Matt Cardle’s Porcelain tour is underway and is going very well with reports of one cracking performance after another across the UK, pausing only for him to celebrate his birthday. I went to see him in Birmingham, thinking I knew everything there was to know about his voice, but came away humbled. Before his historic…
Read moreOn the back of the release of his newest album Porcelain this week, Matt Cardle has announced a nineteen date tour in April 2014. Porcelain, which seems to have arrived to critical acclaim and an Album Chart entry position of #11, shows a new side of this talented singer songwriter. The confidence of his two…
Read morePaul Liddell has become something of an international act. He is currently playing gigs in Germany and Belgium and recently crossed the pond to play in the USA. By all accounts it’s going very well. Hardly surprising, given his reputation as a superb live musician and his absolute artistic integrity. I’ve seen him perform live…
Read moreWhen Matt Cardle wrote LOVING YOU, he intended to record it solo. That was before he ran into Melanie Chisholm at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival and was struck by the notion that it could be tweaked to make a great duet. Melanie (Mel C. of Spice Girls fame) has duetted successfully before, most…
Read moreI went to see Jason Mraz last month at the O2 Arena when his world tour, whimsically named Tour is a Four Letter Word, hit the UK for its final night. The tour is to support his latest album, Love is a Four Letter Word, which has spawned various other “is a four letter word” themes, including…
Read moreTalented live performer Gabrielle Aplin has released a new single, a cover of the 1984 Frankie Goes to Hollywood number 1 THE POWER OF LOVE. It is the theme tune for the John Lewis advert this Christmas and is doing nicely, currently number 5 in both the Amazon and I-tunes download charts. Production is rather…
Read moreLive albums can be a bit of an adventure. Some are great, but many don’t work, not least because quite a few successful artists should really stick to the studio where there’s a super powerful auto tune to edit out all those bum notes. They can be a good way to decide whether or not…
Read moreTHE FIRE entered the album charts at a very creditable #8. Matt Cardle’s new album THE FIRE is out and selling well. His debut album LETTERS peaked at #2 behind the juggernaut that is Noel Gallagher and went platinum later the same year. The singer songwriter co wrote all but one track on that one,…
Read moreWith his new album Matt Cardle has finally come out of his box and become his own man. He has a new recording contract with SoWhat? records that gives him the control he lacked with Columbia/Sony, a new album, “The Fire” and a sound that is totally, unmistakably Cardle. His three date album launch mini…
Read moreBRISTOL TERROR SCRIBES 5/5/2012, a Remembrance By Sue Phillips The Terror Scribes have never invaded Bristol before and so the town did not really know what to expect. It decided that the safest option was to keep its head down and pretend that this was just another ordinary day. A casual observer might have been…
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