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Matt Berry and The Maypoles


Album Review: Matt Berry – Television Themes

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Live Review: Matt Berry and The Maypoles / Xylaroo – The Foundry, 26.10.2016

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Album Review: Matt Berry – The Small Hours

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When Acid Jazz Records announced earlier this year that Matt Berry’s next release would be an album of covers of Television Themes, I only momentarily considered if it was a spoof. The thing is, as much as a release like Television Themes may seem like a silly throwaway idea, whose only real reason to exist …

From the inside, The Foundry is a rather anonymous looking venue, tucked away in the bowels of Sheffield University. On the upside, the drinks are cheap (£2.25 for an orange J20 and a lime and soda), the sound is good and some great acts play there. Tonight, with my usual gig companion at home ill, …

Matt Berry has is someone who has stealthily raised his reputation in the music industry in recent years without the wider world really noticing, slowly but surely increasing his audience size by word of mouth, putting out a new album every year since 2013 and playing rapturously received gigs. While The Small Hours hasn’t received …