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Hear Joe Matera every Sunday at 18:00 GMT at www.getreadytorockradio.com for an hour of "Pop Into Rock" where he plays a selection of his personal favourites of guitar-based rock music that is radio friendly. Repeated on Fridays 06:00 GMT
Joe's many interviews and features have appeared, and continue to appear in, countless music magazines around the world. From Australian Guitar and Rolling Stone in Australia to Classic Rock, Guitar & Bass, Metal Hammer, Performing Musician, Total Guitar, Kerrang! and Record Collector in the U.K. From Guitar World and Goldmine in the U.S to Snaggletooth in Canada. From This Is Rock and Guitarra Total in Spain to Chitarre in Italy. He also supplies exclusive interviews to Ultimate-Guitar.Com, and contributes to UK's Guardian Series Newspapers' Limited Edition magazine as well as Fairfax Newspapers' M magazine, The Sunday Age in Melbourne.
In his capacity as music journalist, Joe has interviewed a who's who of the music world as well as spent time on tour with numerous artists. Artists the calibre of Aerosmith, Velvet Revolver, Foo Fighters, Matchbox Twenty, Kiss, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Steely Dan, The Doors, Bon Jovi, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Queens Of The Stone Age, Korn, Motorhead, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Marilyn Manson, Cheap Trick, Hinder, Tool, The Cars, The Smashing Pumpkins, Queen, Nickelback, Alice Cooper, Slayer, Foreigner, Blondie, Yes, Megadeth, HIM, Linkin Park, John Mayer and many, many others.
As a guitar player, Joe plays lead guitar in legendary Australian pop-rock outfit GEISHA with Chris Doheny - one of Australia's finest singer/songwriters - at the helm. Prior to joining Geisha, Joe was a 20 + year veteran of countless original and covers outfits. His impressive playing CV includes being the lead guitarist in the orchestra for award winning stage productions of Les Misérables and Chess as well as playing guitar and performing live shows with Ash Naylor (Even), Dan England (Australian Idol) and Tim Henwood (The Rogue Traders, The Androids, The Superjesus). He also appears as guest guitarist on legendary UK metallers Atomkraft's scorching cover of Thin Lizzy's 'Cold Sweat'. One of his original instrumental compositions, 'Starry Night' also appears on the soundtrack to the upcoming Australian movie Ricky!, due for release in March, 2010.
Geisha - Birthday
Promo video clip (2009) : Directed by Liam Firmager
GEISHA RELEASES NEW ALBUM
'Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow'
GEISHA (Diamond Dog Records)Revitalised Melbourne 80s band Geisha has compiled their greatest hits together with some new songs and covers for a new album.'Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'. The album features the eight singles the band had between 1985 and 1987 from their two EMI albums 'Geisha' and 'Midnight To Down'. In addition, the album features the two new songs 'Birthday' and 'Mystery Writer' and covers of The Beatles 'Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band' and The Small Faces 'Tin Soldier'. Founding member Chris Doheny carries on the Geisha name today with Melbourne guitarist Joe Matera.
POPULAR 80'S BAND GEISHA ARE BACK WITH THEIR FIRST NEW SINGLE RELEASE SINCE 1987!
'Birthday' is a mid tempo rock ballad featuring killer hooks and the powerful vocals of founding member Chris Doheny.
'Birthday' was produced by legendary US producer Tom Werman who is noted for his work with Cheap Trick, Motley Crue, Ted Nugent, Twisted Sister, LA Guns, Stryper etc. Werman offered to produce when he heard a demo of the track in early 2008. "When I heard the demo I knew the band had a chart hit on their hands... It took me back to those crazy days of working with Cheap Trick. I thoroughly enjoyed producing the track & I'm very happy with the end result".
Geisha enjoyed tremendous success in the mid eighties with numerous chart and radio hits including 'Kabuki', 'Part Time Love Affair', 'Rainy Day', 'Fools' Way', 'Calling Your Name' & 'A Girl Like You' The group produced two albums; the critically acclaimed self titled Geisha in 1985 and Midnight To Dawn in 1987 - The band sadly disbanded in 1988. With a stack of new songs under his belt, vocalist and founding member Chris Doheny teamed up with noted guitarist and rock journalist Joe Matera at the tail end of 2007 to begin the next exciting chapter of the band's career. The aptly titled 'Birthday' is the first single off Geisha's brand new forthcoming album. In July, 2009 the band hit the road for the first time in 22 years!
