Hello, I'm Matthew James Crutchlow.
I write and sing songs, amongst other things.
My last record was called Sucking Stones and soon you'll be able to listen to it for nowt or buy it.
Have a look around the site too. There's some free downloads hidden here and there, as well as news about gigs, figs and twigs.
Sep 15, 2008
The bum rushes the show…
Well flock me bandy, I'm finally off into the studio.
Aug 19, 2008
Painting and decorating
After almost a year in the old place, I thought it was time to sling round a lick of paint, hang some wallpaper and polish up the mantlepiece.
Most of the boxes from my old site have been unpacked, but there's lots of it and I only have 1 pair of hands.
So bear with me - the place should be spick, span and sparkling like it used to in no time at all.
Jun 05, 2008
14 songs, 3 hours, six raw fingers, one raw thumb…
Bashed through some new songs last evening and, surprisingly, they sounded ok. Mostly just two guitars, which makes a nice change, or guitar and piano. Decidedly upbeat.
Jun 05, 2008
Getting intimate with inanimates…
New songs have a theme: they are either from the perspective of, or about, inanimate objects. Not an original idea, of course, but I’m fairly sure nobody has put the imagined thoughts of a lollipop lady’s sign or a gas boiler to music before. Please let me know if I am wrong…
May 28, 2008
The mittens come off…
Rusty fingers, rusty strings, off come mittens, guitar sings. (I hope). So, it’s back in the rehearsal studio tomorrow to start knocking a record into/out of shape. Whilst the new songs are not insensitive, they certainly won’t burst into tears if they don’t get the tastefully-arranged string quartet arrangement they think they deserve. I’ll let you know how it comes and how it goes…