Matty Bateson & Punchline have been performing for over 15 years. Matty performs as a Soloist (Mr. Baritone), while Punchline perform as a Duo, Trio, or 4 Piece Band with an impressive level of experience in the industry.
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Whilst specialising in the 60s to 90s eras, Punchline's repertoire consists of a wide variety of great cover songs ranging from soft & laid-back tunes to flat out rock n’ roll, along with plenty of party tunes in between from the 50s to now.
Song Lists
Duo/Trio
3 DOORS DOWN - Kryptonite
4 NON-BLONDES – What’s up
AC/DC – It’s a long way to the top
AMY WINEHOUSE - Valerie
ARETHA FRANKLIN - Respect
BABY ANIMALS – One word
BEATLES – Hard day’s night
BEATLES – Saw her standing there
BEATLES – Twist n shout
BEN E KING – Stand by me
BEN HARPER – Steal my kisses
BERNARD FANNING – Wish you well
BOB MARLEY – Is this love
BON JOVI – Livin’ on a prayer
BON JOVI – Wanted dead or alive
BRYAN ADAMS – Summer of 69
CHOIRBOYS – Run to paradise
CHRIS STAPLETON – Tennessee whiskey
COLD CHISEL – Cheap wine
COLD CHISEL – When the war is over
COMMITMENTS (version) – Mustang Sally
CRANBERRIES – Zombie
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad moon rising
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Proud Mary
DARYL BRAITHWAITE – Horses
DAVE DOBBEN – Slice of heaven
DIESEL – Cry in shame
DIESEL – Tip of my tongue
DOBIE GRAY – Drift away
DOLLY PARTON - Jolene
DOOBIE BROTHERS – Long train running
DRAGON – April sun in Cuba
EAGLES – Hotel California
FAITH NO MORE (version) – Easy
FLEETWOOD MAC – Dreams
FLEETWOOD MAC – Go your own way
GEORGE MICHAEL – Faith
GLORIA GAYNOR – I will survive
GREEN DAY – Good Riddance (Time of your life)
GUNS N’ ROSES – Sweet child o’ mine
HUNTERS & COLLECTORS – Holy grail
JASON MRAZ – I’m yours
JOAN JETT – I love rock n’ roll
JOHN FARNHAM – You’re the voice
JOHN MELLENCAMP – Hurts so good
KATRINA & THE WAVES – Walkin’ on sunshine
LENNY KRAVITZ – Fly away
LYNYRD SKYNYRD – Sweet home Alabama
MAROON 5 – Sunday morning
MISSY HIGGINS - Scar
MR BIG – To be with you
NEIL DIAMOND – Red, red wine
NIRVANA – Smells like teen spirit
OASIS – Don’t look back in anger
OASIS – Wonderwall
PAUL KELLY – Dumb things
PEARL JAM - Alive
PEARL JAM – Betterman
PEARL JAM – Last kiss
POWDERFINGER – Baby I got you on my mind
POWDERFINGER – My happiness
PROCLAIMERS – 500 miles
QUEEN – Crazy little thing called love
REEF – Place your hands
ROMANTICS – What I like about you
SCREAMING JETS – Better
SOFT CELL – Tainted love
SONIA DADA – Lover lover (You don’t treat me no good)
SPIDERBAIT - Calypso
STEELERS WHEEL – Stuck in the middle
STEVE MILLER BAND – The joker
STEVIE WONDER – Superstition
TLC - Waterfalls
TONIC – If you could only see
TRACEY CHAPMAN – Fast car
TRACEY CHAPMAN – Gimme one reason
U2 – One
VANCE JOY - Riptide
VAN MORRISON – Brown eyed girl
VAN MORRISON - Moondance
VIOLENT FEMMES – Blister in the sun
WHITE STRIPES – 7 nation army
WILD CHERRY – Play that funky music
WILSON PICKET – Mustang Sally
Classics
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BEATLES – Hard day’s night
BEATLES – Saw her standing there
BEATLES – Twist n’ shout
BEN E KING – Stand by me
BILL HALEY & THE COMETS – Rock around the clock
BILL WITHERS – Ain’t no sunshine
BOB DYLAN – Knockin’ on heaven’s door
BOB MARLEY – Three little birds
BOB SEGER – Old time rock n roll
BUDDY HOLLY – That’ll be the day
CAT STEVENS – Wild world
CHUCK BERRY – Johnny be good
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad moon rising
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Have you ever seen rain
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Proud Mary
DEAN MARTIN – Sway
