The twitter table tennis match was fun yesterday. I'm glad he's not one of those who continually retweets compliments etc, his random tweets are much preferable to that and a lot more fun/interesting, just wish he'd do it a bit more often! The odd glimpse of what he's up to in the studio would be nice too.

Would also be good if he used his instagram account more - Mel C opened a public account at the end of last week and has already posted nearly as many pictures as he has in nearly a year! Might help him gain followers if he put the odd thing exclusively on there too - rather than posting everything on Facebook/twitter as well.

I really think if he tweeted fans a bit more it would help. He's losing hundreds of followers every week (still not convinced that's not a glitch). I think some interaction wouldn't hurt, even just one or two every few days.

Matt's spent to day in the studio with Paul Statham (IOL) and will be back tomorrow. A bit of music news is always welcome.

https://www.facebook.com/paul.statha...52648593376342

Matt Cardle @mattcardle ·
Second time Iv seen @OnceMusicalLDN @ronanofficial was brilliant!! It's a must see 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍X

Nice end to a day after writing with Paul Statham, who posted this on his FB page:

"Great days over at chez Cardle , top tune cranked out ! — at Notting Hill"

Album news - how accurate, who knows

http://www.clickmusic.com/news/artic...te-summer-2015

Wonder who this "insider" is. So it's gone from early spring to late summer, quite a jump.

Well if it's genuine maybe they should have kept it zipped - he obviously doesn't want to discuss things ATM, cards held close to his chest good & proper.

The info about dates is not actually attributed to a source other than "reports", none of which I've seen - seems like speculation on the writer's part to me so will wait for corroboration in that regard. My guess would be that Nathan is the insider who provided the quotes, though.

I expect a release date is completely up in the air at this point anyway.

Maybe we can look forward to a summer festival or two, in the meantime, fingers crossed

Matt's in Leeds today (and tomorrow) writing:

Curtis Thewlis-Johns @CurtisThewJohns · 6h 6 hours ago
Sat writing with Matt Cardle.. Cool tunes! Cool guy! #talent #music #songwriting #mattcardle #tea

Curtis Thewlis-Johns @CurtisThewJohns · 54m 54 minutes ago
@gb_smiler73 will be worth the wait. Some really really great stuff!

Curtis Thewlis-Johns @CurtisThewJohns · 43m 43 minutes ago
@gb_smiler73 got another day with him and John Beck tomorrow. Finishing a fantastic edgy track we've written today! Very good company!

seems like they had fun - a couple of pics:

https://twitter.com/mattcardle/statu...21624339804160

https://twitter.com/CurtisThewJohns/...22475850625024

that John Beck has a pretty solid (and diverse) track record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beck_%28songwriter%29

quite intrigued as to how Album 4 will sound!

Matt Cardle @mattcardle · 3h 3 hours ago
Awesome day in the studio with @aaronhornuk and @RyanAshley an honour to work with such ridiculously talented dudes. 👍 🐓👈💦💥 blessings

Ryan Ashley ‏@RyanAshley 3h3 hours ago
@mattcardle such a pleasure writing with you man x

Matt Cardle @mattcardle · 3h 3 hours ago
@RyanAshley pleasure was all mine bro!! See you tomorrow 😊👍

Somebody is a busy little bee.
I love all these tweets, things seem to be coming along nicely

He's been very busy lately!

His website is back up and running too! Very excited about the gig on May 20th! http://mattcardlemusic.com/

Any guesses what that could be....... 20th May.

I will only get excited once I know where it is - if it's on the wrong side of the country, I will just be envious! Good to see there may be a new date coming up though, his diary is so empty right now.

I've noted the date on the calendar (just in case........ I won't get my hopes up.....too much, lol)

My thoughts on the mysterious date Uk

An Accoustic gig on the lines of the recent "story time with Matt" in Ireland
Album launch (with the band)
Single launch
Gig to record a live cd. (Still on my wish list)

None of the above, lol

He's in the studio with Biffco again (from the Letter album era) Wonder what that's all about, talk about life goes full circle at times. Seems to be a busy bee and it's nice to see the interaction again

I didn't even think about an albuim launch, it could be something like that. Then again, is it a bit early to be setting dates when the abum isn't finished yet?

I'm not sure if he means he's actually with Biff, I read it as he was just tagging him to say about the memories.

I agree - he's working at Sarm studios today with Aaron Horn, who is the son of Trevor Horn (The Buggles frontman, legendary producer and owner of the studios); Matt must have recorded something with Biffco there either during XF or on Letters

May 20th is a Wednesday, so pretty much the only thing that can really be ruled out is a festival, IMO

Intimate and Live apparently, there's a Facebook event but no location yet!!

730 pm Manchester ? I take it this is the event itself, not someone who has joined it?

Says M14 6SQ before Manchester

Something similar to the Irish gig I mentioned earlier?

75 people already saying they're going and the tickets aren't even on sale yet!

Absolutely beautiful video of one of my favourite 7S songs - Just For A Day. That Moominty is a very clever girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFLn...ature=youtu.be

I need to check out this new video yet (one of my fav SS songs)

A certain someone is busting to get this album out! Been a long 12 months by the sounds of it, lol #sooon

I'm sure some clever soul can bring over the tweet

Matt Cardle ‏@mattcardle · 24m24 minutes ago
Literally cannot wait to get Album 4 out.... It's been a year in the making so far and now I'm starting to get the nearly there itch Xx

How exciting is this ?