Bob Dylan, Francis Bacon, Haruki Murakami, David Lynch, Martin Amis, PJ Harvey, Ray Davies, Massive Attack, The Walkmen, Radiohead, Otis Redding, Orbital, Dostoyevsky, Neil Young, Beat Poetry, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Pink Floyd, Mercury Rev, Tricky, Kraftwerk, Franz Kafka, Joy Division, Nick Drake, Iggy, Super Furry Animals, Brian Eno,Nick Cave, Joe Strummer, Primal Scream, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Modest Mouse, Prodigy, World Music, Brian Wilson, The Smiths, Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, David Byrne, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Birmingham, Elbow, Elliot Smith, The Doors, Stax and Tamla Motown, Django Reinhardt, Lee Scratch Perry, Jeff Buckley, Monty Python, Death Cab For Cutie, Stone Roses, Gorecki, John Peel, Jimi Hendrix, Flaming Lips, Interpol, Elvis Costello, Beck, DJ Shadow, Peter Sellars, Gustav Klimt, Drum and Bass circa 1994, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens, Modernism, Robert Johnson, Bjork, Spike Milligan, David Bowie, Seamus Heaney, special thanks to everyone Ive ever played music with, my close friends and family and my Dad
Sounds Like
Sandwiched with this lot in comparisons; Tom McRae, Scott Matthews, Wilco, The Decemberists, Joseph Arthur, Modest Mouse, Elliot Smith, Turin Brakes, Teenage Fanclub, Sufjan Stevens, Damien Rice, Bob Dylan, The Shins, Ray Davies, James, Calexico, Death Cab For Cutie. Amos Lee
CONTACT DETAILS
matt.geary [at] boywonderrecords.com - to contact the artist directly
paul.geary [at] boywonderrecords.com - for gig enquiries and bookings, manager
anthony.herron [at] boywonderecords.com - artist representation and management
Click on the picture link above to see Matt geary on the Boy Wonder Records site.
Click on the picture link above to download Temperance by Matt Geary in aid of the charity KidzlikeDanny. All proceeds go to the charity in aid of autistic children throughout the uk. You can dowload the whole album for £7.99 or each individual track for £0.79. The link will take you to itunes where you can select the tracks you want, go on its all in aid of charity
Matt Geary Bio:
Matt Geary is of a different ilk skewing the traditional view of the singer/songwriter sat on a bar stool singing love lost laments. The music is a blend of musical genres from indie to folk to drum and bass which create his distinct hybrid sound. Influenced by classic song-writers such as Bob Dylan and Ray Davies, Matt is a diverse and unique song-writing talent who conjures his own musical world of melody in which you are all welcome to delve. Live performances incorporate loop stations, samples, fine artwork and a bit of blag poetry to rifle the ol' troubador scorned.
Alongside Matt there is bowler-hatted drum and bass drummer, Ed Inferno, cellist extrordinaire Mike Nowland and now pianist Jez Diaper.
They have played all over the UK and played with the likes of Rosie Thomas, Nick Harper, John Power, Alabama 3, Shady Bard, Mohair, Red Jetson, The Ivories, Eight Legs, Komakino, Vijay Kishore and Damien Jurado and he has worked with such respected people as Steve Brennan (Dexys Midnight Runners), Andy Wickett (World Service/ex-Duran Duran) and John Rivers (producer of The Specials, Ocean Colour Scene, Paul Weller).
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Combining his heartfelt, honest and distinctive voice with a personal, woven patchwork of lyrics and word play he performs memorable songs of intense beauty, passion and fragility which are "impossible to dislodge once heard." He is an exciting and innovative writer and performer who has a determination to skew the traditional stereotype of a singer-songwriter; he has been critically lauded and cited as an artist to look out for in the future.
The new e.p will be recorded in the very near future under Boy Wonder Records, so keep your eye out for any news. Gig dates will be posted as soon as confirmed.
