Iain Matthews & BJ Baartmans play Matthews Southern Comfort
Thursday Nov. 8th. Beaver – Miltenberg DE
Friday Nov. 9th. Ratsche – Geislingen DE
Career moves..
Iain Matthews & BJ Baartmans play Matthews Southern Comfort
Thursday Nov. 8th. Beaver – Miltenberg DE
Friday Nov. 9th. Ratsche – Geislingen DE
.. If there was an award for the role of Godfather of Americana in the UK, serious consideration would have to go to Iain Matthews as a deserving nominee… read here what Rick Bayles writes about ‘Thro’ my Eyes’.
Yes, Matthews Southern Comfort will return to the UK for Broadstairs Folk Week 2018. We’ll be playing on Monday August 13th!
Follow link for show details: Broadstairs Folk Week
Signing times are as follows. Thursday. 2.30-3.30pm. Friday. Noon-12.40pm. Saturday. Noon-1pm.
Iain will be playing 4 shows in Norway between August 17/20th. Most of the shows will be with members of the famous Norwegien band The Salmon Smokers.
The dates are.
17th. Rod Herregard festival. Halden. 18th. Private party. Oslo. 19th. Duo in Halden. Venue TBA. 20th. Roverstaden. Oslo
Scary moment. Scary, but exciting too.
Together with Route Books I am announcing the hardback and special edition hardback ( see photo) release of my memoirs, “ Thro’ my eyes”.
Please follow the link and all will be revealed.
I will also have sale copies with me at all of my shows after Cropredy.
For information on the book go to:
Last night we played Leo Blokhuis’ show on Radio Npo2. We did two songs of the new album ‘Like a Radio’ live.. want to see how we sounded?
Leo Blokhuis commented on the new album when it came out in February,
“…This fine record oozes with the excitement that making music can give: beautiful melodies, very well sung and arranged to great taste…”
here he subs for Bart.. click photo to see the clips..
THRO’ MY EYES
Iain has completed writing his memoirs “Thro’my eyes”
The book will be published by Route and a signing launch will be held in the Fairport T-shirt tent at the Cropredy Festival August 9-11th.