MATTHEW NORTH MUSIC

Paint The Picture - Fallen off the easel for now Well as you may have seen we have had a line up change with Secrets For September, this also means that our début album ‘Paint The Picture’ will no longer be coming out. It was almost finished during the summer, we were just waiting for a time slot to re do some vocals, and a bit of additional mixing and it was finished. Most of the artwork ideas were put down. And it had a Catalogue number and everything. So had the album been released it would have been thus. Secrets for September – Paint The Picture Label – Dangernoise Cat No DN225 Distributed by PHD in the UK Via Resurrection Track Listing : To Behold (North) Traces (North / O’Shea) Upside Down (North / O’Shea) Paint The Picture (North / O’Shea) Right Here (North / O’Shea) Hold Your Peace (North / O’Shea) Needing (North / O’Shea) Got To Give Up The Ghost (North / O’Shea) Line up – Marina O’Shea – Vocals Matthew North – Guitar / Keyboards Mike Soundy – Drums Dave Holwill – Bass With G

First gig of 2012 Exeter Picturehouse 5th Jan 2012 Well last night it felt like I hadn’t played a solo set for years, was probably a good 4 or 5 months. Most of my solo gigs will be based on All Living Fear material in preparation to the shows that we will do in the autumn. So the set went. Fortunes Light All Living Fear Blue Sky Breaking The Fire Love is a A Spirit (Not an ALF song but a tune I intend to play on the tour) Then Ellie Taylor joined me for a couple numbers, they were Letting Go (A new song that we wrote with Lee-anne) To Behold (in which I introduced the stylophone !!) Was a pretty fun set to play Roger and a few others turned up always a pleasure to play the Picturehouse. Above Falling Trees Ben, Padders, Ellie Ben will be playing on some new Secrets tracks that we are in the process of writing.

Top 5 of 2011 1) Upside Down So I started putting together the new band, ‘Secrets for September’ though I put the plan in place in 2009, this year I got it all together, Gumtree and lemonrock found Dave and Marina (As I had Mike on board in a preliminary way) and the first track that we got together was Upside Down. And with a bit of Roger’s Moog magic chucked in for good measure this was almost as perfect track as I could have ever been involved it. They say the proof in the pudding is the eating, well in music its more in the how many wish to put their money where there mouth is, and though you could and still can listen to the track for free on the bands web sites, myspace, soundcloud etc we still managed to sell enough downloads to get to No 2 in the Amazon rock chart and No 1 in the ‘Hot New Releases in Rock’ on Amazon. This was completely overwhelming to me having never seen such a reaction to something new so quickly. By far my proudest musical achievement in my 20 year career.