HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015 !!

Happy New Year peoples one and all ... 2014 was one hell of a ride ! This is me featuring in the Summer 2014 Linked In promotional campaign, and it's true, now more than ever. I feel "match-fit" and hardened by the road, and boy, have I seen some road !? I'm all ready and geared up for hitting the continent and I hope you'll be keen to follow my travels.

Here's a video that's now a year old, very proud of it I am, and it started last year off very nicely indeed, you might have to hold your horses for new music this year, but don't worry, it's on it's way !! Peace, Love & Tea, MHx

It Ain't Easy / My Life Available to Download & Stream NOW !

Before the madness of Summer and the Festival season starts I'm going to take a little time to sit back and think about all I have done in the last year. It's now just over a year since I left my job working at The University of Leicester, and even though I didn't start playing out with my acoustic guitar until July it's feels like the last twelve months have been building up steadily, and for that, I Thank You All ! Stay Cool & Spread The Love, MHx

I was able to release my debut single on my mum's birthday this year !

Get your copy of 'It Ain't Easy / My Life' Now from all good online digital retailers ...



Available now on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, bandcamp etc. etc.

7" Vinyl
A - It Ain't Easy
AA - My Life

CD
1 - It Ain't Easy
2 - My Life
3 - Play The Game
4 - In The Presence Of The Lord

Digital Download (available March 5th)
1 - It Ain't Easy
2 - My Life
3 - Play The Game
4 - In The Presence Of The Lord
Bonus 1 - My Life (Acoustic)
Bonus 2 - Play The Game (Acoustic)
Bonus 3 - In The Presence Of The Lord (Acoustic)



Also ...

I'm so pleased to now have the complete set of all four songs from my debut record out there on YouTube, from the excellent Little & Large team ... sit back, relax, watch and, hopefully, Enjoy !



Many thanks to Nik Robinson and Simon Lubowski, MHx

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https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep/id814589358
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aint-Easy-My-Life-EP/dp/B00I8ZDJZC/
https://play.spotify.com/album/733AAcf7c2KcZ75SUFlpi3
http://matthenshaw.bandcamp.com/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep
http://www.emusic.com/album/matt-henshaw/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep/14753983/
http://www.7digital.com/artist/matt-henshaw/release/it-aint-easy-my-life
http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/matt-henshaw/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep
http://www.napster.co.uk/artist/matt-henshaw/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep

My Life in the USA - Friday's Launch Party - Spotify Streaming ! (newsletter)

HAPPY MONDAY !  Here we go again, up the hill and around the bend ... another week and this one is most incredibly exciting ...

Here's 'My Life' getting a little bit of love from a radio station over the in the good ol' USofA !  Spread The Love, right?  Take a listen ... I've made a playlist of all my little radio bits so far this year, so sit back and enjoy !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNuvh__cY5g&list=PLEC46FE71E4D27867



The full versions of Play The Game and In The Presence Of The Lord are NOW STREAMING on Spotify, and available to download @ iTunes , Amazon.com and all those good places ...
https://play.spotify.com/user/ilsonowl/playlist/1Z68vsGG2Z6ZDKJDbfYCJg

And Friday is going to be one hell of a fabulous night !  Matt Zara Music , Rosa-Leigh and James Byron will make it so, they're all  beautiful, and I try really hard ...
http://matthenshaw11.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/matt-henshaws-acoustic-rhythmngospel.html

Peace, Love & Tea !!!

Get your copy of 'It Ain't Easy / My Life' Now from all good online digital retailers ...



Available now on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, bandcamp etc. etc.

7" Vinyl
A - It Ain't Easy
AA - My Life

CD
1 - It Ain't Easy
2 - My Life
3 - Play The Game
4 - In The Presence Of The Lord

Digital Download (available March 5th)
1 - It Ain't Easy
2 - My Life
3 - Play The Game
4 - In The Presence Of The Lord
Bonus 1 - My Life (Acoustic)
Bonus 2 - Play The Game (Acoustic)
Bonus 3 - In The Presence Of The Lord (Acoustic)

And don't forget I'm having a party on Friday 21st March @ The Cookie Jar, Leicester, United Kingdom ... details @ https://www.facebook.com/events/1405322199729277/

Plus, some London dates and Festivals to come , see you all around !

Check http://www.MattHenshaw.com/ for gigs and bits in between ...

