Matt Taylor
@matt-taylor.bsky.social
Writer. Recording engineer.
MPG Breakthrough Engineer of The Year 2022
A Writing Chance Substacker with @jonnelledge.bsky.social
Board member of UK Music | Midlands Area Council member (ACE) | Exec Director of Music Producers Guild.
MPG Breakthrough Engineer of The Year 2022
A Writing Chance Substacker with @jonnelledge.bsky.social
Board member of UK Music | Midlands Area Council member (ACE) | Exec Director of Music Producers Guild.
Got asked to share my awkward views about Santa in a piece for @theguardian.com. First time having a piece like this in a national, what a way to wind up 2025. If you want to see me have a good Xmas roast, check the comments 😎
Thanks @jonnelledge.bsky.social for helping with the pitch. 🙏
Thanks @jonnelledge.bsky.social for helping with the pitch. 🙏
My family has never believed in Father Christmas – I don't want to hurt my kids if the money ever runs out | Matt Taylor
I would never want them to feel that they had been naughty if I couldn’t afford their gifts one year, says writer and music producer Matt Taylor
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Got asked to share my awkward views about Santa in a piece for @theguardian.com. First time having a piece like this in a national, what a way to wind up 2025. If you want to see me have a good Xmas roast, check the comments 😎
Thanks @jonnelledge.bsky.social for helping with the pitch. 🙏
Thanks @jonnelledge.bsky.social for helping with the pitch. 🙏
✨🏆 I won an award. 🤯
Every year for 4yrs, I’ve submitted something to the @creativefutureuk writing competition, and usually my piece gets ignored. This year, I won the Bronze Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
Every year for 4yrs, I’ve submitted something to the @creativefutureuk writing competition, and usually my piece gets ignored. This year, I won the Bronze Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
September 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
✨🏆 I won an award. 🤯
Every year for 4yrs, I’ve submitted something to the @creativefutureuk writing competition, and usually my piece gets ignored. This year, I won the Bronze Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
Every year for 4yrs, I’ve submitted something to the @creativefutureuk writing competition, and usually my piece gets ignored. This year, I won the Bronze Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
My first proper commission - I actually got paid to write something 🤯 I wrote a little piece for @beelitmag.bsky.social about why I can't wear tracksuit anymore. Class has a uniform - prove me wrong.
"Class has a uniform," writes Matt Taylor. "Whenever I slip back into a tracksuit, Tesco staff follow me around the store, and the cashiers ask for ID. If I go for a run, police stop me and ask why I’m running."
He writes for us about clothing and class today:
thebeemagazine.com/tracksuits-a...
He writes for us about clothing and class today:
thebeemagazine.com/tracksuits-a...
Tracksuits and me
I still love them, but in Tesco they can bring no end of trouble.
thebeemagazine.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
My first proper commission - I actually got paid to write something 🤯 I wrote a little piece for @beelitmag.bsky.social about why I can't wear tracksuit anymore. Class has a uniform - prove me wrong.
Statistics don’t capture our stories. #Careleavers in the creative industries remain undocumented. Invisible. I suppose this isn’t surprising, as this is how we are in society. Invisible. People only keep stats on things they care about. People don’t care enough about care leavers doing well.
I met Giles Martin - Not the normal I ever dared to expect.
Most days, this life now feels ordinary. I’m not gonna lie, I take it for granted. Yet every so often these moments remind me of how unusual it is that someone from my background gets to be in them.
open.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Statistics don’t capture our stories. #Careleavers in the creative industries remain undocumented. Invisible. I suppose this isn’t surprising, as this is how we are in society. Invisible. People only keep stats on things they care about. People don’t care enough about care leavers doing well.
A band I'm in, Isaac Neilson, has been shortlisted to play this year's #YNOTFestival. Isaac and I are both council estate kids, & opportunities like this don't show up often. Do #Samfender proud and give us a vote. 🙏
Type Isaac Neilson into the search box and vote. 🗳️
Type Isaac Neilson into the search box and vote. 🗳️
Apply To Play Vote - Y Not Festival
ynotfestival.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A band I'm in, Isaac Neilson, has been shortlisted to play this year's #YNOTFestival. Isaac and I are both council estate kids, & opportunities like this don't show up often. Do #Samfender proud and give us a vote. 🙏
Type Isaac Neilson into the search box and vote. 🗳️
Type Isaac Neilson into the search box and vote. 🗳️
The music industry is not for #careexperience people like me. This week #samfender highlighted the struggle of working-class people in the industry. I sat down with my written off 15yr old self for coffee to see what he would make of me now smashing it.
#CEP #careleaver
#CEP #careleaver
I met my younger self for coffee today.
Inspired by Jennae Cecelia's poem in her book 'deep in my feels'. A reflective lyric essay on some time with my younger self who most people don't believe exists.
open.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The music industry is not for #careexperience people like me. This week #samfender highlighted the struggle of working-class people in the industry. I sat down with my written off 15yr old self for coffee to see what he would make of me now smashing it.
#CEP #careleaver
#CEP #careleaver
I’m always blown away when people like my writing enough to share it. Thanks @iandunt.bsky.social Obtaining photos for care leavers is a big issue that is never talked about. We don’t get them because you can’t redact a photograph.
February 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I’m always blown away when people like my writing enough to share it. Thanks @iandunt.bsky.social Obtaining photos for care leavers is a big issue that is never talked about. We don’t get them because you can’t redact a photograph.
Reposted by Matt Taylor
I learn from @matt-taylor.bsky.social that a) on the Isle of Man you can't say "rat"; b) there's a "fairy bridge" where you have to thank the fairies or taxi drivers will literally stop? Matt wrote about it here. What, I ask, the hell
R-A-T: The three letter word I'll never be able to say
Have you really left your hometown if its myths still control the way you speak? How the folklore of the Isle of Man has kept me there despite leaving 15 years ago. Will I ever escape this Alcatraz?
underclasshero.substack.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I learn from @matt-taylor.bsky.social that a) on the Isle of Man you can't say "rat"; b) there's a "fairy bridge" where you have to thank the fairies or taxi drivers will literally stop? Matt wrote about it here. What, I ask, the hell
Over the past year, I've been part of a development programme for working-class writers, called A Writing Chance. I've been partnered with @jonnelledge.bsky.social to develop a Substack Newsletter. Check it out here.
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#writers #substack
Matt Taylor | Substack
I’m an award-winning writer & music producer with a remarkable journey. Creative non-fiction/essay writer, rep’d by Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown. Writing about the UK care system & being a careleaver...
substack.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Over the past year, I've been part of a development programme for working-class writers, called A Writing Chance. I've been partnered with @jonnelledge.bsky.social to develop a Substack Newsletter. Check it out here.
#writers #substack
#writers #substack