2017. Here we go ...

Happy New Year everyfolk.

Peace, Love & Tea to you all. Today's mission, listen to the Kinks, because Sir Raymond Douglas Davies.

Another Week, 2 Nights in Osnabruck - German Tour Blog

Hola mi amigos, or hallo meine freunden,

This week included 2 nights at the fabulously named Big Buttinsky in Osnabruck. Just one of the fabulous places I have played and visited this tour.

And England only went and beat Germany on Saturday night !! I was playing in Osnabruck when this was happening. I wasn't going to mention it on stage, partly out of fear, but before I played my encore, I had to ask what score it was, someone told me from their phone it was 2-2. Pleased with that, and thinking "I hope Vardy scored ..."

Then off stage in the process of shifting some vinyl a kid comes running up - "England just scored ! In the last minute !! Erik somebody !!!" - haha ! Great night ... and then I went to watch the highlights with a real life German celebrity ... more on that next time ...

Last night at the Katakomben in Achim, great to see some old faces, and get requests for some Small Faces. It'a a bit like the Cavern down there, or more like under London Bridge, but trying it's best to be like Paris.

Loads of Love to all and everyone out there, I hope life is treating you well, you're all staying safe and Beautiful.

I'll Be Back, Over & Out, MHx

PS. Matt Henshaw from the USA had a good one, not as good as Matt Henshaw (UK) though ...

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'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.

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 ...
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HAPPY ST. GEORGE'S DAY !!

HAPPY ST. GEORGE'S DAY !!

Here's me on the Peace, Love & Tea​ Tour in Northampton a little while ago !!!

Matt Henshaw March Newsletter

PEACE, LOVE & TEA EVERYBODY !!

March 2015 has come around pretty quick, and I'm sure you're all exhausted from celebrating St. David's Day this Sunday !!  All Five and a half Thousand of you !!  You Beautiful Souls, thanks for sticking with me and keeping in touch, we've loads to catch up on ...

EUROPEAN TOUR, AWARDS & 6 MONTHS ON THE ROAD ...

It seems like ages since last September when I released 'Your Eyes Are Made Of Gold' and it went Top 30 on iTunes, I've played all over the UK, done a 5 week stint in Northern Europe and been nominated for some awards, I'm now embarking on a month long return leg around England, Scotland & Wales (scroll down for all the dates) and have a couple of new releases and festival dates planned for the summer, plus I'll be in the studio with the chappy who produced Frank Turner's 'England Keep My Bones' album preparing something new for later in the year.



Look out for a special big FREE show announcement in Nottingham in mid-April !!!

I was down in London last week and collected a medal for 'Your Eyes Are Made Of Gold' which was up for Best EP 2014 at the Galaxy Music Awards, sporting my weaved cardboard bow tie and pocket square, generously donated by the good people at Grey House England.  And this next month I'll be in Birmingham to see if I win Best Male 2015 at the inaugral Midlands Independent Music Awards (The MIMAs) ... wish me luck !



In other pleasing news, along with spotify, soundcloud and a whole host of other places you can find my music, all of my simple minimalist "title videos" on YouTube from my official EP releases have reached well over 1000 views each, some into the 10000s, thanking you all massively for that, keep listening and go over and give the latest upload a listen 'Stop Me Girl' right this second and download it NOW !!



The International Peace, Love & Tea Tour Continues ...

Wish me luck in all and everything in Peace, Love & Tea, more awards, tour dates, releases and parties coming soon !!

... and don't forget to drop an email to bookings@matthenshaw.com if you want me to come and play in your town, venue, living room, school, parish hall, wedding, bar mitzvah, etc. in 2015 ...

Spread The Love, tell a friend to tell a friend !! And hopefully I'll see you soon on the road ...

DOWNLOAD & STREAM 'YOUR EYES ARE MADE OF GOLD' NOW !!
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Peace, Love & Tea, MHx
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Peace, Love & Tea UK Tour March 2015

Peace, Love & Tea UK Tour March 2015

Awards Season for Matt Henshaw

Forget the #Oscars, it's awards season for me too ! I've been nominated for a couple whilst I was away in Europe ...

