Recommendation: Matt Lawton

About once a week, I write a very short review of some musician, singer, band, composer etc or I recommend some music. For this week, it's just something I found on bandcamp: Matt Lawton. Very fine funk jazz. Check it out:

https://mattlawton.bandcamp.com/album/the-optimist

Getting ready for open mic gigs

With my solo gig coming up, I decided that I want a bit of solo giging practise. One idea is to play a few tunes at an open mic night. I found two open mic places in Plymouth, not too far from where I live: The Rakuda Bar on Wednesdays and the Woodside on Sundays. I spend some time at the Rakuda Bar last night and there was little, but nice audience. However, it is outside and I am a bit worried that my fingers might be too cold. I will try anyway, I think, in mid December or January. I hope I have time to check out the Woodside on Sunday. I heard there are really good musicians there. In any case, I need to decide on a set and get ready.

Also, I found a bass player who might join our little band.

My First Solo Gig

Finally, my first real solo gig is scheduled. It's on the 31st of January 2014, at Column Acoustic in the Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth, which is the building you can see on the picture above. While the surroundings of the guildhall are quite different now, the building itself still looks pretty much the same. Come and hear me play.