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Matt Larsen is an exciting award winning singer/songwriter from Perth, Western Australia. His ability to create hook laden melodies and foot tapping rhythms combined with meaningful lyrics has widely won him critical acclaim. As a solo acoustic act, Matt consistently forms strong connections with his audience through live performances that are full of energy and passion. His style is best described as guitar driven indie pop/rock.

Some 2009 live performance reviews:

"Matt Larsen has insight well beyond his years and delivered eloquent lyrical content with a sensational range and wonderfully textured voice."

Laura Glitsos - X-press magazine

"In his first performance he wowed the crowd full of punters not familiar with original music. His onstage appeal is a credit to him. He knows how to work a crowd with his energy and confident banter. His music is catchy, vibrant and fun."

Monique Boucher - J B O'Reilly's

"Matt's ability to capture a large audience's attention simply with his voice and acoustic guitar is quite staggering. His confidence and skill in performing effortless renditions of popular songs as well as weave in his own quite brilliant original material is very impressive. Matt performed with 650 primary school children at the 2008 Wanneroo Show, and was an inspiration to the kids. So much so that Matt has again been invited to perform at the 2009 Wanneroo Show."

Bernice Marwick - Wanneroo Show

The story so far...

2008 - nominated finalist in the "ASA" Australian Songwriters Association National Songwriters Contest (Youth Category), "WAMI" West Australian Music Industry Song of the Year (Lower Secondary Category) and the NAB National Songwriting Competition (Youth Category) for his song "Everything to Me". Performing as the guest artist at the West Coast Song Fest and Wanneroo Show backed by a 650 strong choir.

2007 - release of his debut EP "Undeniable" in which he wrote, performed & recorded all the instruments & vocals himself, Three songs from Matt’s EP reaching 4th, 5th and 8th respectively in the "ASA" Australian Songwriters Association National Songwriting Contest (Youth Category), performing at both the Garage Kids Rock Festival and as an emerging artist at the West Coast Blues and Roots Festival in Perth. Appearing and performing live on Perth's Access 31 TV station, 89.7FM and 95.3FM radio stations.

2006 - winning the "WAMI" West Australian Music Industry Song of the Year (Primary Category) with his song "Free", and being the youngest ever to reach the grand finals of the "Step-up-Live" original songwriters competition in Fremantle.

Here's a selection of CD review comments from Matt's last CD "Undeniable".....

"This is the sort of thing that's going to turn up on e-bay in about 10 years when Matt Larsen is a star. It'll be a collector's item and the smart punter will get big bucks for it. Hailing from Perth, Larsen has already won WAMI awards, and 'Undeniable' shows you why. Here he displays a finely-attuned pop sensibility, as he effortlessly marries U2 and Coldplay's wide-screen gestures with a Jebediah-like bounciness. Lyrically, there are signs of a deeper, enquiring mind at work (on Not By Chance he muses on creation, for example), and so he compares favourably with a certain famous teen predecessor who once rhymed 'sink' with 'the water out of the tap is very hard to drink'.

Of course, 'Undeniable' is also still a first step. Larsen is still finding his voice. Ben Lee, for example, took maybe a decade to morph from a 14-year old punk wunderkid to respected pop craftsman. It may or may not take young Matt that long to gain national recognition, and at this early stage of his development who knows what he'll sound like when it happens. But whether it'll be solo or as part of a band, the well that he's drawing from is just going to get deeper and he's just going to get better and better. Keep an ear out."

Peter Strelan - Drum Media

"Local lad Matt Larsen has produced a nifty little EP that not only shows off a keen songwriting ability, but also a fair aquaintance with drums, bass, guitar and keys. Once his voice breaks, Larsen will have had two more years on top of Undeniable, which is extraordinarily advanced for someone of his age. His catchy pop/rock songs bring to mind the earlier work of Jebediah and allthough his lyrics lack the depth of age, so to do they lack the naivety of the teen-ages."

Mike Wafer - X-press magazine

"This Perth lad has some serious talent. He plays every instrument on this, his debut EP (Just like a mini Billy Corgan), and is pretty accomplished with all of them. Keep an eye out for him."

Nick Sas - The Drum Media

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