Matthew Jay – vocals, harmonies, guitars
Eddy Jay – harmonica, keyboards, piano, accordion
Vasco – production, harmony/backing vocals, guitars, keyboards
Maitreya Jani – guitars
Henrik Jorgensen – bass
Andy Maclure – drums
Influences
EARLY INFLUENCES: The Beatles. Queen. Michael Jackson. The Jay Family Band.
LATER INFLUENCES: John Lennon. George Harrison. Simon and Garfunkel. David Bowie. The Beach Boys. Bob Dylan. Pearl Jam. Nirvana. The Rolling Stones. Coldplay. Radiohead. REM. Blur. The Clash. Nick Drake. The Band. Joy Division. Eminem. Notorious B.I.G. The Kinks. Oasis. Bob Marley. Led Zeppelin. The La's. Snoop Dogg. The Smiths. The Stone Roses. The Strokes. The Who. James Brown. Starsailor. The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Sounds Like
Nick Drake. Jeff Buckley. George Harrison. James Blunt. Elliott Smith. Starsailor. Badly Drawn Boy. David Gray. Belle and Sebastian.
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Single 'Our Time'
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Matthew Jay was born 1978 and grew up in a family that loved music. His parents, Tony & Hilary worked as semi-professional country and folk artists. His older brother Edward now works as a professional musician travelling the world playing accordion and keyboards, and his younger brother Peter, recently graduated in Music and specialising in trombone, is just beginning his career.
In his teenage years, Matthew proved to be a very able sportsman playing volleyball for Wales, Badminton for his County, and cricket and football for his Town, Abergavenny.
Matthew also played music, beginning on violin but moving over to electric bass and guitar. His main musical outlet in his earlier years was playing in the ‘Jay Family Ceilidh Band’ for countless weddings and other events.
In 1997 he prepared for his ‘A’ levels and his school predicted that he would not do well at all, not surprisingly, because he was always out playing sport or music, or with his friends - and not studying. In fact he surprised his school and did very well exceeding their expectations by far. but because Universities offered places on predicted grades rather than actual results, his immediate further education prospects did not look good. As a result he took a fateful decision to take a gap year so that he could apply to University the following year with his actual grades.
His plan for his gap year was to write and record songs and send his demos off to recording companies. There was great excitement amongst his friends when major recording companies started to compete to sign their own ‘small town boy’. Click here for more!
looking forward to getting the cd but it's out of stock at the moment at amazon. Hope it carries on selling really well and gets matthew the recognition he deserves.
I am looking forward to finally getting the new album shortly... a little tight on the budget since I'm moving in a month but I should be able to swing it ASAP... I'm itchin' to hear it all.
thank you so much for the invitation to play. it's such a great opportunity and a real honour to be picked to play for such an occasion. we're all so excited, and we hope the rest of the organising goes well!
just listened to the 30 second previews on your site for the new album so I had to log on and make a comment. My favourites (at the moment)are Chaos, Love me and I wake when I want to.
My son and I are raising Awareness for Mastocytosis & Ehlers Danlos Syndrome through a music contest that you are now automatically entered into..If you do not want into the music contest please let me know immediately before people start voting for you.... Please checkout my music page for the contest rules. myspace. com/patriciamastoandeds
My son and I love music so much that we like helping the singers and musicians promote their music.. I post bulletins about their music and I feature their songs as my profile music.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this clip for the new tune....
it makes me so happy to hear his music again and hear his spirit live on... it definitely brings tears to my eyes... and the hopeful theme of the tune just lifts my soul.
