This was really a 5 star gig. Matt Anderson was outstanding. A truly great singer and guitarist. Not as bluesy as I was hoping for but excellent not the less. The only downside to the evening was the audience. Why do people pay good money for a gig and then talk loudly all the way through? Really disrespectful to the artist and the rest of the audience. I've experienced this before at Dingwalls and I'm now seriously thinking about not bothering to attend any more gigs there,which would be a shame. Hence the 4 stars.
Posted by Dave J. on 23/03/2019
Matt Andersen, PowerHaus, London - 22nd March 2019
Singer-songwriter Adam Baldwin has been a mainstay of the Atlantic Canada music scene for over a decade. With his sophomore full-length, Concertos & Serenades, Adam Baldwin - born and raised “inside these imaginary lines” that denote Nova Scotia - offers an east coast testimony that challenges the typical tourism marketing gloss. Through eight masterful yarns, the songwriter bears witness and pays tribute to a tradition of desperation: sinners and losers, perpetual failures, and down-and-out phantoms that haunt his home’s coastlines and back roads - without a passing judgement. Some of the tales happened, some didn’t, and most walk a tightrope between truth and fiction. Starting as a member of rock combo Gloryhound before joining Matt Mays & El Torpedo in 2009, Baldwin’s own music has continued to evolve since his award winning self-titled solo debut EP in 2013. In 2016 Baldwin released his first full length album No Telling When (Precisely Nineteen Eight-Five) featuring the singles “Daylight” and “Anytime”. In 2019 he released the follow up No Rest for the Wicked, including “Salvation” and “Dark Beside the Dawn”.