Since taking over Gang Gang last year we have been blown away by the quality of our local music scene. We are very excited to launch the first of a new series of shows, GG selects. Every now and then an artist comes through that has something special. Matty Ellis was playing when we first started gigging in a band called Rubycon (a long time ago). We somehow managed to never cross paths. Matty reached out to us after a near 10 year-long hiatus from live shows to see about hosting a night at GG (Songs and Stories). It turns out that Matty has been writing some new tunes while dusting off his old ones and what we have heard so far has truly blown us away. As one of the best songwriters we have had the pleasure of hosting at GG we now feel it’s our duty to share his tunes with all the people that haven’t heard them yet. You may recognise Sara Flint as our fantastic barista, she was also recently crowned as the GG sock wrestling champion. Sara also happens to be a killer muso. She is a member of the hugely successful Apricot Ink who are signed and have a crazy amount of plays. Sara recently, very kindly agreed to come and sing on our album we’re recording. We immediately started hassling her to do a show at GG. She doesn’t do solo shows so this will be a special one-off. Reverend Bones is one of our oldest friends, we played shows together at the very beginning. Something that has always impressed us about Bones is his hunger to learn and improve musically. It’s frightening how quickly he can absorb different styles of music and we feel it’s this vast depth of knowledge that makes his music so rich. We hope you enjoy the first GG selects, I know we will!