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Matt Churchill

About Me

A little background info. Matt was born in Liverpool (UK) into an environment of football, music and art. After spending most of his teenage years playing with friends and local bands, an opportunity to join an old friends band in Ireland arose. This move proved invaluable, as it was an introduction to a new world of music from all cultures. Now living in Clonakilty, West Cork, Ireland, Matt has worked with many well known musicians and is currently touring with Roy Harper as the opening act and playing lead guitar along side Roy in the main performance. As well as proving himself as a competent collaborator, Matt is now developing his skills as a solo instrumentalist.'Blue Stars’ the album (see Matt's website media page for a the tracks preview!) is Matt’s first album and consists of 11 original instrumental acoustic pieces, drawing influences from Rock, Blues, Folk, Country and will be released in February 2007. Matt writes and records on an on going basis and will be releasing more albums in collaboration with Laurie Hedger (who recorded Blue Stars the album). Please post comments on mySpace and Matt's website, it's part of the drive and the journey. mattchurchill.com

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Member Since: 19/01/2007
Band Website: www.mattchurchill.com
Band Members: Credits to Blue Stars the albumAll tracks written and arranged by Matt ChurchillMatt Churchill: Guitars Laurie Hedger: Drums and Drum and Bass programming Duncan Lutz: Bass on Track 10 Marcus McCarthy: Keyboard on track 4
Influences: Born in Liverpool...Born with the Love of the Beatles and their fantastic influence. While many bands could be listed here as influence, I will say this: the day Matt saw Crossroads he picked a guitar up and never put it down since then: for those of you not familiar with the movie: this is about unlocking the mysteries of the Blues, with a rich mixture of Delta Blues and driving rock, ending with an unbelievable guitar battle involving Steve Vai . Matt is also driven by the Great: Jimmy Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayall, John Martin, Eric Johnson and many more.
Sounds Like: It sounds like nothing else! This is original work, the album documents life as well as the musical journey and its experiences. The technical skills and the feel of the album are unique because it is based on true and real situations, it is the result of many years experiencing, gigging and writting.
Record Label: undetermined

My Blog

Summer time classic rock!!!

Well....Just in the middle of a busy summer 2008! Lot's of exiting things happening and no broken bones (Yet!). I had a great day out at CorkXSouthWest music festival in Skibbereen last weekend, what ...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:10:00 GMT

Lets ROCK!

Hey guys and girls (probably just guys!)Hope you’re all well out there in the civilized world. I’m well, in fact I’m very inspired at the minute and I find myself playing guitar more...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:06:00 GMT

Finger Trouble!!

Hi Folks! I suppose you know about my recent accident involving a rugby tackle and a broken finger! Well if you don't, I thaught it would be funny to rugby tackle one of my buddies and I broke my left...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:36:00 GMT

Roy and Matt go to Japan...

Tokyo - February 2007-------------------------------------------------------- -------------Antiknock (Shinjuku) - Monday - Feb 5thTICKET PIA (p-code: 247-970)http://t.pia.co.jp/Area (Takadanobaba) - Tu...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:45:00 GMT

2007 so far

An Album on the way, gigs and tours...I am pretty happy with 2007 so far.I really enjoyed the first 2 gigs in the 100 Club, even though the first one was eventfull, it was great to play alongside Roy ...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:20:00 GMT

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Posted by on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:53:00 GMT

What a Year!!!!

What a Year!!What a year It's been!, The buisiest one in 29 years for me. I won't bore you with the details, but I feel I must mention the album.When I recorded my 4 track demo E.P a while back, I was...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:33:00 GMT