Mr Baritone Solo or Duo

Mr Baritone is Matty Bateson with his unique, powerful, diverse & warm baritone vocal tones, & acoustic guitar with loop pedal; performing great covers & the occasional original song. Also, with the option of great sounding drum backing tracks. Matty has a professional attitude, excellent quality sound gear & live gig experience since 1999. Also available as Mr Baritone Duo with a quality drummer.

Matty’s full solo repertoire consists of a wide variety of great cover songs adapted to his ideal vocal range & includes - Top 40, Pop, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Country, Folk, Soul, Old Classics, Traditional, Gospel & Blues. Specializing in the 50s to 90s people often comment on how well he covers Johnny Cash & Eddie Vedder! Ideal for background music at restaurants & weddings as well as upbeat songs where people want to dance, rock out or sing-along. Matty has always been great with the audience providing quality entertainment!

Current public liability insurance & equipment tag-tested.

Can provide sound production & stage lighting.
Stage or area at least 3m wide by 2m deep for Solo or 3m by 3m Duo.

* 50s to now, specializing on 50s to 90s

GENERAL SONGS (80s to now)

3 DOORS DOWN - Kryptonite
4 NON-BLONDES – What’s up?
AMY WINEHOUSE - Valerie
AUDIOSLAVE – Like a stone
AUSTRALIAN CRAWL – Oh no not you again
BABY ANIMALS – One word
BEN HARPER – Steal my kisses
BERNARD FANNING – Wish you well
BETTE MIDLER – Wind beneath my wings
BILLY RAY CYRUS – Achy breaky heart
BLACK KEYS – Lonely boy
BLINK 182 – All the small things
BOBBY MCFERRIN – Don’t worry be happy
BON JOVI – Wanted dead or alive
BON JOVI -Livin’ on a prayer
BRYAN ADAMS – Everything I do I do it for you
BRYAN ADAMS – Summer of 69
COLD CHISEL – Cheap wine
COLD CHISEL – Flame trees
COLD CHISEL – When the war is over
CRANBERRIES - Zombie
CRASH TEST DUMMIES - Mmm mmm mmm
CROWDED HOUSE – Better be home soon
DARIUS RUCKER – Wagon Wheel
DARYL BRAITHWAITE – The horses
DEEP BLUE SOMETHING – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
DIESEL – Cry in shame
DRAGON – April sun in Cuba
EAGLE EYE CHERRY – Save tonight
FLEETWOOD MAC - Dreams
FOO FIGHTERS - Everlong
FUEL – Shimmer
GEORGE MICHAEL – Faith
GOANNA – Solid Rock
GREEN DAY – Good Riddance (Time of your life)
GREEN DAY – When I come around
GUNS N' ROSES – Don’t cry
GUNS N' ROSES - Patience
GUNS N' ROSES – Sweet child o’mine
GUNS N’ ROSES – November rain
HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH – Let her cry
HUNTERS & COLLECTORS – Holy grail
HUNTERS & COLLECTORS – Throw your arms around me
ICEHOUSE – Great southern land
IMAGINE DRAGONS - Radioactive
JACK JOHNSON – Bubble toes
JACK JOHNSON - Flake
JACK JOHNSON – Mud football
JACK JOHNSON - Taylor
JIMMY EAT WORLD – The middle
JOHN FARNHAM – You’re the voice
JOHN MAYER – Gravity
JOHNNY CASH version (NIN) – HURT
KATRINA & THE WAVES – Walkin’ on sunshine
LIFEHOUSE - You & me
MATCHBOX 20 – Hang
MATCHBOX 20 - Push
MAROON 5 – Sunday morning
MEN AT WORK – Down under
MR BIG – To be with you
OASIS – Don’t look back in anger
OASIS - Wonderwall
PASSENGER – Let her go
PAUL KELLY – Dumb things
PAUL KELLY – To her door
PEARL JAM - Alive
PEARL JAM - Black
PEARL JAM – Daughter
PEARL JAM – Elderly woman behind a counter in a small town
PEARL JAM – Last kiss
POISON – Every rose has its thorn
POWDERFINGER – My happiness
PROCLAIMERS - 500 Miles
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – Under the bridge
RICHIE VALENS – Labamba
ROBBIE WILLIAMS – Better man
ROMANTICS – What I like about you
SCREAMING JETS (version) – Shivers
SECRET GARDEN – You raise me up
SIMPLE MINDS – Don’t you (forget about me)
SKID ROW – I remember you
SNOW PATROL – Chasing cars
SOFT CELL – Tainted love
STEELERS WHEEL – Stuck in the middle
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN – Cold shot
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN – Pride & joy
STEVIE WONDER - Superstition
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS – Interstate love song
THE CALLING – Wherever you will go
THE CHURCH – Under the milky way
THE KILLERS – Mr. Brightside
TOM PETTY (JOHN MAYER VERSION) – Free Falling
TRAIN – Drops of Jupiter
TRAIN – Hey soul sister
U2 (JOHNNY CASH VERSION) – One
VIOLENT FEMMES – Blister in the sun

