When I was about 18 I lived in Sheffield but I travelled to Leeds Tiffanies at least 3 days a week to play bass in the resident band. On each journey we would pass Woolley Edge Services on the motorway and I always thought it was a great off-the-wall name for a Motorway Services.
Cut to decades later and as I was driving through Yorkshire again, when the lyric '25 miles from Woolley Edge, left the fuel gauge in the red'. This sounded like a very rock and roll line and I immediately rhymed it with ‘Got a…
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Going Off Grid with Lyrics
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The RED album is in the final mixing stage!
UN-United Nations is a double album released in 2 parts.
The BLUE album has already had some rave reviews and we reckon once it is put together with the RED album it will blow peoples socks off!
Put your garters on now!
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Joe Matera heading for the UK late October
Joe will be doing a few dates with The Korgis in early November.
Check it out on https://thekorgis.com/gigs
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Coming Up From Down Under
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When I began writing the songs that would be the 'Coming Up From Down Under' album, I knew I was at a turning point in my writing, my orchestration, and also my personal life. I had already written some 200 songs, countless TV themes, and spent vast amounts of time practising my craft, on guitar, bass guitar and keyboards. It was the realisation
When I began writing the songs that would be the 'Coming Up From Down Under' album, I knew I was at a turning point in my writing, my orchestration, and also my personal life. I had already written some 200 songs, countless TV themes, and spent vast amounts of time practising my craft, on guitar, bass guitar and keyboards. It was the realisation that most music had become formulaic, including my own. When I thought of Sergeant Pepper, the instrumentation was brave, the experimentation was intense, the songwriting was clever and diverse. From that point on, I decided to change my approach. I wasn't going to make another SP, but I WAS going to take more risks. I WAS going to vary the instrumentation. I WAS going to have a 6 minute song if it felt right. Lyrically 'Driving' was my own frustration with simply existing, without thinking, and 'From Now On', was a vow to change it. I have stuck to that ideal, and have no wish to go back... and this album was where it started for me. Huge thanks to my many supporters over the years, who are now shouting 'It's about time!!' Many thanks to the musicians who played for me - often just for the love of it. Thanks to my songwriting partners over the years, Julian Tucker, Lynn Ritchie, Nigel Voyle, and my business partner and mate Nigel Hart. The biggest thanks to Ceri Darknell, who puts up with my always unreasonable demands, and makes me want to be a better person!
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Driving 2:300:00/2:30
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Ko Samoo 5:040:00/5:04
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She's A Clubber 3:380:00/3:38
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A Tinge Of Regret 3:520:00/3:52
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These Walls 5:200:00/5:20
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