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Gigs ed and TV writer. Author of Seasick Steve: Ramblin' Man (June 2016, John Blake Books), the first book-length study of the true story behind the acclaimed hobo-bluesman.

Articles By Matthew Wright

Foo Fighters, Olympic Park

Sunday, 14 September 2014 Read more...

10 Questions for Singer Sarah-Jane Morris

Saturday, 13 September 2014 Read more...

Prom 71: Time for Three, BBC Concert Orchestra, Lockhart

Wednesday, 10 September 2014 Read more...

Kasabian, Roundhouse

Saturday, 06 September 2014 Read more...

Prom 63: McAllister, BBCSO, Alsop

Friday, 05 September 2014 Read more...

Return to Betjemanland, BBC Four

Monday, 01 September 2014 Read more...

CD: Partisans - Swamp

Monday, 01 September 2014 Read more...

Worst Place To Be A Pilot, Channel 4

Wednesday, 27 August 2014 Read more...

CD: Andy Milne & Dapp Theory - Forward In All Directions

Monday, 25 August 2014 Read more...

The Kate Bush Story: Running Up that Hill, BBC Four

Saturday, 23 August 2014 Read more...

Match of the Day at 50, BBC One

Saturday, 23 August 2014 Read more...

CD: Jerry Léonide - The Key

Wednesday, 06 August 2014 Read more...

CD: Angus & Julia Stone - Angus & Julia Stone

Sunday, 03 August 2014 Read more...

Prom 7: BBCSO, Bělohlávek/Prom 8: Pet Shop Boys

Thursday, 24 July 2014 Read more...

theartsdesk at Latitude: Damon Albarn/Booker T Jones

Tuesday, 22 July 2014 Read more...

CD: Fink - Hard Believer

Monday, 21 July 2014 Read more...

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Music Reissues Weekly: Mike Taylor - Pendulum, Trio

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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire review - a mysterious silence

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Youssou N'Dour and Super Étoile de Dakar, Roundhouse re...

There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to lose its glow. He still has one of the great voices of Africa, a versatile...

BBC Proms: First Night, Batiashvili, BBCSO, Oramo review - g...

The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the perfect set-up for a First...

Album: Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars - Dreams

What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades and brings together a...

Harvest review - blood, barley and adaptation

Lovers of a particular novel, when it’s adapted as a movie, often want book and movie to fit together as a hand in a glove. You want it to be like...