DEAN MARTIN – That’s amore
DION – The wanderer
DOOBIE BROTHERS – Long train runnin’
EAGLES – Hotel California
EAGLES – Take it easy
ELTON JOHN – Your song
ELVIS – Blue suede shoes
ELVIS – Can’t help falling in love
ERIC CLAPTON – Layla
GEORGE HARRISON – While my guitar gently weeps
HANK WILLIAMS – Hey good lookin’
IRVING KING – Show me the way to go home
JIM REEVES – I love you because
JOE COCKER – You are so beautiful
JOHN DENVER – Take me home country roads
JOHN NEWTON – Amazing grace
JOHNNY CASH – Folsom prison blues
JOHNNY CASH – He turned the water into wine
JOHNNY CASH – I walk the line
JOHNNY CASH – Ring of fire
JOHN PAUL YOUNG – Love is in the air
KENNY ROGERS – The gambler
LEONARD COHEN – Hallelujah
LITTLE RICHARD – Good golly miss molly
LOUIS ARMSTRONG – What a wonderful world
LYNYRD SKYNYRD – Sweet home Alabama
NEIL DIAMOND – Sweet Caroline
NEIL YOUNG – Heart of gold
OTIS REDDING – I can see clearly now
OTIS REDDING – (Sittin’ on the) Dock of the bay
PINK FLOYD – Wish you were here
ROY ORBISON – You got it
SLIM DUSTY - Duncan
STEVIE WONDER – Superstition
TEMPTATIONS – My girl
THE TROGGS – Wild thing
TRADITIONAL – Advance Australia Fair
TRADITIONAL - Auld Lang syne
TRADITIONAL (BANJO PATERSON) – Waltzing Matilda
TRADITIONAL (BRUCE WOODLEY & DOBE NEWTON – I am Australian
TRADITIONAL (Emmylou Harris) – Tennessee Waltz
TRADITIONAL (FREDERIC WEATHERLY) – Danny Boy
TRADITIONAL (GEORGE HENRY POWELL) – Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
TRADITIONAL (JACK JUDGE) – It’s a long way to Tipperary
TRADITIONAL (JIMMIE DAVIS) – You are my sunshine
TRADITIONAL (John Williamson) – Home among the gumtrees
TRADITIONAL (Peter Allen) – I still call Australia home
TRADITIONAL (SCOTTISH) – My Bonnie lies over the ocean
TRADITIONAL – She’ll be comin’ round the mountain
TRADITIONAL – Somewhere over the rainbow
TRADITIONAL (SOUND OF MUSIC) – Edelweiss
TRADITIONAL – When the saints go marching in
VAN MORRISON – Brown eyed girl
WILLIE NELSON – Always on my mind
WILSON PICKETT – Mustang Sally
Solo/Duo/Trio/Band
3 DOORS DOWN - Kryptonite
4 NON-BLONDES – What’s up?
AMY WINEHOUSE - Valerie
AUDIOSLAVE – Like a stone
AUSTRALIAN CRAWL – Oh no not you again
BABY ANIMALS – One word
BEN HARPER – Steal my kisses
BERNARD FANNING – Wish you well
BETTE MIDLER – Wind beneath my wings
BILLY RAY CYRUS – Achy breaky heart
BLACK KEYS – Lonely boy
BLINK 182 – All the small things
BOBBY MCFERRIN – Don’t worry be happy
BON JOVI – Wanted dead or alive
BON JOVI -Livin’ on a prayer
BRYAN ADAMS – Everything I do I do it for you
BRYAN ADAMS – Summer of 69
COLD CHISEL – Cheap wine
COLD CHISEL – Flame trees
COLD CHISEL – When the war is over
CRANBERRIES - Zombie
CRASH TEST DUMMIES - Mmm mmm mmm
CROWDED HOUSE – Better be home soon
DARIUS RUCKER – Wagon Wheel
DARYL BRAITHWAITE – The horses
DEEP BLUE SOMETHING – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
DIESEL – Cry in shame
DRAGON – April sun in Cuba
EAGLE EYE CHERRY – Save tonight
ED SHEERAN - Perfect
FLEETWOOD MAC - Dreams
FOO FIGHTERS - Everlong
FUEL – Shimmer
GEORGE EZRA - Shotgun
GEORGE MICHAEL – Faith
GOANNA – Solid Rock
GREEN DAY – Good Riddance (Time of your life)
GREEN DAY – When I come around
GUNS N' ROSES – Don’t cry
GUNS N' ROSES - Patience
GUNS N' ROSES – Sweet child o’mine
GUNS N’ ROSES – November rain
HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH – Let her cry
HUNTERS & COLLECTORS – Holy grail
HUNTERS & COLLECTORS – Throw your arms around me
ICEHOUSE – Great southern land
IMAGINE DRAGONS – Radioactive
INXS – Never tear us apart
JACK JOHNSON – Bubble toes
JACK JOHNSON - Flake
JACK JOHNSON – Mud football
JACK JOHNSON - Taylor
JIMMY EAT WORLD – The middle
JOHN FARNHAM – You’re the voice
