Scott Matthews

Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton

“Scott, take your coat off”, “Scott, I saw you in Bilston, “Scott, play Hallelujah”.

Maybe because Scott Matthews is a Wolverhampton lad the audience thought it was appropriate to chat to him between songs.

While he handled the good-natured heckling last night with a sense of humour, it did break up the ambience of what was an intimate and mainly acoustic show.

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Scott Matthews

Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton

“Scott, take your coat off”, “Scott, I saw you in Bilston, “Scott, play Hallelujah”.

Maybe because Scott Matthews is a Wolverhampton lad the audience thought it was appropriate to chat to him between songs.

While he handled the good-natured heckling last night with a sense of humour, it did break up the ambience of what was an intimate and mainly acoustic show.The 30-year-old singer-songwriter from Merry Hill released his album Passing Stranger last year and the songs on it that have been played on Radio One since then, such as Dream Song, were the best received.

His guitar playing was faultless and his pained vocals conveyed real emotion.

Comparisons with Jeff Buckley are inevitable, and he will get many more requests to cover Hallelujah as his star continues to rise.

When he spoke to the Express & Star, he said it was “bizarre” to see his name on advertising boards in Wolverhampton. On this evidence he’d better get used to it.

By Daniel Pountney