(Adding more songs to this repertoire every month)

OLD CLASSICS (up to 70s) & TRADITIONAL FOLK SONGS

BEATLES – Hard day’s night
BEATLES – Saw her standing there
BEATLES – Twist n’ shout
BEN E KING – Stand by me
BILL HALEY & THE COMETS – Rock around the clock
BILL WITHERS – Ain’t no sunshine
BOB DYLAN – Knockin’ on heaven’s door
BOB MARLEY – Three little birds
BOB SEGER – Old time rock n roll
BUDDY HOLLY – That’ll be the day
CAT STEVENS – Wild world
CHUCK BERRY – Johnny be good
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad moon rising
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Have you ever seen rain
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Proud Mary
DEAN MARTIN – Sway
DEAN MARTIN – That’s amore
DION – The wanderer
DOOBIE BROTHERS – Long train runnin’
EAGLES – Hotel California
EAGLES – Take it easy
ELTON JOHN – Your song
ELVIS – Blue suede shoes
ELVIS – Can’t help falling in love
ERIC CLAPTON – Layla
GEORGE HARRISON – While my guitar gently weeps
HANK WILLIAMS – Hey good lookin’
IRVING KING – Show me the way to go home
JIM REEVES – I love you because
JOE COCKER – You are so beautiful
JOHN DENVER – Take me home country roads
JOHN NEWTON – Amazing grace
JOHNNY CASH – Folsom prison blues
JOHNNY CASH – He turned the water into wine
JOHNNY CASH – I walk the line
JOHNNY CASH – Ring of fire
JOHN PAUL YOUNG – Love is in the air
KENNY ROGERS – The gambler
LEONARD COHEN – Hallelujah
LITTLE RICHARD – Good golly miss molly
LOUIS ARMSTRONG – What a wonderful world
LYNYRD SKYNYRD – Sweet home Alabama
NEIL DIAMOND – Sweet Caroline
NEIL YOUNG – Heart of gold
OTIS REDDING – I can see clearly now
OTIS REDDING – (Sittin’ on the) Dock of the bay
PINK FLOYD – Wish you were here
ROY ORBISON – You got it
SLIM DUSTY - Duncan
STEVIE WONDER – Superstition
TEMPTATIONS – My girl
THE TROGGS – Wild thing
TRADITIONAL (BANJO PATERSON) – Waltzing Matilda
TRADITIONAL (Emmylou Harris) – Tennessee Waltz
TRADITIONAL (FREDERIC WEATHERLY) – Danny Boy
TRADITIONAL (GEORGE HENRY POWELL) – Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
TRADITIONAL (JACK JUDGE) – It’s a long way to Tipperary
TRADITIONAL (JIMMIE DAVIS) – You are my sunshine
TRADITIONAL (John Williamson) – Home among the gumtrees
TRADITIONAL (SCOTTISH) – My Bonnie lies over the ocean
TRADITIONAL – She’ll be comin’ round the mountain
TRADITIONAL – Somewhere over the rainbow
TRADITIONAL (SOUND OF MUSIC) – Edelweiss
TRADITIONAL – When the saints go marching in
VAN MORRISON – Brown eyed girl
WILLIE NELSON – Always on my mind
WILSON PICKETT – Mustang Sally

(Adding more songs to this repertoire every month)

ORIGINALS WHEN APPROPRIATE
Vocal/guitar songs & instrumentals.

VARIETY OF GOSPEL SONGS (Psalms, Hymns, & Songs of the Spirit)
Can provide full list if requested including old hymns & contemporary songs from Hillsong & Bethel Music etc.

Negotiable

Current Public Liability & equipment tag-tested