The Farthest Thing (aka Matt Farthing) grew up in south-east London and moved to Manchester to study at the Royal Northern College of Music when they threw a scholarship at him. After playing in a vast number of different bands/orchestras/ensembles over his career, he found himself becoming increasingly disatisfied with playing 'other people's stuff' and decided to go solo. A multi-instrumentalist - playing (amongst other things) guitar, harmonica, bass, piano, mandolin - his passion was always the violin.
Descended from Romani gypsy's and raised on a combination of his mum's old motown, soul and extensive Bowie records and his dad's vast experimental rock knowledge - classical music wasn't the most obvious choice of passion, but it happened nevertheless. As he grew older however, the passion grew to include hard rock, metal, then rap, electronica and dance - and finally indie, world, folk and experimental music. So now he'll listen to pretty much anything...as long as it's good.
So basically - The Farthest Thing - is one guy, with a violin, a gibson echoplex, a plethora of assorted instruments and electronics, and quite a lot of random ideas for how to use them.
Peace!
have a butchers at some of his artwork and his personal website
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