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About Me

'One Love' - live with Francis Rodino @ Zulu's, Fulham, London, 30/03/2007
Matt George grew up on the beach very near to Land's End in Cornwall, the most southwesterly point of the mainland British Isles. He was introduced to the drums as soon as he joined secondary school aged 11, after it became clear that tapping saucepans with chopsticks was not the way forward.
At first his interests lay only with heavy metal music, basically the fastest, heaviest music that would cause my parents the most outrage! (isn't that how everyone gets into metal?!). After struggling to resist, but finally succumbing to the grunge era of the ealry 90s, aged 16, a friend gave him a casette that was to set him on the long and tortorous path trodden by few. The tape was 'Exit Stage Left' by Rush, the path was Progressive Rock!
During the ensuing years, he disappeared up his own backside seeking 'musical enlightenment'. To many, all he found was a load of self-indulgent widdle, but during this time he acquired skills not only as a drummer, but as a guitarist and all round musician, fluent in many styles of music from death metal, to jazz, and pretty much everything in between. During this time he also played and recorded often, and most prominently with Cornish 'agricultural metal' pioneers, Bogfiller.
Inevitably the time came when the arid musical environment of Cornwall prompted him to relocate to the capital in 2003. After playing with numerous metal outfits, some prog rock, some jazz etc. he is currently playing full time with well known London band Ted Maul. He is also a member to join up-and-coming London based prog/black metal outfit Concept. And since the latter part of 2006 Matt has been drumming for brilliant singer/songwriter Francis Rodino, and alternative prog pop outfit Sweetheart. Matt is also available for gigs and sessions and teaching.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/26/2006
Band Members: FRANCIS RODINO Live at STORM, Leicester Square, London, 23/2/07

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Influences:

Drummers: Marco Minnemann, Mike Mangini, Thomas Lang, Virgil Donati, Joey Baron, George Kollias, Gene Hoglan, Steve Smith, Dave Weckl, Gavin Harrison, Chad Wackerman, Joe Morello, Gary Chafee, Vinnie Colaiuta etc.

Some of my favourite musicians and composers are: Frank Zappa, John Zorn, Greg Howe, Steve Vai, The Beach Boys, Planet X, Dmitri Shostakovich, Olivier Messiaen, Herbie Hancock, Luca Turilli & Rhapsody, Wayne Shorter, Dizzy Gillepsie, Geri Allen, Mike Patton, Mr. Bungle, Nile, Modest Mussorgsky, Devin Townsend, Arjen Luassen & Ayreon, The Flower Kings, Carlos Santana, Richard Wagner, Eric Dolphy, Sergei Rachmaninov, George Gershwin, etc

Sounds Like: Marco Minnemann(on a very bad day, after double amputation)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Dead Seed have a new venue

Dead Seed have finished playing their Sunday night gigs at The Worlds End in Camden but will start at The Old Kings Head on Holloway Road from Sunday the 5th August. There will be a £3 entry fee but i...
Posted by mattgeorge on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:59:00 PST

Ted Maul Forum and Francis R. recordings

Hey everyone! Check out the new Ted Maul Forum at http://tedmaulmetal.proboards107.com/index.cgi (or follow the link on my page, or Ted Maul's page. It's brand new, so get over there and post som...
Posted by mattgeorge on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:25:00 PST

Live DnB, gigs, tours and more!

..> So what's been happening? There's been loads of gigs from the beginning of 2007 and it don't look like it's slowin' down! If you haven't been to any, the where the hell where you? But you can ...
Posted by mattgeorge on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:51:00 PST

Welcome to Earth!

Check out this little dude! Say hello to my new born nephew, Master Alex Barnicoat! He was born on the 19th of October at 8:20pm and weighed in at a respectable 8lbs. Much love from the all in the Cav...
Posted by mattgeorge on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:17:00 PST

And now for something a bit different...

Hey gnomes, Mr. Archibald and I wrapped up the sessions tracking drums for Concept last Friday, and mightily glad were we. We managed to track 13 songs of true brutality, captured skillfully by the v...
Posted by mattgeorge on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:19:00 PST

Concept recording this week!

Gnomus and Archiman, the evil genius behind Concept enter Moon Studios in Croydon to track the drums for the forthcoming Concept album this monday! The plan is to record 13 tracks- every Con...
Posted by mattgeorge on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:15:00 PST

Ted Maul track featured on Kerrang! compilation 'New Breed!'- Monday, 16/10/06

Yo peeps! The tweaking of the Ted Maul album continues I'm afraid, but a rough (but feckin' good) mix of 'For The Innocent' is featured on disc 2 of Kerrang! mags immenent compliation release 'New Bre...
Posted by mattgeorge on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:03:00 PST

Ted Maul mastered songs now on my profile!!!

Ted Maul's debut album is now mastered! Big respect to Ziggy Siegfredsen for his sterling work. At this stage the band are gonna be circulating two promo tracks only, both of which can be heard on my ...
Posted by mattgeorge on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 04:27:00 PST

Ted Maul is mixed!

Hey folks! I'm just listening to the final mix of the as yet unnamed Ted Maul album, and damn fine it sounds too! Fredrik and Henrik have been tweaking away and the result sounds beastly. All the 'in-...
Posted by mattgeorge on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:41:00 PST

Ted Maul recording news

Ted Maul were scheduled to have left for Denmark to begin recording their debut album at Zigzound studios. However, 24 hours prior to their departure, the producer Ziggy rang from Sweden to announce h...
Posted by mattgeorge on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:40:00 PST