MALVERN-BASED songwriter, Matt Woosey, will make his home town a tour stop, as he promotes his latest album.

He will perform at the West Malvern Social Club, on March 5, from 9pm to midnight.

A spokesman said: "Keep moving. Keep growing. Never repeat. Never look back. It’s a bold ethos, at a time when most artists are flogged for more-of-the-same by their record labels.

"But from his arrival on the post-millennial British music scene to this year’s eighth studio album, 'Desiderata', Matt Woosey has always been a man in motion."

Matt said: “You have to keep pushing forward, and if you’re not doing that, I think you’re doing it wrong.”

The latest album will be released on March 2, shortly before the Malvern gig.

The spokesman said: "The title might be borrowed from Max Ehrmann’s deathless 1927 prose-poem, but this Desiderata is unmistakably Matt’s own worldview: the sound of a man slipping between life stages and expressing that transition in song."

Matt says the new album represents changes in his life.

He said: "You know, getting married, having a baby, turning thirty. I guess the music is a musical interpretation of those things. To me, it doesn’t really sound like anyone else.

“The instrumentation on this album is very different for me; there’s upright bass, piano, some pedal-steel, electronica. Having other musicians pulling and pushing in other directions takes the stress off me. I’m letting it happen around me. There’s so many styles and feelings on the album, musically.

“I have a real fear of repeating myself. My music has to be creative and artistic. It has to keep pushing things forward. I just want people to come with me on my journey, whatever changes I make.”