This Thursday night I'll be down in London for the Galaxy Music Awards, 'Your Eyes Are Made Of Gold' is up for Best EP of 2014 ...

And then next month, Friday 13th March, unlucky for some, I'm up for Best Solo Male at the MIMAs (Midlands Independent Music Awards), and as the only representative from the East Midlands heading over to Brum I hope I can count on some support from my homelands !!

Anyways, this is a prototype bow tie and pocket square combo gifted to me by Grey House England ... go follow and Like everything over there, it's ALL cardboard, renewable and impeccably designed, Spread The Love ! (I like it because it's tea coloured ...)

That's all for now Brothers & Sisters, Peace, Love & Tea, MHx
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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY !!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY !!!

In The Netherlands I met this beautiful girl called Lily, but shhh ... don't tell the wife !

Peace, Love & Tea,
Matt Henshaw x
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What a busy 6 months ...

Wow, what a busy 6 months I've just had !! Here's a handy little map to illustrate all the places I have been and played in the last half a year !

A massive big thank you to everyone who's made it possible, to everyone who came out to see me, bought something from the Peace, Love & Tea Shop and helped make 'Your Eyes Are Made Of Gold' a Top 30 record ! And it's not over yet ...

I'm currently plotting a little "Welcome Home" leg around the UK through March - so if you want me to come and play for you, get in touch, and if the logistics are right, I'll be there - and I'll be playing some special shows in Leicester and Nottingham at some point this Spring ...

... and I'm heading into the studio very soon to to record some new stuff to go with my planned upcoming releases this Summer, and here's to another busy festival season just around the corner !!

Keep your eyes and ears out, be sure to Like, comment, follow, subscribe, tweet, retweet, share, sign up for the Mailing List etc. etc. basically, keep in touch, you Beautiful Souls !!

Spread The Love !
Matt Henshaw x
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PS. check the tour blog over at http://www.MattHenshaw11.blogspot.com/ and some pictures on http://instagram.com/matthenshaw11 ... loads more pictures and stories to come when I gets myself five minutes ...

Ich Liebe Deutschland ! MHx (Songs & Whispers Tour Diary 2)

10 days into the the German leg of the Peace, Love & Tea European Tour and, I have to say it, I'm starting to become quite fond of this little old place ! So rich in colour, people, there's a vibrancy, a history, even a warmth in the midst of winter, I know everyone's driving on the wrong side of the road still, and the kms make no sense where my miles would, but what can you do in the middle of the German countryside snow ?? Write a strongly word letter to the Kaiser, Napoleon or Angela Merkel and hope to find a post box ? I don't think so ...

Anyways, music ? Yeah, I've played quite a lot of it, and - like Ringo Starr upon the 'Helter Skelter' - "I've got blisters on me fingers!" but alles gut ! And it is to Hamburg I am heading tonight having just played a great little show in the theatre of the University of Bremen.

Last night I was right up on the most far north-western coast of Germany, a place called Emden, just over the harbour lay the Netherlands, I played some English songs, it was an old Polish cake shop, of which the now Turkish owner told me he sells beers to all ages, even 70 and 80 year olds who remember it as the only place you could buy cakes on a Sunday for 50km, students from each part of Germany and Holland gather and speak great English, and some of those from Belgium speak up to 5 languages, the beer and tea and coffee is from afar a field as Brazil and the wine from Lating nations of Italy, France and Spain, I have found Americans, Russians, and Scandinavian folk drinking Guinness ...

... I ate Börek (Turkish pastry filled with egg, mushrooms and spinach) and vegan pancakes in Canadian maple syrups in amongst the crowd was an old stained glass window maker from Birmingham with a lady friend, and next time an English or an American tells you that "Germans and/or Muslims have no sense of humour" tell them that's just not the case. I met the loveliest young man whose family originated from Jordan in the Middle East but he was born in the little town of Delmenhorst just outside of Bremen.

