Announcing a select number of Matthew E. White tour dates for summer 2018. Tickets on sale at matthewewhite.com/tour
Jul 11 – Atlanta GA – Eddie’s Attic *
Jul 12 – Charlotte NC – Evening Muse *
Jul 13 – Asheville NC – Ambrose West *
Jul 14 – Carrboro NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
* With support from Andy Jenkins
Last night in Reading, I debuted this new experimental audience participation grading system for new songs. Cast your ballot in any of these fine locations:
18 Oct – Wolverhampton – Newhampton Arts Centre º
19 Oct – Hebden Bridge – Hebden Bridge Trades º
20 Oct – York – The Crescent Community Venue º
21 Oct – Newcastle – Think Tank º
22 Oct – Kendal – The Brewery Arts Centre º
23 Oct – Leicester – The Musician Pub º
24 Oct – Leamington Spa – Zephyr Lounge º
25 Oct – Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach º
27 Oct – Falmouth – Arts Centre ▴
28 Oct – Southampton – The Joiners ▴
29 Oct – Bath – Komedia ▴
30 Oct – Ramsgate – Ramsgate Music Hall ▴
31 Oct – Brighton – The Haunt Brighton ▴
01 Nov – Oxford – The Bullingdon ▴
02 Nov – Dunlaoghaire – Pavilion Theatre ▴
03 Nov – Galway – Roisin Dubh ▴
04 Nov – Limerick – Dolans Pub Upstairs ▴
05 Nov – Cork – Cypress Avenue ▴
º w/ Andy Jenkins
▴ w/ Bedouine
Matthew E. White is in the middle of work on his new album and would like to share and try out some of his works in progress. With the UK and Ireland so close to his heart, a tour of smaller clubs seemed the only logical place to give such an intimate and open performance that shows some of his songwriting process.
Dates run from October 17th - November 5th 2017. Tickets on sale here.
Announcing Gentlewoman, Ruby Man - a duets record by Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White. Out January 13th, 2017. Morrissey and White first met at a Lee Hazelwood tribute at London’s Barbican in the autumn of 2015. They sang Some Velvet Morning, solidified a correspondence into a friendship and discussed a desire to work together. That desire grew into Gentlewoman, Ruby Man, in some ways a straightforward duets record, of a kind that has fallen out of fashion: two separate entities meeting to record a collection of great songs as a one-off, Marvin and Tammi-style. In other ways it’s a more unique animal, less typical back and forth duets, more subtle and complimentary spotlight sharing. Pre-order Gentlewoman, Ruby Man and listen to Look At What The Light Did Now.
EXCLUSIVE RECORD STORE DAY 2016 MATTHEW E.WHITE 7" RELEASE
“Cool Out” and the new never heard before “Maybe In The Night”
“What’s new? Something up above the sun. Almost unintentionally, both of these tracks grew much more from organic collaborations than the world of album cycles and studio scheduling, and this new RSD 7” marks a kind of physical punctuation, for both an ending and a beginning. My other records, Big Inner, Outer Face and Fresh Blood, are linked sonically and thematically; they follow a certain line, but Cool Out / Maybe In The Night is Season 2, Episode 1.
Maybe in the Night, born in a demo with Andy C. Jenkins on Eddie Prendergast’s Richmond back porch; grew up over a long, glorious weekend in Dublin with my live band; resurfaced in Los Angeles for my favorite new singer and songwriter, Bedouine, to sing over; and crossed the finish line through a Dan Carey mixing session in London. Starkly different from anything else I’ve ever recorded. Lemonade by the pool, crushed ice. My band, the Spacebomb Records rhythm section of Pinson Chanselle and Cameron Ralston and guitar ace Alan Parker, has grown into a fully realized creative animal, focused and full of fire.
Cool Out came from a collaboration in Richmond VA with friend, producer, and Stones Throw artist DJ Harrison. Over a few afternoons the track took shape at his home studio, Jellowstone Studios, a kindred compound down the street from the original Spacebomb HQ. I texted Natalie to see if she would swing by and maybe sing a little bit.
The beginning steps of a way forward.“ Matthew E. White
Every second Tuesday of the month at 7-9pm EST Matthew E. White is going to be hosting a new radio show called The Spacebomb Sound on the brand new Red Bull Music Academy Radio station. With his Spacebomb family Matthew will transport you to Richmond VA for two hours of music, interviews and insight.
The station launches officially in May, but you can join on the beta version now and hear Matthew’s first pilot show this evening. Listen tonight here: http://bit.ly/SpaceBombBeta
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Roberto Capucci, Farfallone / Butterfly, 1985. Silk, plissé. Italy. Archivio Fondazione Roberto Capucci, Foto di Claudia Primangeli. Via aisdesign
A song is anything that can walk by itself, a discrete shape–with the possibility for all variation: infinity and surprise–bound up in time. This is a Spotify playlist of songs I’m thinking about, updated often, and with great care.
