Blue Matter Records

04/06/2024

We're delighted to report that Blue Matter Records' Eliza Skelton will be appearing at the Stewart Lee curated and compered Brighton Psych Fest on 30 August. Great line up by the way...

09/04/2024

Great article/review of the wonderful Gadsby & Skol album here.

Toronto musician Rick Skol shares the story of his 1970 psyche-rock group, Gadsby & Skol, following a vinyl release over 50 years in the making.

07/04/2024

Dear All, if you are on our mailing list you will have already received our Spring newsletter alerting you to our next round of exciting releases and a lot more.

If you are not on our mailing list you can read it here...
https://bluematterrecords.substack.com/p/blue-matter-spring-newsletter?r=3mye6l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
and sign up for future newsletters at the end.

Thanks for all your support for our label, it means a lot to us, and have a good summer.

Nick and Gary

Hi Folks, Nick here, it’s about time I let you have some Blue Matter Records news. Recently, I’ve been really busy organising the Bevis Frond’s forthcoming European Tour, our first one for eight years, thank you so much Brexit. But of course, being so energetic and youthful, I haven’t been l...

24/02/2024

A couple of nice reviews of our latest offerings: from 'Eighth Day' for Ade, and 'Shindig' for Robin.

22/02/2024

Hi Folks, finally here are the dates for The Bevis Frond 2024 European Tour
As you can see, we will not be going to Italy, which is a shame, but sadly not enough venues wanted to book us to make it worthwhile. However, we will be doing a show in Stuttgart which was originally going to be a private affair, but they have now made a limited number of tickets available to the public, so if you’re interested just go to: https://www.live-at-kipepeo.com/detail/the-bevis-frond
The London show at The Lexington on May 18 has sold out, but an extra show has just been added on the next night, for which tickets are now available. Hope to see some of you at one (or more) of these gigs. Cheers, Nick

12.04.24 ES Barcelona Sidecar
13.04.24 ES Madrid Würlitzer Ballroom
14.04.24 ES Bilbao Cafe Antzokia
17.04.24 BE Leuven Het Depot
18.04.24 BE Antwerp Het Groot Verzet
19.04.24 BE Antwerp Di**le Djangl (now sold out)
20.04.24 DE Dortmund Piano Bar
21.04.24 NL Tilburg Roadburn Festival
22.04.24 DE Hamburg Logo
23.04.24 DE Berlin Quasimodo
24.04.24 DE Frankfurt Nachtleben
25.04.24 DE Nurnberg The Cult
26.04.24 DE Munich Backstage Club
27.04.24 AT Vienna Chelsea
28.04.24 DE Stuttgart Kipepeo-Clothing
18.05.24 UK London The Lexington (now sold out)
19.05.24 UK London The Lexington

21/02/2024

Hi Folks, the forthcoming Bevis Frond gig at The Lexington on Saturday May 18 is now sold out. So with a surprising show of faith in our pulling ability, they are adding another Bevis gig the next night! Tickets for this go on sale today, so if you want to see us on May 19 as well, or if you couldn't get a ticket on the 18th or you were doing something else, then this one's for you 😀!

05/02/2024

Our friend Bari Watts has created this nifty video for Adrian Shaw's "Didn't See It Coming" from his new album on Blue Matter Records, "A Dark Reflection". It features, you guessed it, Bari on guitar. Check it out...

'Didn't See It Coming' by Adrian Shaw. All Instruments & Vocals by Adrian Shaw, except for Lead Guitar by Bari Watts. Recorded at Cyborg Studios. Produced b...

11/01/2024

Here at Blue Matter Records HQ we are busying ourselves getting pre-orders for our new releases out to you as close as possible to our January 15th release date...

11/01/2024

Tech wizard and Blue Matter Records recording artist Eliza Skelton has created a YouTube channel for us. You can watch Adrian Shaw's video here now and please look out for more to follow...

Adrian Shaw - A Dark Reflection LOBE10Release date: January 15 2024www.bluematterrecords.comEleven brand new songs ranging from out and out psychedelia, thro...

08/01/2024

You spoke and we listened. Our latest Blue Matter Records releases, from Oak Acetator and Adrian Shaw, are officially out next Monday but you can order them now at our Blue Matter Records online shop for delivery as close to the release date as possible. The link is here and please note that the Oak Acetator CD includes extra material...

https://www.bluematterrecords.com/shop

26/12/2023

Platform Two Record Shop are delighted to be hosting this event on Saturday 20th January.

It’ll serve as the launch party for the next two releases on esteemed local label Blue Matter Records: Oak Acetator’s eagerly awaited debut ‘Power Trip’ and the new solo album from Ade Shaw (Hawkwind, Bevis Frond, etc).

There’ll be live sets from Oak Acetator (aka Robin Way), whose album we’re loving, and Michael Cullen Murphy, whose debut album was one of our favourites from last year!

