written with his father Keith,[1] which would become a global franchise, and the BBC Radio 4 World War I drama series Home Front.

[9][10] After training at Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmiths College, University of London, he worked as a soundtrack composer throughout the 1990s creating music for television, radio and theatre productions[9] until concentrating on songwriting in Nashville, Tennessee where he collaborated with songwriters Don Henry, Tom Kimmel, J. Fred Knobloch, and Thom Schuyler.

[13] In 2012 he announced the creation of a comedy oratorio based on the life of the Coronation Street character Ken Barlow for inclusion in his live shows.

[15] As a singer-songwriter Strachan was regarded as having a bittersweet style, often employing satire and characterisation to make political points about unusual subjects such as social networking[16] and the media.

[18] A new studio album by Matthew Strachan titled Serious Men was released by Lonely Goat Records in August 2016.