Meeting Matthew.

A few weeks ago we bumped into Matthew who plays bass for 'Tapestry', a local band we used to see at The Hobgoblin in Staines before the owners turned the music off for good.

I've been ill all week and it's finally given me a chance to check out his new solo e.p. which is called "Chapter One".

If you want to hear it (it's not what you would expect from me) here's the link to soundcloud;


https://soundcloud.com/matthew-g…/…/matthew-tinnuche-one-man

Matthew describes it as 'Looped Percussive Acoustic Ambient' music.......which is not really my thing at all.

But he's very good at it an Robyn tells me I should forget about The Hobgoblin and listen to more of this kind of thing!

I'm not sure about that but if you want to hear some relaxing, well played solo ambient you can find Matthew Williams/ One man on Facebook and he performs live too.

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Tapestry and Kung Fu Chicken Fighters at The Cave, Addlestone.

Thursday night; despite the cold and a few wisps of snow we were off to The Cave at The Hollybush in Addlestone.

I've been a regular there for a while for a while but this was the busiest I've seen it. Then again, it's no coincidence that The Hobgoblin has closed. Mind you, there were some special offers behind the bar.

I have no idea who the first act was (we were a bit late, if I can find out, I will update) a strong, acoustic guitarist. 

The Kung Fu Chicken Fighters were up from Poole in Dorset and are Mark Leadbetter and Matt Burridge on guitars, Jason Colbert on Drums, Graham Rigler on bass and Robbie Almond on vocals.

Just like The Hob, I often go to The Cave to catch music I probably wouldn't like, if I thought about it. That's how you get to hear new things. I like that.

They play 'Stoner Rock/Funk'...."Like a roundhouse kick to the face from Chuck Norris". Well we got the Funk - in small patches. We also got the stoner rock, not so much my thing though everyone else liked it.
 

We'd come to see Tapestry who we've seen a few times before at The Hob. By the time they came on there were more than a few Hob regulars in the pub too.

Tapestry describe themselves as an "Alternative Rock band fusing Metal, Indie and Atmospheric Rock to form the unique sound that is tapestry". They are; Simon on drums, Jake (JB) on guitar, Tim guitar, Matt on bass and Alys on vocals.
  

It's all their own material, it's original and always exciting. The band that comes closest to them (different, I know) are The Wicked Venetians.

Here's Matt who also appears on solo acoustic guitar occasionally;

 

 

Anyway, the desperate renegade group of people who found their way to the Hob are probably now going to be finding their way out to The Cave. Which is kind of circular because back in my day you could see bands like The Jam playing there.

 

And they still have pool tables.

 

 

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Tapestry and The Wicked Venetians at The Hobgoblin Rockgoblin.

So anyway, at The last ever Rockgoblin I was passing out under a very silly mask I made for myself and taking pictures through a couple of tiny eye holes.

We tended to watch bands we'd seen before and liked (it's an age thing).....starting with 'Tapestry';

 

 

That's Mathew Williams in the middle playing bass. You can catch him back at The Hob on 5th November when he is playing solo acoustic guitar. It's thoughtful, clever stuff.

 

Not on Saturday it wasn't - it was stomping;

  

 

 



It's the second time we've seen them - as a band they are really getting it together. We both noticed the difference from a couple of months ago;

 

 

And then there were 'The Wicked Venetians' - if you follow this Blog you will have got bored with hearing about them from me.

 

I really like what they do - have a look at their videos on YouTube, have a look at them on facebook.

 

They came as 'Three Blind Mice' and were definitely the best dressed band of the night....they had tails!

 

See what I mean?

This is a band who thrive on headlining - check them out if you can and by that I mean I'm hoping there's one last chance to see them at The Hob.

Tomorrow I'll review 'The Lagan', 'Eat the Evidence and 'Cultural other'.

It was quite a night, you should have been there.


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Tapestry, These Sceptic Stars and Robotboy at the Hobgoblin.

Saturday night and we're at The Hobgoblin to see UKID from Glastonbury. I'll be doing a separate blog about them tomorrow - any excuse to post more pictures of this incredible band.

There were still three other bands to see first - this is 'Robotboy' making their first public appearance.....at The Hob; 

Not a bad start - I hope to watch them develop, meanwhile here are 'These Sceptic Stars';

Not sure about the stage clothes but we liked some of the music;

                                                                                                                                                                 


If you remember, I reviewed 'One Man' a few weeks ago, a solo acoustic set from Matthew Williams? Technically brilliant but I was lukewarm because I was looking for 'punch'?

I got plenty of that tonight; this is Matthew in the middle on his bass guitar;

Plenty of 'punch' tonight!

And this is how to end a set;

 

But the real reason I was there was for UKID, an amazing band. I'll put the pictures up tomorrow.

 

Neil Harris

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