Thursday 19 March 2015

Matt Henshaw - WINNER !!!



What a fantastic start to the year I've had, or as the business people would say "rapid growth in the first quarter of 2015" ... and without you Beautiful Souls, it wouldn't mean a thing, thanks for all your Love & Support !

BEST MALE - Midlands Independent Music Awards (MIMAs) 2015
BEST EP - 'Your Eyes Are Made Of Gold' Galaxy Music Awards 2015


But you already knew these things to be true, right ??

If so, invite some more people you think are cool enough to be in this 'ere group - ie. most people - and if you're in the East Midlands give them an invite to Matt Henshaw's FREE Peace, Love & Tea Party Live @ The Contemporary, Nottingham, it's gonna be one heck of a homecoming party !!
https://www.facebook.com/events/907591179261404/


And Big Love & Thanks to Grey House England for all the luck, love and light ...

Peace, Love & Tea,
Matt Henshaw x
http://www.MattHenshaw.com

Thursday 12 March 2015

#TBT #ThrowbackThursday Baby Me ...



‪#‎TBT‬ ‪#‎ThrowbackThursday‬ here's me aged ... very young !

With a blue & white football at my feet ... I don't usually post this kind of thing but my mum sent me this from her new phone looking through a load of old stuff at my Grandma Mary's ...

I can't decide wether I look cute or evil ... either way I now know I've always liked smart shirts, football, gardens and sunshine ... but, let me know ...

Cute or Evil ?!

Newport Pagnell tonight, The SunSet Lounge at The Cannon, love that place, really enjoying my 'off the beaten track' UK Homecoming Tour so far, can't wait to get back to Scotland and Wales ...

Cute or Evil ?! Let me know ...

Peace, Love & Tea,
Matt Henshaw x
http://www.MattHenshaw.com

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Monday 9 March 2015

Things I Like ... Water



Obviously !!!

We need water to live ... “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water” – W.H. Auden

Around 55% of every human being is made up of water, that more that half of every person is water, and I love people !

And 75% of the human brain is water, and there nothing sexier than a sentient being with a big old brain, right ?


Clean water is what gives us life in so many ways, we're living on the only planet in out solar system that isn't barren of water or possessing a vast frozen ocean, we can go and swim in it, drink from the rivers and streams and some of the most beautiful creatures and plant life exists down there, we need to protect all that, because here's the important part ...

... the world's oceans, because of these very things down there in our marine biology, provide the globe with up to 85% of the world's oxygen !!

So, the two most essential thing we need for survival, water and oxygen, H2O and plain and simple O, two things we take for granted come from water, our one world's water supply !!

Frankly, I'm dangerously unqualified to talk to you about water, life and planet preservation, I could talk Orson Welles or Paul McCartney for hours, but these basic tenets of importance are just a few things I've picked up and been pondering recently ... if you know more, please, tell me more ! I Love Life, People, Peace, Love & Tea - let's not get started on the importance of water for tea & coffee !!

You're better off finding out more about clean water, all you Beautiful tea & coffee drinkers over here, click this here link, I command you too ... and also, maybe I'll see you tomorrow down in Soho for the Coffee Music Project ...

Another date for your diary ... WORLD WATER DAY ! Sunday 22nd March ...

KEEP IT CLEAN !!



Some more Things I Like ...
Fire
Gardening
Film
Yorkshire Tea
LEGO
Tippy The Cat
Khan Academy
Apple Cider Vinegar
McVitie'sBiscuits
Cricket
Linked in
Leicester
Peace, Love & Tea
Coffee

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Sunday 8 March 2015

Matt Henshaw Recommends ... Lew Bear

Mr Lewis Robinson, or Lew Bear, hails from Northamptonshire and is one of the most lovable friendly giants I have come across on my national and international travels, I've got a long list of recommendations on their way, hoping to shine some light on some of the Beautiful Souls I've shared a stage with in the last year.

I'll be honest and admit that Lew posting this video yesterday morning was the thing that triggered me to start with this folksy gospel troubador from Eddie Stobart country ...



... so now you know, I am susceptible to flattery and anyone wishing to forward the Peace, Love & Tea Movement further ... but it's not just that, Lew's ideals and way of songwriting through research of family and local history, fixation on the English folk tradition and a sharer of my own love of gospel music as the love, the light and the truth. Top Man, big voice, growing everytime we cross paths and a gentile guitar playing style that betrays his mighty physique.

With this in mind, I was touched the last time I saw Lew perform, as he was visible onstage, performing a new song about his family lineage in which he discovered that his great great great aunt was the first woman in Northamptonshire to fall in love with a black man, and for this heinous activity she was ran out of town tarred and feathered, and with no-one speaking of it again, until the story was passed down via Lew's aunt's sister, his grandmother. A beautiful, melancholy yarn emerges full of regret and lessons from the past we all must learn and move on.

If you've ever driven through the Northamptonshire countryside you'll know it is a truly inspirational place, however nowhere is adverse to travesty, and Lew's great paradoxical melting pot of musical numbers is a great blessing for us all.

