2017. There We Were ...

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Each and every beautiful one of you.

I hope you don't mind that I gave myself a year off.

Peace, Love & Tea, I know you still love it.

I Love You too.

Matt Henshaw - Belief Is All

The moment you lie awake and you start to sink
If only for your own sake, yes, you begin to think
You breathe in, you breathe out and you breathe in the air
The sky and your mind is clouded up with despair

You clasp your hands together and you pray to the skies
Although your words mean something you still fear for your life
You tell me how you are feeling and the things you've seen
Well, que sera my boy, yes, where we'll be we'll be

What do you believe in, and what do you feel?
Where do you want to go and what do you want to see?

Belief Is All we have and all we need
To help us to think and to feel and make us succeed

What do you believe in, and what do you feel?
Where do you want to go and what do you want to see?

Belief Is All we have and all we need
To help us to think and to feel and make us succeed

Peace, Love & Tea Everybody ! Hope you're all well ...

Peace, Love & Tea Everybody !  Hope you're all well ...

I've been a little out of action over the last 3 months, without any real access to the internet at home and minimal mobile data, in the modern world it's been very difficult to communicate with you all.  Don't blame me, blame the not so good people at TalkTalk.  Fingers crossed I'll have more luck with my new provider ... 

In many ways it's put a pause on all things Peace, Love & Tea in my one man "business" world, but in other ways it's been bliss, as Sophocles alluded, "Ignorance is", whilst I've missed your communication, love and support, I've also missed out on all the "banter", "locker room talk" and general nonsense that comes with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram et al.

But, I have been busy, a successful festival run with the band, a trip into Notts TV, a quick chat with BBC Introducing, and there is new music on the way.  So if you'll allow me to get all my houses in order, I've got some exciting updates to come and plenty more Matt Henshaw brand Peace, Love & Tea to share.

In the meantime, please keep watching the vids, sharing the tunes and I look forward to seeing you at a show or sharing your comments on my work in the near future.

Peace, Love & Tea indeed, MHx
MattHenshaw.com

PS. buy yourself, or a loved one, a Peace, Love & Tea-shirt if you haven't already ...http://matthenshaw.com/merchandise/ 

It 'Belief Is All' 13.05.16 is OUT NOW ....

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Big Thanks to everyone who's made a download !!

The official launch of 'Belief Is All' has gone down quite well I think !!

DOWNLOAD 'BELIEF IS ALL' NOW ...
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#BeliefIsAll 13 .05 . 16 MHx

Check the video online now, views and streams are in the 10000s, and for that, I Thank You ...

 

MattHenshaw.com has had a lick of paint too !  I hope you'll take a look see, click around and who knows what you might find.  Easter Eggs aplenty will be kicking around there soon for sure.

Thanks for downloading 'Easier' and the 'Peace, Love & Tea Demonstrations' over Christmas and into the New Year, I hope you will do soon if you haven't already ...

The 'Peace, Love & Tea Demonstrations' are OUT NOW ...

Download NOW on iTunes ! - Stream NOW on Spotify ! - Download NOW on Google Play !

'Easier' - The Indie Chart Smash - is Available too ...

Download NOW on iTunes ! - Stream NOW on Spotify ! - Download NOW on Google Play !

Belief Is All, MHx

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Order your very own 'Belief Is All' T-shirt NOW !! And I guarantee the sun will come out again ... ‪#‎BeliefIsAll‬ ☀️
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Matt Henshaw - Easier

DOWNLOAD THE 'PEACE, LOVE & TEA DEMONSTRATIONS' NOW !!!

THE BRAND NEW OFFICIAL RELEASES COLLECTION !!

Easier E-Easier 1 Month On ! Peace, Love & Tea, MHx

☮❤&☕ We've had 'Easier' E-Easier in our heads, and hopefully our hearts, for the last month, and I thank you from the bottom of mine for the Love & Support you've given. So, how did we do ...

#5 on Amazon - http://goo.gl/awghvL

#12 on iTunes - https://goo.gl/A8Tkwi

#17 on Google Play - https://goo.gl/wuZIaF

over 12000 streams on Spotify - https://goo.gl/3h0Jk5

and 19000 views on YouTube - https://goo.gl/ynTayr

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You & Thanks again !!! I couldn't do what I do without you !

Peace, Love & Tea, MHx

Matt Henshaw - Peace, Love & Tea

Your Eyes Are Made Of Gold OUT NOW !!!

'YOUR EYES ARE MADE OF GOLD - EP' OUT NOW !!! DOWNLOAD IT TODAY !!

'YOUR EYES ARE MADE OF GOLD - EP' OUT NOW !!! DOWNLOAD IT TODAY !!

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With every purchase you will receive a FREE Matt Henshaw PEACE, LOVE & TEA selection of goodies and hand-written signed "Thank You!" note !!

If you would like to make a donation to THE PEACE, LOVE & TEA SHOP that would be most wonderful and splendid indeed. Then one day maybe we can fulfil my dream of having a real life PEACE, LOVE & TEA SHOP somewhere on a high street near you !!

 

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Goodnight - Matt Henshaw

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening & Goodnight ...

I'm here to tell you all that the first track from my next EP, OUT June 16th, has landed on YouTube, it's a bit different, I'm playing the piano, done some string arranging, bobbed along some bass lines and squeezed in a little guitar solo ... I hope you like it ! Please Listen, Like, Share, Subscribe & Spread The Love ! MHx

Goodnight - Matt Henshaw



3 more tracks to follow, some festival announcements and a whole load of Summer Madness !!

Peace, Love & Tea, MHx
MattHenshaw.com

'The Deepest Cellar' 4 Year Anniversary ...

So, it's 4 years to the day since this happened ...

