Review - Matt Hall
GSMC Online Music Club – Wednesday 27th January 2021
Tonight’s GSMC Online Music Club performance features singer and songwriter Matt Hall from Bracknell. Matt writes his own songs with deep meaningful lyrics and plays a mixture of originals and covers and was newly crowned GSMC Showcase Artist of the Year last week at the Awards Night.
Whenever a performer changes their guitar strings you know they are taking their performance seriously and in Matt’s case this was the first time in six year’s so you tell he meant business. Starting with a Starsailor song ‘Coming Down’ followed by covers of Newton Faulkner, Radiohead ‘Black Star’ and George Michael’s ‘Faith’ which closed the set but as good as the covers were it was Matt’s original songs that shone through which he seemed to perform with more passion and emotion.
‘Angel’ was a song about emotional heartbreak, ‘The Village Came Alive’ is a great lively song about his Grandmother and Matt declared ‘Same Old Lies’ as his best song because it was brutely honest, but for me it was the heartfelt ‘Why Did You Have To Go Away’ which was about his Grand Farther with it’s very moving lyrics.
Although performing solo on an acoustic guitar Matt’s style veers towards an Indie Rock sound and you can imagine he would sound even better with a band, although on his own he sounded great. Matt is a performer who is gradually finding his voice and I look forward to hearing more.
You can contact Matt Hall through his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013968431865