The Mat Day Band – The Mat Day Band
The Mat Day Band – The Mat Day Band
Format: CD – Digital
Label: Independent
Release: 2025
Mat Day will be familiar to blues audiences around the country as the lead guitarist with The Greg Coulson Band. His involvement with Greg has taken him to blues clubs and festivals all over the UK, in addition to supporting the James Taylor Quartet on their 2022 UK tour
Mat got his start with a blues/rock/funk band from Birmingham called Kimmy and the Wahoos. The band became well established in the pub and club circuit in and around Birmingham, where Mat honed his skills as a professional guitarist.
Besides Greg Coulson, Mat is involved with a number of other music projects, notably as guitarist with Billy Lockett, with whom he played festivals around the UK last summer, including BST Hyde Park, no less. And Mat recently toured with The Blockheads, and recently joined Alice Armstrong’s band as lead guitarist. In addition, he also works with the Northampton based singer Afreine.
In spite of his popularity as an in-demand sideman and session musician, Mat’s heart and soul is deeply rooted in the music that inspired him to pick up the guitar in the first place – the blues.
In order to pursue his real passion, Mat recently embarked on his own blues-based project, The Mat Day Band. With the experienced Luke Palmer on bass, the multi-instrumentalist Sam Round on drums, and the young and highly talented Ben Maxwell on keyboards, Mat began working on some original music, and the band’s debut EP dropped on 6th April 2025. Consisting of a mix of self-penned originals, and Chicago-style blues standards, the music draws on inspiration from icons of the blues guitar, such as Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robben Ford. The album is currently available on all streaming platforms.
Website: https://matdaymusic.com/