Matthew Mcghie bio

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Hello Only Rock Radio,Here is a blog post/interview with Matthew Mcghie:

What's your name?
My name is Matthew Mcghie.

Where are you from?
I am from Corby, Northamptonshire, in England. But I was born in Kettering.

Tell us how your journey has been from your beginnings until now.My journey began when I first started playing and got in bands many moons ago. I bought a bass guitar when I was 16 and practiced it like mad until I got to a decent level where I could play within a band. I’ve always loved music ever since I was a boy. I played in a ton of bands some original and covers. When I was 22 I moved up to Edinburgh with my ex partner and since then I’ve felt music has become a lot more serious and professional in my life. I played in a couple of bands and did many recordings and live shows. First band I played in Edinburgh was a psychedelic, kraut-rock band called ‘The Eye Of The Duck’. In this band I met some very interesting people and musicians who introduced me to the Edinburgh live scene. From there I moved on to play in a soundscape band called ‘Spaceface’. From there I went on to be a founding member of instrumental post rock band ‘Three Days From Retirement’ in 2014. I still currently play bass with 3DFR, but behind the scenes I’ve always been practicing and playing acoustic guitar. I’ve always been a huge fan of the instrument and it’s always something I’ve enjoyed playing. In the last 2 years I’ve been practicing and singing with the acoustic and developing my playing and songwriting.

Tell us about your musical style, influences.
Musical styles on the acoustic is basically me playing chords, on some songs looping these chords and playing some lead over them with a bit of delay and reverb. Gonna add distortion into the sound soon.

My musical influences vary, I actually like a million different bands and artists and love many, many songs. I have spent a lot of time listening and digging tunes that give me a good overwhelming feeling inside. Some band and acts that have struck a chord with me over time would be Oasis, Echo And The Bunnymen, This Will Destroy you, The Beach Boys, Editors and many more. My musical taste is completely open and I enjoy a good percentage of tunes from different genres. Got a lot of love for 80s music specially.

What has been your last project?Three Days From Retirement and my own solo stuff.

And the next thing you have planned?My future plans are practicing and fine tuning new songs that I have already written with a view to recording an album either at the end of this year or start of next, then to release that and tour the UK. Until then, I’ll be playing a lot of gigs, as many as I can and hopefully get my music out to as many people as possible.

Upcoming concerts, events
Next shows I have lined up are at the end of May when I’ll be playing ‘Infinite Hive Music’s’ acoustic showcase at the ‘Banshee Labyrinth’ in Edinburgh on Saturday May 25th. And then I have another gig at the ‘Last Word Saloon Bar’ In Edinburgh on Thursday 31st May. I will also be supporting my friend ‘Ben Inglis’ at his EP launch at ‘Purple Orange’ in Bathgate on the 30th of June.

Links of interest.
http://infinitehive.com/matthewmcghie/
https://www.facebook.com/MatthewMcghieMusic
https://twitter.com/mattymcghie
https://matthewmcghie.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/album/4zbXUrFMoKSANwpKI98Hfi
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/matthew-mcghie-ep/1356176460 

What else?
Peace on Earth and goodwill to all humans.

Coreign Bio April 2018

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COREIGN is a Swiss Progressive Hard Rock Studio Band

Band Name COREIGN (Brittnau, Switzerland, Europa)
Band Members Curry (voc, dr progr, k, b-voc, composition, lyrics)
Reto (k, g, b progr, b-voc, composition, lyrics)
Genre Progressive Hard Rock
As a composer couple, they however write songs across many
Genres and it thus is very common for them to release also
compositions and songs like Symphonic, Ballad, Funk, Blues, Rock,
Punk and many more, and in any blend and sort of cross-over style
containing Gothic, Classical, Film, Musicals and other elements.
Band founded in June 2016 (former CORE, March 2014 to March 2016)
Discography
* Album Gravity (released March 2018)
* Album Continuity (released October 2017)
* EP Silence (released July 2017, 6 Songs)
* Album Infinity (released July 2017, 13 Songs)
* Album Lucidity (released April 2017, 13 Songs)
* Album Equality (released November 2016, 13 Songs)
* Album Affinity (released September 2016, 14 songs)
* Album Sphere (released August 2016, 13 songs)
Videography First two music-videos with song lyrics on YouTube. More (real)
Band videos are planned.
Actual Works / Presentations
* Radio Airplay / Rotations on 150+ Radio Stations worldwide.
* Recording their 8th Album soon to be released.
* Production of Jingles for several Radio Shows.
* Live and/or Online Interviews and Album reviews.
3 Top 10/20 Rankings on Radio Station Shows in last 3 months.
* Featured Artist of March 2018 Playlist at Darkland Promotions.
* Featured Song on CoreMusick Promotions Compilation.
Special Information
* COREIGN is a studio band. Curry and Reto, a married couple,
compose, arrange, play, record, mix, master and produce all by
themselves. As a Studio Band they do not perform “on stage”.
* Experiences with guest musicians on album Lucidity and Gravity.
Homepage http://coreign.ch
Contact coreign@gmx.ch
(General Information as of April 2018)