Matt Henshaw's Acoustic Rhythm'n'Gospel Cavalcade Launch Night !

Friday 21st March ! Next week at The Cookie Jar / The Crumblin' Cookie in Leicester !!



Support from Matt Henshaw Recommends ... acts including ...

James Byron

Rosa-Leigh

Matt Zara

An absolute stellar line-up I'm sure you'll agree ! Plus Soul & Gospel DJs, good food and drink, non-alcoholic cocktails and tea included of course !

Check the event on Facebook and tell me that you're coming if you're coming ...

Post by Matt Henshaw.

It Ain't Easy / My Life OUT NOW !

Happy Birthday to my mum !

Get your copy of 'It Ain't Easy / My Life' Now from all good online digital retailers ...



Available now on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, bandcamp etc. etc.

7" Vinyl
A - It Ain't Easy
AA - My Life

CD
1 - It Ain't Easy
2 - My Life
3 - Play The Game
4 - In The Presence Of The Lord

Digital Download (available March 5th)
1 - It Ain't Easy
2 - My Life
3 - Play The Game
4 - In The Presence Of The Lord
Bonus 1 - My Life (Acoustic)
Bonus 2 - Play The Game (Acoustic)
Bonus 3 - In The Presence Of The Lord (Acoustic)

And don't forget I'm having a party on Friday 21st March @ The Cookie Jar, Leicester, United Kingdom ... details to follow ...

Plus, Manchester, United Kingdom, I'm heading to the Hard Rock Cafe on Thursday 13th ... see you there !

Check http://www.MattHenshaw.com/ for gigs and bits in between ...

---===DOWNLOAD LINKS===---
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep/id814589358
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aint-Easy-My-Life-EP/dp/B00I8ZDJZC/
https://play.spotify.com/album/733AAcf7c2KcZ75SUFlpi3
http://matthenshaw.bandcamp.com/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep
http://www.emusic.com/album/matt-henshaw/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep/14753983/
http://www.7digital.com/artist/matt-henshaw/release/it-aint-easy-my-life
http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/matt-henshaw/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep
http://www.napster.co.uk/artist/matt-henshaw/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep

My Life - Matt Henshaw (Little & Large Live Session)

Something special for you, brand new today ... it's the first of Little and Large Productions video sessions for my new record ... this 'ere is a video of 'My Life' !



So, as you may have guessed there's gonna be three more to come, as there's 4 tracks on the CD, 2 on the vinyl, and 3 more available as a digital download ... so come March you're gonna be able to get a whopping 7 of my tracks on your iPod, blasting out the car stereo or spinning on your decks ... I'm excited, I hope you are too.

7" Vinyl
A - It Ain't Easy
AA - My Life

CD
1 - It Ain't Easy
2 - My Life
3 - Play The Game
4 - In The Presence Of The Lord

Digital Download (available March 5th)
1 - It Ain't Easy
2 - My Life
3 - Play The Game
4 - In The Presence Of The Lord
Bonus 1 - My Life (Acoustic)
Bonus 2 - Play The Game (Acoustic)
Bonus 3 - In The Presence Of The Lord (Acoustic)

And don't forget I'm having a party on Friday 21st March @ The Cookie Jar, Leicester, United Kingdom ... details to follow ...

Plus, Manchester, United Kingdom, I'm heading to the Hard Rock Cafe on Thursday 13th ... see you there !

Check http://www.MattHenshaw.com/ for gigs and bits in between ...

'It Ain't Easy' FREE Pre-Release Download !

Roll Up Roll Up !

You've only one more day to get a copy of 'It Ain't Easy' for FREE. I'm not sure I'll EVER give anything away again in the future so I'd take advantage of this right now, and tell your friends to do so also, hijack their facebook and do it for them if needs be !

FREE Single Download, Spread The Love ...



With Love,
MHx

Tour & EP Release Details ...

A happy new year indeed !

We're barely into 2014 and yet it's already shaping up to be quite a year ... and to celebrate such niceness I'm going to release an EP, and you're the first to know about it ... It Ain't Easy / My Life will be released on March 5th !  And it will feauture 4 songs, original artwork and will travel around the country with me in its physical format whilst being available from all good digital outlets and some rubbish ones as well.



You can listen to what I've put out there for free on YouTube, there's plenty more videos to come too !
Also, SoundCloud seems to be becoming a busier place ...
 