JOHN MAYER – Gravity
JOHNNY CASH version (NIN) – HURT
KATRINA & THE WAVES – Walkin’ on sunshine
LIFEHOUSE - You & me
MATCHBOX 20 – Hang
MATCHBOX 20 - Push
MAROON 5 – Sunday morning
MEN AT WORK – Down under
MIDNIGHT OIL – Beds are burning
MR BIG – To be with you
OASIS – Don’t look back in anger
OASIS - Wonderwall
PASSENGER – Let her go
PAUL KELLY – Dumb things
PAUL KELLY – To her door
PEARL JAM - Alive
PEARL JAM - Black
PEARL JAM – Daughter
PEARL JAM – Elderly woman behind a counter in a small town
PEARL JAM – Last kiss
PETE MURRAY - Opportunity
POISON – Every rose has its thorn
POWDERFINGER – My happiness
POWDERFINGER – Passenger
POWDERFINGER – These days
PROCLAIMERS - 500 Miles
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – Under the bridge
RICHIE VALENS – Labamba
ROBBIE WILLIAMS – Better man
ROMANTICS – What I like about you
SCREAMING JETS (version) – Shivers
SECRET GARDEN – You raise me up
SIMPLE MINDS – Don’t you (forget about me)
SKID ROW – I remember you
SNOW PATROL – Chasing cars
SOFT CELL – Tainted love
STEELERS WHEEL – Stuck in the middle
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN – Cold shot
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN – Pride & joy
STEVIE WONDER - Superstition
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS – Interstate love song
THE CALLING – Wherever you will go
THE CHURCH – Under the milky way
THE KILLERS – Mr. Brightside
TOM PETTY (JOHN MAYER VERSION) – Free Falling
TRAIN – Drops of Jupiter
TRAIN – Hey soul sister
U2 (JOHNNY CASH VERSION) – One
VANCE JOY - Riptide
VIOLENT FEMMES – Blister in the sun
ZAC BROWN BAND – Chicken fried
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Extras
3 DOORS DOWN – Kryptonite
4 NON-BLONDES – What’s up
AC/DC – It’s a long way to the top
AC/DC – TNT
AC/DC – You shook me all night long
AUDIOSLAVE – Like a stone
BABY ANIMALS – One word
BLINK 182 – All the small things
BLUR – Song 2
BON JOVI – Always
BON JOVI – Livin’ on a prayer
BON JOVI – Wanted dead or alive
BRYAN ADAMS – Summer of 69
CHOIRBOYS – Run to paradise
COLD CHISEL – Bow river
COLD CHISEL – Cheap wine
COLD CHISEL – Flame trees
COLD CHISEL – Khe Sanh
COLD CHISEL – When the war is over
COUNTING CROWS – Mr Jones
COMMITMENTS (version) – Mustang Sally
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad moon rising
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Proud Mary
DARYL BRAITHWAITE – Horses
DIESEL – Cry in shame
DON HENLEY – The boys of summer
DRAGON – April sun in Cuba
EAGLES – Hotel California
FAITH NO MORE (version) – Easy
FUEL – Shimmer
GEORGE MICHAEL – Faith
GREEN DAY – Good riddance
GREEN DAY – When I come around
GRINSPOON – Just ace
GUNS N’ ROSES – Sweet child o’ mine
HUNTERS & COLLECTORS – Holy grail
INCUBUS - Drive
ICEHOUSE – Great southern land
JET – Are you gonna be my girl
JIMMY EAT WORLD – The middle
JOAN JETT – I love rock n’ roll
JOHN MELLENCAMP – Hurts so good
KILLERS – Mr brightside
LIVE – I alone
LIVING END – Prisoner of society
LYNYRD SKYNYRD – Sweet home Alabama
METALLICA – Enter sandman
MR BIG – To be with you
NICKELBACK – How you remind me
NIRVANA – Smells like teen spirit
NOISEWORKS – Take me back
OASIS – Wonderwall
PEARL JAM – Betterman
POWDERFINGER – Baby I got you on my mind
POWDERFINGER – My happiness
PROCLAIMERS – 500 miles
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – Dani California
REEF – Place your hands
ROBBIE WILLIAMS – Better man
SCREAMING JETS – Better
SCREAMING JETS – Helping hand
SOFT CELL – Tainted love
STEELERS WHEEL – Stuck in the middle
STEVIE WONDER – Superstition
THE DOORS – Roadhouse blues
THIRSTY MERC – In the summertime
VAN MORRISON – Brown eyed girl
VIOLENT FEMMES – Blister in the sun
WHITE STRIPES – 7 nation army