New album: Flight of the Raven
June 25th 9pm GMT. I'd LOVE to see you at the listening party. Artwork reveal, full Scroll 1 listen-through, lots of chat!
Please help me feel less nervous by RSVPing at:
Love and Birdsong,
Matt
Some of us are stuck at home climbing the walls. I can't do much to help, but I CAN do this:
With immediate, all my album downloads are free
See my "Stay at home pack" for downloads, videos and streaming.
Love and Birdsong,
Matt
#corona
#free
#help
And the stray cat is back yay! So skinny - all bones under that fluff :( We’ll keep it inside this time till it’s fatter and knows it’s allowed to stay if it wants to. The Minions have named it Surprise.
I had a play in Photoshop yesterday. I've had "mixed" reactions to it so far! What do you reckon? I was going for a Green Man feel - a photo from a live performance mixed with roots and rocks
Aww there's a really skinny cat outside in a bad way.... taken him in and he's eating and drinking. Wonder who he belongs to? He might be microchipped - I'll take him to the vet in a bit and we'll check. I almost hope not... is that bad? :)
It's here! The new album "Echoes of Albion" is finally out on general release! I believe in "Listen before you buy", so head here and stream the entire album for free:
StrayCat died today :( kidney failure (no wonder it was so skinny). Vets managed to find the owners and they were able to see him before he passed. 16 years 7 months old! He'd been missing for quite a while. At least he had warmth, food and love instead of going out in the cold.
I'm a one man band. I see every pre-order, and do a little dance! I note them down and I'm the one who puts them in packages and walks them to the Post Office. All by hand, with love. This is not automated. I see you - and I'm very grateful.
One of our cats, Matrix, has just walked 5 miles to our old house, gone in the cat flap and demanded to be fed and be cuddled. How on earth did he do that?
My mum has knitted twelve of these octopi (?). Apparently babies in the womb like to hang on to the umbilical cord, and premature babies tend to grab wires and cords and tubes in incubators - these are much more appropriate for them to grab! How wonderful is that 🙂
After an hour trying to work out why the circuit breaker keeps going (in the pitch black), I traced it down to Matrix peeing on a 4 way adapter in the music room in revenge for us putting him in a collar.
NEW BURYIN' GROUND is out!
Gritty, rocky blues with a touch of gospel. Reinterpreting almost forgotten blues and spirituals for a modern day audience.
Listen in full, then treat yourself at
#tgm21
#thegracemachine
#NBGalbum
#Hope
#Independent
OK here we go! Pre-orders for the the new
#Celtic
#Instrumental
album "Naglan, the Sacred Nine" are open! Remember all profits are going to
@OpenHandsLeics
. The digital download is "Pay What You Can" - even free if you're struggling.
And this is where the stray cat (still unnamed) chose to sleep last night! I’ll see if I can find a blanket to line it with. I think his fur is looking a bit better now.
My wife was upstairs... I made myself a sneaky tea. Then I thought "What kind of monster am I? I can be better than this." and took one up to her after all.
#NobelPeacePrizePlease
At the weekend I went to Bempton Cliffs with my Dad and Martin and fulfilled an ambition I've had since I was a nipper - seeing puffins! Nice to get some lovely photos🙂 Isn't nature amazing!
Big news! We now have a legal
#adoption
order for Minions
#3
and
#4
! They've been living with us for a year already, but it's all legal now. All we need to do is schedule the celebration!
I think my kittens are broken. They play with cat toys, sleep in the cat bed, go in the litter box and haven't destroyed anything yet... This seems highly unlikely to me!
Did anyone else used to stroke an imaginary beard and say "Chinny rackon" to express disbelief in a friend's postulation? My wife hadn't heard of it which surprised me!
I've had some fun the last few days. Dad has lent me his camera. It's for taking photos of birds, but I loved this one of the moon. Zoom in and the detail of the craters is just amazing especially in the bottom right. No skill involved on my behalf of course...
Done it! I drilled holes in the wall of the house, ran a very long network cable from the router outside, up the wall (all neatly pinned in place), into the studio, crimped plugs onto both ends (!!) and ... it works!!!!! I was getting fed up with wifi dropouts up there.
You know we were having a tea emergency? Some kind anonymous soul has sent me a beautiful selection box in the post! Probably the most unexpected and lovely thing that has happened in the last few weeks! Thank you!
Do any other musicians on here prefer the term "Independent" to "unsigned" ? Unsigned sounds like we've failed at something, and I feel "independent" is a much stronger, more positive image of what I am and what I'm trying to be!
#IndependentNotUnsigned
#DIY
#Music
Right then ... a few people have asked for one, so I've knocked up a quick page on the website. Both CDs are £1 + p&p (if you think the p&p is high please blame brexit not me hah!) I need to clear this garage so get them before I chuck 'em
I actually like streaming as a consumer. As an artist ... not so much. I don't yet make enough with Spotify to pay for a subscription to listen to my own music. Frankly something's wrong there.