Temperance by Matt Geary
For chastity laughs on a primrose path
And flesh deems that the line is cast
An admiration is just but just don't lap
Please God now give me temperance
For there's toil on the tether
The weathered leather and lace
Fill the void with a worth that cannot be replaced
A secret revealed that modesty made haste
Tore patience from monument's reverance
For time is a whore it fails to chime
Fails to reason
Fails to rhyme
Yet in a moment all is held sublime
She is God now
Give me temperance'
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REVIEWS
"This artist is from the UK with a great future, Folk tunes with a twist of his own originality, Excellent vocals and packed with talent!!!! Listen out for this artist. Star Rank ***** Excellent" www.musicreveiw.com. Click here for full review
"A growing reputation as one of the best songwriting based acts to emerge from Birmingham in recent years..."
Mike Davies Whats On/Roots and Branches/The Beat
"Some of the best songwriting I have heard in years!"
Steve Brennan (Dexys Midnight Runners)
"8/10 excellent"
www.muse.ie
"The songwriting is just one of those natural occurrences a second
nature gift that requires little sweat or toil!"
Birmingham Evening Mail
"Matt Geary is winning admirers for his Elliot Smith/Dylan influenced indie alt-folk"
Netrhythms
How's it going? We are running an open MIC session at the Tower of Song cafe next Tuesday night (August 12th). If you want to head over and play a few songs that would be great to see, hear and talk to you. Peace The Lazy Lizards
Hope the sun is shining over there!? I'll be coming to the UK with Kevin Montgomery in late May/June. I think the nearest date to you would be Leicester on June 3rd. I hope you can make it out. Take care, Tommy Allsup
ehy matt, I finally finished to mix my album wow it took me ages...It is probably gonna be divided in two cds of ten songs each. I put the side A of the vinyl (every night b4 goin to bed I pray the Supreme to send me somebody who's interested in issuing it as a vinyl)on myspace if you want to give it a listen... also I am recording some fellow artists in my home studio and I have the idea of a label, 1st issue will be a 6 track ep from my old band Last Chance Motel, check em in my topfriends if you fancy, you wont regret it. If you like the songs, send me your email and Ill send you the mp3s, no £ involved no worries, we are trying to keep it pure and keep it real. Sharing our music with people is the best reward ever.
Hi, we're playing in Birmingham this Sunday (4th May) at The Island Bar on Suffolk Street. It's an all dayer and we're on at 7.15pm hope to see you there!
Hi Matt! How's it going? Thanx for accepting my request! Come check out the songs from my brand new EP on my page! I'd really appreciate your opinion of them:) Cheers Itamar
KATEGOES TO THE TEEN AGE + Voluntary Butler Scheme, Tokyo Storm Warning + The Dead Fish
with records being played by Grandmaster Gareth and Teenage Projections from FilmFicciones
THURSDAY 3rd APRIL
at the HARE AND HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM Kings Heath High Street, B14 7JZ
8pm - midnight £4adv/£5 door
Dress up as a teenager from any era. punks, hippies, teddy boys, goths, ravers, mods, rockers, bugsy malone, frenchie, the fonz, 80's kids, bboys, harry potter, any teenager etc
Best Costume wins a NEW KateGoes CD "Happy Dancing" exclusively available at FOPP music stores.
Thursday 20th March 8.30pm - 1am BaZaaR is a night of all sorts. A mixed bag of talent and treats. There is comedy, poetry, music, cabaret, burlesque, tarot readers, hookahs in the courtyard and selected drinks promotions!
We also open mic between and after acts till closing time (1am)
Bands so far:
The Bellows. This rag tag bunch of instrument swapping musicians stir a swampy cauldron of folk, country and blues cooking up varying moods from Cossack style upbeat to dreamy melancholy. The Bellows' songs are set around a dusky fairytale narrative and their stories inevitably end in the gallows or at least rib cracking heart ache for the songs many unfortunate characters....… www.myspace.com/thebellowsmusic
Down from Manchester we have the hugely talented 4 piece "Twilightrobin". I'm lucky enough to get them as they stop off in Birmingham whilst doing some filming for a new TV show... see them whilst you can, get a ticket for £3/4! www.myspace.com/twilightrobin
Loophole, Loop Hole, Loop-hole, Loophole love it, love it love it. I reckon you could probably do this on your own. work on it I'm sure you will sort something out. Top Tune
Loved listening to some of the old recordings, Loophole is amazing as well as Letting Go, Saboteur some top tunes there. Hope you can bring some of them back.
