Hide and Speak

In the hide today Matt is joined by electro-folk artist Frankie Archer discussing her career so far, appearing on 'Later...with Jools Holland', emo phases, The Sopranos, technical difficulties, gear, working with producer Jim Moray, more gear and much more! Recorded in May 2024, in Thornley Woods bird hide. For more on Frankie: www.frankiearchermusic.com www.instagram.com/frankiearchermusic www.ti...

Welcome to Hide and Speak! After a bit of a break, Matt is back in the bird hide. This time with Will Taylor, Nick Hill and M Field of the British band Flyte, where they chat about Flyte's self-titled album, the recording process, and collaborating with an array of wonderfully talented friends and musicians including Bille Marten, Laura Marling, M Field, Andrew Sarlo and many more. The band were o...

Enjoying a spot of bird watching with Matt in episode 12 is Dave Burdis, one half of the rock and roll group Black Shape. Topics include cats, riffs, Ariana Grande, Radio 3, Jazz, as well as how Dave is writing science fiction. Dave is a truly fascinating and prolific musician along with his bandmate Andrew Cleaver who have released a huge catalogue of music in the last 6 months alone. Latest offe...

Invited into the bird hide for episode 11 is the wonderful singer-songwriter Brooke Bentham. Matt and Brooke discuss the silly world of Tiktok, ASMR, what its like having Robin Pecknold as your songwriting professor, Brooke'ss latest EP 'Caring', working with Bill Ryder-Jones and much much more. Brooke spots a woodpecker and a buzzard and learns about ducks a little bit too. This episode was recor...

For the final episode in season one, Matt is joined by Sam Fender who needs little introduction but his career is really impressive so... He is a two-time brit award winner, two-time NME award winner, has had two UK number one albums, tours arenas now, headlines festivals and is best mates with Francis Bourgeois. Matt and Sam are joined by two grumpy swerns while they discuss who'd play him in a m...

Joining Matt for a spot of birding in episode 9 is Multi-Mercury Prize nominated Everything Everything bassist Jeremy Pritchard. Jeremy joined Matt before his show in Newcastle while on his UK tour. They chatted about Kevin, the A.I that the band programmed to 'help' write the latest album 'Raw Data Feel' (coming out on May 20th), running while on tour, funny USA morning TV performances, Findo Gas...

Enjoying a spot of bird-watching with Matt in the hide for episode 9 is the charming John Edgar (also known as) The Dawdler. In this extra long episode, as well as spotting a Jay, Roe Deer, a very hungry heron, and a tree creeper, John and Matt chat about N64's Golden Eye, Aslan's Theme, Sledging (in cricket), John's recent diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis, pumping and a LOT more. The fart did no...

Joining Matthew in the bird hide today is Dan from Newcaslte-based psych band Smote. The chat took place in a new hide for Matt, and there were a few podcast firsts in terms of bird spotting. A nuthatch or two, and a great spotted woodpecker. They talked about Dan's DIY recording techniques, the inspirations of his latest album 'Drommon', The Epic of Giglamesh, Hard to Be a God, and Dan's new foun...

Matt is joined in the hide today by bass guitarist Oliver Winn of rock and roll band A Festival A Parade. As well as his band, Oliver chats to Matt about Sexy Sheikh fancy dress, filling the Meat Loaf-shaped-rock-opera-hole, Drew Michael appreciation and a podcast first - a visit from a male Sparrowhawk or Sperhauk as they discover. Go listen to A Festival A Parade's latest record Company here - w...

Sitting in the hide with Matt today is Newcastle singer-songwriter Richard Dawson. They chat about Brian May's christmas pudding, life-saving survival tips for badger attacks, the square egg-laying ficticious Gillygaloo and much more. Richard also chats about his recently released collaborative album with Finnish band Circle entitled 'Henki', how the collaboration came about and how snooker legend...

In the hide with Matt in episode 4 is Arron Duff, lead singer and songrwiter with his indie-folk band Hector Gannet (named after a fishing trawler his grandfather sailed, which sank off the coast of England in 1968). We talk about how his love of Northumberland inspires his music, one of Matt's favourite birds - Morus Bassanus a.k.a Northern Gannet, Arron's tremendous knowledge of Alan Hull, Grace...

In the bird hide with Matt this episode is Whitley Bay pop legend, L Devine. Liv chats about her early start in music studios doing kids parties, kombucha appreciation, songwriting trips to L.A, her rekindled love for the North East after coming home from London during lockdown and she learns about the importance of plumage. She has just come off the back of a December tour, two-part E.P release '...

Matt is joined by London based singer-songwriter Imogen. They chat about Imogen's beginnings in her abundant music career, her geordie Grandad's inspirational entertainment career, her experience of the Ivor Novello awards 2021 and Matt gets confused between a Stork and an Albatross. Listen to Imogen's latest EP 'Bloodbag' here - https://orcd.co/bloodbagep Check out her music videos which accompan...

Matt chats to Brit Award winning guitarist Johnny Bond about how he recently found love for bird watching in the North East during lockdown. He deep dives into his early career in music and how it all started with a pointy guitar, his appreciation of Japan and what sound-tracked his flight, his perfect American road trip, sky fishing and more.   Recorded in October 2021 in a bird hide in Nort...