'Easier' Receives National "BBC Introducing" Airplay !!

Happy July Everybody !! British Summer Time keep getting hotter and hotter !

Tonight around 8:30pm The Mark Forrest Evening Show will treat you to the first Exclusive national AirPlay of my forthcoming single 'Easier' on his BBC Introducing show that goes out on every BBC Local station in the UK & the Channel Islands !!

I can't wait the share the fabulous official video with you all ASAP, I shot it last month in sunny Northamptonshire with an amazing director and a beautiful cast.

Award Winning, Radio Playing, Homecoming Showing Peace, Love & Tea with Matt Henshaw

Goooooooooooood Morning !! This afternoon I'm on the radio, the FM airwaves in Birmingham again, this time Switch Radio​ at noon to collect this beautiful piece of glass for "Best Independent Male Singer/Songwriter in the Midlands" ... the award ceremony itself was a little like graduating from university, you wait for ages to go up and you don't really get anything aside from a handshake on the stage ... but this was worth the wait ... not that graduating university wasn't ... or was it ?!

Live Radio, Live in Notts & Live on Wikipedia

Goooooood Morning All !! Bright and early, I'm heading over to Birmingham this AM to be on 98.7 NewStyle FM from 10 ...

Here's me performing recently at the MIMAs (Midlands Independent Music Awards) where I collected the prize for Best Male in my Grey House England​ bowtie .... I guess we'll be talking about that and my almost finished touring ...

Just Matt Henshaw's FREE Peace, Love & Tea Party Live @ The Contemporary, Nottingham​ to go in just over ten days time ...
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And in other news, this was brought to my attention by a friend down under, Australia that is, lovely peoples, Peace, Love & Tea​, Matt Henshaw​ x
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Hope You All Had A Great Easter Weekend !!!
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Matt Henshaw Sings ... 'Wonderful World' by Sam Cooke

A bit of soul for you in the midnight hour, and back to the smoky salubrious setting of my living room for a bit of Sam Cooke. Just because I fancied it, and just because I believe he is the greatest singer in the history of ever !!

I could not begin to tell you, or describe the profound affect this man and his music has had on my life, when I hear his dulcet tones resonate through speakers anywhere my heart is filled with joy and my soul is bustling with gladness. He stands alone as an inspiration, success and master in the world of soul and every day we should be thankful he did what he did, wrote what he wrote and sang what he sang, because if it wasn't for Mr Cooke the wonderful world of music wouldn't be the same today.

He changed the musical landscape, for black and for white, and for British and American. Thousands upon millions of lives have been changed by 'A Change Gonna Come', 'You Send Me' or 'Twistin' The Night Away', some explicit and some implicit so, his musical influence and reach stretches like the octaves in his vocal range.

And thank God he lived and sang, because immediately without him we wouldn't have had Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Steve Marriott, Rod Stewart, Eric Burdon or any number of British kids in the 60s that tried to emulate what this man did, and he was a young Aretha Franklin's favourite singer too ... Goodnight and God Bless !! Spread The Love, MHx

The man himself ...



This record makes me cry when I listen to it, regularly, and I'm not ashamed to admit it ...



The King & Queen of Soul !!



And he was mates with this chap too, even had him singing on a couple of records ... Yeah Man !!





Matt Henshaw Sings ...
Blackbird
The Mighty Quinn

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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

Radio Sessions Listen Again & Sheffield this week ...

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night,

Thanks for sticking with me, I've been busy this last month or so popping into a few radio stations in the East Midlands and getting a few highlights on YouTube for your listening pleasure ... got a few more coming up and plenty of shows to see me through until Christmas, hope to see you on the road ... be sure to Like, share, follow and subscribe to all the appropriate places ...



Also, I'll be in Sheffield this Friday at The Grindstone for the Indie Project, it's a FREE show and I'd love to see some fellow Wednesdayites down there, it's my first show in the city and I'm hoping for a nice turn out.  And I need a good night to get over the tumultuous season the Owls are having ...





Peace, Love & Tea,
Matt Henshaw.

Stop Me Girl - Matt Henshaw Live on Trent Sound Nottingham Lace with Jason Loftus

Good evening good evening,

Finally I've been uploading my recent sessions to YouTube ...

Here's the first single solitary slice from the Trent Sound session, Stop Me Girl, one you may not have heard before, but I'm quite pleased with it.



Spread The Love ! Share, share, share !

Matt Henshaw x

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 ...

In the Garden with Matt Henshaw - Henshaw's Horticultural Blog

It's been a long week. I've been threatening to write more blogs so here we go again, up the hill and around the bend. This week I've been writing - polishing up two new numbers for playing out loud live, one quiet moment for putting kittens to sleep and another one for my imaginary film soundtrack - and I've played a brand new song 'No Matter How' in a live radio session for 99.2 Hermitage FM that went out on Saturday night, to be repeated again on Tuesday night at 10pm. I've done an interview with John Sinclair of BBC Radio Leicester for the Leicester New Music podcast and lined up live sessions for Trent Sound in Nottingham plus Takeover FM Radio in Leicester. So what have I been doing in between ... gardening of course!



