There’s a personal flavour to the lyrics written by Spalding band The Offshore Rivers’ singer songwriter Matthew Aylett, writes Luke Harrison.
The four-man band has just produced its debut EP and one of the tracks, Farewell, is about a break up with a girl, although the songwriter admits: “I find it hard explaining what the songs are about and originally it was hard to sing them but when you do it’s easier. You just get on with it for the band.”
That honesty pays off, because it’s a favourite with fans, around a hundred of whom travel to support the band when they gig up and down the country.
It’s also one of the first songs Aylett showed Jackson in the early days: he recalls the nerves involved in exposing the work, but Jackson saw its merits, put a drum beat to it and the bond between the two was born. Follow the band at www.facebook.com/theoffshorerivers and www.soundcloud.com/theoffshorerivers