Matt Baird
Matt Baird is the managing editor of BBC Countryfile Magazine, where he writes about the UK’s music festival scene. He lives in Bristol with his vast stash of Neil Young records, but his (slightly more) contemporary loves include the Replacements, early REM, the Cure and the alt-rock scene of 1994, the year of his maiden Glastonbury and first gig (Grant Lee Buffalo at Bristol’s Victoria Rooms).
Recent articles by Matt Baird
These are the 9 darkest songs of the Nineties… and they'll still leave you speechless today
Forget Britpop’s swagger, rave culture's euphoria and indie-dance’s optimism. These nine songs expose the darker underbelly of the Nineties dream
How did these 11 classic songs not make it onto an album? (No. 6 beggars belief...)
Thought a single’s job was to promote the forthcoming album? Think again, as these classic tracks that never made it onto the subsequent studio album show
