Sorry UK Peeps - this one’s another US Only vid - Lucky Bastar… Cough.. People…

Anyway…

Point your browsers lovingly in the following direction:
Rob Thomas - Behind the Scenes Music Video - Someday

I’ll try and get a copy of this uploaded to the site for other countries to enjoy - any USA fans with a copy - sendy sendy :-P.

Ben.

Just found this lurking around on youtube, it’s one of the best MB20 Covers i’ve heard. Have a listen and if you like it i also recommend Crash into me  - a cover of the Dave Matthews Band’s classic track.

Buy this track now on itunes:

So i just found this randomly floating in cyberspace.. and thought it would be of interest to you guys…

by Gabriella, August 1998

Rob Thomas’s charismatic stage presence and catchy tunes have made Matchbox 20 the music biz’s latest greatest stars. Backed by Kyle Cook on lead guitar, Adam Gaynor on rhythm guitar, Brian Yale on bass and Paul Doucette on drums, Thomas and company have been the mainstay of dozens of American and European festivals this summer. Despite a never-ending world-tour schedule, Thomas seemed far from tired when NY Rock’s Gabriella recently met up with him. Rather, she found him in a brilliant mood, enjoying success to the max…

NY Rock: I read that a lot of your songs are autobiographical. Doesn’t it frighten you to bare your soul to a crowd of strangers?

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20:
I don’t think you can take the songs literally. I tried to be cryptic. I didn’t want to be too obvious but my past has inspired me a lot. I came from the wrong side of town and that wasn’t really easy. So, if I sing about “the same old trailer trash in new shoes” on “A Girl Like That,” then I know how it feels. My mom and I used to live in a trailer park for a while. I certainly wasn’t born with the silver spoon in my mouth. It’s hard for me to feel settled. I’m the typical military brat. I was born on a military base in Germany and I grew up in different places.

NY Rock:
And now you’re traveling more than ever…

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20:
That’s true. We always seem to be on the road. I don’t even have an apartment back in Orlando anymore. Everything’s working so great for us. You know it’s like snowballing; it just seems to go on and on and I love it.

NY Rock:
So you enjoy the rock’n'roll lifestyle?

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20:
I’m kind of “drifting” once again, always being in different places, always being on the road, but I really enjoy it. It’s a good feeling and we love playing live. To be honest, I can’t imagine anything I’d rather do. You know it’s so amazing if thousands of people are singing your music. It’s really mind blowing. We all love it, but we’re not the kind of guys who go around and play the big stars. It’s all about music you know and playing the music you like, not about big egos and rock star attitude.

NY Rock:
What kind of music inspires you?

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20:
I’ve always loved the music of Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Al Green and R.E.M. They have great songs and they inspire and influence me. I think their songs can be best described as quality songs, great songs.

NY Rock:
You’ve often been called the “next big thing.” How do you feel about that?

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20:
Somehow I think the music business is always waiting for the so called “Next Big Thing,” but we’ve been playing music for quite a while. I’ve been writing songs for longer than yesterday. I think the danger is that a lot of bands are pushed by the industry. They have a good song and the industry pushes them. They become stars over night and they end up being one-hit wonders. The music biz is pretty fast paced and there are a lot of hypes, but there are always people who like quality songs and if you’re writing and performing quality songs I think you last longer. At least I hope so.

NY Rock:
You’re really busy with touring. Don’t you feel washed out?

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20:
We’re not good being lazy. You know, if we take time off, we just don’t know what to do with ourselves. We’re so used to our routine, to be on the move, constantly being on the road with concerts ahead of us. It grows on you and you get so used to it, you’re not complete without it. Really, I was waking up and thinking about going on the road, then I remembered that it was time off.

NY Rock:
In America and Europe, the single “Push” has caused quite an uproar. A lot of feminists seem to be offended.

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20:
I don’t understand how people who claim to have a brain can misunderstand [the song] so much. It’s not about physical violence. It’s about emotions and how somebody can push you around without even lifting a finger. It’s all emotional. It’s all far more subtle. Anyway, in that song it’s the guy who gets pushed around by a girl he’s having a relationship with. I had a relationship like that where I was emotionally pushed around, and you know what? I grew almost comfortable with it. I got used to it. Almost enjoyed it because I thought that’s how relationships work. I thought it’s about getting manipulated and controlled. It’s a bit crazy that people claim that I’m a chauvinist and have a violent attitude towards women.

NY Rock:
You seem pretty annoyed with it…

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20:
What annoys me even more is that some people claim we are a one-hit wonder. Even when “3 AM” was played by all the radio stations, some people still called us a one-hit wonder. That’s pretty stupid and unoriginal. I guess they didn’t even notice that we already had another hit, but probably two-hit wonder doesn’t sound as good. It’s a pretty good way to try to discredit a band. Call them a one-hit wonder and people won’t expect much from them. It just didn’t work the way they’ve planned it.

NY Rock:
You guys must spend a lot of time together. Don’t you get annoyed with each other? Isn’t it hard to have five different characters more or less locked up together?

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20:
We’re spending so much time together, we’re like family. Five brothers who are also friends and we try not to invade each other’s breathing space. Of course we have different opinions on some subjects, but we try our best to talk it out. Of course we squabble and quarrel occasionally, just like siblings do, but we don’t carry grudges and we treat each other very civilly. If you’re living in a tour bus… Well, I think it’s not possible for people who aren’t friends, it’s so crowded. We’ve learned to deal with it and we take everything with a pinch of salt. Humor is the best way to get along.

