Matt Backer is a leading guitarist and songwriter,
having performed and toured with an array of artists including Laura Mvula, Emilia Mitiku, Aimee
Mann, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Kim Wilde, Swing Out Sister, Elton John,
Cher, Bananarama, Joe Cocker and Alice Cooper, amongst others.
Matt’s new blues album Get Backer is produced by Matt and his long-time collaborator Ian
Shaw (Nick Heyward, Julian Cope). The album features special guests including
former Shakespeare’s Sister Marcella Detroit, Peter Cox (lead singer of Go
West), US blues legend Bill Blue and world-renowned blues harmonica player,
Adam Gussow. Award-winning British director Steve Graham directed the video to
accompany the first single, Histrionic
Narcissist Blues (Let’s Talk About
Me). Both single and album are released on 15 September.
Matt’s debut solo album, The Impulse Man, resulted in two US Independent Music Network
Number 1 singles and won Best Adult Contemporary Newcomer at the New Music
Awards in Los Angeles. Mojo described the album as having ‘the chunkiest
riffs and licks you wish youʼd
learned to play wrapped around songs reeling with fat choruses and wry humour.’
His second solo album, Idle Hands, earned him Favourite International Artist at the
Independent Music Network Awards 2013. Matt was also nominated for Favourite
Group/Duo, along with collaborative partner Julian Lennon, who co-wrote,
produced, and shared lead vocals on the anthemic single All That Youʼve Wanted. The track was play-listed
at radio stations across the USA, and reached Number 1 on several Independent
Music Network charts. Martin Fry took time out from his position as ABCʼs inspired frontman to duet on the track Halfway To Jessica. The single Let’s Art, was played on UK radio
stations nationwide, including BBC Radio 2.
Matt has toured the world with artists including
Belinda Carlisle, ABC (with whom he sold out the Royal Albert Hall performing
an orchestral version of their seminal Lexicon
Of Love album) and Rumer, on whose double platinum debut Seasons Of My Soul he performed, as well
as its follow up Boys Donʼt Cry.
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