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Matthew Jay

‘OUR TIME’ single and video out Mon 19th May 08

About Me

Matthew Jay was born 1978 and grew up in a family that loved music. His parents, Tony & Hilary worked as semi-professional country and folk artists. His older brother Edward now works as a professional musician travelling the world playing accordion and keyboards, and his younger brother Peter, recently graduated in Music and specialising in trombone, is just beginning his career.
In his teenage years, Matthew proved to be a very able sportsman playing volleyball for Wales, Badminton for his County, and cricket and football for his Town, Abergavenny.
Matthew also played music, beginning on violin but moving over to electric bass and guitar. His main musical outlet in his earlier years was playing in the ‘Jay Family Ceilidh Band’ for countless weddings and other events.
In 1997 he prepared for his ‘A’ levels and his school predicted that he would not do well at all, not surprisingly, because he was always out playing sport or music, or with his friends - and not studying. In fact he surprised his school and did very well exceeding their expectations by far. but because Universities offered places on predicted grades rather than actual results, his immediate further education prospects did not look good. As a result he took a fateful decision to take a gap year so that he could apply to University the following year with his actual grades.
His plan for his gap year was to write and record songs and send his demos off to recording companies. There was great excitement amongst his friends when major recording companies started to compete to sign their own ‘small town boy’. Click here for more!

Click below to preview and buy music from Matthew Jay! (new album to be made available shortly!)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/29/2006
Band Website: matthewjay.com
Band Members: Matthew Jay – vocals, harmonies, guitars
Eddy Jay – harmonica, keyboards, piano, accordion
Vasco – production, harmony/backing vocals, guitars, keyboards
Maitreya Jani – guitars
Henrik Jorgensen – bass
Andy Maclure – drums

Influences: EARLY INFLUENCES: The Beatles. Queen. Michael Jackson. The Jay Family Band.

LATER INFLUENCES: John Lennon. George Harrison. Simon and Garfunkel. David Bowie. The Beach Boys. Bob Dylan. Pearl Jam. Nirvana. The Rolling Stones. Coldplay. Radiohead. REM. Blur. The Clash. Nick Drake. The Band. Joy Division. Eminem. Notorious B.I.G. The Kinks. Oasis. Bob Marley. Led Zeppelin. The La's. Snoop Dogg. The Smiths. The Stone Roses. The Strokes. The Who. James Brown. Starsailor. The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Sounds Like: Nick Drake. Jeff Buckley. George Harrison. James Blunt. Elliott Smith. Starsailor. Badly Drawn Boy. David Gray. Belle and Sebastian.



DOWNLOAD SHOP

Click on the track titles below to preview and buy selected tracks from ': Matthew Jay : '.:



Single:
'Our Time': :

AVAILABLE ON PRE-ORDER NOW

Note: The video file is in the 'Flash Video' (.flv) format.



Our Time (Single) £0.79:
Our Time (Video) £1.99:

Single:
'There Were No Complications': :

PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE FROM 19th MAY 08



There Were No Complications £X.XX:

Album:
'Further Than Tomorrow':

PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE FROM 19th MAY 08



There Were No Complications £X.XX:
I Wake Up When I Want To £X.XX:
She Didn't Understand £X.XX:
The Question £X.XX:
Chaos £X.XX:
My Erica £X.XX:
Black Coffee £X.XX:
Fervant Prayer £X.XX:
If There's A Malice £X.XX:
Nothing Seems Good Enough £X.XX:
Love Me £X.XX:
Break Up £X.XX:

ALL TRACKS £X.XX:

Record Label: Jays Music Ltd
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Good Luck to the Myspace designer with his finals!

A big thank you to Paul Meggs of EMUSU who redesigned the Matthew Jay Myspace profile - we think it looks great!GOOD LUCK today at the start of your degree finals - hope it isn't too hot in that exam ...
Posted by Matthew Jay on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:09:00 PST

Myspace.com Blogs - MATTHEW JAY new WEBSITE by EMUSU - Matthew Jay MySpace Blog

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.... Visit http://www.matthewjay.com for details of all Matthew Jay's new releases. Share this with your friends and make this unique British Indie Si...
Posted by Matthew Jay on Sun, 11 May 2008 10:57:00 PST

MATTHEW JAY new WEBSITE by EMUSU

Jays Music would like to say a Big Thank You! to EMUSU for all the work they have put into updating Matthew Jay's website. It will have details of all Matthew's forthcoming releases plus much more. ...
Posted by Matthew Jay on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:25:00 PST

OUR TIME SINGLE RELEASE - OUT- MON 19TH MAY 08

..Jays Music are releasing on MON MAY 19TH O8 an early Matthew Jay recording of his song 'Our Time', written by Matthew Jay when he was around 19 yrs. Advanced sales for the download will be availabl...
Posted by Matthew Jay on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:55:00 PST

’OUR TIME’ VIDEO RELEASE - out - MON 19TH MAY 08!

Jays Music are very pleased to be releasing on Mon 19th May 08 the special video 'Our Time' produced and directed by Matthew's friends at AscentMedia, London 2007. Friends and family travelled from a...
Posted by Matthew Jay on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:14:00 PST

MATTHEW JAY OUR TIME VIDEO & SINGLE RELEASE

Jays Music are planning to release the brand new Matthew Jay video and single in May - release date tbc. The 'Our Time' video was produced,directed and filmed by Matthew's good friend, Jon Gray, and t...
Posted by Matthew Jay on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:31:00 PST

Matthew Jay Biog

MJ BIO CONTINUED (detailed version) In 1999 Matthew chose to ’sign up’ with EMI Recording and EMI Publishing. His first album, Draw, was released to critical acclaim.  To promote h...
Posted by Matthew Jay on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:14:00 PST

MATTHEW JAY new single and album releases

Just to keep you posted, the long awaited Matthew Jay album is planned for release in JUNE 08 preceded by a single. All to be available from his download store at www.matthewjay.comJAYS MUSIC...
Posted by Matthew Jay on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:08:00 PST

Matthews videos to benefit childrens charity

Below is a statement from Matthew's Mum, Hilary Jay     MATTHEW JAY FUND for UNICEF 'BORN FREE CAMPAIGN' UNICEF Donations Through Downloads!   Matthew was a Unicef supporter and...
Posted by Matthew Jay on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:11:00 PST

New album completed

10th October 2007 Today is the anniversary of Matthew's 29th birthday.  His family is very pleased to announce on this special day that Matthew's new album, which he had been working on in 2003, ...
Posted by Matthew Jay on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:04:00 PST