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Mini-Tour of the East Midlands
Halfway through this too, and I've added a few new dates ...

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
Saturday 25th - The Cookie Jar, Leicester
Friday 31st - The Old Bell, Derby
February
Saturday 1st - The Apiary, Castle Donington
Friday 7th - The Musician, Leicester
Saturday 8th - The Bella Jar, Sheffield
Thursday 13th - The Dog & Gun, Syston
Saturday 15th - The Shed, Leicester
 

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More Press Features ...
I did an interview with a lovely fella from Sound Cavern ...
And Now Tune In did a little feature and an interview ...
My shows in Nottingham have been reviewed by Nottingham Live and LeftLion ...
Plus you might want to have a gander at these ...
The Monograph Interview
Subba Culture Feature
Leicestershire Music Interview
Demon FM Interview
 

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Other Stuff ...
My cat has gone a bit viral, I don't really know why but people have joked about him becoming more popular than me, and now I'm started to believe it ... check the furry little Tippy The Cat for yourself.

More blogs to come, including a brand new feature 'Things I Like' which is all about, you guessed it, Things I Like!
Remember keep clicking Follow, Like, Share, ReTweet and Share again, just for good measure.

And we've put a video diary together encapsualting Matt Henshaw & ReggiiMental's B-Boy Soul Adventures in 2013 to celebrate 1 year of Coming Around ... Enjoy !



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

Things I Like ... Anthony Browne's 'Things I Like'

Welcome to a new regular blog feature, Things I Like ... each week, or every now and then whenever I damn well feel like it, I'll be telling you about some things that I like. It's as simple as that really. Music goodness will come headed with 'Matt Henshaw Recommends ...' and gardening will be covered in 'Henshaw's Horticultural Blog' but I have so much love, energy and positivity right now that I want to share it with the rest of the world.

As this is the first blog I'd like to share with you the inspiration behind the name for it, and my favourite book as a child, and still my favourite book now. I often go back and read its twelve pages from time to time just to remember being a little monkey and how much I enjoyed hide and seek, being with my friends and going to parties.

As an introduction to reading, this book can't be matched, the illustration, simplicity and positivity it encapsulates is second to none, and it's definitely the reason I got into animals, monkeys and, probably later down the line, Oasis and Supergrass, perhaps. I'll put the onus down to my mum who's purchases of this, Sainsbury's First Atlas and Sainsbury's Children's Encyclopedia one afternoon doing the family big shop set me up for life as an inquisitive little monkey. Still am just that, only a little bigger than I was back then.

Also, this book serves as an inspiration for the forthcoming 'Tippy The Cat Stories' Level 1 reading series ... but I'll tell you more about that when the time comes.

Peace & Love,
Matt Henshaw x

PS. keep listening, EP coming out in March, digital, vinyl and CD, by the way ...



Some more Things I Like ...
Fire
Gardening
Film
Yorkshire Tea
LEGO
Tippy The Cat
Khan Academy
Apple Cider Vinegar

---===DOWNLOAD LINKS===---
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep/id814589358
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aint-Easy-My-Life-EP/dp/B00I8ZDJZC/
https://play.spotify.com/album/733AAcf7c2KcZ75SUFlpi3
http://matthenshaw.bandcamp.com/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep
http://www.emusic.com/album/matt-henshaw/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep/14753983/
http://www.7digital.com/artist/matt-henshaw/release/it-aint-easy-my-life
http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/matt-henshaw/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep
http://www.napster.co.uk/artist/matt-henshaw/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep

The Living Bar, Brixton setlist ...

Good Monday morning to you alll,

Thought I'd drop you a quick word about Friday's show in Brixton, and thank all who came, I thought it was smashing, I hope you'll agree and you enjoyed my tunes. I played a selection of new songs including I've Had Tears, It Ain't Easy and Goodnight My Lady, then had Joey G-Zus and ReggiiMental with me on The World's Gone Mad ...

The whole thing was filmed for Roots Manuva's Banana Klan TV so I'm sure there'll be a video I can post here at some point, keep checking back, keep your eyes peeled and stay cool brothers and sisters.

And this is me this morning ... just to prove I am still alive after a weekend of party and serial killing (my new favourite hobby, and a great source of inspiration for songwriting, you wouldn't believe!!) ...