Happenings: Mat Hook releases third solo single Bleed Me Dry

English singer-songwriter Mat Hook re-entered the live and recorded music scene after a decade away with a full band and singles Runaway Road and Alone You Go late 2023. Hook’s third single Bleed Me Dry is out now.

The former frontman of the popular Sheffield indie-rock band Kartica returned with a debut solo single Runaway Road in August 2023, his first studio material for 10 years, after a long hiatus from the recorded music scene. The song was played on national radio by legendary British radio presenter Steve Lamacq on his BBC 6 Music show. Hook was compared to iconic Verve frontman, Richard Ashcroft, whilst played on Radio X by John Kennedy.

In 2014, Mat Hook’s rising reputation as frontman of Kartica was cut short when he stepped away from being frontman of the Sheffield band at the time the group’s music was resonating with a rapidly growing fanbase, their tracks featuring regularly on local Radio and at both Sheffield United and Wednesday football grounds and episodes of Hollyoaks.

They shared stages with the likes of Bruce Foxton (The Jam) The Beautiful South, Catfish & The Bottlemen, The Coral, Feeder, Lightning Seeds, The Twang and Little Man Tate’s Jon Windle amongst others, and received international press as far afield as South America while enjoying endorsements from Tom Clarke of The Enemy, and ex-Man United & England footballer-turned-pundit, Gary Neville.

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