Matt Lewis: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Programming. With occasional live apperances from Mr.Hovis on Sax, JP on Bass and Chris McCrone playing percussion.
Influences
Rodrigo y Gabriela, Jose Gonzalez, Jeff Buckley, Hendrix, Led Zep, Fugazi, Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, John Frusciante, Prince, Neil Young, the list goes on!!
Hello Hello Hello. I am a singer/songwriter. Writing and Playing is what i like to do!! I have played lead guitar in the bands The Cellar Door Sound, Shameless Voodoo Perverts, Salt Of The Earth, Collective Force and Shield Of War.
Ive played venues such as:
Cafe De Paris (Soho), Hope and Anchor (Islington), Dublin Castle (Camden), Bull and Gate (Kentish Town), Jamm bar (Brixton), On The Rocks (Old St), Area 10 (Peckham), Dirty South (Lewisham), The Cartoon (Croydon), Inigo Bar (Clapham), The Half Moon (Herne Hill), The Foundry (Old St).
Ive been playing music live for about 5 years now, mainly Shameless Voodoo Perverts, and played all over and enjoyed all there is to enjoy! Now i compose and perform my own music.
hey, we are playing the luminaire in kilburn today(thursday), we are contacting everyone on our friends list in london hoping you can make it down, we really wana make the london part of the tour special so if you can make that would be amazing.thankyou Groanbox
Hey Lewis! How are ya my forever merry mate? I hope you're good. I hear Len has left the merry moon in your hands for the next two weeks! YAY! I'm gonna bring my djembe again and hopefully we can get a jam going and you can have a go!! See ya on tuesday xXx D
Ah yes, I've seen you at Half Moon too. I really like Skinny Love, and you're version of Mojo Pin, (one of my fave Jeff Buckley songs.)
What's the name of the song you do sometimes at Half Moon with the line: 'loving would be much better', or something like that? Meant to ask the other week.
Just been checking out your new tracks, bruv. I'll be honest, I can't remember what was up before as I normally only use this site for tracking down emo's and mentally destroying them but that's some good tracks. Particularly like Skinny Love & Shriek - which together also sound like a good night out...
(Sorry about the apostrophe in "emo's". I know it's wrong but "emos" didn't read properly...)
{03/04/09} - Needleandthread spring hop.. jamm bar, 261 brixton road, sw9 6lh.. 9pm till late.. £5 before 11pm, £6 after..
We be back.. arrh.. with a rather tasty gig..
The line up is likely to take the roof off Jamm with Speakers Corner Quartet at number one on the list. These guys have headlined the Jazz Cafe and opened for Herbie Hancock at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as working with some big names in hip hop.
In addition to this amazing headline, The Sound of Rum who are festival legends with lyricist Excentral Tempest at the helm, will also be on hand to build the vibes (Rob Da Bank is amongst there many fans). Plus Onyx Ashanti and Daisy Kelly Granger will add some serious funk and soul respectively.
In addition to the incredible live line up comes DJ support from the best around. DJ Snuff is a local hip hop legend, founder of first ‘Speakers Corner’ and then he English branch of the global hip hop movement ‘End of the Weak’. Another DJ who recently also re-launched a strand of a global network ‘Balkan Beats London’, DJ Malaka will be blending traditional folk from Eastern Europe with pounding dance music. Add Popcorn Charly and Drusus Germanicus to the line up and you have a funk fuelled, world eclectic vibe of top class music to take you into the early hours.
nice one for being our friend! drop by and listen to our tunes wheneva u feel like it! rock! got a new tune up called in the water! hit us with some comments!
Hi Matt thanks for the nice comments love the music i will be at Prohibtion St Katherings Dock on the 5th october thats the next time i will be down south i do most of my gigs up north trying to get more down south so hopfully will get more i liked Shriek liked the way it built up would love to put some vocals down on it keep in touch Abbie xx
tagara jazz massive 4life!! i'll probably next check u at either a pub/smackdown tournament/bus stop/pub opposite the one im in/open mic/when your letting me crash!.. xxxx
Thanks for the compliment chap. Was it the trash city gig? We were all very spanked then being that late on the last night wiv no kip. Still it was fun. Loving your tunes fella. Take care, Los Bos. x
Needleandthread presents... {yet another series of} dirty great big nights out.. {nearest tube : oval / brixton..} {buses: 159,N59,333,133,N3..} {running 8pm-4am, £5 all night..
friday june 6th'll be our last big shindig for the summer, at Brixton JAMM (261 Brixton Road).. its festival season, and the fields are calling us! so on that note, we have live bands; Stig Noise Sound System ~ 6-piece liverpudlian noise core.. Nouvelle Croix ~ gypsy swing masters.. get up and djan-go.. Hooverville ~ putting the cleaning implement into vaudeville.. Bonsai Big Band ~ serious groovery, funk, fusion, and hiphop classics.. Daisy & Archie ~ beautifully layered soulful lyricism.. Fat Tuesday ~ lung busting acoustic anthems.. Teknology ~ mc = mechanical construct.. DJs.. Martin Sage ~ broken noise, with musical interludes.. Mr Hovis ~ the bakers dozing..
Room two; Short Circoid.. Rootsix (Concrete Plastic / Ai records) ~ slick slices of melancholic detroit.. The Third Man (Ai records) ~ tough chunks of techno grit.. Patscan (Concrete Plastic) ~ angular slabs of electro clunk.. Uncle Smutfist (Short Circus) ~ a salty spray of breifcase beats.. Jones Deviation (Short Circus) ~ trackhead, with filthy needles.. SunMonkey (needleandthread) ~ party tunes, for squares, and loons..
Mate, was great to see you the other night sorry i missed your performance but had an early start today. Hope you liked what you heard? Will try and pop back next week if i can make it. Hope your good?
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