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The Secret Show

Take Me Out To The Country

About Me


The Secret Show is not a secret anymore and was created by Matthew Davies of Funeral For A Friend in order to learn how to line dance professionally. UNfortunately for Matthew, his two left feet made it impossible for him to turn on time or to shake his hips in a sassy way so instead he decided to pick up his trusted (and dirty) Gibson acoustic guitar and write some songs about being lonely, sad and owning way too many Smallville seasons on DVD. He recorded a record with the help of some desperate and dangerous people.
Mark Foley an ex-Parsley grower from the lower east side of Liverpool played something resembling the bass guitar. Andrew Plain, a drummer who also worked part time stroking sea otters for cash at the local zoo. Rhod Viney , a Donald Trump style business lothario with a penchant for milking velvet eagles played guitar, pedal steel and some mandolin. Cate Timothy, a sassy yet restrained breakdance agent from the upper west side tinkled the keys. Finally, there was Lianne Francis, whose voice could break eggs and make small children on bicycles behave like adults in their twilight years.
The album was called Impressionist Road Map of The West and was released by Atlantic Records in February 2007 and i probably still available somewhere.
So this brings us to 2008 and Matthew has a plan. What it is only he knows and he's mentioned in confidence that it will involve some singing, some guitar playing, maybe some harmonica and a fish finger sandwich....oh, and some recording to boot. He's not sure if there will be a record of sorts but he has suggested that this Myspace page will be first call for any new messages that the GODS OF OLYMPUS....and the West Country decide to leave him.
I'm off for some tea and biscuits, if i hear anything i'll let you all know. cheerio...[if !IE] ..[endif]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/27/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/thesecretshow
Band Members: The Secret Show is not a secret anymore.
Influences: Anti Fascism, Anti Capitalism, Anti Ant and Dec and rock and roll with some western swing. Oh, just listen to the songs on the player and you'll understand.

www.antifa.org.uk
www.antifa.net
www.socialistparty.net
www.endabuse.org
www.freemumia.org
www.learnasone.org
www.oxfam.org.uk
www.stopwar.org.uk
www.womensaid.org.uk
www.worldsocialism.org/articles/what_is_socialism.php
Sounds Like: a mixture of country, rock and the kitchen sink.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

slack again, i do apologise!

What's up everyone, i'm gonna keep this short and sweet but yup, the writing has been going well for the next Secret Show record. I have no confirmed dates as to when i'll be hitting the studio to get...
Posted by The Secret Show on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:35:00 PST

Lianne stepping out with Eugene Francis Jr and The Juniors

yup, the lovely Miss Francis is adding her delightful vocal tones to the Eugene Francis Jr and The Juniors experience. Make sure to go check them out, they're wonderful!
Posted by The Secret Show on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:56:00 PST

Slack on the updates, sorry!

well, to be honest there's nothing much to update. The Secret Show is pretty much on hiatus for ther next few months while i travel around with Funeral. I am still working on the next Secret Show reco...
Posted by The Secret Show on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:53:00 PST

Socialism.

It's not often that i get political, especially with the platform that i have being able to speak to a few thousand people a night when onstage. I feel that if the majority of the people that you work...
Posted by The Secret Show on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:03:00 PST

THANK YOU!

Just want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the shows last week, it was alot of fun. to many wines and kebabs were eaten followed by alot of service station sandwiches. it's a excitin...
Posted by The Secret Show on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:56:00 PST

Secret Show Instore@ Spillers Records!

hey everyone, on the day of the cardiff show on the 19th Feb we're going to be doing a brief instore at Spillers Records. we're gonna be there at 5pm to play a few tunes and meet some people so if you...
Posted by The Secret Show on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:46:00 PST

The Secret Show Live On Radio 1 on the 8th!

Tune in to Bethan and Huw's show on BBC RADIO 1 on Thursday the 8th of February to hear us play 3 LIVE tracks. It' on between 7:30pm and 9:00pm so tune in and have a listenhugs and kisses, matthew....
Posted by The Secret Show on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:12:00 PST

The Secret Show Live On Radio 1 on the 8th!

Tune in to Bethan and Huw's show on BBC RADIO 1 on Thursday the 8th of February to hear us play 3 LIVE tracks. It' on between 7:30pm and 9:00pm so tune in and have a listenhugs and kisses, matthew....
Posted by The Secret Show on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:09:00 PST

Lovers by The Secret Show AVAILABLE ON ITUNES NOW!!!

That's right the single LOVERS by The Secret Show is available now from iTunes for just £.79p, if you want you can show your support and download it there! just type in The Secret Show Lovers in the s...
Posted by The Secret Show on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:12:00 PST

The Secret Show Family Tree

so, here i am again but this time i am going to enlighten you with information on the other projects that are linked with The Secret Show, like a family tree if you like. So here's the rundown:VITO- M...
Posted by The Secret Show on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:56:00 PST