Scott Matthews + Ady Johnson

  • Sunday | 06.05.18
  • 7.00pm
  • Band on the Wall, Manchester
  • £16.50 ADVANCE /...

Scott Matthews returns to Band on the Wall, performing songs from his new LP ‘The Great Untold’.

The Great Untold is a career-defining masterpiece. The sixth studio album by the Ivor Novello Award-winning singer-songwriter is the one that many have craved: it is a masterclass in honesty, instinct and reflection. A largely acoustic recording, Matthews’ sublime new record features sparse production. Recorded at home and in acoustically resonant rural churches, instrumentation has been jettisoned. His ten-song cycle is the sound of a man comfortable in his own skin, putting his neck on the line with a collection of otherworldly songs.

The ghosts of Paul Simon, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake and John Martyn loom large on a collection that ranks alongside work by some of the world’s great singer-songwriters. On his sixth record, Matthews has created songs that are breathtaking in their beauty and audacious in their simplicity.

This is a standing show. Presented by DHP.

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