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Unlike many pop idol products, Matt Corby’s attempts to break out of his Australian Idol mould have proven relatively successively. Just one month after coming across Corby’s single Brother, I had the chance to see him live at London’s Hackney Chapel, an intimate venue where he could demonstrate his vocal prowess, corrupting even the holiest of saints.

He’s just as comfortable stripped down with a guitar or piano, as he is belting out hits like Brother and Resolution, highlighting his unique vocal range and power behind his performances. His small collection of EPs prove enough for an engaging set that’s as passionately sung as it is personally relevant to songwriter Corby. He changes up the vocalization when singing live, but his throaty choruses and high octaves undeniably keep to Corby’s style.

One thing he hasn’t left behind from his reality show days are a legion of devoted female fans infiltrating virtually every show, especially eager in his native Australia, undoubtedly a consequence of his broody persona and charming good looks.

Luckily, his devotion to his music and his passionate commitment to his performances are enough for me to forgive his Australian Idol roots. His last tour was the Resolution Tour late 2013, and he’s got nothing currently planned, but you can bet he’ll pack up the tour bus and hit the road once he’s finished working on his new album in his native Australia.

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First off, I would like to say congratulations to the Overcoats for a magnificent open! They were so precious and had so much fun on stage. The cute little dances, beats, and just how well their voices blended together we're all fantastic. And then the precious angel that Matt Corby is came on stage and killed the show. His range and musical talents are so incredibly vast. I've never seen someone stand 6 feet behind their mic and belt out perfect notes. I honestly fell in love with Bree Tranter who plays keys and other auxiliary percussion in the tour. she also has her own album out and you should check her out❤️. But then after the show, we caught the whole band in the alley and they were so cool and just interested in their fans and truly cared about what we had to say to them and were really engaged in conversations. Possibly the best concert I've been to.

As someone who has seen Matt live before, I can confirm that there is nothing else in the world like this experience. His voice is the literal definition of goose bumps and no video nor audio recording can do justice as to what his magical voice is like in person. The ability at his concerts to close your eyes and be transported just by the sound and atmosphere is everything. Also I've been a massive fan for years now, and to see him blow up like he has to performing to massive crowds like this is wonderful, and what he deserves. I believe everyone in the world should get the chance to experience the gift in which is Matt's voice and stage presence. Overall, musically the man is fantastic but as a person Matt gives the best vibes and is just so charismatic! Fabulous concert, can't wait to see you again on your next tour Matt! Love you to bits!

I don't usually watch the videos I take at concerts, but I've watched these ones a lot. By far, THE best gig I've been to in my life. The venue was amazing, very small and up close to everything, it all felt very real. As for the music... damn, that guy can sing. I still have goosebumps, and there were other grown men in tears. I've never seen anyone sing with so much passion (I know that sounds cheesy) but Matt just really got into it. At the end, for a few seconds, no one cheered, we just all stood there in awe. Absolutely incredible. I almost hope that Matt Corby doesn't get too well know! Smaller venues make for a mic more memorable evening, especially when you're right at the front.

I went to this gig on the strength of having one EP. I therefore knew he had a very good voice but hearing him live was very very good - effortless and amazing voice.

Would recommend going to see him very very good.

Only down point was some idiots stood behind us who where talking constantly - you don;t expect a library but these idiots took the biscuit!!! I'm only putting this as a remote hope they read this!!!!

Matt Corby really impressed me. His songs are written so cleverley. I’d even say he comes across as a music genius. The sounds on stage were amazing, played & sung so so beautifully. He had a audience that were so into him that they sat still to absorb the beautiful singing & the musicians were just perfect. Yay 3 pianos. Can you get a fourth do ai can play with you too!

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Hearing Matt Corby is always a blessing and I am definitely thankful for having been there.

I although believe the concert was too short. 1 hour and 15 min didn't meet my expectations, especially having travelled from so far to be able to be in this concert.

The venue was however a good place for this concert, sound was perfect and all the ambience also.

It was my first time seeing Matt Corby and it was absolutely amazing. One thing you should know: He sounds 785876 times better life than on YouTube (and I know how good he sounds on YouTube, don't worry).

The atmosphere was amazing, nobody tried to jump the queue, nobody was drunk like an idiot, it was pretty chilled.

I'm really glad I went.

I wish I could have seen Matt’s concert two nights in a row. I was so relaxed throughout the show with his beautiful music. An incredible talent and generous performer. My last concert was Florence & the Machine which can’t even compare to Matt Corby (don’t even get me started).

