![]() ![]() Matthew can perform solo with tracks, or with a local backup band and provide charts. Joel, incorporating video of Billy Joel’s own words and insight for a deeper, more intimate perspective of his iconic songs. Matthew can play it straight or add costume elements to further invoke Mr. It’s an AFFORDABLE, audience-focused, sing-along show that can be structured and scaled to fit any event. AMOC is the perfect place for you to connect with the versatile Matthew Banks Trio. He loves intimate venues so he can connect with his audiences to create magical musical moments together. Talk about a crowd-pleaser – EVERYONE has a Billy Joel song (or 10) that they sing along to in private or public, songs that feel like soundtracks to their own life moments. Name an era, mood or style-blues, jazz, rock, reggae, pop-and Matthew Banks can play it. In Billy Joel Retrospect, he gets to pursue his passion and showcase his incredible vocal and instrumental prowess. As one of the stars of Las Vegas’ Blue Man Group, Matthew is an incredible performer on a major stage, who’s toured the world performing for everything from stadium audiences, to sold-out casinos, to intimate private events, to the Queen of England. but with respect to the judge, we cannot agree these factors outweighed the serious aggravating features.Matthew Banks is the star of Billy Joel Retrospect, a show he created as the ultimate performance to honor one of the most iconic artists and his music. He continued: "We accept that there were a number of mitigating factors. Lord Justice Holroyde said Banks' sentence "was not only lenient but unduly so". "The injuries inflicted by the offender resulted in a period of more than two years where Leo was seriously ill and was in and out of hospital," he said. Lord Justice Holroyde, sitting with Mr Justice Cotter and Sir Nigel Davis, said part of Leo's life had been "blighted" by the injuries Banks had caused. "Leo had died two years before he was asked to attend court," adding this was "significant mitigation". Ms Upton highlighted the delays Banks had faced, noting there were two years between the incident and Leo's death and a further two years before he faced criminal proceedings. "This is a case where the prosecution in the court below set out fully the facts of this case in detail in two notes, and their submission with regard to both categorisation and the aggravating and mitigating features." The tragic facts of this case were fully considered and reflected by her. She said: "The exercise of the judgment by Mrs Justice Cutts should not be interfered with. Rebecca Upton, for Banks - who attended the hearing via videolink from HMP Dartmoor - said the sentencing judge was right to give the sentence she did. "The fact that it was the father should count," he concluded. "The aggravating features here outweigh the mitigating features rather than the converse," the barrister said. Mr Little said the relationship between Banks and Leo should be taken into account as aggravating his crime. The court was told Banks had shaken Leo during the night while the boy's mother slept, later claiming the baby had been crying "hysterically". "That is a conclusion that the judge should have been driven to by those facts." ![]() A forceful shaking of a four-week-old baby involves an unlawful act which carried a high risk of really serious harm which ought to have been obvious to the offender. Tom Little KC, for the Solicitor General, told the hearing: "This was a forceful shaking of a four-week-old baby by his father. Matthew Banks was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Leo Banks who died more than two years after suffering the catastrophic brain injury. On Thursday, judges at the Court of Appeal in London increased Banks' sentence to five years and four months.
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