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Matt the Hoople

Lead Guitarist and frankly the best singer in The Glambusters

About Me



I have had a long and never quite illustrious career, starting as guitar roadie and occasional dep for pioneering tribute act The Boogie Brothers, and finishing up spanking my plank with the Glambusters , the South West's - possibly the UK's - hardest rocking Glam Rock tribute act. I am now firmly established at the devant-garde of the UK music scene, as I stomp elegantly into approaching middle age in sequins, glitter and gold platform boots. I am a confirmed Luddite, and immensely proud of the fact that most of my gear predates the invention of the ZX Spectrum. My first choice guitar is a 1979 Gibson SG that I bought in 1985 with the proceeds from my first professional gigs. My nearest and dearest all refer to it now as my First Wife.

btw, If you like the music on this page, visit my Musician's page, where I vanity-publish my own stuff, or the Darby & Moore page, where sounds of the late, great Vertigo Jones currently reside.

My Interests

Keeping steam-age equipment up to giggable standard. Thinking up spontaneous ripostes to Nobby's terrible on-stage gags .
Writing and recording my own stuff - - I'm just getting the hang of midi and PC home recording, but for a hardened technophobe like me it doesn't come easy. Let's face it, I'm a Glam Rocker and I know a lot more about sequins than sequencing!

Buying new stage clobber without making the volunteers in Oxfam think I'm a serial transvestite (which I suppose I am, really).
Oh - and making up cheesy, unoriginal t-shirt designs like:
or You can have one if you like - just ask. No intellectual property rights here!

I'm also a bit of a political beast - I've been elected three times and am looking to make it four next May when my current Council gets abolished and we go Unitary. I haven't told the rest of the band this yet, so it will be interesting to see if any of them ever read this page. Obviously, I always stand under an assumed name - you won't find Matt the Hoople on any Council rolls.

I'd like to meet:

No-one you've heard of. 'Cept maybe...

- but its too late now!

(Still, mustn't grumble, eh?)

I've met enough famous people to know that non-famous people are generally far more interesting - especially musicians. Gimme a night in the Two Pigs in Corsham, any day!!
Gig list out of date? Click Refresh on your browser, or click on the image to visit the Glambusters.net gigs page!

Bands // Song Titles
Choose a band/or artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band:: Slade
Are you female or male:: Bangin' Man
Describe yourself:: Lock Up Your Daughters
How do some people feel about you:: Far Far Away
How do you feel about yourself:: Mama Weer All Crazee Now
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend:: Gudbuy t'Jane/Do The Dirty/OK Yesterday Was Yesterday/Knuckle Sandwich Nancy/Cheap n Nasty Luv
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend:: She's Got The Lot/A Night To Remember/Skweeze Me Pleeze Me
Describe where you want to be:: Miles Out To Sea
Describe what you want to be:: Ready To Explode/Rock and Roll Preacher
Describe how you live:: When I'm Dancin' I Ain't Fightin'
Describe how you love:: We'll Bring The House Down
Share a few words of wisdom:: Cum On Feel The Noize/Let The Rock Roll Out Of Control/Them Kinda Monkeys Can't Swing
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Music:

70's Glam, obviously - especially Slade.

Seeing them at the Brixton Academy when I was about 13 set my life on the course it has followed up to this point. I love 60's stuff; Hendrix, Doors, Janis Joplin, MC5, Beatles and Stones: punk and post-punk stuff; Pistols, Ramones, Joe Jackson, the Jam - - then virtually nothing from the 80's which was pretty uniformly crap, except for the Pogues and some of the Metal. It all comes good again with the Levellers, Green Day and the Manics, and right now there's too much good stuff to list. As long as its got guitars and balls.

Movies:

Two DJ's in a pub. One says, shall we go see a movie? The other says, I dunno - who's the projectionist?

Television:

Go out and watch: or stay in and watch: The main difference is the price of the beer!!

Anyway, who needs TV with entertaimnent like this in the house...

Books:

See this silly survey?

You scored as metal,

metal


55%

classic rock


50%

Indie


45%

Punk


40%

grunge


35%

Pop Punk


35%

reggae


30%

mainstream rock


25%

industrial


20%

ska


20%

country


20%

Emo


20%

Pop


15%

rap


5%
what breed of music are you?
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Somehow it makes me more Metal than anything else. Which I suppose is OK, given the grave ommission of the highest form of rock; namely Glam. I would surely have scored a good 90% with that.
Interesting that I matched 20% with Emo. I would have said more like -20%, myself. But then I can't stand any Roxy Music! Hehe!

Heroes:

We could be, but just for one day.....
Slade...
Quo...
Bowie's good...
Motorhead....
Muppets...
And I love rugby - Go Wasps!!!

My Blog

BBC Somerset Review

Reviews ..>..> ..> You are in: Somerset > Entertainment > Music > Reviews > Review: Glambusters ..>..> ..> Glambusters..>..>..> Review: GlambustersJohn HigginsThe Glambusters played at the Kin...
Posted by Matt the Hoople on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:01:00 PST

Spinal Tap Moments

Every band and musician must have had moments that could have been deleted scenes from This Is Spinal Tap. So come on - let's hear them! Here at Glambuster Towers we probably have more than most, but ...
Posted by Matt the Hoople on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:10:00 PST