Matt never disappoints. 3rd time I've seen him. His vocals are stunning and what a great venue manchester cathedral is. A brilliant night. Played alot from new album 'rainbow Valley' and a few old ones. The band sounded great and the support 'jones' was great aswell.

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Matt Corby is performing on Thursday, October 12 and Friday, October 13. Limited tickets remain for Thursday, October 12, click here. TD Music Hall presents Matt Corby announces his new album, Everything’s Fine , for release on March 24, alongside the announce of his 2023 North American tour and his latest prismatic release, ‘Reelin’. His first album in five years, Everything’s Fine vividly captures the personal and creative growth of Matt Corby who, like many, was tipped belly side up recently. Beyond the global touring pause, on the day he had planned to begin writing his next album Matt’s home was inundated with floodwaters. His family moved into Rainbow Valley Studios, where he juggled familial responsibilities with his creative pursuits - a one-of-a-kind pressure cooker circumstance that would galvanise his artistic evolution.

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This year is going to shine bright as we bring much-loved Aussie artists together with an exciting international act for a stellar line-up featuring  JAMES BAY ,  MATT CORBY ,  ZIGGY ALBERTS ,  THELMA PLUM , KITA ALEXANDER *, and  MIA WRAY . *Not playing Lake Macquarie.

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Matt Corby Announces ‘Everything’s Fine’ Album Tour, Shares New Single

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Matt Corby will release his third studio album,  Everything’s Fine , on Friday, 24th March via Island Records Australia. Corby will celebrate the album’s release with a run of tour dates in late May and early June. The album’s third single, ‘Big Smoke’, is out now.

‘Big Smoke’ – which appears half-way through the album track list – follows earlier singles ‘Problems’ and ‘Reelin” . In a statement, Corby said ‘Big Smoke’ deals with bad habits. “‘Big Smoke’ is a song that touches on the duality of living with your vices but being conscious of the fact they are probably not good for you.”

Matt Corby – ‘Big Smoke’

The Everything’s Fine  album tour begins at Melbourne’s Forum on Monday, 22nd May. Corby will play in Brisbane on Friday, 26th May and Sydney on Tuesday, 30th May. The headline tour concludes at Adelaide’s Hindley Street Music Hall on Saturday, 3rd June.

Corby has said the new album was informed by significant changes in his personal life. “I feel like I’ve become aware of a lot of the stuff I need to work on, and I’m happy to start – and I have been,” he said in a statement. “All of that chaos helped me not be neurotic with this album process and get to the point where I accepted things. Like, I couldn’t sit and stew over how something sounded and potentially make it worse if I was needed elsewhere.”

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Matt Corby  Everything’s Fine  Tour 2023

Monday, 22nd May – The Forum, Naarm / Melbourne, VIC

Friday, 26th May – Fortitude Music Hall, Meanjin / Brisbane, QLD

Tuesday, 30th May – Enmore Theatre, Eora / Sydney, NSW

Saturday, 3rd June – Hindley Street Music Hall, tarntanya / Adelaide, SA

Fan pre-sale and Spotify Fans First begins Friday, 17th February at 9am AEDT. General on-sale from Tuesday, 21st February at 9am AEDT

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Matt Corby Announces ‘Everything’s Fine’ Album Tour, Shares New Single

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Matt Corby will release his third studio album,  Everything’s Fine , on Friday, 24th March via Island Records Australia. Corby will celebrate the album’s release with a run of tour dates in late May and early June. The album’s third single, ‘Big Smoke’, is out now.

‘Big Smoke’ – which appears half-way through the album track list – follows earlier singles ‘Problems’ and ‘Reelin” . In a statement, Corby said ‘Big Smoke’ deals with bad habits. “‘Big Smoke’ is a song that touches on the duality of living with your vices but being conscious of the fact they are probably not good for you.”

Matt Corby – ‘Big Smoke’

The Everything’s Fine  album tour begins at Melbourne’s Forum on Monday, 22nd May. Corby will play in Brisbane on Friday, 26th May and Sydney on Tuesday, 30th May. The headline tour concludes at Adelaide’s Hindley Street Music Hall on Saturday, 3rd June.

Corby has said the new album was informed by significant changes in his personal life. “I feel like I’ve become aware of a lot of the stuff I need to work on, and I’m happy to start – and I have been,” he said in a statement. “All of that chaos helped me not be neurotic with this album process and get to the point where I accepted things. Like, I couldn’t sit and stew over how something sounded and potentially make it worse if I was needed elsewhere.”