The graffiti under one of the autobahn bridges reads "The Only Good Nation is Imagination" and I say all this I say as a European, Internationalist, happy and healthy member of the human race plying my trade on the continent ... we are all one and interconnected with our own cultural and spiritual reference points but Love and kindness connects us all ! Cast aside any ideas or anyone you come across espousing the ideas of fear, embrace one and all, and never feel uneasy ! Peace, Love & Tea x

And remember ... Your Eyes Are Made Of Gold ...



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The Peace, Love & Tea Tour Autumn 2014

The Peace, Love & Tea Tour Autumn 2014

The Peace, Love & Tea Tour Autumn 2014

The Peace, Love & Tea Tour Autumn 2014

Matt Henshaw Recommends ... Sky Valley Mistress

Feel like I've been a bit neglectful with the blog of late, and it feels like I've been neglecting a child. So, this week I think I'm gonna bring you a whole load of recommendations. And I hope you've seen I've been busy as a worker bee in the meantime. But let's get on with it, I hope you're ready to get some groovy rockin' on with ... Sky Valley Mistress.

These just might be the heaviest thing I've recommended, but I gotta tell ya, I saw them live and they blew me away. And they might just be the furthest afield band I've written about. Hailing from Lancashire this female fronted rockin' four-piece have been down the East Midlands a few times, and are seriously putting the work in getting around the country and spreading their wings, flying out of the little Northern town of Darwen, Blackburn's little sister.

Maximum respect to them for grafting, writing proper tunes, and packin' some groove in with rockin'. Talented musicians, and a vocal punch, and they're seriously cool. As anyone who might know me would tell you that when music gets any heavier than Led Zeppelin, I'm out. This lot get it just right, just for me and the competent nods towards Jack White's erstwhile output gives you an indicator of their musical influence, above all they're damn good.

I saw them first at The Shed in Leicester and drummer Max handed me a card with a kind of QR code on it that I took home, scanned and it linked me to their video, 'The Day of the Lion', and it is cool as the proverbial f-word, and stars, as it turned out my almost sister-in-law, just highlighting how serendpitously beautiful 2014 has been so far. We're all connected, us beautiful and positive people.

So, here you go, get some Dirty Blonde Blues down yer neck and enjoy ... talk tomorrow, Peace, Love & Tea, MHx



Jesse Wright
Siobhan Mazzei
Georgie Rose
Tapestry
The De Montfort University Gospel Choir
By The Rivers
Martin Luke Brown
Joy Mumford
Three Girl Rhumba
MotorMouf
Samuel Idwal
Abandon Her
Stef Baker
Emily Carr
Becky Edwards
Mahalia
Mia & The Moon
Rosa-Leigh
AJA
Kate Rendell
Esther Van Leuven
East Midlands Girls
Ones to Watch for 2014
The Bobcats
Savanna Bones
Mattayoux
Matt Zara
The Simpletones
Charlotte Carpenter
Leah Sinead
Matt Henshaw Recommends ...

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DEBUT 'IT AIN'T EASY/MY LIFE - EP' !!!
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Henshaw's Horticultural Blog - Gardening Spring (At Last!)

Well, here we are, March, no snow, no rain, no hail, Sunshine !! Sunshiiiiiiiiiiine !!

I've been out in the garden, Oasis on the stereo and tea in my belly ... plus all the vitamins, juice, ketone and essential oil, enough to make a grown man cry tears of joy. If you're not doing the same thing then I suggest you take a walk outside and embrace the happiness.



Check the summer rays and the row of tulips coming through. I think it might be the first time I've posted a #nofilter picture on instagram.

If you've been prepping your garden through the winter and planting all the right things at all the right times, tended to your pots and your greenhouse, and weeded sufficiently, you can pretty much sit back now and enjoy the growing of the greens and the blessing of the oxygen it brings.

Get outside, go outside and Enjoy ...

MHx

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 @ 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 ...