Then there’s DJ sets from Blue Matter co-founders Nick Saloman and Gary Urwin, Blue Matter signee Tony Page (the Mundaynes, the Dear Boys, the Spiffing Good Eggs) and Disco Dave Valentine, who’ll be fresh from entertaining the masses at Aquarius International Club’s NYE bash!

Shop open from 11
DJs from 12:30
Live music from 2

See you all then!

08/12/2023

We're not prone here at Blue Matter Records to the hard sell but we would like everyone to know we are running low on stocks of Bevis Frond's " The Long Stuff" and Eliza Skelton's "The Lookerer" on 12" vinyl. If you're thinking of buying them you know what to do...

https://www.bluematterrecords.com/shop

Best wishes

Gary and Nick

30/11/2023

We've been a bit quiet recently, but I can now reveal we have 2 new releases coming out on January 15th, 2024. These will be available on vinyl LP with inserts, and also on CD. We love both these albums (obviously, or else we wouldn't have put them out), and hope you'll share our enthusiasm. All the best, Nick & Gary.

21/09/2023

If you are not on the mailing list for Blue Matter Records' recording artist Eliza Skelton ( and you should be ) her latest newsletter is below. We've had a fantastic response to her album, The Lookerer, both in plaudits and in physical sales and if you are thinking of buying the limited green vinyl version of her album we are getting very low on numbers now...

The Lookerer is now available as a digital download from Bandcamp and includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks! You can also add the album to your playlists on all the usual streaming platforms.

24/08/2023

We're delighted to report that Eliza Skelton's fab album "The Lookerer" on Blue Matter Records has just garnered another glowing review, this time from Folk Radio UK. You can read it here...

Eliza Skelton’s The Lookerer is a haunting and beguiling album that entrances with its excitingly lush sound world.

12/06/2023

Eliza Skelton's new album "The Lookerer" is already causing a stir in music circles and we're delighted to say that we're releasing it on Blue Matter Records next Monday, 19 June...

04/06/2023

It seems that Blue Matter Records aren't the only ones excited by the new Eliza Skelton album, "The Lookerer", as it's just received a four star review in the one and only Shindig! magazine. You can read it here and order it on our Blue Matter Records website shortly...

04/06/2023

Dear All, if you are on our mailing list you will have already received our May newsletter alerting you to our summer releases. If you are not on our mailing list you can read it here...

https://shoutout.wix.com/so/31OV-oQhO?languageTag=en

and sign up for future newsletters when you get to the end of it.

We would have posted here sooner but it's fair to say we have had our hands full shipping out copies of Bevis Frond's spiffing "The Long Stuff" on vinyl and CD following its release on 22 May. Although limited, we have good supplies of the double LP and copies of both formats are on their way to our European distributor at the time of writing.

We are very excited about our next two releases, Eliza Skelton's "The Looker" and Gadsy & Skol's self titled album that will both be released on 19 June. Do read about them in the newsletter.

At the moment we have good stocks of our albums and CDs with the exception of "The Clocks" on vinyl that sold out a few weeks ago.

It only remains to say we have been thrilled with your response to Blue Matter Records, thank you very much, and to wish you a good summer.

THE BEVIS FROND - THE LONG STUFF LOBE006 Release date: May 22 2023 This reissue was originally released on much coveted, super limited CDr for the Bevis Frond online community. 'The Long Stuff' does what it says on the tin - it is a double LP set of glorious extended tracks from the mighty mind of N...

09/02/2023

If you'd like to look in to the mind of Blue Matter Records friend and recording artist Michael Cullen Murphy why not tune in to his interview with The Perfumed Allotment...

Down on the allotment this week we have an interview with Michael Cullen Murphy who has an LP out now on Blue Matter Records which is run by Nick Saloman.

Alongside music from his LP which is entitled ‘All Change at the 5 and Dime’ we also feature songs from:
Primal Scream, The Rezillos, American Music Club.Gene Clark, X, Richard Hawley, Dubstar, The Bathers, Nick Drake, Us and Them (Fruits de Mer Records) Lord Power, Flash Company, Roy Harper, Earth Opera, Steve Hillage.
Such is the extent of the musical awesomeness for this week, we decided not to include anything silly, just for this show. However next week we may go slightly left and up and around and include some oddities and so on, or we may just repeat this interview in our second hour because it's really worth a listen, again.

Find us on:
KOR Radio - Fridays 10am and 9pm, Saturdays 10am.
Pop Radio U.K. friday 8pm - 11pm Saturday 12 - 3pm.
Radio Candy - Monday Wednesday Friday 5pm til 8pm.
Mad Wasp Radio Fridays, 3pm til 6pm and midnight til 3 am.
And once more on the Cat 107.9 fm...8pm Sundays bless them.