Matt Corby:  Everything’s Fine

• Words I Say
• Better Than That
• Everything’s Fine

Matt Corby  Everything’s Fine  Tour 2023

• Monday, 22nd May – The Forum, Naarm / Melbourne, VIC
• Friday, 26th May – Fortitude Music Hall, Meanjin / Brisbane, QLD
• Tuesday, 30th May – Enmore Theatre, Eora / Sydney, NSW
• Saturday, 3rd June – Hindley Street Music Hall, tarntanya / Adelaide, SA

Fan pre-sale and Spotify Fans First begins Friday, 17th February at 9am AEDT. General on-sale from Tuesday, 21st February at 9am AEDT

Tickets from mattcorbymusic.com

Further Reading

Matt Corby Announces New Album ‘Everything’s Fine’, Shares Latest Single

Listen to Matt Corby’s Smooth New Single ‘Problems’

Beckah Amani: “I’m Proud to Be Black and I’m Proud to Be a Black Woman”

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‘I definitely almost died’: Matt Corby on surviving floods, health scares and reality TV

After losing his home last year, the Australian musician suddenly felt inspired to write his new album, Everything’s Fine. He talks about the bad times that led to it

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W hen catastrophic floods hit the New South Wales northern rivers in early 2022, musician Matt Corby awoke to find himself in an apocalyptic scene. Cows were swimming past his balcony, while neighbours perched on top of their roofs awaiting rescue. In search of higher ground, he jumped in a dinghy along with his dogs, four-year-old son, heavily pregnant partner and mother-in-law, and headed for a bridge in Murwillumbah. There, they huddled together with about 100 others, while cars floated underneath and street signs only just poked out from the water.

“There were pregnant women, there were kids, there were dogs fighting, there were cows everywhere. It was chaos,” Corby remembers. “It was still raining and the water was coming up … There was no phone reception. It was a full end of the world kind of thing.”

Corby and his family were eventually rescued by three good samaritans who began ferrying people, five at a time, to safer territory in boats. But his home – which was not insured – was ruined. After the initial clean-up, he and his family moved into the music studio he has on a nearby property that had been unaffected by the floods. Amid the madness of trying to rebuild their home and care for a newborn baby, Corby felt invigorated for the first time in a long time to write songs.

“I was like, this better be good, because we’ve just been through a lot,” he says.

It wasn’t just the floods. Corby, a singer-songwriter who has been in the public eye for 15 years now, had watched the music industry he is part of become decimated by lockdowns. His partner, a nurse, had been working the Covid ward even while pregnant with their second child. And he had been going through his own health struggles, which he is reluctant to speak about, but from which he says he “definitely almost died”. It was, to put it lightly, a “bad time”. So you might wonder why Corby titled the album he eventually emerged with Everything’s Fine.

“Well, because it’s just not,” he laughs. “I thought it was funny.”

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Corby is speaking from the music studio where he made Everything’s Fine, his third album of emotive folk-pop music that centres his crooning vocals. He is a mix of a somewhat reluctant and very open interviewee – warm and loquacious until we hit a topic he flatly refuses to elaborate on, like some of the other lows that informed the new album, which he wants to keep to himself. Because while his career has had many highs, like the two Aria awards he has picked up and the success of his seven times-platinum breakthrough single Brother – the unmistakable yelping “ooeeeoo” vocal riff has followed him around ever since, Corby says – there have also been challenges.

If you were a consumer of free-to-air television in the mid-2000s, you may remember that Corby first found fame as a 17-year-old on season five of Australian Idol, in which he came runner-up, and has previously described going on as a “big fucking mistake”.

But Corby’s path into music began much earlier. He grew up in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire with his parents and sister, raised in a Pentecostal church now known as Shirelive (the same one attended by former prime minister Scott Morrison). While he is no longer religious, Corby enjoyed his time in the church – and got his first professional music gig there. When he had just begun high school, a group of travelling singers came to perform for his congregation. Taken by them, Corby approached the group and introduced himself as an aspiring vocalist. He auditioned to join and, a year later, was offered a position in the lineup.

“At first my parents were like, absolutely not, you’re not leaving school to go and join these crazy people … [But] eventually they caved, which they always kind of regretted,” Corby says. “I think they just lost me then – I was gone.”

