Beautiful Souls, Interviews & The New Matt Henshaw Mailing List

Evening folks,

A few quick things at the start of this glorious week, I hope I find you well ...

Here's me and the two Beautiful Souls, Caroline​ and Anwyn​, that supported me at my great homecoming show in Nottingham last month, if you were there you can testify to this, if you weren't, you know you missed out !! Click this link to find out where and when I'll be going on my next tour as soon as it's announced ...
http://bandsintown.com/MattHenshaw

Happy New Year & Mini-Tour Details

A gloriously lovely and majestically warm welcome to 2014 to you all,

Right, now the pleasantries are over and done with let's get down to business ... here's a brand new video for the new year ... hope you enjoy it and I hope you'll play it more than once an share it with your brethren ...



Again, there's loads more where that one came from and it's only a matter of them surfacing online soon.  For your listening pleasure, of course, and you're exra especially super lucky with this one, there's video too !
 

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Mini-Tour of the East Midlands
I'm going to be on the road for the rest of this month playing all over the East Midlands, some formal shows, some secret and popping up in random spots all over our fair shires ... here we go with the ones I will tell you about, see you around hopefully ...
January
Saturday 11th - Twenty Ten, Matlock
Tuesday 14th - Pepper Rocks, Nottingham
Friday 17th - The Musician, Leicester
Saturday 18th - The Donkey, Leicester
Sunday 19th - Brew Dog, Nottingham
Friday 31st - The Old Bell, Derby
February
Saturday 1st - The Apiary, Castle Donington
 

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The Monograph Magazine Feature & Other Press ...
Starting off the year with a nice big double page spread in the East Midlands music and culture magazine The Monograph is a lovely little thing ... have a read of Matt Henshaw talking to The Monograph it here ...
And some other bits to skim over if you have the time ...
Subba Culture Feature
Leicestershire Music Interview
Demon FM Interview



Other Stuff ...
I Love My Cat ... and I hope you do too ... Tippy The Cat.
More blogs to come, including a Matt Henshaw Recommends series on East Midlands Girls.
Remember keep clicking Follow, Like, Share, ReTweet and Share again, just for good measure.

Peace, Love & Tea !
MHx
http://www.MattHenshaw.com 
 

A Little Late November Update ...

Evening, Morning, Afternoon Folks,

A quick fly by blog whilst I'm in the mood. Very productive times here at Henshaw Towers. Everything going swimmingly and according to plan, looking forward to a happy and hopefully excited 2014, as I'm sure you all are too. Stick with me, Team Matt Henshaw needs all the love and support it can get.

I've been touting my wares at radio stations and doing interviews around the Midlands and South Yorkshire and I'm getting round to getting everything on YouTube for you all to watch, Like and share with your friends ... around 1000 subscribers now and steady stream of views up in the 1000s for each video I have shared. Keep watching, the ethos for most of the things I am uploading at the moment is get the songs out there with the title and my name and let the music do the talking, hopefully it is and you like everything I'm throwing at you ...

Here's a video from Demon FM session I did at O Bar for The Monograph magazine, look out for a feature in there in the first 2014 edition along with Kasabian and By The Rivers ...



Matt Henshaw Recommends
I hope you've been enjoying my recommendations so far. I hope to share with you one of my favourite underground acts every week, and keep up the quality of my recommendations, so far they been brilliant, check back if you haven't read about the guys and gals I been telling everyone about just lately ... I'm such a generous fella ! In this interview I get asked to plug my website and shows and end up talking about Charlotte Carpenter and Leah Sinead for about 5 minutes ...



Matt Henshaws Horticultural Gardening Blog ...
I hope to keep you informed about my garden over the winter and into the new year, there's not a huge amount growing at the moment in the midst of the frosty season, but we have little bits, you know I think compost will save the world, and I'm excited about the Chocolate Peppers I will have to introduce you to come January ... here's a little song I wrote inspired by my pastoral endeavours and seemingly care free lifestyle ... it's called Hakuna Matata ... no, not really, No Matter How from my Coalville Hermitage FM session on The Launch Pad ...



More blog ideas coming soon, and I think I might be due a football rant, but it's all good, some nice shows coming up and plenty of opportunities for some tea with friends and family over the festive season.

Merry November All & see you on the other side !
Matt Henshaw x

Matt Henshaw Interview with the Leicestershire Music Page ...

Good day fine lurkers of the cyber web,

I've another link for you boys and girls, this time I've been interviewed by the Leicestershire Music Page.

Matt Henshaw featured on The Leicester Music Podcast ...

Already the most listened to Leicester Music Podcast with the BBC's John Sinclair and featuring your very own new guy in town Matt Henshaw. I come in around 1 hour and 10 minutes into the show. You can hear my tunes and a little interview I did at the O2 Academy with John. It's all about being warm and foxy. Very Nice. Doing loads of press at the minute and I'll post all the bits to this 'ere blog when they become available online ... recently done a Hermitage FM live session featuring a new song 'No Matter How', a Trent Sound session for Jason Loftus on his Nottingham Lace show playing 5 songs and a special version of one of my old favourites, an interview with the Leicester Music Page and and interview for The Ripple magazine.

Keep listening folks, stay cool and remain positive ...

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 ...

Matt Henshaw on the radio tonight ...

Hola amigos,

I'll be heading out soon to pick up Mr. ReggiiMental and then head over to the West Midlands to appear on the radio, TCRFM I am told, and then afterwards I'm doing a secret special Christmas show, so secret I have no idea where this second show is myself. I'll tell y'all what happens no doubt.