Preparing Your Winter Vegetable Patch

So, moving into a new house you've got to put in some elbow grease to prepare what few things you can plant in the early weeks of October. I arrived at a yard covered in weeds, waist high, and soil filled with big stones, hefty tree stumps, roots beyond roots, and, sadly, loads of broken glass. With a fork, a wheelie bin, new compost bin and a knife to get in the crannies of the old uneven slab work, pesky weed roots ! This picture may not seem too impressive - red wellies aside, which are obviously impressive - but that soil is looking immense considering it's starting position, I wish I'd taken a 'before' picture!

Make sure your soil is well dug over, remove all debris, save greenery, chopped weeds and little roots for the compost, but unfortunately some roots and tree stumps might be too large for the compost and might have to go in the bin; or you could save them for a fire in the future, leave to try and enjoy at a later date ! In terms of "saving the planet"; or, furthermore, the conditions for human life on this sphere we call earth, I truly believe that getting deep down and dirty and back to gardening, urban, rural, small or large scale, or otherwise, is the first step and the way to go for almost everyone. Composting is the simplest thing you can do. I'll expand on this theory at a later stage, and I'll give you some more hints, tips, journal entries and general garden fettering in the future. Hope you'll stick with me on Henshaw's Horticultural Blog, what have I planted? Seedlings?? Forking good times???

And, most importantly, stay cool, and keep listening ...



Peace & Green,
Matt Henshaw x

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 on the radio ...

Morning/Afternoon/Evening little world wide web gang of mine,

News to tell you, just over a week before the official release of Coming Around, we've been getting some radio play in the build up. Three tracks have been featured on the waves, online and digital. Coming Around, Concrete Jungle and Everybody Clap Your Hands featuring myself, ReggiiMental, Joey Gzus and Sharlene Gordon. The BBC, Nusic, IceBreaker Radio and more have been playing my stuff, it makes me happy to think people might be listening in the bath, putting up some shelves or doing whatever else people might do with the radio on.

Got some radio sessions, interviews and podcast features coming up; or Coming Around should I say? But I'll tell you about them when they happen, no doubt.

Now have a listen to the THREE tracks previewed over on bandcamp ... why not pre-order?! These three have been featured on the radio around the world, so that's why I'm sharing ... hope you enjoy Joey Gzus bringing the heaviest verse of the album. Special AKA influenced dub-ska right there !



Here's Joey Gzus ... Jesus he's fresh !!!

A Picture of Me @ TCRFM Tamworth ...

Here I am with the presenters of the Firday night show on TCRFM ...

Working on fixing my computer issues now so you can soon listen to what I did to accompany the faces I pulled ...

Matt H x

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 on the Radio ...

Here's a couple of radio interviews I've done over the last month and a spot or two ... B-Boy Soul getting played in the summer of 2011 ... sorry to keep being cryptic, but it's only a matter of time before we get on to phase 3 ... there are clues scattered around here and there ... 

Matt Henshaw on the Sound Crunch ...

Matt Henshaw on the CDBaby podcast ... click here for iTunes link ...

Matt Henshaw on The Beat on the BBC East Midlands ...

I'm having a little break at the minute ... these last few blogs have been post dated (clever, eh?) ... I'll be back  soon with some up-to-date info ...

In the meantime you can sign up to the mailing list on my website ... MattHenshaw.com ...

Stay Tuned,

Matt.

Adidas Trainers - The Remixes Album ...

Adidas Trainers - The Remix Album

Download all the bits for free and create your very own Matt Henshaw and ReggiiMental Adidas Trainers Remix !!!

And don't forget to treat yourself to a FREE DOWNLOAD of the Adidas Trainers (Stan Smith remix) ...
http://matthenshaw.bandcamp.com/track/adidas-trainers-stan-smith-remix/

You can also get the bits on Last.fm too !!!

With Love,
Matt Henshaw x
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PS. Happy Mixing !!!

Adidas Trainers video in HD ...

For You Love ! The whole world seems to have gotten a lot clearer ! For sure ... Matt Henshaw and ReggiiMental busting out the grooves in a video featuring Flava Dan, Joey G-Zus, Briscoe and a whole party pumping posse ...

Matt Henshaw & ReggiiMental on the BBC (update)

Extremely busy at the moment folks ... will return to blogging regularity when I get some spare seconds to update you will all the craziness following LoveBox ... times are high ... good good ...

BBC Radio Session on Saturday evening ...

Tune your dial for Matt Henshaw and ReggiiMental on Dean Jackson's The Beat this Saturday evening ... so that's BBC Radio Nottingham, Derby, Leicester and Lincoln and bits of the West Midlands, the North and the South ... and you can listen online of course ... we'll be hitting the airwaves with some chat and some tunes at around 8:30pm ... but I would recommend tuning into the whole thing for a truly eclectic affair and some top tunes ... especially the B-Boy Soul ones ... You'll be filled in on all things Matt Henshaw in that show, so I stress that you must listen ... and don't forget ... Vote for me to play at LoveBox 2010 if you would be so kind, thank you very much, it only takes a second ... http://apps.facebook.com/playlovebox/ And treat yourself to a FREE DOWNLOAD of the Adidas Trainers (Stan Smith remix) ... http://www.matthenshaw.bandcamp.com/ Big Love, Matt http://www.matthenshaw.com