I've been working on a new website, dedicated solely to my music, both vocal and instrumental, in anticipation of the release of Pop Down The Years. Hence, the paucity of posts here on Sun Pop Blue.

I was doing one of my periodic walks down memory lane on youtube and found a couple of songs from Matt Monro, who was huge in the sixties. He was great. Amazing voice. I swear, I am going to do a cover of From Russia With Love in my live set someday.

I did an a cappella version of Softly As I Leave You in my last show at the DNA, with heavily processed vocals. Big mistake. That was an awful show. The audience didn't want to hear me. They were all there for Halloo, which was a Portishead wannabe band and they played the same song with slightly different lyrics over and over. And there was a table of drunks yelling and I was ready to call them all out. And I had some middle age guy who was drunk and had taken ecstacy for the first time right in front of the stage dancing like an spazz. And I made some serious song choice blunders for the set. It was one of those shows where you learn a whole lot about performing, if you have any desire to ever perform again afterwards.

Below, please enjoy some classic Matt Monro.  Here is a website dedicated to this great singer of yesteryear. We need more guys like him today.