May 2017
Matthew is writing music for the new Chris England Play TWITSTORM at the Park Theatre this spring.

Guy Manton is a national treasure, the much-loved host of a caustic television panel show, until a throwaway remark is inadvertently shared with the whole world and, before Guy knows what is happening, he is being battered by the TWITSTORM.

A hilarious exploration of what can happen when the self-righteousness of social media gets out of hand. From Chris England author of the hit comedy BREAKFAST WITH JONNY WILKINSON and co-author of the acclaimed AN EVENING WITH GARY LINEKER.

From the producer behind Park Theatre hits DEAD SHEEP, AN AUDIENCE WITH JIMMY SAVILE, THE ROUNDABOUT and DENY, DENY, DENY.

Cast includes Jason Merrells, Claire Goose, Justin Edwards and social media star Tom Moutchi.

April 2017
Nono records have released a collection of Matthew's songs from Nashville featuring tracks co-written with J. Fred Knobloch, Don Henry, and Tom Kimmel. Vocalists include Catherine Porter, Cassidy Janson, and Damien Edwards. A QUIET PLACE I'VE WAITED will be available for sale at iTunes and Amazon and for Streaming at Spotify. Proceeds donated to charities in memory of Julia Knobloch.

March 2017
Matthew and Bernie are co-writing a new series of books about amateur sleuth Jessica Castle. Three books have been signed by Simon & Schuster, the first in the series to be published in October 2018. read more

Welcome to Castle Kidbury - a pretty town in a green West Country valley. A microcosm of the wider world, it's home to all sorts of people, with all the stresses and joys of modern life, but with a floral clock and a proper butcher's. It also has, for our purposes, a rash of gory murders ...
 
Jess Castle is running away. Again. This time she's running back home, like she swore she never would.
 
Castle Kidbury, like all small towns, hums with gossip but now it's plagued with murder of the most gruesome kind. Jess instinctively believes that the hippyish cult camped out on the edge of town are not responsible for the spate of crucifixions that blights the pretty landscape. Her father, a respected judge, despairs of Jess as she infiltrates the cult and manages, not for the first time, to get herself arrested.
 
Rupert Lawson, a schooldays crush who's now a barrister, bails her out. Jess ropes in a reluctant Rupert as she gatecrashes the murder investigation of DS Eden. A by-the-book copper, Eden has to admit that intuitive, eccentric Jess has the nose of a detective.
 
As the gory murders pile up, there’s nothing to connect the victims. And yet, the clues are there if you look hard enough.
 
Perfect for fans of Midsomer Murders and MC Beaton, this is cosy crime at its most entertaining and enthralling.

February 2017
Following a run at The Park Theatre, Cahoots Theatre's production of J.B. Priestly's play will be appearing in the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, New York.

​Matthew's score will be travelling with the show which is directed by Hugh Ross, with design by Polly Sullivan and lighting by David Howe.

​With Steven Blakeley, Lisa Bowerman, Richenda Carey, Charlie Field, Derek Hutchinson, Annie Jackson, Ed Pinker, Brian Protheroe, Hugh Sachs and Carol Starks.

​“Highly enjoyable...Yet further proof that J.B. Priestley was one of the best writers of a well-made play.”
British Theatre Guide

December 2016
The various arrangments of Matthew's familiar theme continue to herald each episode of HOME FRONT as it begins it's ninth season.

This season opens shortly after the Somme, on the day a war-weary Germany made a peace offer to the Allies via neutral America - an offer treated with suspicion by Lloyd George's new Government, formed only the day before.

Season nine of Home Front is story-led by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and written by Sarah Daniels, Katie Hims, Shaun McKenna and Claudine Toutoungi.

​HOME FRONT is edited by Jessica Dromgoole.