after leaving university woosey returned to his family home in malvern, worcestershire and formed "the strange rain", another 3-piece band in which he played acoustic guitar. the band featured original songs from woosey and stayed together for one year producing one album. following this woosey carried out a tour of 100 gigs in 100 days. he also busked around the uk and europe. around the same time woosey had an instrumental song featured on bbc series it's not easy being green. he remained a solo performer until forming "the matt woosey band" in 2011. it played several times at london's ronnie scott's jazz club, and released one album called "on the waggon". since then, woosey has toured and recorded with various session musicians and recorded a "hook, line and sinker". ep and now appears primarily solo, duo (with percussionist dave small) or as a 3 or 4-piece band using session musicians.