June 24th/04
Rockin' With the Cross
Tsawwassen United Church

Matt's Performance:
(featuring brad pedwell on guitar)

A SONG 4 U (solo)
DON'T MAKE A SOUND (solo)
BURN THE BLACK DRESS
INSECURE/IMMATURE
MATH CLASS

Brad's Performance:
(featuring matthew on piano)

BELIEVE
NEVER SAY NEVER
LAY IT ON ME
RESTITUTION

Review:

    An interesting gig took place last night. A very interesting gig indeed.... Matt performed as part of a variety concert at the tsawwassen church with other acts Brad Pedwell, Hazen Rice, John Henville, Wilderness (devon's band), Reflect (devon's other band) plus a few more that cannot be mentioned due to space restrictions on this website (you know it costs a lot to make a website and the more names I mention the more bandwidth I use (this is a very very popular site!) and the less money I have in my pocket to get drunk with and the less good I perform if I'm not drunk, ya dig?) Anyways, on to the concert, shall we!?
    Matt and Brad performed together but in separate sets - Brad's set was sweaty and rockin'! The highlight being the gorgeous Restitution (minus the money sluts pimps whatever the fuck part because after all we were in a church!) Intermission was also a highlight because Matt & Brad actually sold a few CDs! Thanks to all the lovely fans who bought them! Hope your disappointment isn't too overwhelming when you actually hear them!
    Hazen and John opened the 2nd act.... Hazen played the guitar like a real guitar player. His playing was great... he started with a lovely old leonard cohen song called I TRIED TO LEAVE YOU (perhaps a hidden message to matty p!?) and then continued with two of his own hit numbers that got the audience movin' and groovin' like they never had before. Let me tell you, there were some collars loosened during this set. John opened with his french song EN RAISON, and i don't think anybody really understood it. But they clapped along, which was really neat. It added that flamenco flavour that john's music lends so well to.
    Matt's set was glorious. Simply glorious. He had the privilege of playing on the black grand piano. The church was a lovely setting for Matt's beautiful melodies. He opened with TWO new songs that are currently being recorded. A fun, frivolous A SONG 4 U which is about death in the winter time. Then came DON'T MAKE A SOUND when matt really got his black little lungs into action by the end of that number! Woooohooo yeah! Hot damn! Then Brad Pedwell joined matt onstage gettin' the audience boppin' to BURN THE BLACK DRESS. They really seem to love that one. I guess you could call it matt's big 'hit'. Perhaps that's cause it's only one minute long! Matt & brad finished with their feelin' good style performance of MATH CLASS which was written about high school, and performed last night right beside THE very high school where matt went, and his musical genius blossomed into what it is today.
    We also raised $400 for breast cancer! So you could say matt saved 400 breasts last night!

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