Band Biography
While Progressive Hard Rock is sort of a least-deviant drawer to describe COREIGNs style,
Curry and Reto, a married composer couple, however write songs across many Genres and it
thus is very common for them to release also compositions and songs like Symphonic, Ballad,
Funk, Blues, Rock, Punk and many more, and in any blend and sort of cross-over style
containing, but not limited to Gothic, Classic, Film and Musical elements. It somehow is this
ability of blending many influences into a song, while always sounding in their very unique
COREIGN-style that makes this Band a musical Chameleon.
Starting in April 2013 it soon became clear that, when two composers with similar taste and
the ability to cover all instruments meet, this would be the blast. Choosing CORE [2013-2016]
as their first band name thus was the obvious, reflecting this "inner circle" feeling of the two.
While first the production of existing compositions was the goal, they soon started to
compose songs together, mixing their wide variety of influences into their new combined
song material.
Curry is fond of progressive rock and bands like "Within Temptation", "Evanescence" or
"Nightwish", Reto's influences mainly stem from hard rock, metal and punk bands like "Led
Zeppelin", "Cure", "Ufo" and many others. Having Rock Music as their melting point play
ground, they released 7 Albums, 1 EP and 1 Single between March 2014 and March 2016,
produced all by themselves within an ultra-short time. Using few correction and re-recording,
their songs keep a very vivid and live-sounding character that prefers the authentic, direct,
raw and pure sounding over the nowadays over-corrected and over-produced.
Due to the fact that there are hundreds of Bands by the Name of CORE, they decided to
rename their Band to COREIGN, starting in June 2016. And up to date, they keep a very high
pace of producing one new album every few months and are thus constantly working on
their next album...
Their goal is to further improve in crafting and technical production, still doing everything on
their own: composing, arranging, playing, recording, mixing, mastering and producing; all is
done by themselves. And, be assured, they will keep on interpreting "progressive" more as
"avant-garde" than as a fixed Genre and they will surprise us again with new compositions,
that in a very exact sense would reflect what the definition of Jazz would mean: absorbing
just every possible influence, combining it anew, and bringing it out again surprising...
Band Members
Curry
Vocals, drums programming, keys, backing vocals, composing, lyrics.
Born 1982 in Zurich, Switzerland. Started to play instruments (flutes and clarinet) in her
childhood. In her youth she started to play piano and electric guitar. At the age of 17 she
discovered her passion for the drums. She gathered experiences in several band workshops
and played the drums in a rock band. Additionally she started singing.
She composed her first song at the age of 14 and had composed 80 songs already when she
met with Reto. Using a Fostex 16-track recorder, microphone, digital Yamaha electronic
piano and Roland sound module (different instruments, synthesizer, vocals), she completed
the songs to whole arrangements, composed, arranged, played, recorded and produced all
by herself. She also composed 2 Musicals. Since she is together with Reto, they compose the
new songs mostly together.
Reto
Keys, guitars, bass programming, backing vocals, composing, lyrics.
Born 1964 in Zofingen, Switzerland. Started to play piano and trumpet in his childhood. First
TV appearance at the age of 13. First recordings at the age of 14. Joined his first rock band at
the age of 17 as keyboarder. Played for many years in several different bands and jam
sessions with a lot of people as keyboarder and guitar player.
He composed his first song at the age of 12, started recording with a Teac 4-track recorder
on his own and later worked together with other home- and semi-professional studios. He
had composed more than 50 songs by the time he met with Curry and since then is
composing new songs mostly together with her.

Cocoa Futures and its first Ep "Sink In The Water"

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Photocred: Sara Amroussi-Gilissen

About Sink In The Water

Taking a turn for the direct, for a sense of art-funk minimalism that sets it apart from Cocoa Futures’ first EP, ‘Sink In The Water’ is a steadily crescendoing, unidirectional dance banger that hinges on a skeletal rhythmic groove. Its pared-back foundations allow room not only for plenty of percussive add-ons but also for frontman Greg’s experiments with the assorted synths and instrumental toys he discovered to his delight while recording the song in Manchester’s Low Four Studio.

Greg’s lyrics were influenced stylistically by his current playlist favourites The Blue Nile and Prefab Sprout, and thematically by the contradictory impulses of the ageing process.  “Getting older doesn’t always feel like growing,” he explains. ”It can feel a bit like sinking. There’s nothing inevitable about becoming a better person as you grow up and learn more.” Downbeat? Not a bit of it. “But maybe sinking is pretty good. Anyway, to keep things peppy, ‘Sink’ includes a nice happy major shift at the end!”

About Cocoa Futures

In the autumn of 2017, Greg Sanderson, the frontman and architect of Cocoa Futures, was contemplating how best to follow up an acclaimed EP that had won his band enthused reviews and features (Line of Best Fit, Clash, CMU), an abundance of new friends and keen industry anticipation for what would be coming next. The previous 12 months had encompassed the release of the ‘Blue’ EP on Lost In The Manor records, several sold-out London shows (Sebright Arms, The Finsbury) and a rammed appearance at Brighton’s Great Escape Festival. But rather than further work the circuit with his assembled group of musicians, Greg made for the studio to write new material and further expand his tariff of warped-at-the-edges pristine pop nuggets.

This period of prolific songwriting included such experiments as recording an album’s worth of material on a dictaphone, before the Tottenham-based, Scottish-bred singer emerged with a set of material to run by the Cocoa Futures rhythm section of Dave (drums) and Nick (bass). The next stage was finding a producer best-suited to draw the rich seam from Greg’s singular yet commercially inclined songs. Greg explains: “It was bit of a happy accident. I’d made a Spotify playlist called ‘drums sounds i like’ which had loads of GoGo Penguin tracks and a couple of Dutch Uncles tunes. I thought I’d research who’d made them ‘cos they sounded banging. Turns out it was a lad called Brendan in Manchester, so I dropped him an email and he was up for working together.”

So Greg, Nick and Dave spent a long weekend at Manchester’s Low Four studios, working with Brendan Williams (he of Dutch Uncles and GoGo Penguin fame, as well as notable others such as Kiran Leonard and Koalas), completing six diverse yet sonically consistent tracks, the first of which, ‘Sink In The Water’, is released in March. These half dozen thrilling pop moments, whimsical, catchy and fresh, produced with exacting attention to detail and dynamic, are sure to more than sate those who’ve wisely been keeping Cocoa Futures on their ones to watch lists these past 18 months.