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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!

Holy Cow! We’ll let Matt himself explain this gem away:

I will be opening for Andy Burrows’ new band ‘Arrows’ (ex-Razorlight drummer – wrote a little tune called America) it is his first public appearance ahead of the release of his new album recorded with Eliot James (Noah and The Whale, Bloc Party)
“One of NME’s Albums of 2010, the first fruits of Burrows’ solo labours”
Should be a great night!

To this end, tickets are available from We Got Tickets and in the meantime you can listen to Different Shades Of Blue from the forthcoming album Currency Of Souls at Soundclick, Soundcloud, Virb and also at thesixtyone….take your pick and knock yrselves out!

See you in London Town, March 3rd…and if you can’t make it, Matt will be playing at Solid Air @ The Winchester in Bournemouth on Monday 1st March. It’s a free entry gig as ever, so please come along if you can, cheers.

Just a quick note to let you know that Matt’s first album on Honey Be is now available from the following reputable online stores: iTunes and Amazon UK.

It’d be great if you bought the album from one of these behemoths, of course, but if you’ve already got and love Beach In The Fallin’ Rain as much as we do, perhaps rate it favourably or even leave a lovely review for other sonic inquisitors?

In the meantime, we’re hard at work in Honey Be’s Midlands beehive, putting together the artwork for Matt’s new album Currency of Souls and co-ordinating our squadron of PR and new media foot soldiers to begin the assault of the ears of the world! Or something like that anyway…The album cover is a work of understated beauty, hopefully we will do the songs justice. We’re working to a post-Easter, early April release date and have put Different Shades of Blue up for a listen around the web on Soundcloud, Virb and also at thesixtyone.

Please spread the word, subscribe to our Feed for all the latest news and check back here soon, thanks for your support as ever!

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…

In the coming weeks Honey Be Records will be releasing the debut ep from Deltorers, as well as Matt Marr’s ‘lost classic’ Beach In The Fallin’ Rain. Those releases will be swiftly followed by brand new albums by both Matt Marr and The Sables, neither of which we’re yet to hear, but the ridiculously high level of expectancy we have for both albums is simply born out of what has gone before.

When Matt Marr allowed us to release both his upcoming album Currency Of Souls, as well as Beach In The Fallin’ Rain, our grins quickly became painful. Matt’s earlier work with The Marlins is also some of the most inspired songwriting we’ve heard from this area. No, simply… it is the most inspired, along with what has followed. His writing affects us in a way that only people who truly love music can begin to understand. He observes and lives life with a wonderfully heavy heart and soul. His tales, both fictitious and sometimes uncomfortably real, should be heard by anyone who shares that true love.

Deltorers have, since the first time we saw them live, got to us in an all together different way. Lacking in subtlety, experience, or (to this very day) a set of drumsticks, was on top of something far more important – giving a shit about anything other than their music. If we were teenage girls we’d fancy the Deltorers. There… that’s a confession (of sorts) of our love for these guys. But, we’d be teenage girls who had been brought up on – and loved – their parent’s old Nirvana and Sonic Youth albums, who saw these three scruffy fuckers as one of those bands you’ve loved to have discovered before they were famous. In a town where the average ‘rock’ band is about as real as reality tv, Deltorers buck that trend without trying, and that is their appeal.

Things aren’t quite so simple when it comes to talking about The Sables. Their appeal to the listener is one of discovery, to dive into its depths and drown in its beauty. To seek, to explore, to ultimately lose yourself within the vastness of its colour and emotion. South Southern Angel was an inspiration to us, not only as the final nudge needed to create Honey Be, but creatively (along with the combined talents of the rest of the Sables family) it never stops impressing. Whilst we’re still drowning in its multi-coloured ocean, we’re trying to suppress our expectations for its successor – no easy thing…

With things beginning to hot up in the land of Honey Be, we’re excited to let you know about a Matt Marr gig in Bournemouth on Sunday 27th September.  Matt will be playing at Champions live music venue near the Triangle as part of the “Sunday Worship” night which also features Charlie Hole, Tim Berry and Michael Wookey.

This is a top quality line-up with Michael having recently finished his latest album, Tim having just released an amazing collection of songs under his “Oh Dreamland” moniker and Charlie Hole rounding off the line-up superbly.

This is a night not to be missed, please join us – it’s FREE entry as well – and sample some of the songs from Matt’s forthcoming album “Currency of Souls” at first hand.  While you’re here, check out mattmarr.co.uk for an extra free download track “The Poets Son” when you sign up to his mailing list.

That’s all for now, keep on checking to find out more about the artists on Honey Be Records.  We appreciate your interest, please spread the word because our voice is small and we have something to say.  See you at the gig!

Having had a love affair with Matt Marr’s music since long before we grew beards, it’s both a great privilege and incredibly exciting to be able to announce that we are about to release his music on Honey Be Records. His music affects us deeply and is a true reflection of the man himself. It comes from the heart and soul.

In the not too distant future we will be releasing Matt’s superb new album Currency Of Souls. Prior to that, we will be distributing a 2-track album sampler at live performances, as well as at the upcoming Green Man and End Of The Road festivals through the Rough Trade stand. Both tracks can also be found on Matt’s myspace, as well as a third track ‘The Poets Son’ which is available as a free download from his website.

In the coming weeks we will also be releasing his ‘lost classic’ Beach In The Falling Rain. Since reviewing this in 2006 it has disappeared completely, available only to the lucky few who managed to grab a demo. We loved it at the time and feel privileged to unearth it and give it the exposure it truly deserves. We will shortly announce its availability as a download and strictly limited edition cd.