Matt Goss
(Picture: Paul Harris)“It’s not a reinvention, it’s a f***ing progression.” Matt Goss doesn’t have Grolsch bottle tops on his Doc Martens anymore but then how could he? The younger Goss twin (by 11 minutes) turned 53 last September and is a long way from the euphoric boyband superstardom of Bros. Since those heady days, which climaxed with a sell out concert at Wembley Stadium, Matt has taken on the form of a Vegas crooner and been through several lifetimes of grief and pain. But for the first time in 13 years, he’s back in the realm of pop with The Beautiful Unknown.
It’s an album that comes from a dark place. In 2014, Goss’ mother passed away from cancer and during her final days, he was her hands-on carer, a process that involved him draining her lungs daily. His gentle, ice blue eyes, are flooded with pain as he revisits the still raw experience of seeing his mother pass. “It will be something I deal with for the rest of my days,” he says, mourning his inability to phone her up and talk about the ebbs and flows of life. “When you have tough times, there’s two or three people in the world you want to call and for me, none of these people are on this earth anymore.”
