Matt Henshaw Recommends ... Hib Word (House Of Verse)

Loves my lyrical lingual delights I do. And Jenny Hibberd is a delightful soul.

Perhaps the first real poet I've recommended, and I don't mean to cause any offence to all the songwriters I've treated you all to, but this is straight up poetry. Words arranged so wonderful that they'll cause emotions in abundance.

You'll laugh for certain, you might just cry. With a finger on the pulse and an ear for the truth, Hib Word makes poetry and prose esoteric and accessible all at once.

Jenny will be bringing shades of her chaos and creation via 'House Of Verse' to my homecoming show in Leicester on Saturday 3rd October ... in all honesty I'd love to take her on the road as my travelling compere and companion.

Spread The Love ! Peace, Love & Tea, MHx
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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 - WINNER !!!

What a fantastic start to the year I've had, or as the business people would say "rapid growth in the first quarter of 2015" ... and without you Beautiful Souls, it wouldn't mean a thing, thanks for all your Love & Support !

BEST MALE - Midlands Independent Music Awards (MIMAs) 2015
BEST EP - 'Your Eyes Are Made Of Gold' Galaxy Music Awards 2015

But you already knew these things to be true, right ??

If so, invite some more people you think are cool enough to be in this 'ere group - ie. most people - and if you're in the East Midlands give them an invite to Matt Henshaw's FREE Peace, Love & Tea Party Live @ The Contemporary, Nottingham, it's gonna be one heck of a homecoming party !!
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And Big Love & Thanks to Grey House England for all the luck, love and light ...

Peace, Love & Tea,
Matt Henshaw x
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The Place I Love ... The Cookie, Coffee Shop & Music Venue, Leicester

New blog section today ... 'The Place I Love ...' will be all about places here, there and everywhere that, well, I Love, and that mean something to me, on this journey we call life, and this road we call living. Title taken from one of my favourite songs, on one of my favourite albums by one of my favourite bands of all time, 'The Place I Love' from 'All Mod Cons' by The Jam. You Beauty !!

Anyway, first stop on this tour of people, places and faces, The Cookie, Leicester, my home from home in my current home town. Looking forward to being back there performing again, it having been a little while, this Saturday for Matt Henshaw's Peace, Love & Tea Birthday Party with The Strangler Figs, Elizabeth Cornish and the DMU Gospel Choir !!



So, for the place itself, situated on High Street in Leicester City Centre, it's a prime locale for tea and coffee and fantastic grub, and some of the musical highlights in the city of Leicester in the evening. A place for all the beautiful people of Leicester to hang out, be entertained and guaranteed good times !!

Someone said to me quite recently, and I wish I could remember who it was, that The Cookie is so great because everyone knows what they're doing, from the food to the bar staff, sound engineers to the door staff, promoters and the owners. And wonderful people they all are too.

The owners know what they're doing for sure, and The Cookie will keep on getting bigger and better, before it takes of legendary status in Leicester City Centre and the midlands. When a place is ran by a lady straight out of Tallahassee and a gentleman so enthusiastic, bordering on obsessive with the independent live music and comedy scene, you know the coffee (and the tea) and the food is gonna be good, and you know the line-ups of bands, artist and comedians is gonna be second-to-none for a small city in the East Midlands of England !!

It's won a Dave's Comedy Award, hosting some bigger and bigger names, and I'm sure it will for many years to come ... board games and a pot of tea on the terrace ASAP would be my number one recommendation ...

Keep up the good work everyone involved, and hope to see loads of you beautiful people from LEicester and beyond this Saturday for my birthday party, it's gonna be one great night amongst many !!

Peace, Love & Tea, MHx



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DEBUT 'IT AIN'T EASY/MY LIFE - EP' !!!
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Matt Henshaw Recommends ... Savanna Bones

Sorry I've been overdue a recommendation for a little short while now, so here' we go with some noisy rockin' cataclysmic dirty blues - Savanna Bones. These top chaps invited me to play at their hometown show and blew me away, live and on the cooly stamed brown card CDs they give out, for nothing, and there's some top notch stuff on their.

When people generally encounter two piece blues they tend to opt for the lazy journalist comparisons of The White Stripes and The Black Keys, and yes, whilst they are often relevant touching stones, there's a whole lot more going on here. Elements of lots of modern rock bands go into the pot, I hear elements of recent Arctic Monkeys, a little 22-20s, occasional bits of The Hives and The Dead 60s, and there's a lot of proper fuzzy old blues influence in their too.

Adam Paddy on guitar drinks from the same poisoned chalice as Disraeli Gears era Eric Clapton, whilst Robbie pounds the drums like John Bonham, with a loud full fat soaring ride cymbal and stomping bass, whilst all the time searching for lyrical plateaus left on a Wildean cutting room floor.

Personal highlight from their set was the unyet recorded Crooked Little Beast, it's a corker but hopefully they'll get some more of their other tunes online soon, tales of psychopaths, serial killers, fire, light, loudness and darkness, it's all in there, it's all good and it's all Savanna Bones. Catch them live when they get themselves together for a showdown, it'll stay yer !

Blues & Soul,
MHx


PS. here's one of my bluesy rockin' efforts you all should know ...

Coming Around - Tour Schedule ...

... so far anyways ! These are some dates I'll be playing this summer ... see where we're Coming Around to. Satsuma Elephants ones in there too ... It's all good.

I Love Walking Around the Midlands ...

... with an iPod full of Ska music, I feel like I'm in a Shane Meadows film !

It's true, I do. Always keep a bag of satsumas close to hand too ...

So, the wheels are in motion. The foundations of my online empire are being laid, lay slain to all those who have come before me, I shall cast forth and hence forth a righteous blade and slash with a fearless energy and almighty anger on all those who doubt the power of the online word and a tickle from the feather duster of Matt Henshaw ... basically kids, what I'm trying to say is, I've got a new website in the pipelines, loads of ideas to put into place online, not just music, but there is music being packaged and processed as we speak, but there's tonnes more where that came from ... it's going to be monumental, and you'll be the first to hear about it ... I Promise !

In the meantime, here's a picture of me graduating from the University of Leicester ...

... hopefully you can tell it's me from the chin ... and, also, you wait there all afternoon in ridiculous heat dressed like a div looking to join some mysterious cult and then you get on stage and all you get is a handshake ! Goodness, gracious me ... all good fun though, and it's nice to feel decorated, honoured and such.

Spread the Love, see you on the other side,
Matt Henshaw BA Esq.