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Matt Sheppard

Bitter, Jaded, Naive, Idealist...

About Me



I am the bassist for A Spectre Is Haunting Europe as well as the former singer/guitarist for Caustic Pleasures and bassist/keyboardist for Seventh Image
I have some new solo material that is starting to come along as well, which will be posted on this page as soon as I have some finished demos.
Besides all of that, I am a visual effects artist, and video game developer.
I am also a photographer, painter, sculptor, general music and art snob, and aspiring film maker.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/13/2006
Band Website: mattsheppard.com
Band Members: Matthew Sheppard
vocals, guitar, bass, art, photography, design
Influences: Tom Waits
Nick Cave
Michael Gira
John Cale
Morphine
The Stranglers
Joy Division
The Smiths
The Murder City Devils
Legendary Pink Dots
Jah Wobble
Magazine
Primal Scream
Cabaret Voltaire
New Model Army
Mission Of Burma
Big Black
Wire
Killing Joke
The Fall

William Blake
Leonard Cohen
Hunter S. Thompson
Umberto Eco
Thomas Hobbes
William S. Burroughs
Franz Kafka

Ralph Steadman
Francis Bacon
Edvard Munch
William Kentridge
Cam DeLeon
Annie Leibovitz
Jim Jocoy
Anton Corbijn
Peter Saville
Arthur Erickson
Damien Hirst
Jasper Johns
Alberto Giacometti
Krzysztof Wodiczko

Terry Gilliam
Michael Winterbottom
Richard Linklater
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Brothers Quay
Jan Svankmajer
David Cronnenberg
Darren Aronofsky
Christopher Nolan
Mark Osborne
Neil Blomkamp
Michel Gondry
Jim Jarmusch

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My Blog

A Spectre Is Haunting Europe Update

Arright. A Spectre Is Haunting Europe is near completion of its next LP. Here's some skinny you might wish to be in on.The album will be released in Fall 2007, and will be completely free (as a digita...
Posted by Matt Sheppard on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:05:00 PST

Paint

I've been working on a couple of new paintings, not done yet but... a self portrait:   and there's someone familiar in this one too... ...
Posted by Matt Sheppard on Thu, 17 May 2007 12:57:00 PST

update

I've updated my myspace page a little, but I've also done a little more work recently to add to my demo reel, a couple of matte paintings. So for anyone interested, here's the updated reel:   ...
Posted by Matt Sheppard on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:08:00 PST

Micro Gold in Macro Shit?

I had a conversation with Chris a while back about the different levels of detail in which one can view a piece of art (in that case music); specifically the idea of being able to appreciate good prod...
Posted by Matt Sheppard on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:55:00 PST

some Caustic Pleasures stuff

I've updated the CP page here with some videos from what turned out to be our final performance, at the Anza club last year.They are all viewable from the profile:Caustic Pleasures...
Posted by Matt Sheppard on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:53:00 PST

some videos from the show...

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Posted by Matt Sheppard on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:26:00 PST

Why is it...

...that I am the youngest guy in the band...but I have the least hair left?
Posted by Matt Sheppard on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:48:00 PST

bass, sweat, and flames..

Thanks to everyone who came out to the show tonight, that was a blast!I haven't been that energetic on stage in quite a while, I guess I've just missed being a bassist. ...
Posted by Matt Sheppard on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:23:00 PST

a new track from A Spectre Is Haunting Europe

We've got a new track called "Stop" up on the band profile (and I'll temporarily put it on my own as well.). The song is from our upcoming split-12" with Entertainment.nt and is a limited release avai...
Posted by Matt Sheppard on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:11:00 PST

Lamplighter gig

Friday, July 28th IMU & CiTR 101.9FM present NiGHTSHADE featuring URCEUS EXIT, DJ PYXIS A Spectre is Haunting Europe @ The LAMPLIGHTER, 210 Abbott Street . Doors 8pm / $10 -:- Info: 604 681 6666...
Posted by Matt Sheppard on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:58:00 PST