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Hey, how the devil are you!?Just a quick update to let you know I'm drumming on board Fred Olsen Cruise Lines Ship 'The Balmoral', until 22nd June 2008. Hope your all well and happy, healthy and smiling :) If you want to see where I am you can go to the Fred Olsen Cruise Lines website, click on the ship 'The Balmoral' and have a look at the tracking device link. It updates roughly every minute.
I'm Matt and if you want to skip the self promotion part carry on down :)
I'm available for:
Studio Sessions - Drums, Percussion, Saxophone, Piano, Keyboard.
Live Performance - Drums, Percussion, Saxophone, Piano, Keyboard, Guitar - all with backing vocals.
TFP photography - (I have a few ideas if there's anyone out there that wants to create something more than studio shots?)
Artist Model
Fitting Model
Extra for Music Videos, Films, Television...etc...
I have over 10 years experience, playing both at home and abroad, within a great number of styles of music: Jazz, Blues, Funk, Rock, Reggae, Punk, Hardcore, Ska, Swing, Latin, RnB, Hip Hop, Rap, Soul, Pop....
Very experienced in studio and live work and can provide backing vocals.
Worked with Cubase, Logic and Pro-tools, both as a musician and as producer.
Singer/Songwriter currently working on my first album, on which I will play all the the instruments, sing, arrange...everything but engineer, mix and master (You need someone else's ears for the best job!!)
Other skills:
Sight Reading, Playing by Ear, Transcribing, Scoring, Arranging, Composing.
PLAYED WITH:
I have had the opportunity to play and work with many great musicians throughout my years of playing, these include:
Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Mark Richardson (Skunk Anansie, Feeder)
Ace (Skunk Anansie)
Pete Riley (Republica, sessions)
Frank Gambali
Pete Friesen (Alice Cooper)
Paul Geary (Bass Sessions, Spice Girls, Deseree)
Philip Bino (Steve Vai, Bass Sessions)
Ralph Humphries (Frank Zappa, Sessions, - Simpsons Theme Tune)
Guy Barker (Jazz Trumpet)
Tommy Mcquater (Jazz Trumpet)
Dave Goodman (Producer, Sex Pistols, Big Green Gathering)
Adrian Brown (Conductor, Arranger)
VENUES PLAYED:
The Royal Albert Hall, The Barbican, The Royal Festival Hall, The National Festival Hall, The Elliot Hall.
Other venues on the London circuit including: The Mean Fiddler, The Barfly, The Jazz Cafe, The Garage, The Dublin Castle, The Half Moon (Putney).
TV:
Grange Hill, Channel 4 'Citizen '2000'.
TOURS:
Holland, Italy, France, Germany, England & Scotland.
As well as playing, I'm training as a recording Engineer and currently work as a Studio Assistant at Resident Studios. Recent clients include:
Beverly Knight, Cherry Blackstone, 'Just The Two Of Us' (ITV)
You Are Animal
A complete lunatic, you're operating on 100% animal instincts.
You thrive on uncontrolled energy, and you're downright scary.
But you sure can beat a good drum.
"Kill! Kill!" The Muppet Personality Test
Ok...now this is who I am....
An artistic, fun loving, crazy, creative guy with a daft sense of humour, becomes animated when drinking and can be prone to childishness when at the beach, swimming etc..... A musician...I play drums, percussion, saxophone, guitar, write songs, progamming....
I live for music... It's all I've ever done and wanted to do and hopefully one day will be able to do it for a living!! :) I enjoy every aspect.. playing, writing, listening, recording, producing, reading about etc. I think it's the one universal language in the world... Everyone can understand the feeling/emotion/message/energy that is put into a track no matter what language they speak :):)
Lullaby (By Matthew Watts)
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I love the beauty of nature.. sunsets (especially over the ocean), fresh falling snow, heavy rain beating at the window... I try to photograph what I see and am gettin better (check out my pics.. what d'you reckon?? :O)
Love travelling, try to never go to the same place twice (all though I have fallen in love with a few places). I really enjoy experiencing the whole culture shock of entering a completely different enviroment.
HATE HATE HATE violence in any shape or form.....I just can't understand some of the people on this planet..:( BTW....If you fight after a few drinks... IT'S YOU NOT THE DRINK!!!! Can't understand hunting, boxing, ultimate fighting etc !!?
Dislike racism, homophobia, bigotry, ignorance, bullying, extreme religious veiws....you get my drift!!
Love tattoos and piercings, (Soo sexy on women!!!) Got my ears and nipple pierced and a few tatts....am gettin some more soon!!! maybe it's an addiction....but I love it!! I love women, the female form is so beautiful.... although I seem to do more of the looking and not so much of the actually approaching and talking to part!!!!!! ;)
