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New single 'Stick Around Here' out now." Click on the indiestore link above to download.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz2VKR9R9GMI'm currently playing solo live-looping gigs around and about and sometimes play with a band. There's a new single "Stick Around Here" out now on cd and download & an album "How To Have Your Cake And Eat It", which is available on cd at gigs or from the website www.melatone.com. Three tracks from the album can be heard on myspace and one solo live track. I'm currently working on a new album
REVIEW FROM INCENDIARY MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2006
Letter from London: Letter from London December 2006We begin in Camden, at the Dublin Castle to see Melatone. Now, I've tried to describe Melatone to people before, and my description always falls short. So imagine this is a black and white photo and then add your own technicolor. The current incarnation of Melatone is Matt Berry playing gigs all by himself with an acoustic guitar and a few effects pedals. He uses 'live looping' to slowly build up multi-layered tracks; he might begin by tapping out a rhythm on the guitar, and at the tap of a pedal, the rhythm loops, and he'll then play the bass line. Then a melody is added, or a bit of rhythm guitar, or a backing vocal; you get the idea. For a couple of songs you think "hey this is really clever", but then you forget about the delivery and realise that the songs themselves are amazing. And this is where I begin to fail Melatone: I can't think of a way to describe his songs that do him justice, but if you pop along to his myspace page and have a listen to You're Gonna Get Thru you'll get some idea. The set ends with a huge wall of sound: a slide guitar has never been put to better use. Melatone are the first act to play, when the second band appear it doesn't look promising, (a blue-laquered guitar is a sight for sore eyes) and sure enough after 30 seconds of something that reminds me of Del Amitri I leg it. Sorry…