocks, Nottingham setlist ...

OK, so this is the last of the setlist blogs for a while ... no gigs for a bit, certainly no Satsuma Elephants 'till Y-Not Festival (we're on on Saturday afternoon by the way) unless something special comes up ... in the mean time we'll be working away at some new songs, beefing up the setlist and hitting the studio to demo some of them proper !

So, Pepper Rocks, Nottingham. Tuesday 18th June, remember the date, the first Satsuma Elephants show in their hometown. And what a show. Certainly the best dressed crowd the Elephants have played for so far. Especially Chief Satsuma in her home made Satsuma Elephants t-shirt ... and very snazzy indeed it looked too ! You can read her thoughts here ... SatsumaElefans.blogspot.co.uk

So what did we play ...
707
(I Went On) Holiday
Creep Into the Night
Let Everything Go featuring ReggiiMental AKA. Jimmy B-Boy
A Hard Road of Hope
Always in the Way
I Didn't Know What Day It Was

Thanks to everyone who came down ... photographers doing a spectacular job, can't wait to see some pics and my man JC on the video cameras, making the Satsuma Elephants documentary ... the first clip from which can be found on YouTube, roughly edited, before you video editing impressarios hit me with your negative feedback ! YouTube.com/user/SatsumaElephants

And if you didn't know by now there's a brand new website up and running ... SatsumaElephants.com

Satsuma Elephants @ The VW Show, The Big Bus Stopover, Uttoxeter Racecourse setlist ...

So here we are again, dropping you a blog off before I go drop off into bed. Tiring time ... that Chris Goring works me hard !

Satsuma Elephants played their fourth show last Saturday, and first festival for a few thousands retro campervan hippy types, I loved it, and I loved them, the best compliment I can be given, and what I was given, is that we "look like we're enjoying ourselves" ... and we are ... for the best part it's me and best friend just jammin' !

The set ...
707
(I Went On) Holiday
Creep Into the Night
Let Everything Go
A Hard Road of Hope
Always in the Way
I Didn't Know What Day It Was
--- encore ---
Gimme Some More

You may have noticed we did our very first encore. And we jammed out a version Gimme Some More from the album Coming Around ... due in part to our lack of songs but mainly due to ReggiiMental's bubbling and bristling enthusiasm willingness to jump on any stage and give you some "real talk."

Pictures and videos to come. A documentary about the formation and fruition of the Satsuma Elephants is in the works ...
and hopefully we see you all tomorrow at Pepper Rocks - off Bridlesmith Gate. The elephant are on stage @ 10pm. Plenty of time for buses home and getting down with the sound !

All my Love,
Matt Henshaw x
http://www.matthenshaw.com

Satsuma Elephants @ The Situation, Foxlowe Arts Centre in Leek ...

Jolly Sunday to you all,

So behind on blog updates, we'll get there slowly and surely, I'll fill you in on allllllll the goings on. And there's a lot going on.

Here's what my band Satsuma Elephants played in Leek last Friday night ...
707
(I Went On) Holiday
Creep Into the Night
Let Everything Go
A Hard Road of Hope
Always in the Way
I Didn't Know What Day It Was

So, that's that ... and here's Chris Satsuma and his elephant pre-show ...



And here's the brand new website ... get a load of this !!!
SatsumaElephants.com

Make sure you like us on facebook and follow us on twitter ... and enjoy the videos ... the playlist is growing ... stay tuned ...

Busy week for Matt Henshaw, MuthaFunk, ReggiiMental & Satsuma Elephants ...

Evening/Morning All,

Wow, it's been tooooo long since I posted you a lovely little blog to read, I might even need to do multiple blogs to cover everything that's been happening over this last week !

The main event I suppose I should tell you about is my trip to BBC Nottingham to record an interview that went out on Saturday night all over the East Midlands and online. You can listen again ... I come in on around 50 minutes ... a quick update on all things Matt Henshaw, MuthaFunk, ReggiiMental and Satsuma Elephants ... Enjoy !

Here I am in the world's best city ...



I'll fill you in setlists for the shows at the Actress & Bishop in Birmingham, jamming with Ocean Colour Scene and Satsuma Elephants live @ The Foxlowe Arts Centre in Leek ... when I get a minute or two to sit down and type ...

In the meantime, here's the full series of "Cooking With Satsuma Elephants" ... Chris Goring is one funny mother chuffer ...



And keep listening to Coming Around ...

Coming Around - Tour Schedule ...

... so far anyways ! These are some dates I'll be playing this summer ... see where we're Coming Around to. Satsuma Elephants ones in there too ... It's all good.

March on March with Satsuma Elephants ...

Bouncing into 2013 like Colonel Hathi from The Jungle Book !



Share this video and in the long run you might just save a small Indian child ... in red pants. Oh Mowgli !

Talking nonsense I am ... just ignore it ... I'm just excited.

Matt Henshaw 2013 ...

SatsumaElephants.com