Peace, Love & Tea, MHx

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DEBUT 'IT AIN'T EASY/MY LIFE - EP' !!!
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Tuesday 3 March 2015

Things I Like ... Coffee

Matt Henshaw Peace Love Tea Coffee

This one may come as a shocker to many, but the Peace, Love & Tea movement isn't as narrow minded as all that ! I can enjoy the occasional cappuccino, black coffee or espresso too ! I think the main foundation of my belief is that I just can't really bring myself to trust people who don't like hot drinks, whether it be tea, coffee, hot chocolate, honey and lemon or a nice hot Ribena ... and science is on my side too !

DRinking for yourself warm water is beneficial to digestion, blood flow, thyroid, glands, throat, stomach, liver, kidneys ... and the list goes on ... you should probably start following Peace, Love & Tea on facebook or twitter if you're not already ...

And this time next week it's all about the Coffee Music Project down in Soho, I'll be performing at Freedom Bar on Wardour Street as an amabassador of Project Waterfall ... it's a super mega massive important project, I won't bore you with all the details here, go to the website, but basically, you know water, right? That's stuff we need to live?! And often take for granted coming out the taps?!?! Well, it's all about that ...

Matt Henshaw Peace Love Tea Coffee

Some more Things I Like ...
Fire
Gardening
Film
Yorkshire Tea
LEGO
Tippy The Cat
Khan Academy
Apple Cider Vinegar
McVitie'sBiscuits
Cricket
Linked in
Leicester
Peace, Love & Tea

---===DOWNLOAD LINKS===---
DOWNLOAD & STREAM 'YOUR EYES ARE MADE OF GOLD' NOW !!
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/your-eyes-are-made-of-gold-ep/id904335049
https://play.spotify.com/user/11100320251/playlist/7CJI4WcomJKYozyujcN4hK
DOWNLOAD & STREAM 'ALWAYS IN THE WAY' NOW !!
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/always-in-the-way-ep/id875188981
http://matthenshaw.bandcamp.com/album/always-in-the-way-ep
https://play.spotify.com/user/ilsonowl/playlist/2tHGjyz7EpEZpvgc8HpuRm
DEBUT 'IT AIN'T EASY/MY LIFE - EP' !!!
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep/id814589358
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aint-Easy-My-Life-EP/dp/B00I8ZDJZC/
https://play.spotify.com/album/733AAcf7c2KcZ75SUFlpi3
http://matthenshaw.bandcamp.com/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep
http://www.emusic.com/album/matt-henshaw/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep/14753983/
http://www.7digital.com/artist/matt-henshaw/release/it-aint-easy-my-life
http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/matt-henshaw/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep
http://www.napster.co.uk/artist/matt-henshaw/album/it-aint-easy-my-life-ep

Monday 2 March 2015

Matt Henshaw March Newsletter

PEACE, LOVE & TEA EVERYBODY !!

March 2015 has come around pretty quick, and I'm sure you're all exhausted from celebrating St. David's Day this Sunday !!  All Five and a half Thousand of you !!  You Beautiful Souls, thanks for sticking with me and keeping in touch, we've loads to catch up on ...

EUROPEAN TOUR, AWARDS & 6 MONTHS ON THE ROAD ...

It seems like ages since last September when I released 'Your Eyes Are Made Of Gold' and it went Top 30 on iTunes, I've played all over the UK, done a 5 week stint in Northern Europe and been nominated for some awards, I'm now embarking on a month long return leg around England, Scotland & Wales (scroll down for all the dates) and have a couple of new releases and festival dates planned for the summer, plus I'll be in the studio with the chappy who produced Frank Turner's 'England Keep My Bones' album preparing something new for later in the year.

Matt Henshaw autumn winter peace love tea 2014  2015 tour

Look out for a special big FREE show announcement in Nottingham in mid-April !!!

I was down in London last week and collected a medal for 'Your Eyes Are Made Of Gold' which was up for Best EP 2014 at the Galaxy Music Awards, sporting my weaved cardboard bow tie and pocket square, generously donated by the good people at Grey House England.  And this next month I'll be in Birmingham to see if I win Best Male 2015 at the inaugral Midlands Independent Music Awards (The MIMAs) ... wish me luck !

Matt Henshaw Grey House England cardboard bow tie awards

In other pleasing news, along with spotify, soundcloud and a whole host of other places you can find my music, all of my simple minimalist "title videos" on YouTube from my official EP releases have reached well over 1000 views each, some into the 10000s, thanking you all massively for that, keep listening and go over and give the latest upload a listen 'Stop Me Girl' right this second and download it NOW !!

Stop Me Girl - WATCH NOW !!

The International Peace, Love & Tea Tour Continues ...

Wish me luck in all and everything in Peace, Love & Tea, more awards, tour dates, releases and parties coming soon !!

... and don't forget to drop an email to bookings@matthenshaw.com if you want me to come and play in your town, venue, living room, school, parish hall, wedding, bar mitzvah, etc. in 2015 ...

Spread The Love, tell a friend to tell a friend !! And hopefully I'll see you soon on the road ...

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Peace, Love & Tea, MHx
http://MattHenshaw.com/

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