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From today Matt Marr’s new album, Currency Of Souls is available as a FREE download! It’s true, we want to spread the word about this amazing collection of songs from Bournemouth’s own Matt Marr, so here we go…

Simply navigate your way to either Matt’s own website – mattmarr.co.uk – or go to Matt’s Bandcamp site – music.mattmarr.co.uk – where you can listen to the whole album and then download it for free until March 23rd. It’s that easy…hey, look! You can even listen to the album on this site, look right >>> then click through to download it!

In return we’ll ask for your email address, but only so we can let you know when Currency Of Souls is released physically or when Matt is playing live, for example. If you like the album, you could make yourself feel even better by spreading the word:

• Facebook
• MySpace
• Twitter
• Last.fm
• Soundclick
• Soundcloud
• Virb
• thesixtyone
• blip.fm
• Reverbnation

…making Matt and us forever grateful!

As a build up to the release of The Sables’ second album later this year, they have announced today that they will be making available a number of free downloads. These will be available on The Sables’ website and available right now is the Pilgrim Man EP including the hit single ‘Baby You Don’t Know‘…soon to come will be the YAAARD remix of ‘After The Rain’ – which is amazing. The Pilgrim Man EP is also available – along with the rest of The Sables’ back catalogue – on their Bandcamp site, you can also listen to tracks before you buy. More updates to follow…

One of the main reasons Honey Be Records came into existence was to help spread the word about music we’d heard and then loved. There are many, many incredible recordings – labours of love, even – from “local” artists with anything but “local” attitudes to their music and its “listenership”. Beach In The Fallin’ Rain is one of them. When we first heard this deeply personal album written by Matt Marr and recorded along with longtime band mates from The Marlins – Tom Bradford and Paul ‘Dixie’ Harley – it was early 2006.

Since then Matt has released a self-titled solo EP, available here and has his second full-length offering, Currency of Souls, waiting in the wings for an early Spring 2010 release on Honey Be Records. Beach… remains a deeply personal collection of songs, the precursor to his latest output. The themes are those of loss, nostalgia, random weekends in Amsterdam, the fictional mixed with fact enhanced by the melodies and sounds within.

Beach In The Fallin’ Rain is available now from Matt Marr’s Bandcamp site either as a download or for just one more of your Earth pounds the CD AND the download, wheee! You can also listen to the album right now on this very page (look to your right a bit!) If that’s not enough, then mattmarr.co.uk holds the key to a free track from the forthcoming Currency of Souls. You’ll be asked to sign up to Matt’s occasional email newsletter in order to get the track, but you can unsubscribe instantly.

Thanks so much for reading, we hope you’ll love this record as much as we do, please feel free to spread the word far and wide because we’re a tiny voice in a big room! Buy Matt Marr’s Beach In The Fallin’ Rain here…

Just over a week since the Deltorers debut EP was released and we’ve received our first review from Dan Renton’s excellent new project and home of all things rock – Dorset Rock Online!  We encourage you to check out this website anyway, as it’s full of news, reviews and gig listings for ROCK gigs in Dorset, but also please take a minute to check out Dan’s review and maybe even leave him a comment, I’m sure it’d be most appreciated. 

Onward and upward, the EP is available in digital form from the Deltorers’ Bandcamp page, in physical form at all forthcoming Deltorers gigs – the next is at Champions on Sat 28 Nov: ROCK AND TEASE – and shortly from our very own Honey Be Records Emporium…as soon as I’ve finished it and the badges arrive