NY Rock:
So what are your goals for the future?

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20:
We are enjoying the success we have now and we’ll try to make another good record, but we don’t know if people will like it. We sure hope so, but there’s really no guarantee for it. I think it would be wrong to write songs because you think the audience might like it. The goal is to write the best songs you can write and hope for the best.

Favorite holiday tradition: “A big one for us is on Christmas Eve my wife makes the Greek dish moussaka, so we always eat that and watch It’s A Wonderful Life on TV. We have to do that every year.” In case you were wondering, that would be on Thomas’ VHS player: “The only reason that I still have a VHS player is I don’t want to buy the DVD, I still like putting in the tape … it makes me feel better. It’s still in great shape because that tape only gets played once a year.”

Favorite holiday song: “I’m a Christmas geek … if you get a couple of eggnogs in me, I’ll sing any Christmas song.”

Naughty or nice? “Both!”

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-12-14-christmasinwashington14_VA_N.htm

Click here to go to Ticket Master Australia and find your tickets!

A new Australia pre-sale has been announced!

February 19, 2010 - Royal Theatre - Canberra, ACT

Pre-Sale is currently scheduled to begin on Wednesday, November 18th at 10am venue time for fan club members.

Please Note: The Ticketmaster/Live Nation pre-sale code that is listed in your fan club account toward the bottom of the tour page will also be the pre-sale code that you will use for all Australia presales (including Ticketek).

VIP Packages will be available as well for the Australian tour. Gold and Silver Packages will be available in all markets. VIP Prices are available at the time of purchase.

Kyle Cook of Matchbox Twenty has been working with Girls Aloud beauty Nadine Coyle!

Kyle Cook  has spent the last few days working with Nadine Coyle on new material for her solo debut in 2010. They’ve been working on tracks in Nashville - see below:

Girls Aloud’s Nadine Coyle has been recording with a member of Matchbox 20 for her anticipated debut album - expected to be released in early 2010.

The Irish beauty is the second singer in the band to record solo material (the first being Cheryl Cole, who celebrated a number one single and album recently with ‘Fight For This Love’ and ‘3 Words’, respectively).

And now fans who are signed up to the Girls Aloud’s mailing list, received this message on Nadine’s upcoming record:

“Between now and Christmas, Nadine will travel to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Ireland, New York and back to London to continue working on her new album, working with producers like Kyle Cook of Matchbox 20.”

Coyle recently wrote on her Twitter page: “Not doing any country tracks, but catching up with a great writer at his studio to record the tracks we wrote in NYC. Ireland/London soon.”

Check out the article below from Solo now - The Matchbox Engine is churning…..

Kyle Cook and Brian Yale (pookie) Playing Live

Singer Rob Thomas is big on his solo thing these days, but Matchbox Twenty is lingering just around the corner.

“That’s the next project. We’re going to be getting some songs together,” Thomas says about his former band, one of the biggest pop-rock groups of the past decade or so, known for songs such as “Push,” “3 A.M.,” “If You’re Gone” and “Mad Season.”

But for now, it’s all about Thomas, on the road with his second solo effort, “cradlesong.”

“I didn’t have a lot of presumptions when I made it,” Thomas says of pulling together “cradlesong,” his follow-up to 2005’s “Something to Be.” “I just put together the best songs I’d written at the time.”

The main songwriter of Matchbox Twenty wrote 40 tunes for “Cradlesong” and recorded 25 of them. Fourteen of them made the final cut.

“I didn’t want it to sound like records I’ve done in the past,” he says.

When he finished recording “cradlesong,” what he heard, unexpectedly, was an ’80s-sounding record, but not ’80s in the “quirky, Kraftwerk” kind of way, but in a Duran Duran, INXS, Peter Gabriel sort of way.

“On the last record, we programmed things pretty heavily because that was the sound of the moment,” Thomas says. “We knew we didn’t want to do that this time.”

“Cradlesong” will receive a workout when Thomas brings his show to town this weekend.

On Thomas’ first solo tour a few years ago, he performed more Matchbox Twenty songs to help fill out the set list. With two albums of his own, he doesn’t have to do that so much. Plus, he says, possibly as soon as next year he’ll be doing Matchbox Twenty songs full on again, so there was no need to focus on them now.

One song fans might expect to hear here is “Her Diamonds,” the first single from “cradlesong.”

He wrote it about his wife, Marisol, who has an autoimmune disease.

“The song is a glimpse inside of a moment of how we deal with it,” Thomas says. “We’ve all lost someone or know someone going through something. I want people to attach this song to their lives.”

At a recent Los Angeles concert, he threw Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” into the set for the first time; he did it for audience member Courteney Cox, who starred in the Boss’ 1984 music video for the song before she hit it big.

Outside of the basic format, Thomas says, he has no idea how his St. Louis set list will go.

“The singles are always there, the songs they love us to play,” he says. “And we’ll just make up the rest as we go along.”

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Listen to every track in full from Rob’s new album “Cradlesong”. Leave a comment below and let us know what you think.. I’m digging Mocking Bird at the moment.. how about you?

Maybe you and me got lost somewhere, we can’t move on and we can’t stay here…

Easy listening…

Cradlesong by Rob Thomas

All Songs Copyright of there respective owners.