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Where the songs actually live. Loud enough to mean it, quiet enough to hear the room.

Matthew Sloan Wallace singing into a microphone and playing an amber Les Paul at centre stage, singer and keyboardist to his left, drummer and bassist to his right, in a wood-panelled room.
VideoThe first set clip is being cut. Until it lands, the room in photographs — and the Saturday jam, every week.
Amanda Chun in a black top and jeans at a microphone stand on a small stage, the drummer out of focus behind her.
David Alan at a Hammond SK2 in a dim warm room, a second keys player behind a microphone beside him.
Al Wooldridge in a pale fedora looking down at his snare, a wall lamp glowing behind the kit.
The band in silhouette under a low ceiling and stage lights, heads of the crowd across the bottom of the frame.
Matthew Sloan Wallace in a black cap playing a goldtop Les Paul at a microphone stand on a plank stage, drums and a bassist behind him.

Photographs

The room, in frames

Real rooms, real light.

  • David Alan, Amanda Chun, Al Wooldridge and Melvin Hill standing side by side in front of amplifiers and a drum kit under warm lamp light.
  • Matthew with his cap on backwards, in a dark denim jacket, looking back over his shoulder from the stage toward a small seated audience in a candle-lit room.
  • Matthew standing full-length on a small club stage, looking down at the fretboard of a flame-top Les Paul, a mic stand to his left and a pedalboard at his feet.
  • Silhouetted band on a hazy stage lit from behind, Matthew at centre with guitar and mic stand, audience heads and a raised hand in the foreground
  • Backlit silhouettes of the five-piece band on a small stage with bare bulbs and a lampshade glowing behind them, audience heads in the foreground
  • Low-angle close-up of Matthew looking down at the neck of a Les Paul, a wall of hanging guitars behind him.

The rigA TV-yellow Gibson Les Paul Special through a Soldano and a Fender Vibrolux, blended. That pair covers the range.

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