Corby left school at 14 and moved into a house in western Sydney with the other members of the group, where he would live when they weren’t on tour. He saw his parents only “sporadically” during the 15 months he spent with the band and did Tafe schoolwork by correspondence (“I didn’t have a tutor, I just read the curriculum and filled in the blanks”). The group would tour for weeks at a time at the behest of local churches, who would bring them out to play at schools during the week, youth groups on Friday nights and do two Sunday services each week. “We were like a recruitment agency,” Corby remembers. It was fun but also daunting playing to school kids, who are “the toughest crowd ever – they want to destroy you”.

Towards the end of what would have been his year 10, Corby left the group and returned to his parents. He initially got a job making sandwiches at Subway, before re-joining school in year 11 – but had only made it through the first term when Australian Idol held auditions, which his father convinced him to attend. That was a decision Corby would later come to greatly regret.

“I really, really didn’t enjoy being on the show,” he says. “It was a bad time for me. I was a kid – I was 16 … You get plastered all over television and you cop a bad edit and you have these minor producers prodding at you and trying to make you upset. And then you have these judges that are, for the show, prodding at you. I think when you’re older you enter into a show like that knowing a little bit more about what you’re in for. When you’re a kid … you don’t understand how you’re being manipulated.”

Corby was in a “really bad place” during Idol, at a time before there was any real public discussion about mental health.

“This is the beginning of Myspace and stuff and a lot of online nastiness, and I just copped it from all angles from people,” he says. The online abuse was compounded by the gnawing feeling he was torpedoing his life dream: “I just thought I was ruining my chances of being taken seriously as a musician.”

When the show ended, Corby “respectfully declined” a record deal with Sony Music. He didn’t go back to school and instead spent a year playing shows under different names. The attempt at anonymity was only semi-successful – “people would always be like, aren’t you that bloke from the television?” – so after releasing his first EP independently, Corby moved to London and began playing open mic nights, enjoying being able to play to crowds who did not recognise him.

Eventually he moved back to Australia, and at age 20 wrote the pathos-imbued track Brother in his bedroom at his parents’ house, pouring into the song the shame he felt about betraying a close friend. The breakthrough success of that track was followed soon after by another hit, Resolution, and Corby’s career was set. In the years that followed he released two albums, the first of which hit No 1 on the Aria album charts, and moved to the northern rivers with his partner.

At first, Corby didn’t think much about making another album after his 2018 LP Rainbow Valley, instead focusing solely on teaching himself music production and engineering, and then using those skills for other artists – including singer-songwriter Budjerah, whose debut EP Corby earned Aria nominations for his studio work on.

Then in late 2020, Corby was taken to hospital with stomach pains. Doctors found a tumour, which he had removed, along with a portion of his bowel. He spent a week nervously waiting to find out if the tumour was cancerous. “Luckily it wasn’t,” he says. “The recovery wasn’t pleasant but I was just glad to still be here.”

Eventually, after that rocky period of natural disasters and personal reckonings, he felt ready to write Everything’s Fine. While it’s sonically in step with his earlier work, the record signposts a new era in Corby’s career, one in which he intends to take a step back from the limelight and prioritise producing other artists – largely to spare himself the ancillary requirements that come with putting out his own music. Because despite his manager’s urgings, Corby does not want to be on social media: “I genuinely hate it,” he says. “I think it’s poisoned us as humans.” He has little interest in touring beyond the bare minimum: “There’s a lot of young artists that probably deserve to be in that spot now more than me.” And he doesn’t like having to speak to journalists: “Probably because I did Idol – that’s where I was like, nah, I don’t care about promoting myself ever again.”

Corby would rather spend his days making his partner toast in the morning and dropping his son at school before tinkering in the studio. He and his family have been slowly rebuilding their home – raising it “a good metre above” the all-time flood level, which they hope will be enough – aided by the community that’s rallied around him. He had a lot of friends come to help in the aftermath of the floods and says it was “really beautiful to see that side of humans” in a time that was very difficult.

In a career of highs and lows, Corby has learned to take the good with the bad. That is what those dark days last year taught him, and the ethos he wrote his new record around. Because while Everything’s Fine is ironic, it is also true.

“Even if you just get totally shat on and life throws you a bunch of fucking curveballs, you’re still here, you’re still breathing, there’s still things that you can do,” he reflects. “Appreciating those fleeting moments of being present and enjoying what is left to enjoy when things go south – it’s really the only stuff that can keep you from spiralling … On some level, everything is kind of fine. Even though it’s so not.”

Everything Fine is out now (Island Records Australia). Matt Corby is touring Australia in May and June, then UK, Europe and the US later this year; https://www.mattcorbymusic.com/tour

• Australian music
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