Over the next two years Matt toured extensively in the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, both with his own band (featuring Juan Van Emmerloot on drums and Walter Latuperissa on bass, better known as Snowy Whites band The White Flames) and as part of The Long John Baldry Trio, where Matt was featured as special guest. The LJB Trio recorded the album Evening Conversation, Live in Hamburg - Matt takes lead vocals on the Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee number Walk On (which Matt had previously recorded for Radio City Blues) and the Tom Waits classic Blue Valentines.

Mad With The World was quietly set free in the UK in late 2001 but by this time Matt had moved onto pastures new, with residencies in the house band of the KLR club at Londons Cafe De Paris, Clapham Grand and Koko Club and occasional session work and touring. From 2001 - 2006 Matt played with an incredible variety of artists including Jamie Cullum, Lemar, Sam Brown, Boy George, Dane Bowers, Suggs, Mica Paris, Tony Christie, Oliver Darley, Paul Young, Lulu, Rick Parfitt (Status Quo), Jo Omeara (S Club 7), Mikey Graham (Boyzone), Faye Tozer (Steps), Mark Shaw (Then Jerico), Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers) and Shane McGowan (The Pogues). He has also played with bluesmen Otis Grand, Joe Bonamassa and Jon Amor and has toured in Europe, Russia and North America with the French superstar Patricia Kaas.

JONNY DYKE is widely regarded as one of the UK’s finest keyboard players. After his apprenticeship with a variety of bands in his native Derbyshire he joined UK blues heroes Out of The Blue with extensive touring in the UK, France and Switzerland including supports for Robert Cray, Robben Ford and Van Morrison. The band also worked extensively with the legendary Memphis horns. This led to more touring with other blues artists including Larry Garner and Bob Kirkpatrick. After moving to London in the late nineties Jonny began working as session musician and has worked with an enormous variety of people including Dolly Parton, Elkie Brooks, Victoria Beckham, and has completed two world tours with French superstar Patricia Kaas including gigs in China, deepest Siberia and The Kremlin. Jonny and Matt met at a riotous Dublin Blues Festival in 1996 and Matt asked Jonny to play on his album Mad With The World.

London-born PETE RADCLIFF came up through the jazz scene and by the mid-nineties began specialising in the area between jazz, hip-hop and dance music, releasing Counter-Revolution, one of the first drum and bass records to use live, unlooped drumming. He also recorded for Rennie Pilgrem, the Dub Pistols, Chris Bowden and played live for these and many other artists. He played on (his then flatmate) Matt Taylor’s second album Mad With The World plus various gigs and festivals with The Matt Taylor Band. In 2002 Pete gave up music and went to Thailand to become a buddhist monk. By 2006 he had been tempted back to the music business and returned to London just as Matt was looking for a drummer for his new band.

In 2006 Matt found he had come full circle. Having absorbed many different influences over the last few years Matt returned with Jonny and Pete and their unique blend of blues, country and soul, with influences ranging from Freddie King and Chuck Berry, through Clapton, Dylan, The Band and The Allman Brothers to Paul Simon, Tom Waits and James Taylor with honourable mentions to the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Prince, Robert Cray and Sheryl Crow. Although a versatile and eclectic musician, The Blues is, if Matt were given an ultimatum, the only music he cant live without - the roots of all modern popular music - and there is no doubt that Matt Taylor is a thoroughly modern bluesman.