ReggiiMental and I made B-Boy Soul in his basement cellar, almost completely by accident ... we shared it with the world, and you can still look and listen if you fancy !! Spread The Love !





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://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

'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

It Ain't Easy / My Life OUT March 5th ...

Come one, come all and Enjoy Life with Me !

March 5th is mum's birthday and that is when you'll be able to get It Ain't Easy / My Life on iTunes, Amazon, etc. so I'm sure you've all got your credit/debit card details ready for that.  But as a special treat for th next week or so you can download 'It Ain't Easy' for FREE and do me a favour by getting me further along in the Hard Rock Rising 2014 competition ... you've got until the 17th so go to Facebook now, unfortunately it only works if you're on there ... Thanks in advance !



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

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Festivals 2014 !

Extra early year bonanza of good news.  I've been conformed to play a handful of small festival so far this year for the summer.  I'll be at Accidental Festival in Shoreditch and OSFEST in Derbyshire at the end of May and Y Not Festival in August in the Derbyshire Dales.

I'm also in the running to play at the Leicester Music Festival so go over there and put your name down and my name to live in holy matrimony in cyber space forever and ever.  Thanks !
 

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Mini-Tour of the East Midlands
Almost over before we launch the single in March ...

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 Bell Jar, Sheffield
Thursday 13th - The Dog & Gun, Syston
Saturday 15th - The Shed, Leicester
Friday 28th - Leukemia funraiser @ Platinum HQ, Leicester 


 

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Matt Henshaw's Rhythm & Gospel Cavalcade

Another bit of excitement to let you in on is my own very special night in Leicester City.  Matt Henshaw's Rhythm & Gospel Cavalcade @ The Cookie Jar in Leicester will start with my single launch party on Friday 21st March and happen every third Friday of the month thereafter !  Good times to be had, yeah ?
 

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Other Stuff ...

Tippy The Cat has got himself 1000 followers on Facebook and a growing number on Twitter.



Also, keep your eye on the blogs, still need to bring more to the new feature 'Things I Like' !!!
And, always remember to keep clicking Follow, Like, Share, ReTweet and Share again, just for good measure.

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

Matt Henshaw - Coming Around

FOOD MATTERS ... Stream & Watch for Free for 5 more days !

Top of the morning to you,

I've been planning on sharing a few things that I like, advocate or agree with on the world wide web for sometime, and now I think that it's time, with Food Matters .tv allowing you to stream their film in high quality for FREE ! Now's the time, go and educate yourselves a little, give it an hour, and you don't need some scrawny Scottish lady courtesy of Channel 4 to tell you that you are well and truly what you eat ...

Go to FoodMatters.tv and watch the whole thing ... below is a trailer for the movie that'll tell you what it's all about ...

Food Matters Official Trailer from foodmatters on Vimeo.

Stay tuned for more Things I Like ... and more of Matt Henshaw's Horticultural Gardening Blog ...

Stay Cool & Keep Composting,
Matt Henshaw x

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 ...

Coming Around again ...

Good Morning,

Found myself waking up at 7am this morning, so I thought I'd do as Gary Neville says and attack the day ... his autobiography is pretty good by the way, it's no Alice in Wonderland but for a footballer from Bury/Salford it ain't half bad grammar wise n that ...

It's been over a week since my last blog believe it or not ! The reasons for this are three, four, maybe five or six fold. I've been away for a while at my "country retreat" taking a well earned break from heavily promoting Coming Around, writing new songs for Satsuma Elephants (tour and festival dates Coming Around soon, and some videos to share with you this month!), writing some diaries about working with ReggiiMental back in 2010, I've had no internets or phone signal and my blog last Monday had more views than anything I've ever written on here before ... the message must be getting through. Everyone who enjoyed the entertainment at Sounddhism @ the Bodega, Nottingham last Saturday must have gotten into the office on Monday morning with nothing better to do ... thank goodness for that ! Thanks for reading, viewing, listening and, hopefully, enjoying !

Anyways, what to tell ? I suppose a quick next phase album update before I get into anything too heavy Satsuma-wise or feed you more tales of Matt Henshaw & ReggiiMental Coming Around ... if there are any MCs, DJs, producers, singers, bands or beatmakers out there who want to be involved in a Creative Commons remix, refix and rework project of the new album, entire album and more then download this Coming Around Remix Pack and share it with as many people as you like, as you can and as you will ...
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7ouv6s

The aim is to collect as many different version of the record, the songs and ideas as possible, release it all for free on your SoundCloud, YouTube, wherever you stick your stuff online and possibly there'll be an official Matt Henshaw release at the end and, basically, through the beauty of music and the internet we'll all have so much more to share, revel and roll around in !!! I Love You All .... Get To Work ... Tell A Friend !!!

In the meantime, keep watching the vids ...



And keep on listening ...


And Keep Fighting !

Coming Around more press & features ...

Happy Bank Holiday Monday folks !

Taking a quick break from the Leicester sunshiiiiiiine to let you all know that you can still download, stream & buy my record, Coming Around to add a soundtrack to your Bank Holiday week ! Get it on ...



Check out my facebook page for more press articles, reviews and updates about mine and ReggiiMental's gloriously sunny record over on my facebook page ...

And one for you local East Midland hip-hop cats you can get a free mixtape from the good people at RhymeSquare clothing and Great Scott, great Derby music ... I Know How It Feels from Coming Around is featured on there ! Everyone loves a freebie !!!

Coming Around Reviews ...

Goooood Morning on Coming Around Eve,

So, the day before the big release and you can hear all 15 tracks, purchase and download Coming Around, and I'll link you up to some nice things people have been writing about me and Reggii or should I say, Reggii and I.



Head over to Facebook now to read all the reviews as they come in ...