Radio Matthew x


PS. this is a picture of me and my face ...

Matt Henshaw interview in Suited Magazine (Link) ...

Here is an interview where I talk about me a lot ... terrible I know ... but if you're reading my blog chances are you like knowing what I'm up to so I hope you enjoy the information I have to relay ...


If you'd like to contact me, by the way, the best way to do it is on Twitter, Last.fm or by carrier pigeon ... I don't use facebook ... the cool kids and I think it's bland and dated paedophiles paradise ... I mean, I like blue and white, but only on the football shirts, and I would never endorse paedophilia ... NEVER !


Anyone watching Show Me The Funny on ITV ?  (first thing on ITV worth watching in ages, and it's still not even that good, just a touch more interesting than people that think they can sing, it's people that think they're funny, for a change ... much less cruel you see, we're invited to laugh with them rather than at them ... someone tell Cowell and Fuller I think they're show format is cruel, go on I dare you!) ... it's the semi-final and live final this week, I truly hope to be tickled ... alas, if I am not I shall boycott their advertisers ... no more Mecca Bingo for me ...


Matt H
MattHenshaw.com

Out The Box Festival 2011 set list ...

I hope you enjoyed listening to my recent radio broadcasts ... I thought I'd treat you to the list of songs that I played at the Out The Box Festival in Derbyshire ... the plan was to play something from the Censored Age, a little B-Boy Soul, a few of my old favourite songs and something new ...


The Way It Is
Can't Hold Back
What A Diffr'nce A Day Makes
Sorted For E's & Whizz
"Heroes"
It Ain't Easy
That's Life


Coming shortly ... setlist from Milly's World show at the Monarch in Camden ...


Here's a picture from the Censored days ...

A penny for anyone who can guess what year this was?  Or where it was ?

Best Wishes,

Matt H.

Matt Henshaw on Music Vita ... video interview and review ...

The Music Freak Video Interview with Matt Henshaw

MusicVita.com - The Music Freak

Can’t Hold Back is the brand new EP by singer-songwriter Matt Henshaw, whose lyrical mod-indie credentials are being coupled with the unlikely combination of UK hip hop artist Reggimental, to produce this perfect EP, released on Rusty Juke Box Records on the 10th October 2010.

Henshaw, originally from Nottingham, has been in previous musical incarnations such as the band Censored, when at the tender age of 17, played Leeds, Reading and Isle Of Wight festivals, receiving substantial amount of radio airplay and supporting the likes of Snow Patrol, We Are Scientists, Supergrass, Ocean Colour Scene, Arctic Monkeys, The Bluetones and The Holloways.

In true rock'n'roll style, exasperated by years of alcohol dependency, band in-fighting, struggles against the confines of unimaginative industry labelling, and the bitter dissolution of several personal relationships, he decided to go away. He spent a whole year where he didn't touch a guitar or sing a note, instead he wrote a novel and a series of short stories, started gardening, quit alcohol and decided to study film at university with no aspirations to sing again.

The Music Freak asked Matt to do his own video interview. Matt ended up doing quite a lovely job indeed.

http://www.matthenshaw.com/

MusicVita: The Online Music Club!

Matt Henshaw at The Gaff 23.09.10

The first thing that strikes you about Matt Henshaw is his dress sense, in a grey suit jacket his quirky sense of fashion makes him stand out from the crowd. However, the minute he opens his mouth all you can focus on is his magnificent voice, it wouldn’t matter if he was wearing a brown paper bag.

His voice is so different from what we are hearing in abundance at the moment, it is deeply soulful beyond his years. The Gaff club in Holloway road is the perfect place to stage the ‘Prove It’ show case which Matt is headlining along with Reggiimental who he is collaborating with. With is dark and gloomy but totally trendy décor and uber cool atmosphere it sets the perfect scene for his performance.

With his modest demeanour and this hugely powerful voice watching Matt is memorizing. The sound is unique, mixed with Reggiimental’s MCing it fuses two very different genres in a surprisingly successful way. ‘The Deepest Cellar’ is a track that has the funkiest bass line this side of the 70’s with an urban edge thanks to Reggiimental’s superb MC skills. The best song of the night is undoubtedly ‘Can’t hold back’ the title track from Matt’s forthcoming EP.

As with all of his songs there is a really strong soul influence but with relevantly modern lyrics thanks to Reggiimental. Matt sings ‘see my friends you have to live your life,’ and there is something that really resonates there. Uplifting lyrics and melody make this a real feel good song that can’t help but leave you smiling, and wanting to hear more.

It’s clear why Matt Henshaw is this year’s NME Breakthrough artist, and why the duo was voted by NME readers to open the Lovebox festival earlier this year. Matt, who the BBC described as ‘just perfect’ releases his debut EP ‘Can’t Hold Back’ on the 10th of October..

http://www.myspace.com/matthenshawmusic

- Jane Pople

NME Breakthrough Winner - Matt Henshaw Interview 2010 (video) ...

Here's a few treats courtesy of the NME ... don't forget you can find some even more special treats over at http://music.nme.com/matthenshaw ... and click smiley faces to Like everything there and also Like your facebook boxes to ... easy to link the two social networks !!! And don't forget to treat yourself to a FREE DOWNLOAD of the Adidas Trainers (Stan Smithremix) ... http://matthenshaw.bandcamp.com/track/adidas-trainers-stan-smith-remix/