Quiet Loner's Journey to the Netherworld.
Second Thursday of the Month. It's free. 
The Gladstone, 64 Lant St, Borough, London

Join your host Mr.Quiet loner on the second Thursday of each month for his journey into the netherworld as he retrives lost souls with only a guitar and a dead man’s suit. With the aid of songs, music, words, stories and a light sprinkle of magick Mr Loner and his special musical guests will draw back the veil and take you on a journey to the other. So join us at the Gladstone pub for tasty booze, lovely pies, tall stories, the saddest of songs and sweet folky sounds.

Thursday September 10th

Quiet Loner returns for this month's Netherworld with special guest Benjamin Folke Thomas

Snaffle Raffle : Take your chances in the Snaffle Raffle and you could be walking home with a very special personal totem or fetish.

Invoking the spirit of Dead Rock stars : Each month Quiet Loner and guests will gather at the Shrine of the dead rock star and chant. Once the spirit is invoked (or enraged) we will sing their songs in homage and tribute to the departed soul.

The tombola of song : What will the  fickle finger of destiny finger? Will we be seeing double, painting the townes or sacrificing a virgin? It's all in the gift of the tombola of song.

More journeys to the Netherworld

Thursday October 8th with special guest Jenny McCormick
Thursday November 12th with special guest Neil McClarty
Thursday December 10th with special guests Ghost Town Showdown

Quiet Loner's Journey to the Netherworld.
Second Thursday of the Month. It's free. 
The Gladstone, 64 Lant St, Borough, London

From the same murky back streets of London's Bankside, where William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens once sold their stories of low life and high times, and alchemists turned base into gold, there emerges a crack in space and time. A borderline, a crossing place into the Netherworld. That place is the Gladstone Pub.

Join your host Mr.Quiet loner on the second Thursday of each month (moon rising) for his journey into the netherworld as he retrives lost souls with only a guitar and a dead man’s suit. With the aid of songs, music, words, stories and a light sprinkle of magick Mr Loner and his special musical guests will draw back the veil and take you on a journey to the other. So join us at the Gladstone pub for tasty booze, lovely pies, tall stories, the saddest of songs and sweet folky sounds.

Thursday August 13th

Quiet Loner returns for this month's Netherworld. We cannot reveal who this month's dead rock star will be, but the 13th August is perilously close to August 16th and the 32nd anniversary of the passsing of Elvis Presley. We can confirm it will NOT be Michael Jackson.

Snaffle Raffle : Take your chances in the Snaffle Raffle and you could be walking home with a very special personal totem or fetish.

Invoking the spirit of Dead Rock stars : Each month Quiet Loner and guests will gather at the Shrine of the dead rock star and chant. Once the spirit is invoked (or enraged) we will sing their songs in homage and tribute to the departed soul.

The tombola of song : What will the  fickle finger of destiny finger? Will we be seeing double, painting the townes or sacrificing a virgin? It's all in the gift of the tombola of song.

Link to the Gladstone Pub

If you head over to my friend Sean's Myspace you can hear a brand new demo of a song called spark's are flying. One of Sean's that i've co-wrote on. he does the words I did the music.

The demo is a bit rough and ready but I did it all and I'm especially proud of my bass playing and ripping a guitar riff off That Petrol emotion.

Link to Sean Hannam Lyricist Myspace page

I'm very excited to be involved in an evening in Manchester called the CCTV caberet. There will be all sorts going off.

My part of the evening will be a special show/set of songs interspersed with some photos and narrative about how I feel our living my life under the constant watchful eye of Big Brother - who has many eyes but no face.

All the songs I play will have a theme around CCTV, surveillance and liberty
and will include 2 new songs written especially for the CCTV caberet and never played before. I
will also be showing slides and delivering a sort of non-lecturing
lecture.

I shall be joined by a very special guest, the fantastic Steve Roberts who will perform his song "Your Papers Please". Which you can see here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACF4zw4CG4

I'm really chuffed that Steve is coming. Originally I had been planning to cover the song but I was struggling to work out the chords due to Steve's quality songwriting, anyway in the end it was better that he come and sing it himself!

I'm also going to be showing some of the amazing CCTV photography of David Dunnico. I love this photography. He captures so well the way cameras are so part of our everyday lives but I see them as alien and sinister and he captures that as well.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddtv/

Should be a good night. If you're in Manchester please come along.

And wear a disguise - you know who might be watching.

More details - http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=73653356742

I'm taking a leaf out of my friend Liam's book, and uploading some home recorded demos and rough recordings up onto Myspace. Better here than sat on my laptop never getting heard. I have tons of songs, so I'll start changing them regularly.

The first 2 are called Suicide Watch and The Conductor.

Matt

About 2 years ago i wrote a song about ID cards. I think when I wote it Tony Blair was still PM. One day I recorded a demo of it at Alan Cook's house. At some point in the intervening 2 years, Lisa Redford added some great harmony singing to it. And Alan Cook has added mandolin and pedal steel and bass and drums. He's played the bloody lot, talented man that he is. And the result is what you can hear.

Until today I haven't heard this for 2 years and last time I heard it it was just me playing guitar. So a huge thank you to Alan for turning my scrappy (crappy) demo into something listenable. Since then I have changed the key of this song (it's now lower) and I have sorted out the timing and the odd structure, which now makes sense.

So the irony is that when me & alan play next he'll have to learn the whole song again. Which is really annoying for him, but kind of how it works with us. Alan you've done great work here, thanks again. Lisa thanks for singing on it.

The song is about ID cards and why they are a bad idea. To find out more go to www.no2id.com

Matt

wednesday 08th october, 2008

I'm very pleased to say I'm playing at the album launch for Kirsty McGee's amazing new album. I played at the Manchester launch and it was such a brilliant night.

Also playing are blue rose code, and guest spots with the hobopop collective from christopher cundy (guillemots) and james steel (the brute chorus).

It's all happening at the slaughtered lamb in clerkenwell  34-35 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX, and you can find info on how to get there etc at http://www.electroacousticclub.com/lambdirections.htm

also more info on the electroacoustic club at http://www.electroacousticclub.com
blue rose code - www.myspace.com/bluerosecode
hobopop collective - www.myspace.com/thehobopopcollective

Hope to see you there!

Steve Roberts is one of my favourite songwriters and he rather insanely has set himself the task of writing a song a week for the whole of 2008. With this in mind, we have co-written some songs. Or rather I have sent Steve some lyrics and he's done all the hard work of making songs out of them.

The 2 songs so far that Steve has done using quiet loner lyrics are

Postmark Birmingham (Song 7 11.02.08)
These are all my words and Steve has written the music

As hard as this is (Song 5 28.01.08)
Based on some odd scraps of lyrics I had, Steve has taken these scraps and added words of his own and managed to bash a really decent song of it!

Keep track of Steve's phenomenal work rate at
http://steverobertsmusic.co.uk/blog/

(Check out Song 3 - Bled Dry) 

So here I am. On Myspace. I held out as long as possible. But eventually I got worn down from having to answer "why don't you have a My space". So here I am.

I was like this with CDs and Mobile Phones. Fashionably late, I call it.

Matt